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Cue Steve Jobs in His B-Boy Stance: iPad Sales Likely Beat Estimates
It’s early, but things are looking up for Apple since Saturday’s release of the much-anticipated iPad. The iPad’s initial sales may have reached 700,000 units, Piper Jaffray & Co.’s Gene Munster said in an interview yesterday. The Minneapolis-based analyst had predicted sales of 200,000 to 300,000, while Sanford C. Bernstein & Co.’s Toni Sacconaghi had…
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Caller Respectfully Critiques C-SPAN's Abundance of Black Callers
Saw this over on TPM.
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Census Bureau Director Apologizes for 'Negro'
A C-SPAN caller, upset with the Negro category on the census, elicited an apology from Census Bueau director Robert Groves on Friday On Friday’s edition of C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal,” Census Bureau Director Robert Groves apologized to a caller for the “negro” classification on the 2010 census form. “I am black. I did not appreciate the…
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President Obama's Black Agenda
I have to admit I was a bit perplexed when I was a panelist recently at Tavis Smiley’s “We Count: The Black Agenda is the American Agenda” forum in Chicago, which focused heavily on what President Barack Obama has not done for the black community, rather than the significant down payment he has made in…
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Trailer: Gabourey Sidibe in 'The Big C'
She’s only in this clip for a few seconds, but Gabourey Sidibe will appear in Showtime’s The Big C, which debuts in August. After the success of Precious, Sidibe was upped from a guest star to a more permanent spot on the show. Yes, she’s playing another student, but she seems to be playing a…
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Jobs Vanish for African Americans
As the Great Recession’s scythe slices through industries, states, cities and neighborhoods, African Americans have received the most devastating wound. Blacks, and particularly African-American males, have suffered disproportionate rates of unemployment and underemployment historically, for reasons that include weaker educational attainment, lack of connections, less mobility, a high percentage of workers in blue-collar jobs and…
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Voices From Smiley's Black Agenda Summit
Tracey Bruno was fired up and looking for some answers on Saturday when she entered the cavernous convocation center of Chicago State University to hear Tavis Smiley’s much-publicized panel about the black agenda. But all she got was talk, she said. “When you have these panel discussions, there is nothing concrete, like you can do…
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Smileypalooza: Right Message, Wrong Messenger
I’ve never been much of a fan of Tavis Smiley’s annual State of Black America confab, which struck me as an extravaganza of excessive Negro bloviation. And I’m not planning to watch the really big show he is putting on C-SPAN on Saturday, the “We Count! The Black Agenda is the American Agenda” conference, which…
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The Root Interview: Why Tavis Smiley "Cannot Be Silent"
Just weeks after Tavis Smiley announced in January that he’d be ending his annual State of the Black Union conference, the PBS talk show host and activist revealed plans to convene a one-day symposium with leaders and prominent thinkers about the African American agenda. “The conversation is about whether or not there is a need…
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Black Leaders Through the Looking Glass
Lawrence C. Ross Jr. is the author of The Divine Nine: The History of African American Fraternities and Sororities and a brother of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. Follow him on Twitter. Become a fan of The Root on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter. Lawrence Ross is the author of the Los Angeles Times best-seller…