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Rocky Mountain Low
By Jessica Dweck On Election Day, Colorado residents will determine who gets to be a person. They’ll vote on Amendment 62, which defines a person as a human being from the beginning of “biological development.” That’s code for conception. The measure would grant fertilized eggs the right to life, liberty, happiness and due process of…
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A Viral Video Attack on Single Black Women
Standards. Everyone should have them, right? Apparently not if you’re a black woman. By now, surely, you’ve seen or heard about the “Black Marriage Negotiations” video, featuring a black businesswoman negotiating her relationship terms with a black businessman in a boardroom. This particular video, one in a series of online animated clips satirizing black relationships,…
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Spurned Columnists Question Selection Process for Obama Meeting
Did White House Decide Who Represents Trotter Group? An attempt by the White House to reach out to the nation’s organization of African American columnists has resulted in anger and resentment on the part of those in the group who were ignored or, worse, disinvited. Some lost money when they made travel arrangements to Washington…
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Can Obama Stop the Afghanistan War?
When radio host Earl Caldwell put on-air questions to me on New York’s WBAI-FM Friday about the upcoming trial of five U.S. soldiers charged with the wanton killing of three Afghan civilians, I measured them against the horrors of the My Lai massacre and the widespread — and unreported — killing of hundreds, if not…
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The Guatemala Syphilis Experiment's Tuskegee Roots
On Friday, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius apologized for a diabolical human experiment conducted in Central America 64 years ago and engineered by the U.S. government. From 1946 to 1948, scientists deliberately infected Guatemalan research subjects with syphilis to study how well penicillin worked. Sound familiar?…
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Janet Cooke's Hoax Still Resonates After 30 Years
Tuesday marked the 30th anniversary of the day these words appeared on the front page of the Sunday Washington Post: “Jimmy is 8 years old and a third-generation heroin addict, a precocious little boy with sandy hair, velvety brown eyes and needle marks freckling the baby-smooth skin of his thin brown arms. “He nestles in a…
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Earning Green by Going Green
Born and raised in the ultra-polluted Suisun City, California, Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins would eventually decide to make environmental justice in communities of color her life’s work. As the current CEO of Green for All, a post she took when Van Jones vacated it for the Obama administration, Ellis-Lamkins is at the forefront of the battle against…
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Dylan? Stevie? Here's What Should Be on Obama's iPod
When Obama stepped into office on Jan. 20, 2009, it had to be one of the most exciting moments of his life. And undoubtedly the most daunting. America was on the verge of economic collapse, involved in two wars and in the middle of a host of other urgent issues. Ninety-nine problems in his lap…
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Mary C. Curtis: 'Mad Men,' Women and the 'Scary Black Guy'
Mary C. Curtis breaks down Mad Men, a show that may be breaking down because, like many of its characters, it has lost its direction. Curtis examines how the show, which was created by a man, is celebrated for having female writers who know how to write into the text sexism and workplace angst surrounding…
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What Ron Walters Would Ask of Journalists
Late Professor’s Colleagues Urge a Look at the Black Vote Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., said she really got to know Ronald W. Walters when they worked on Jesse L. Jackson’s 1984 Democratic presidential campaign. “Jesse Jackson would have you join hands in prayer” when there was a problem, “but Ron Walters figured it out,” she…