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Jon Stewart Hits Fox for Mocking Poor Hurt by Shutdown
Comedy Central’s Daily Show host Jon Stewart launched into a diatribe against Fox News Radio host Todd Starnes, who sneered at Democrats affected by the government shutdown. He said they would start receiving “potted meat and Tang and get in [their] survival bunker,” the Raw Story reports. “[F—k] you,” Stewart said after a few seconds…
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Kanye West and Jimmy Kimmel in a 'Rap Feud'?
(The Root) — On Thursday Kanye West engaged in an “epic” Twitter battle with Jimmy Kimmel, after the talk-show host made fun of comments the rapper made during a BBC Radio One interview. “He said a lot of weird stuff,” Kimmel said Wednesday on Jimmy Kimmel Live. “He said he’s the No. 1 rock star…
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Can Rahm Emanuel Win Black Voters Back?
(The Root) — Why does Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel appear to be furiously campaigning for re-election in the African-American community when the election isn’t until 2015? On Tuesday he was spotted cruising the aisles of a Wal-Mart on Chicago’s South Side, which is predominantly African American. Over the weekend, he and police Superintendent Garry F.…
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Play Captures Tumult of Civil Rights Era
(The Root) — The national celebrations and commemorations surrounding the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington have, once again, marked race as a subject of exploration in popular culture. The recent critical and commercial success of Lee Daniels’ The Butler, which offered an epic cinematic depiction of the civil rights movement’s heroic period, has…
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Hip-Hop: Is There a Double Standard in America?
Howard professor Gilbert Newman Perkins, in a piece at the Washington Post, tackles America’s foundering perceptions about hip-hop, arguing that it’s largely pundits who know nothing about the art — or how to groove to it! — who shape opinion about it. If I were a betting man, I’d wager that neither Bill O’Reilly nor…
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Why the New Miss America Is Not a Symbol of Progress
Samhita Mukhopadhyay writes at the Nation that even though the racist reaction to the selection of Nina Davuluri, who is of South Asian descent, as Miss America has been shameful, the pageant itself is the real problem. During my Tuesday morning subway commute, I encountered a man who felt the need to stare at me…
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Chicago Police Chief Calls for Ban on Assault Weapons
UPDATED Saturday, Sept. 21, 9:55 a.m. EDT: Chicago Police Superintendent Garry F. McCarthy on Friday called for a ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, a day after gunmen opened fire at a South Side park, wounding 13, including a 3-year-old boy, CNN reports. “An assault-style rifle with a high-capacity magazine was used in the shooting,…
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'Journalists of Diversity' Group Seeks New President
David Steinberg, Janet Cho Seek to Lead Troubled Coalition With the National Association of Hispanic Journalists planning not to participate, the coalition once known as Unity: Journalists of Color expects to elect a new president next week, with a white man vying for the office for the first time. David A. Steinberg, a board member…
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Dating Black Men and Debunking Stereotypes
Bea Hinton, who is of biracial heritage, explores and denounces the stereotyping of black men as violent, lazy and unlovable in a piece at Filthy Freedom. Dating black men is a choice that she accepts wholeheartedly. The black man occupies a unique space in American culture. He is an aggressive and inherently violent threat to society.…
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Navy Yard Shooter's Race Broadcast Often
“The script followed by the media during the coverage of the shooting at the Navy Yard in Washington is an all-too-familiar one,” Jack Mirkinson wrote Monday for the Huffington Post. “The story has unfolded in confusing, conflicting pieces, in real time, in front of viewers and on Twitter. And, just as in Newtown, and in Boston, key…