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Your Take: Are All Abortions Equal?
A few days ago, writer Cord Jefferson posted an article at The Root provocatively titled, ”But What if I Don’t Want to Be a Dad?” In the article, he posits the concept of giving fathers the choice of a ”financial abortion.” In the decade or so that I have been doing fatherhood work, I have…
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In the Aftermath of the Oscar Grant Verdict: What Now?
“My son was murdered. He was murdered,” Wanda Johnson said repeatedly, forcefully, as she spoke out against the verdict in the trial against former transit officer Johannes Mehserle, who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter but acquitted of second-degree murder and voluntary manslaughter in the videotaped shooting death of her unarmed son, Oscar Grant. A Los…
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Confessions of a Scale Slave: 9 Volts of Anguish
My scale’s on the fritz and I am freaking out. It uses a 9-volt battery, and there aren’t any in the house, so I went to the corner store, and there weren’t any on the big battery thingie. WHY? How many people need 9-volt batteries? Those are for, like, Ice Age devices. I don’t know…
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Washington's Other City
In the long shadows cast by the Capitol and the White House exists a Washington, D.C., on the outermost periphery of the power and influence that the nation’s capital represents. And within this penumbra of powerlessness and invisibility, HIV/AIDS and taken root and threatens to overwhelm and destroy entire neighborhoods. Want an OMG statistic? At…
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What's Happening In Media Diversity This Week?
End of Strained Relationship Means “Sky’s the Limit” Sports commentator Stephen A. Smith, who finally returned to the Philadelphia Inquirer in February after a two-year feud with his employer of 15 years, left the paper by mutual agreement on Tuesday. “I’m as happy as I’ve been for a long time,” Smith told Journal-isms on Wednesday.…
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The Recession's Long-Term Impact on Black Kids
As adults wrestle with rising foreclosure rates and disappearing jobs, child-development experts are reporting that children may end up shouldering some of the most severe, long-lasting consequences of the recession of 2008, according to the Foundation for Child Development (FCD). Working with an index of 28 indicators of quality of life called the Overall Composite…
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The Ultimate Insider: Sen. Robert C. Byrd Dies
Senator Robert C. Byrd (D-W.Va.), the nation’s longest-serving member of Congress, has died. Byrd was admitted to the hospital last week for dehydration and never recovered. He spent 50 years in the Senate, outliving nine U.S. presidents as his Democratic Party slipped in and out of the majority over the past five decades. Known as…
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General to Apologize for Anti-Administration Comments
by Ernesto Londoño and Michael D. Shear KABUL — The top U.S. general in Afghanistan is headed to Washington to apologize for a magazine profile that includes highly critical remarks by him and his staff about top Obama administration officials involved in Afghanistan policy. The article in this week’s Rolling Stone magazine is certain to…
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Is BP's Escrow Account the Right Move Now?
On Wednesday the White House released a statement explaining that BP had agreed to set aside $20 billion for an escrow account through which legitimate claims of damages resulting from the Gulf oil spill would be paid. Kenneth Feinberg, who formerly headed the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, will be the independent claims administrator, and…
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Celebrating Black Fathers and Sons in Film
Based on the true story of Chris Gardner and starring real-life father-son duo Will and Jaden Smith, The Pursuit of Happyness follows Gardner (Will Smith) and Christopher Jr. (Jaden Smith) as they sleep in a church’s homeless shelter and even in a San Francisco train station bathroom while Chris struggles through an unpaid internship at…