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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…
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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…