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Hate Crime or Vandalism? A California Village Struggles for the Right Answer
In late January, Oprah Winfrey gushed about San Luis Obispo, which is on the central-California coast. The billionaire television host called the city “the happiest place in America” during a show broadcast from the historic mission town halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Since then the nearby village of Arroyo Grande has basked in…
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ASNE to Help Editors Reach Out to 'New America'
Now that it has revealed that the number of journalists of color in daily newspaper and online-only newsrooms declined for the third consecutive year, the American Society of News Editors plans to enlist non-media companies to brief news executives on appealing to an increasingly brown America. “ASNE will be a leader at keeping diversity at…
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The Price of Choosing Jails Over Schools
As federal, state and local governments across the nation slash their budgets to close looming shortfalls, there is one clear winner in the budget battles: correctional systems, which cost the nation nearly $70 billion annually. During the last two decades, funding for prisons eclipsed spending for higher education sixfold. The NAACP is looking to reverse…
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'The Book of Mormon': 'South Park' on Broadway?
With The Book of Mormon taking home 9 Tony Awards this year, we’re pulling this review of the Broadway musical from our archives. Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the guys who created South Park, like to boast that they are equal-opportunity offenders. Which is true. Over the past 10 years that their potty-mouthed, thumb-in-your-eye animated…
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LeBron's Mom Arrested in Car-Key Altercation
RadarOnline reports that LeBron James’ mother, Gloria, was taken into custody at the Fontainebleau Resort in Miami Beach early Thursday morning after getting into an altercation with a valet parking attendant. According to the Radar’s reading of the police report, the parking attendant says he waited half an hour for her to retrieve her car,…
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Odd Future's Odd Fan Base
I was introduced to the Los Angeles-based hip-hop group Odd Future (full name: Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All) over craft beers at a friend’s house several months ago. This friend, a white guy in his late 20s, was in the midst of writing a feature about them for a major music magazine —…
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Man Freed After 27 Years in Prison for Crimes He Did Not Commit
Fresh from our “Blame a black man” file, Thomas Haynesworth of Richmond, Va., has finally been freed to come home after serving 27 years in prison for crimes he did not commit. Haynesworth was 18 years old when he was arrested as he walked to the market to buy sweet potatoes and bread for Sunday…
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Bill Cosby Rejects Russell Simmons' Apology
In 2009 Russell Simmons wrote an open letter to Bill Cosby challenging his anti-hip-hop messages and accusing his generation of being unable to connect with today’s youths and unfairly associating young people with violence. AOL Black Voices reports that the Def Jam Records co-founder attempted to make amends with Cosby by apologizing last week for…
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Emmett J. Rice, Federal Reserve Governor, Dies at 91
Emmett J. Rice, 91, a former World Bank official and member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, and the father of Susan E. Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, died March 10 at his home in Camas, Wash. He had congestive heart failure. Dr. Rice was a pioneering economist, banking official and…
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The Root Roundup: Raekwon, Delfeayo Marsalis and Marsha Ambrosius
Shaolin vs. Wu Tang by Raekwon “Now we are the masters of our fate,” says the voice of Winston Churchill on Raekwon the Chef’s new album. “Ain’t no recycle bin for rappers,” says Busta Rhymes on a different track. Taken together, these statements say much about Raekwon’s career: He persevered through several difficult years, including…