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Obama Remarks on Alleged Racist Rant by LA Clippers' Owner
President Barack Obama on Sunday weighed in on the controversy embroiling Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling, saying that his alleged racist remarks reflect the damaging legacy of slavery that still exists in the U.S., CNN reports. Obama said that while the country has made great strides in confronting the racial divide, the comments attributed…
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There Is No Room in America for Donald Sterling
Damn, I was pissed at LeBron James when he took his “talents to South Beach.” And I write this from a hotel in South Beach watching the Miami Heat compete in the playoffs on television, as my beloved New York Knicks are finished for the season. At the time, I was pissed because I had…
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5 NY Hasidic Men Arrested in the Beating of a Black Gay Man
Police arrested five Hasidic men Wednesday in a mob attack against a gay black man in a case that was initially investigated as a bias attack, the New York Daily News reports. After a night of partying last December, fashion student Taj Patterson, 22, told authorities that he was headed to his home in Fort…
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NYC Mayor Slams Emergency-Response Delay in Fire That Killed 2 Children
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio added his voice to other expressions of concern over the slow EMT response in the midst of a fire last weekend that left two 4-year-old siblings dead, the Associated Press reports. According to the news wire, de Blasio said that it was “unacceptable” that ambulances took longer than 10…
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Hispanics Scoff at Suggestion They’ll Identify as White in the Future
Slate Raises Hackles Speculating on Hispanics, Whiteness When George Zimmerman was tried last year in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, descriptions of Zimmerman as a “white Hispanic” rankled some whites as well as a number of Hispanics. “Whites think the media were intent on telling a tragic tale in terms of a white villain and a black…
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Distraught Mom Questions EMT Response to Fatal Fire
A New York mother is questioning why EMTs were late to the scene following a weekend fire in Queens that left her 4-year-old daughter and the girl’s half-brother, also 4, dead, The New York Post reports. Khalilah Waymer sang praises for the doctors at St. John’s Hospital saying they “broke their own rules” in trying…
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NYPD Disbands Muslim-Spying Unit
NYPD Disbands Muslim-Tracking Unit Exposed by AP “A special New York Police Department unit that sparked controversy by tracking the daily lives of Muslims in an effort to detect terror threats has been disbanded, police officials said Tuesday,” Jake Pearson and Tom Hayes reported for the Associated Press. “NYPD spokesman Stephen Davis confirmed that detectives assigned to the unit had been…
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Media Covers Syrian Crisis but Ignores the Central African Republic and South Sudan
Inattention Worsening Humanitarian Crises, Officials Say In 1985, there was Live Aid, a live concert with a global audience of 1.9 billion across 150 nations, organized by the Irish singer-songwriter Bob Geldof to benefit Ethiopian famine relief. Millions of dollars was raised. A decade earlier, as a former Beatle, George Harrison gathered musician friends for…
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Legendary Journalist Chuck Stone Dies at 89
“A Firebrand With Unassailable Journalistic Credentials” Charles Sumner (Chuck) Stone, newspaper editor, professor, columnist, former Tuskegee Airman and founding president of the National Association of Black Journalists — a legend to many — died Sunday at 89, according to news reports. “Stone died in his sleep early this morning at an assisted-living home in Farmington,…
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Black Boys Go Ivy League: Haters Emerge
Last week it was reported that Avery Coffey, age 17, had received offers to five ivy League schools. And just this week, 17-year-old Kwasi Enin bested that effort by getting accepted at all eight of them. These were moments of celebration for two black teens who had worked tirelessly to achieve the elusive goal of Ivy acceptance, and the…