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Rosa Parks' Other (Radical) Side
Rosa Parks was a demure seamstress who defied a Montgomery, Ala., bus driver’s order to give up her seat to a white man because — on that particular day — she was tired. Her spontaneous act sparked a 1955 bus boycott that launched the civil rights movement. Sound familiar? It should. It’s the tale told…
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What We Should Really Be Talking About During CBC Weekend
If Washington, D.C., is “Hollywood for ugly people,” the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Annual Legislative Conference — informally known as CBC Weekend to those who skip the panels and attend the parties — is an HBCU Homecoming for grown people with jobs. It’s a Beltway Freaknic for people who favor MSNBC over BET. And I’ll…
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New Fall TV Shows, Many Familiar Black Faces
Undercovers (NBC), Wednesdays, 8 p.m. EST Kodjoe plays CIA agent/catering entrepreneur Steven Bloom in this action-spy series. He started as a model, but many will remember him as heartthrob Damon Carter on Showtime’s Soul Food TV series. Since then, he’s had movie roles in Madea’s Family Reunion (2006), The Gospel (2005) and Brown Sugar (2002).…
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Storied Civil Rights Photographer Was Paid FBI Informant
It seems that the man who took many iconic photos from the civil rights movement was a paid FBI informant. Ernest C. Withers took the photo of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. riding one of the first desegregated buses in Montgomery, Ala.; he captured the image of black sanitation workers carrying “I Am a Man”…
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A Tale of Two Post-Racial Mayors
Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker and Washington, D.C., Mayor Adrian M. Fenty are sometimes mistaken for each other: Both of them have similarly shaven bald heads and are grouped among the new breed of black political leadership. Unlike their predecessors, who rode a wave out of the civil rights movement and into mayoralties of major…
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The Chocolate City's Two Faces
There’s Washington. And there’s D.C., the District of Columbia, a city long fractured by race, class and its very geography. A park and a river act as natural fault lines between blacks and whites and low-income and wealthy residents. Those divisions and congressional oversight of the city’s legislation and budget have framed the African-American political…
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D.C. Mayor Fenty Apologizes for 'Aloof Management Style'
In a one-on-one debate with D.C. Council Chairman Vincent C. Gray, D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty apologized for his “aloof management style,” vowing to do better if re-elected. Fenty, who is trailing Gray, is trying to convince voters to disregard what some have called a distant demeanor that has isolated D.C. residents. He acknowledged that his…
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Study: Nearly 1 in 3 Births in U.S. Is a C-Section
Thirty-two percent of all births in the United States now occur by Caesarean section (C-section). Reasons given for the rise in numbers include the increased use of drugs to induce labor, the tendency to give up on labor too soon and deliver babies surgically instead of waiting for nature to take its course, and the failure…
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The Emmys: The Twitterverse Speaks
What would happen if you ignored watching the Emmys on television and simply let people on Twitter guide you through the three-hour program? Well, you’d get this: @SPBVIP: As I tweeted a few months ago: Since 2000 Afr-Amers won 10 lead or supporting Tonys; 7 Oscars … & no Emmys in regular lead or support…
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AOL Patch: We Do Not Focus on Race
AOL’s Patch network of hyperlocal news sites, which expects to be “the largest hirer of full-time journalists in the United States this year,” has finished hiring a top news management with little if any racial diversity and declared that “We do not focus on race or ethnicity in the hiring process, but rather finding the best…