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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…
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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…