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Jill Nelson is a journalist, activist, and the author of five books, among them Volunteer Slavery: My Authentic Negro Experience, and Straight, No Chaser: How I Became a Grown-Up Black Woman. She writes a column for NiOnline.com and blogs for wimnonline.com/WIMNsVoicesBlog. She is working on a new book, Imagining Democracy, and lives and wokes in Harlem.

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The Audacity of Whiteness: Framing Barack Obama

Posted February 2, 2009 | 17:52:13 (EST)

"This country cannot be the country we want it to be if its story is told by only one group of citizens. Our goal is to give all Americans front-door access to the truth." -- Robert C. Maynard (Maynard was one of the founders of the 30-year-old Maynard Institute...

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Black Women: First Dissed, Now Disappeared

Posted April 12, 2007 | 19:19:44 (EST)

This post originally appeared on WIMN's Voices, the group media analysis blog of Women In Media & News, the national media analysis, education and advocacy group. Jill Nelson blogs regularly about women, media and race issues for WIMN's Voices. (Note: this piece was originally written prior to MSNBC's...

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