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NYC Mayor Bloomberg Endorses D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty
D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty has been endorsed by New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who says the District is “more accountable, more transparent and more effective” under the young mayor. Fenty said the endorsement “brings my political career full circle.” He said he turned to Bloomberg and New York for inspiration for the District’s…
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Could More Blacks in Banking Have Prevented the Meltdown?
Last month Politico reported on a “little-noticed” section of the Wall Street reform bill. It gives the feds power to kill contracts with firms that fail to initiate workplace diversity. The law requires “fair inclusion” of women and minorities and “goes further than previous attempts by regulators to promote diversity in the financial sector.” The…
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Study: ‘Soul Food’ Kills
OK, that’s a little dramatic. Nonetheless, my alma mater has delivered, on a scarlet-and-gray platter, the latest nail in the coffin of African-American eating habits. (Emphases and edits, mine): Researchers looking for differences in eating habits of African Americans based on whether or not they had Type 2 diabetes uncovered an unexpected result: No matter…
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Black Conservatives Bar Press from National Gathering
A throng of black conservatives is meeting at the National Press Club today and, somewhat ironically, barring the press from their proceedings. More than a dozen right-wing African American leaders—some of them more infamous than famous—are set to speak at the event, including Alan Keyes, Star Parker, Timothy F. Johnson of the Frederick Douglass Foundation,…
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Nike Waxes Poetic About Big Butts in Ad
Nike releases a print ad affirming the beauty of a big butt. Pump your brakes, because it’s not all benevolent. The company is also trying to sell a new butt-enhancing shoe. Through poetry, the athletic giant celebrates the beauty of a round butt, even though the model in the ad is scantily clad and racially…
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Steele Cancels Appearance Before Black Journalists
GOP Chairman Was Sure to Be Questioned About Breitbart The advance team for Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele told the National Association of Black Journalists on Friday that Steele was canceling the panel discussion scheduled later in the day at its convention in San Diego because of food poisoning, NABJ announced. An RNC statement…
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Hugh Hefner: Civil Rights Activist?
With NBC’s new series The Playboy Club premiering Sept. 19, 2011, The Root’s editorial staff decided to revisit another side of the original Playboy Club nightclub-chain founder. Hugh Hefner isn’t one of the names you usually think of when you hear the words “civil rights pioneer.” So I was more than a little dubious when…
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Trying to Be Post-Racial
I tried to be very post-racial this weekend. It didn’t take. Let me explain. The saga of Shirley Sherrod that mesmerized the country stopped me in my tracks. I covered it as a writer. I lived it as an American, an African American. This latest attempt to start a national conversation on race ended as…
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Journal-isms: More Illegal Immigrants Die Crossing into the U.S. Than U.S. Troops in Afghanistan
“The article was largely buried in most newspapers, if run at all,” columnist Edward Schumacher-Matos wrote Thursday for the Washington Post Writers Group. “So many bodies of unauthorized migrants are being found in the Arizona desert this month, the Associated Press reported, that the Pima County Medical Examiner was stacking them like boxes of fish…
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Sherrod Debacle: Will Media Feel Backlash?
The firing of Agriculture Department staffer Shirley Sherrod — over racial remarks that were taken out of context — raises judgment questions not only about the Obama administration and the NAACP, whose president is a former journalist, but about the news media. “This whole saga confirms, as if it needed confirmation,” veteran journalist Paul Delaney…