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MLK Memorial Events Calendar
Update: Please note that the dates of the dedication and a number of the preceding events have been postponed due to weather forecasts. We’ll bring you the latest details as they unfold. Earlier: The Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial, more than 15 years in the making, finally opens to the public on Aug. 22.…
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Cyberwar Erupts in Mississippi Killing
The Huffington Post is reporting that a cyberwar is breaking out over the alleged hate-crime murder of James Craig Anderson in Mississippi. It’s no wonder. The vicious murder captured on video ignited passions across the globe. Many are using the Internet as an outlet to express their emotions. They are responding to what law-enforcement officials…
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VIDEO: Mississippi Hate Crime Caught on Video
Editor’s note: The video and following story contains language that some readers may consider offensive. (NSFW) CNN is reporting the alleged hate crime of James Craig Anderson, a 49-year-old auto plant worker, who was beaten and then murdered by a group of white teens intent on hurting a black person. Deryl Dedmon Jr., 18, of…
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Spike Lee Through the Years
Many assume that the filmmaker was born in New York, but Shelton Jackson Lee, nicknamed Spike by his mother, was born in pre-civil rights Atlanta to Jacqueline Carroll, an art teacher, and William James Edward Lee III, a jazz musician. When he was 2 years old, his family moved to the Fort Greene section of Brooklyn,…
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Alt Weeklies: Dancing Around Diversity?
Alternative Press Concedes Its Readers Are “So White” If the sight of the Tyronne Foster & The Arc Singers gospel choir performing in a bar did not signal that this was not your ordinary journalism convention, then maybe the burlesque dancers, not to be called strippers, the magic act and the swinging New Orleans brass…
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Black Valedictorian Can't Be Top Student?
Kymberly Wimberly was the top student at McGehee Secondary School in Little Rock, Ark. As is customary, the school named her valedictorian. Shortly after, the school’s principal, Darrell Thompson, appointed a white student with a lower grade point average as co-valedictorian to avoid a “big mess” at the majority white school. For some reason, the…
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Justice Nixes New Malcolm X Murder Probe
The best-selling and controversial biography of Malcolm X by the late Manning Marable renewed long-standing questions about whether the right men were convicted of the murder of the civil rights leader in 1965. But those who hoped for a new probe were sorely disappointed Saturday when a spokesman for the U.S. Justice Department said that…
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VIDEO: Fox News Slams Chris Brown
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com “Now, whatever you think of his music, Chris Brown beat his girlfriend to a pulp; he uses the n-word, the c-word, the s-word, the f-word and the most degrading, misogynistic lyrics in some of his top songs like ‘Look at Me Now’; he trashed the ABC studio, yet he’s…
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The Politics of Laughing at Teachers
As a cultural historian, I relish pop-culture productions for their ability to grasp social issues with a subversive twist. As an educator and a scholar devoted to understanding the current failures of the American public educational system, who also happens to be French (speaking of the failure of public education, we wrote the book), I…
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South Sudan: An African-American Opportunity?
The Republic of South Sudan is the newest nation in the world and will become the 193rd member of the United Nations. In a piece for Blackvoicesnews.com, Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. says that African Americans should be paying attention, reaching out to the country for humanitarian and economic reasons alike: African Americans should see…