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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…
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Chris Brown: Gay-Slur Allegations Are 'Totally Fictitious'
Chris Brown may have used gay slurs before, but not this time, he says. A day after Star magazine reported that Brown spewed homophobic remarks at opposing players during a pickup basketball game, the singer’s rep says not only are the accusations false, but Brown wasn’t even playing basketball on the day the magazine claims.…
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Why Does America Romanticize Slavery?
“This historic treasure, built in 1817, is a phenomenal estate that has very rich history. The historic mansion was designed by Henry Latrobe, designer of the U.S. Capitol building and the finest antebellum architecture. This historical landmark, on 70 acres, is complete with four bedrooms, 4 1/2 baths, a pool, cabana, tennis courts, chicken barns,…
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CNN: Can't Find Anyone of Color Qualified
CNN’s top executive has all but said that the on-air journalists of color it employs are not ready for prime time, and deployed Mark Whitaker, the former Newsweek editor who recently became a CNN news executive, to talk with the National Association of Black Journalists about finding more suitable ones. In a statement protesting CNN’s…
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For My Brother, It Was Rocket Science
The final space shuttle launch this week takes me back to a time when my brother Charles turned our attic into a spaceship where the neighborhood kids would play astronaut. The captain would sit at an old school desk, steering a course through the front window, a portal to outer space and endless adventure. The…