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Hiring is on the uptick in at least area of the U.S. economy: temporary work, the Associated Press reports. Part-time workers are being hired at some of the nation’s largest corporations. Combined, they account for nearly 17 million people, who have only tenuous ties to the companies that pay them. From Wal-Mart to General Motors…

In a surprisingly candid interview with the Wall Street Journal, Chris Noth, famous for his role as Mr. Big on Sex and the City, among others, says that his marriage last year to longtime girlfriend Tara Lynn Wilson has prompted racist hate mail. The usually private Noth expressed dismay over opponents of interracial relationships. “When…

What actually sank Paula Deen’s wayward American dream was not her flagrant use of the n-word but her often-stated desire to return to the legal ownership of blacks, which made her family rich, Imara Jones contends in a blog post at Colorlines. Deen’s plantation wishes and mint julep dreams burst back into public consciousness on June 19.…

When whites react defensively to people who call them out on their bigotry, they are struggling, in part, to reconcile themselves with a loss of white privilege, Scot Nakagawa writes in a piece at Changelab, which examines racism through a variety of lenses. I’ve often pondered the question, why are white people so touchy about being…

For roughly $20,000 what could you buy? A car? A semester’s worth of college tuition? A beautiful, bouncing, black baby? According to Jezebel, in her website for NPR, the Race Card Project, Michele Norris touches on the scary reality that black children cost significantly less to adopt than any other race.    Norris’ piece dives…

In light of the recent Supreme Court decision on affirmative action, which kicked the case back to a lower court of appeals, America’s educational institutions should recommit to fair and thoughtful ways to foster diversity, NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous blogs at the Huffington Post. “For a country regarded as the paramount leader in…

CNN is reporting that a Boeing 777 operated by Asiana Airlines crashed while landing Saturday at San Francisco International Airport, according to an FAA spokesman. Flight 214 left Seoul’s Incheon International Airport earlier Saturday and flew 10 hours and 23 minutes to California, according to FlightAware, a website that offers tracking services for private and…

Mathew Knowles, Beyoncé’s father and former manager, married Gena Charmaine Avery in Houston last Sunday, his representative told the Associated Press. The couple had been engaged for about a year and a half. Knowles and Beyoncé’s mother, Tina, divorced in 2011 after 31 years of marriage. The 48-year-old Avery is a realtor. The 61-year-old Knowles guided his…

When Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker on Friday signed a harsh and restrictive abortion measure into law, he set the stage for a court battle with pro-choice groups, MSNBC reports. The new law would require doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at hospitals within 30 miles of where a procedure is done and mandates…

The Daily News is reporting that the head of a polygamous sect was given two life sentences on Friday for the murders of a 4-year-old boy and one of his five wives, who tried to escape his cult. Prosecutors in Durham, N.C., found Peter Moses Jr. responsible for the shooting deaths of little Jadon Higganbothan…