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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…
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MLK's Notes and Papers Debut Online
A large and comprehensive collection of Martin Luther King Jr.’s documents is now available online. The collection, consisting of nearly 1 million documents, will be available at the King Center Imagine Project. You can find them here.There are letters and telegrams that show correspondence between King and the likes of John F. Kennedy, Thurgood Marshall…
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MLK Was More Than a Dreamer
In the years since his assassination, I have been troubled by what I consider to be the co-opting of Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision. What has troubled me over the years is how his revolutionary message has been hijacked, compromised and relegated to being that of just a dreamer. People are comfortable with dreamers. Why?…
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Why Santorum's Comment Isn't Racist
Just days after surging out of underfunded campaign obscurity to a photo finish with presumed GOP presidential front-runner Mitt Romney in the Iowa caucuses, former two-term U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania got himself in hot water for telling a Sioux City, Iowa campaign crowd that “I don’t want to make black people’s lives better…