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Real Mothers, Rare Style: Reader Photos
Submitted by Laurel Sayler: A photo of Laurel Sayler’s mother, Mary Sayler, taken around 1957. “Her style has always been classic, timeless and not too flashy,” Sayler said. Submitted by Ellisha Teapot: A photo of Teapot’s mom, Lenora Davis McKinney Clark, taken around 1952. Submitted by Robert Harcum: Harcum’s mother, Edith L. Harcum, in a high school photo…
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Obama vs. 'Automatic White Preference'
Study Finds Race Still at Issue in 2012 Campaign “After the 2008 election of President Barack Obama, many proclaimed that the country had entered a post-racial era in which race was no longer an issue,” Molly McElroy wrote this week for the University of Washington. “However, a new large-scale study shows that racial attitudes have…
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How 'Girls' and 'Basketball Wives' Are the Same
ColorLines‘ Akiba Solomon offers the perspective of “a professional observer of race and pop culture” on what the two very different series actually have in common. “Basketball Wives” and “Girls” deploy casual racism: On “Fantasy Island,” last night’s episode of “Basketball Wives,” resident party girl Suzie Ketchum repeatedly asks if the indigenous people of Tahiti…
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Beyoncé's NYABJ Award Draws Fire
N.Y. Black Journalists to Honor Pop Star’s Essay in Essence The New York Association of Black Journalists “is going to be looking at the criteria for next year” after its announcement that pop star Beyoncé Knowles had won one of its journalism awards was greeted with surprise, criticism — and headlines, president Michael J. Feeney…
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Crazy Talk: Travyon Was 'Fag–t Black Dude'
The Huffington Post reports that Skyy Fischer, a Compton Unified school board member, called deceased Florida teen Trayvon Martin a “fag—t black dude,” and a school superintendent a “bitch,” during a recent podcast interview that understandably has community members shocked and outraged. Some of his comments, from the Huffington Post (warning: language): “that white dude…
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Why We Still Love 'The Cosby Show'
Believe it or not, it’s been 20 years since America last sat down to watch our favorite TV dad and the Huxtable clan in their Brooklyn, N.Y., brownstone on Thursday nights. Cliff was the doting dad who dished out “zrbtts” to Lil’ Rudy. Clair was always nearby to give that tough-love talk after one of…
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Romney Wins Race for Favorable Coverage
Tone Became “Solidly Positive” After Michigan Primary “Mitt Romney needed 15 weeks once the primary contests began to gain a secure hold over his party’s nomination for president,” Tom Rosenstiel, Mark Jurkowitz and Tricia Sartor wrote Monday for the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism. “But he emerged as the conclusive winner in…
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Clark Aided Blacks on 'Bandstand'?
Dick Clark, who died Wednesday at age 82, made rock and roll safe for American living rooms. He popularized the idea that teenagers are an important consumer group. And his nationally televised American Bandstand influenced music, dance and fashion, establishing Clark as one of the savviest businessmen of the 20th century. What the show didn’t…
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Unity Drops 'Journalists of Color'
The board of Unity: Journalists of Color, Inc. voted Monday to drop “Journalists of Color” from its name, saying members of the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association “would not or would seriously consider not attending” its August convention “if ‘journalists of color’ remained as part of the name.” The vote was 11 to 4…
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Dating While Fat and Feminist
In a piece that’s as self-reflective as it is brutally honest about mainstream beauty standards, a writer at the Crunk Feminist Collective grapples with the idea of losing weight to increase her dating options. And she asks readers to spare her the condescending lectures and armchair therapy about her point of view, as “un-feminist” as…