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Teen Called 'F—ing Mutt' in Stop and Frisk
The Nation obtained audio of a stop-and-frisk carried out by the New York Police Department that is just the latest reminder the discriminatory and unprofessional way in which this controversial policy is often implemented. This type of story is, of course, not new at all, but that makes it no less jarring or outrageous: From…
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Crazy Talk: Tim Garvey's Anti-Obama Rant
In what seems like a parody of unsophisticated views on race and politics but is unfortunately 100 percent real, Tim Garvey, a Tea Party-backed Republican candidate for the Kansas House of Representatives, made a bizarre and grammatically incorrect Facebook post in which he accused President Obama of “wanting to “f—- us over” and proclaimed that…
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Debate Pundits: Where Was Obama?
If the progressive cable news channel MSNBC represents President Obama’s base, then that base was stunned by the president’s lackluster debate performance in his first face-off with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney Wednesday night. Competitor CNN’s flash poll of registered voters who watched the debate found that 67 percent said Romney won, while only 25…
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Pennsylvania Voters Win on ID Laws for Now
(The Root) — The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court decision (pdf) to halt implementation of Pennsylvania’s voter-ID law until after the 2012 election may represent another tipping point in the Republican battle to limit the vote of likely Democratic voters. Advocates fighting to halt the imposition of these restrictive voting laws have won — in whole or…
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Interracial Dating, a Civil Rights Protest
When XOJane contributor Shayla Pierce, a black woman, began dating and fell in love with her white boyfriend, she thought it was because of their own happy luck. Now, after watching Republican pundit and author Ann Coulter on Fox & Friends jokingly talk about white men dating black women as trying to be “Freedom Riders,”…
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New York Times Ex-Publisher Dies at 86
On Saturday, a New York Times icon passed away. Arthur O. Sulzberger, 86, publisher and chairman and chief executive of the New York Times Company from 1963 to 1997, passed away at his home in Southampton, N.Y. Sulzberger grew the paper’s reach and was instrumental in making the newspaper a symbol of free speech and…
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Can Liberia Ditch Foreign Aid by 2022?
(The Root) — Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has a vision for her country: to be off foreign aid in 10 years and “middle income” by 2030. She also sees a role for African Americans, to whom her people are linked by a shared history, in that vision. Africa’s first elected female head of state…
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Kramer's Lessons from His N-Word Meltdown
Remember Michael Richards’ racist standup comedy rant from 2006? Who are we kidding? If you saw it, there’s no way you’d forget the actor and comic calling an African-American heckler nig—r and adding, “Fifty years ago we’d have you upside down with a f—king fork up your ass.” (We still can’t enjoy an innocent Seinfeld…
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Sam Jackson's Obama Ad: 'Wake the F–k Up'
Like Barack Obama? Samuel L. Jackson? What about profanity? It could be your lucky day, because all three are wrapped up in an “adult-themed children’s story” specially made for supporters of the president’s campaign who need a little firing up. And if the PAC that created it and author Adam Mansbach accomplish their goal, the…
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Why I Finally Started Judging Kim and Kanye
In part, says Shake Your Beauty‘s Tia Williams, because she hates the message that the celebrity couple sends to an entire generation of young black girls. Up until recently, I’ve had no patience for Kimmy hate. Wayminute … I’m not saying I’m on her #team or anything, just saying that hating on her is more…