Archive for the ‘African American’ Category
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
African Americans in Mississippi often have fewer options for high-speed Internet and spend a higher proportion of their incomes on the Internet than whites in the state, according to a new report underscoring how the digital divide splits along racial lines.
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Tags: Broadband, Broadband Access, Center For Social Inclusion, Digital Divide, High-Speed Internet, Internet, Mississippi, Mississippi Naacp, naacp, Technology News
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Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
When Mattie Lawson’s husband, Michael, suggested in 2003 that they consider hosting a political fundraiser at their lavish Los Angeles estate for a new up-and-comer in the field, she immediately said no.
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Tags: African-Americans, Angela Bassett, Barack Obama, Cookie Johnson, Cornel West, Courtney Vance, Diahann Carroll, hollywood, Magic Johnson, Mattie Lawson, Michael lawson, reelection, reelection 2012, samuel l jackson, tavis smiley
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Monday, January 16th, 2012
First Lady Michelle Obama took the stage at an awards ceremony Saturday with poet Maya Angelou, performers Stevie Wonder and Mariah Carey, and other African American celebrities who called the black community to civic action, starting with voting in the 2012 presidential election.
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Tags: 2012 presidential election, black community, Mariah Carey, Maya Angelou, Michelle Obama, Stevie Wonder
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Thursday, January 12th, 2012
They told The Root that Americans must join them in putting President Obama’s feet to the fire.
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Tags: Cornel West, PBS, poverty, Remaking America: From Poverty to Prosperity, tavis smiley
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Tuesday, January 10th, 2012
Gwinnett County parents and activists have blasted the school district’s response following reports that students at a Norcross elementary school received a math worksheet that used examples of slavery in word problems.
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Tags: math worksheet, Norcross elementary school, slavery
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Friday, January 6th, 2012
Republican presidential contender Rick Santorum is now denying ever making remarks about “black people’s lives” after receiving criticism for the comments.
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Tags: Benjamin Todd Jealous, black people, naacp, rick santorum, The O'Reilly Factor
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Thursday, January 5th, 2012
As HBO considers making a movie about Marion Barry with Eddie Murphy in the title role, the real Barry is doing something that comes naturally: running for re-election in the nation’s capital.
Barry, the former four-term District of Columbia mayor whose legacy will always be tainted by his 1990 arrest after being caught on video smoking crack cocaine in an FBI sting operation, now plays the role of elder statesman on the D.C. Council, where he represents a poor, predominantly black ward.
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Tags: DC, marion barry, washington dc
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Friday, December 23rd, 2011
Instead of offering bootstraps to poor black kids, demand true school reform and alleviate poverty.
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Tags: poor black kids, poverty, school reform
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Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
The Rev. Al Sharpton’s nonprofit paid him nearly $242,000 — even as it carried $1.6 million in debt, according to documents obtained by The Post.
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Tags: al sharpton, back taxes, Bo-Spanky Consulting Inc., money, money problems, National Action Network, Rev-Al Communications Inc., Sharpton Media LLC, Tamika Mallory
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Thursday, December 8th, 2011
A curious phenomenon occurred in 2011. As if in concert, 40 Republican-controlled state legislatures introduced changes to their voting procedures. The laws read as minor tweaks and adjustments, and they vary from state to state, but they all have the outcome of making it harder to vote.
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Tags: Color of Change Politics Souls to the Polls Voter ID laws black voter suppression early voting protect your vote voter disenfranchisement voter fraud myth voter protection voter suppression
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Wednesday, December 7th, 2011
A City Council veteran Tuesday became the first black woman to be elected mayor of Savannah and she promised to serve as a peacekeeper decades after participating in her first civil rights protests as a teenager.
Pictured: In this 2006 photo, Edna Jackson, is hugged by Rep. John Barrow. She is a former college administrator who was elected to the Savannah City Council 12 years ago.
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Tags: edna jackson, Georgia, savannah
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Friday, December 2nd, 2011
John Canda believes the best way to curb gang violence is to ask adults–especially men–simply to show up.
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Tags: gang violence, Grace Collins, Grace Collins Memorial Center, John Canda, men, Oregon, Portland
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Thursday, December 1st, 2011
The funeral for a Florida A&M University drum major turned into a call for action Wednesday as speakers urged for an end to the hazing linked to the death of Robert Champion.
On the day Robert Champion died, he texted his parents a photograph of himself with a young boy from a children’s marching band. (Courtesy Champion Family)
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Tags: famu, famu hazing, FAMU President James H. Ammons, hazing, hazing death, julian white, Marching 100, marching band, Robert Champion
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Sunday, November 20th, 2011
Black lawmakers have lost clout in Southern state capitols as their overwhelming allegiance to the Democratic Party has left them without power in increasingly GOP-controlled state legislatures. (more…)
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