Politics

NO: 9 Dead after Boat Carrying Haitian Immigrants Sinks BET: *Sigh* W. Va. Teen May Get Life for Shooting Pregnant Woman WP: Obama Wants Detainee Abuse Photos Taken Down, at least Not Tagged on Facebook NYT: Boy Scouts Trained to Fight Terror, Patrol Border; Fastest to Make Hitler Youth Quip Wins AA: Lead Diet? Same…

Nearly four years ago to the day, I sat in my childhood bedroom moments before my high school graduation imagining the glories of adult life. I aspired to live independent of my parents’ bank accounts and watchful eyes. My life, as I dreamed it, would be filled with a brightly colored wardrobe and overpriced accessories,…

When Amanda Fulwood accepts her well-deserved sheepskin Sunday at the University of Virginia, I’ll be the proudest father on campus. Since the day my daughter was born, I’ve dreamed of this moment, when I could look through teary eyes at her toothy smile and send her off to find a career and make her way…

ABC: Word to Norman Mailer: A ‘White Negro’ Sues Med School for Discrimination NYDN: Sex, Race Not Issues in SCOTUS Pick,Current Court Already Futuristic Like That OEN: Obama’s Education Budget a Mixed Bag for Pre-Post-Black Americans* TDN: RADIOOOOOOOO! Black Radio Stations Protest Fees Bill TWG: And Don’t Call Me George: The Principles and Productivity of…

One hundred and forty-seven years ago this week, with the Civil War raging around him, President Lincoln signed into law a bill that created the United States Department of Agriculture. He called it the “People’s Department,” in a tribute to the wide-ranging ambitions he held for it. Almost a century and a half later, the…

I am a descendant of Cherokee Freedmen, the former slaves owned by the Cherokees and a smaller number of free blacks who lived among the tribe before the end of the Civil War. So watching the PBS series We Shall Remain, which aired last month, I empathized with Native Americans and silently condemned the white…

Fed up with the unrest that threatens to throw the country into the kind of violent turmoil that followed the 2007 elections, a group of women in Kenya took matters into their own hands. The Women’s Development Organization spearheaded a weeklong strike in which they called on Kenyan women to withhold sex from their husbands…

WSJ: No Free Chicken, but Still Cool: Eight Tuition-Free Colleges WP: Homeownership Among Immigrants Remains Steady: Obama Yaaalll! NYT: Minority Gains in Homeownership Erodes: Um…Obama, Y’all? YH: Tim Brown Says Raiders’ Al Davis Hates Black Athletes from Notre Dame, All 19 of Them NC7: AMBER Alert Still Out for Missing North Carolina Boy ATC: A…

On The Tavis Smiley Show recently, British-Sri Lankan rapper M.I.A turned the much-needed spotlight onto the troubles in her native country. She described the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka as “genocide.” And said her own minority Tamil community was getting little public sympathy for their plight because the Bush administration had labeled them as “terrorists.”…

The Obama administration has signaled its intention to begin discussions on comprehensive immigration reform over the coming year; crucial to that debate will be the sister issue of integration. While most Americans agree that properly integrating immigrant groups is an important objective, few know exactly what “integration” means or how to achieve it. The old…