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Blacks Lose Ground in the U.S. Military
The impressive strides that African Americans have made in the leadership ranks of the military following integration have all but stopped in recent years, and they now occupy just a tiny share of the nation’s top military jobs. Nearly 62 years after President Harry R. Truman signed an executive order to desegregate the nation’s Armed…
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NEWS STAND: Why Does Obama Apologize, Mortgage Rates Dip, LA's Killing Fields, and more..
Self-Sabotage: Obama claims responsibility for oil crisis http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100527/ap_on_bi_ge/us_obama_15 We’ll have two eggs, coffee and a side of self-sabotage please. Clearly President Barack Obama is not reading the Root.com. We’re not sure why he’s coming out now to claim responsibility for the BP Oil disaster – you know the one that dwarfs the amount of damage…
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Was Rand Paul Too Scared to 'Meet the Press'?
Rand Paul Cancels Out on “Meet the Press” Rand Paul, engulfed in controversy over his views on the 1964 Civil Rights Act 24 hours after he won the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate from Kentucky, has canceled his scheduled appearance Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” His campaign spokesman “said he was exhausted and…
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Brown, Black and the Persistence of Profiling
About a week after 9/11, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a case that began in a sleepy, college town in upstate New York. That case, Brown v. City of Oneonta, involved one of the most egregious cases of racial profiling in decades. An elderly woman in the upstate New York college town reported…
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The Hotbed That Produced Obama
Barack Obama took the oath of office as a United States senator on January 4, 2005, and promptly began running for president. Very quickly, he began using the peculiar kind of celebrity that comes with being a senator to introduce himself to Washington, to a new generation of political power brokers, and, more broadly, to…
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Well Played, BET, Well Played
In all honesty, I don’t know what kind of ratings the Nielsen meter is handing out for BET these days. All I know is that I rarely contribute to those numbers and I usually don’t give them more than an a few channel-surfing seconds. Until right about now. If you aren’t an alien to the…
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Michael Wolff Wants More Jazz Hands From President Obama
Michael Wolff wishes Barack Obama did a little more acting up so he would have something worthwhile to write about He’s boring. Devoid of electricity. Square. Stiff. Goody-good. Without charisma. As much as the lagging economy and the health care bill, the Obama flat, blunted, dead-on-arrival affect is what’s hurtling the Democrats to oblivion in…
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Lena Horne Was a Friend to the Press
The late CBS correspondent Ed Bradley was fond of saying, “When I get to the pearly gates and St. Peter asks what have I done to gain entry, I’ll say, `Have you seen my Lena Horne interview?’ “ In that classic 1981 piece for “60 Minutes” [video], “he got the legendary performer to candidly discuss…
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Shakira's World Cup Theme Gets F Minus from South Africa
Shakira recently released the World Cup anthem she recorded with South African group Freshlyground. South Africa wishes she had not “It’s horrible,” local fan Lindi Munonde said. “I’m not standing for it. I mean, what is our president doing about it?” “Waka Waka — Time for Africa” takes its inspiration from Cameroonian music, but South…
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Black Tea Partiers Speak
Charles Butler, a black, Chicago-based conservative talk show host, has been in shouting matches and called a traitor to his race because of his affiliation with the largely white Tea Party movement. Lloyd Marcus, a black, Orlando, Fla.-based, conservative folk singer who wears a black panama hat, leather vest, white shirt and black pants, has…