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The Greensboro Four, 50 Years Later
The image of the Greensboro Four is frozen in American history, four young men sitting quietly at the lunch counter at the F.W. Woolworth in downtown Greensboro, N.C., on Feb. 1, 1960—politely asking to be served and being refused because they are black. There had been sit-ins before, but the headlines generated by the simple…
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Blacks and Roe v. Wade
Today marks the 37th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision that made abortion legal. For the last 37 years, the case has remained in a constant state of controversy, with anti-choice activists using any vehicle available to chip away at the right to choose. The most recent manifestation was seen in…
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Obama’s First Year: Good, Not Great
In his first year in office, Barack Obama has been a very good president, both at home and abroad. The trouble is that in these difficult times, America does not need a very good president. It needs a great one. And, judging from his performance during his first year, when his popularity was at its…
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Why Martin Luther King Jr. Stands Alone
The pantheon of historic African-American leadership is full of brilliant and courageous individuals who sacrificed personal gain to enrich the lives of others. From Harriet Tubman and Nat Turner, to Ida B. Wells and Martin Delaney, Mary McCleod-Bethune and Frederick Douglass, all the way to Medgar Evers and Fannie Lou Hamer, black leadership has been…
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Fantasia and Pepa’s New Reality
Just when I thought I could give up on VH1 and its ridiculous onslaught of reality shows, I get reeled in by its never-ending train wreck of C-list celebrities: Frank the Entertainer, formerly of I Love New York; the cast of Celebrity Rehab 3 (Heidi Fleiss, Dennis Rodman, Tom Sizemore, and an America’s Next Top…
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Why Michael Steele Is Wrong About Harry Reid
GOP Chairman Michael Steele and other leading Republicans have called on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to resign for suggesting in 2008 that then-Sen. Barack Obama had better chances of winning the presidency because he was “light-skinned” and didn’t speak with a “Negro dialect.” On Fox News Sunday, Steele said, “There is this standard where…
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Tavis Smiley Ends State of the Black Union Conference
The State of the Black Union is no more. Tavis Smiley has elected to end his State of the Black Union Conference. Smiley wishes to focus on other projects and cited new realities that change of the relevance of the decade-long conference. Smiley also said that, unlike a decade ago, black issues now are being…
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NEWS STAND: Dems Defend TSA Nominee Southers, Asian-American Gains in New York, Iraqis Angered by Blackwater Decison, Rush Loves U.S. Health Care
Democratic Defend TSA Nominee Southers Democratic U.S. Senators have come to the defense of Erroll Southers, President Barack Obama’s nominee to head the Transportation Security Administration. The nominee, a former FBI agent, had come under fire for inconsistent statements to Congress about accessing the criminal record of his estranged wife’s boyfriend. The inconsistencies were first…
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The Best and Worst Christmas Stories
Making the Best of the Worst By Keith Joseph Adkins My best Christmas was also my worst. In 2006 my friend Alex and his wife, Elke, invited me to London for the holiday. And to add thrill to the frill, I was going to jump on the train in London and meet four friends in…