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Single-Minded: Plowing Through the Oprah Bio
As it stands, “internationally acclaimed investigative biographer” Kitty Kelley’s latest offering, Oprah: A Biography, reads more like a middle-school book report than a well-researched, heavily reported, and revelation-laden expose. Footnotes would have been greatly appreciated. It reminded me of one I wrote in seventh grade on France. I waited until the 11th hour and, instead…
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A Service Fit for a Queen
President Barack Obama strode to the podium Thursday morning at Washington National Cathedral, 41 minutes into Dr. Dorothy Height’s funeral. His presence alone indicated the 98-year-old’s significance in American history, which she impacted for the better part of the 20th century as a civil rights and human rights pioneer. Not that Wednesday’s services at Howard…
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WATCH: Dorothy Height Funeral Service
Beginning at 10 a.m. EST, the funeral service for Dorothy Height will be conducted at Washington National Cathedral and is open to the public. Following the service—which will include a eulogy by President Obama—Dr. Height will be interred at Fort Lincoln cemetery in Maryland. The service is scheduled to air live on C-SPAN 3 beginning…
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Do You Have Your 'Hood Pass?
Earlier this month, President Barack Obama aroused some controversy by checking “African American” on his U.S. Census form. He’s black, some say. No, he’s half-white, declare others. If blackness is more of a social construct than a biological one, what are its social definitions? Its dating and marriage choices? An identification fostered on Hawaiian basketball…
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Freaknic's Wild Ride
Freaknic. Mention the name of the famous-some would say infamous-Atlanta spring break festival to those who attended, and you get a myriad of responses. Some remember the early years of the 1980s, when students from HBCUs from throughout the Southeast could meet and fellowship during a four-day picnic. Others remember the ugliness that plagued the…
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NAACP Dismisses Wells Fargo Suit
The NAACP has dropped its racial discrimination charge against Wells Fargo “Wells Fargo and the NAACP have agreed to work constructively on ways to improve fair credit access, sustainable home ownership and financial literacy for communities of color and other historically disadvantaged communities,” Wells Fargo and the NAACP said in a joint press release. The…
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Washington Post Veteran Assumes ASNE Leadership
Coleman Champions Editors’ “New Attitude” April 14, 2010 Washington Post Veteran Assumes ASNE Leadership With nods to Abraham Lincoln, Robert C. Maynard and others, Milton R. Coleman, senior editor at the Washington Post, pledged that “we’ve got a new attitude, and a new game” Wednesday as he became president of the American Society of News…
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Singing the Census Form Blues
“I am black. I did not appreciate the black, the African-American and Negro,” the caller to C-SPAN’s Washington Journal told U.S. Census Bureau Director Robert Groves last month, “…The word Negro really hurt my feelings … that to me is racist.” Groves, who appeared as a guest on the show that day, promptly apologized to…
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Celebrating Confederate History Month
Sometimes, black folks underestimate the amount of envy they create among some white people. Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell’s decision to celebrate Confederate History Month for the first time in eight years is likely a response to Black History Month. “They” had a month to highlight their achievements; we’re entitled to a month to celebrate “ours.”…
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More Black Faces on the Great White Way
Two new plays with black characters as central figures opened on Sunday. It will probably add more fuel to the ongoing debate about whether having a black family in the White House has prompted artistic directors and commercial producers to invite more African-American actors, writers and directors into their house. At least 20 shows in…