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The GOP's Big Battle With Diversity
“It’s all about education,” said Dale Crosby. “I don’t think everyone understands what the Republican Party is about.” In between listening to speeches from undeclared presidential candidates, Crosby was explaining why he was one of the very few African-American delegates at the Spartanburg County Republican Party Convention in South Carolina on Saturday. “We are not…
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Should African Americans Care About the Civil War?
Early in the predawn darkness of April 12 exactly 150 years ago, a signal gun from the artillery batteries ringing Charleston, S.C., harbor sent a shell sparkling into the air, to explode in a shower of splinters over Fort Sumter, the solitary U.S. outpost in the middle of the harbor. All of the cannons and…
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Journalists of Color Decline for Third Year
U.S. “Minority” Population at 36 percent; in Newsrooms, 12.79 percent The number of journalists of color in daily newspaper and online-only newsrooms declined for the third consecutive year, the American Society of News Editors reported Thursday in disclosing the results of its annual diversity survey. Minority journalists declined from 5,500 to 5,300, though overall, “American newspapers…
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'The Book of Mormon': 'South Park' on Broadway?
With The Book of Mormon taking home 9 Tony Awards this year, we’re pulling this review of the Broadway musical from our archives. Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the guys who created South Park, like to boast that they are equal-opportunity offenders. Which is true. Over the past 10 years that their potty-mouthed, thumb-in-your-eye animated…
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Manning Marable's Students Remember Him
In his moving tribute to Manning Marable, black-studies scholar Michael Eric Dyson, a professor of sociology at Georgetown University, writes, “Marable nurtured and guided a veritable tribe of graduate students and junior professors as they sought sure footing in the academy.” Here are the recollections of some members of that “veritable tribe,” many of whom…
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Obama Honors First Black Commerce Secretary
Today in New York City, President Barack Obama participated in the United States Mission to the United Nations Building dedication of the federal building in memory of the late Ron Brown, a Democratic trailblazer and the first black commerce secretary. Brown served in the Clinton administration after helping him win the 1992 presidential election as…
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The Bitter Battle Over Voter ID
On the list of types of state legislation with the potential for big national impact, voter identification is right up there with moves to reduce collective-bargaining rights of public-sector unions. Such efforts, which would require voters to provide ID at the polls, are being voted on amid fierce debate in many states. But are they…
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Elizabeth Taylor Tributes Touch on Race
Story Includes “Cleopatra,” Civil Rights, Michael Jackson “I did a short story on her when she held a news conference in D.C. to promote the play, ‘The Little Foxes’ that she was starring in at the Warner Theater,” Brenda Wilson, then reporting for NPR, recalled for Journal-isms on Wednesday. “The then Mrs. Warner was a…
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In Loleatta's Honor: Top Underground Club Singers
Loleatta Holloway arguably possessed one of the most recognizable voices in disco and house music. Her 1980 collaboration with songwriter-producer Dan Hartman on “Love Sensation” set dance floors on fire. The song — and Holloway’s career — enjoyed a second wind a decade later when it was sampled by both Black Box for “Ride on…
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Black Women Who Rule the Art Scene
The doyenne of African-American art, Catlett, who died April 2, 2012, devoted three-quarters of a century to teaching and making art “relevant to her people.” This is an approach she had taken since the 1920s and ‘30s, when she worked in the mural division of the Works Progress Administration. With advanced degrees in art history,…