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Forever Stamp for Ebony and Jet Publisher
Ebony and Jet magazine publisher John H. Johnson is being celebrated this week with the 35th stamp in the U.S. Postal Service’s Black Heritage series. He’ll join the ranks of previous honorees including Martin Luther King Jr., Jackie Robinson and Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. Johnson — who published Negro Digest, modeled after Readers Digest,…
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Mother Arrested After Abandoning Kids on Sidewalk
A Brooklyn, N.Y., mother has been arrested after she abandoned her two toddler girls on a sidewalk, according to the Daily News. The mother, Dalisha Adams, 26, was last seen cursing out her daughters, according to police and neighbors. She was charged with two counts of endangering a child. Her two daughters, Diani, 3, and…
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'F-Bomb' on 'Modern Family' Reflects Modern Times
ABC’s Modern Family is a critically acclaimed television sitcom that has been the belle of the ball at awards shows, picking up where fan favorite Arrested Development left off after being unceremoniously canceled. Modern Family takes a comedic look at the shenanigans of a dysfunctional extended family, whose lives are interconnected either by choice or…
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Your Take: An LGBT Activist Remembered
Exactly one year ago, David Kato, a longtime advocate and friend, was bludgeoned to death in his home in the middle of the day. He was murdered just days after he had won a court case against a Ugandan newspaper that had published his photo — along with those of 99 other alleged supporters of…
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Survey: Obama's Base Focused on Jobs
As he prepares to give the State of the Union address Tuesday, President Barack Obama has reason to be cautiously optimistic about the support he will get from his base for his re-election bid. However, to cement their support, he will need to focus on the issues that are most important to them in the…
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Why I Haven't Seen 'Red Tails' Yet
In an entry at his Very Smart Brothas blog, Damon Young lists several reasons that he has not seen Red Tails, including being turned off by its guilt-based marketing and calling into question the perception that we need to see black faces on the big screen in order to bolster our self-esteem. (Today’s post is…
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Golf Phenom's Drive to Stardom
Ginger Howard, one of golf’s most celebrated phenoms, is sharpening her skills to excel against the game’s finest women players. The latest challenge for Howard, 17, the youngest African-American woman to turn professional, begins in March with the Symetra Tour (last year known as the Futures). If Howard finishes among the tour’s top 10 money winners, she’ll become just the fifth African-American woman to compete on the…
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Wi-Fi Signal With Racist Slur Sparks Police Probe
A Wi-Fi signal named “F—k Jews” and “F—k N—gers” is being investigated by New York police after a mother saw the signal pop up on her iPhone. “When I first saw it, I said, ‘Did that say what I thought it said?” the woman, who asked that her name not be used, told the Daily…
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'Roots': More Than Just a Miniseries
Back in ’77, there was no HBO, Hulu or iTunes. When it came to your television-watching possibilities, you were pretty much a captive of network TV. (And, perhaps, on a good night, PBS.) But even with limited viewing options back then, Alex Haley’s Roots wasn’t just must-see TV; it was we-all-watched TV, with more than…
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NPR Loses Another Black Male Voice
Alex Kellogg, Wall St. Journal Alum, Leaves After 14 Months Alex P. Kellogg, one of NPR’s two black male on-air journalists, has left the network after 14 months on the job, Kellogg told Journal-isms on Monday. Kellogg’s departure reaffirms that the network’s decades-old issues regarding diversity have yet to be solved. They are often attributed…