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Money, Not Color, Determines a Child's Academic Success
Ethnicity might not play as large a role in charting educational success as experts previously thought, writes Sean F. Reardon in the New York Times; it’s all about how much the parents earn. To make this trend concrete, consider two children, one from a family with income of $165,000 and one from a family with…
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Time to Ditch the Term 'Illegal Immigrants'?
After activists picketed the New York Times building Tuesday and delivered petitions with more than 70,000 signatures urging the newspaper to drop the term “illegal immigrant,” the Times announced a change in policy. But the National Association of Hispanic Journalists called the change “unacceptable” and cowardly. Unity: Journalists for Diversity, which includes NAHJ, followed NAHJ…
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Do We Need Any More Clintons or Bushes?
(The Root) — Largely overlooked amid the wall-to-wall coverage of the Boston terror attacks was some intriguing and potentially important political news. Former President George W. Bush weighed in on speculation regarding his brother former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s presidential prospects, saying that he hopes his sibling runs for the nation’s highest office in 2016.…
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When Terror Hits Home
(The Root) — Boston is a diverse, complicated and rugged city. As a transplant to Boston from Los Angeles, I will say honestly that one does not easily or quickly warm to this city and its ways. Boston makes you want and earn membership. Los Angeles will always be home for me with everything that…
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Does 'N-gger' Trump All Other Slurs?
Panam Jackson writes: A few weeks back, one of the homeys sent me a video of an incident on a Metro train in DC. See, some wayward white man on the Green Line (notoriously known as the “Soul Train” in the area due to its propensity to run only through Prince George’s County, MD and DC),…
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Racist Reactions to Jamie Foxx's Trayvon Shirt
The shirt Jamie Foxx wore to Sunday’s MTV Movie Awards displayed the phrase “kNOw Justice” above photos of Trayvon Martin and the children killed in the Newtown, Conn., school shooting. The reference to victims of gun violence was certainly designed to attract attention and start conversation, but probably not of this variety. Public Shaming has…
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Is President Obama Tired of Jay-Z?
Damon Young writes: Imagine for a moment that you are President Obama. Of course you aren’t because if we pull out your wallet, it will not say “Bad Motherf-cker” on your license. However, for a moment, you can pretend to be. Now imagine that while in the midst of being President Obama and doing something…
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The NRA's Terror Campaign Against Congress
Earl Ofari Hutchinson argues in a piece at his blog that the NRA is poised to use its considerable influence to water down a gun control bill, holding out 2014 as a carrot for a number of GOP House members and senators who will be facing re-election campaigns in several conservative strongholds. There are two…
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Rand Paul Must Think Blacks Have Amnesia
(The Root) — So now we know the basis of Kentucky’s libertarian Sen. Rand Paul’s strategy for expanding the Republican Party’s appeal to African Americans: amnesia. That’s the only conclusion I can reach after watching the C-SPAN broadcast of Paul’s 52-minute appearance today at Howard University. He deserves credit for appearing before a potentially hostile…
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Was Jackie Robinson Court-Martialed?
Editor’s note: For those who are wondering about the retro title of this black history series, please take a moment to learn about historian Joel A. Rogers, author of the 1934 book 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro With Complete Proof, to whom these “amazing facts” are an homage. (The Root) — Amazing Fact About…