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Minorities At Risk For Drowning

AP | JENNIFER KAY | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Black Communities, Black, Video, Hispanics, Drown, Minority, Minorities at Risk, Drowning, Minorities, Latino Voices News

MIAMI -- Safety advocates urging parents to be aware of swimming pool safety before the summer heats up also say more efforts are needed to teach blac...

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Community Service To Wipe Away School Suspensions

Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Oakland, Community Service, Detention, Los Angeles, Students, Assemblymember Sandre Swanson, Black, Teachers, Civil Rights, Suspension, Education News
Youth Radio -- Youth Media International

By: Robyn Gee Recent data from the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights shows that black and Latino students are much more likely to...

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April Showers Bring May... An Afternoon With Rain Pryor

Carol Smaldino | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Funny, Richard Pryor, Black, Wite, Earth Day, Race, Fried Chicken and Latkes, Rain, Peace, Jewish, Entertainment News
Carol Smaldino

She, Rain, is a survivor, and I pray in my own agnostic way, that we can take the gifts of the likes of Rain and others, to make Earth Day and the days after, ones where we can start to risk our own revolution.

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America's Public Schools: Still Unequal And Unjust

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 04.08.2012

Read More: Public Schools, Resources, Latino, Low-Minority, Arne Duncan, Expulsion Rate, Teacher Salaries, Funding, High-Minority, Teacher Salary, Out-of-School Suspensions, African American, Civil Rights, Low-Performing Schools, Grade Retention, Racism, Department of Education Civil Rights Data Collection Survey, Discrimination, Black, Dropout, Public Education, African-Americans, African Americans, Tracking, The Great Equalizer, Department of Education, Zero Tolerance, Office for Civil Rights, Ineffective Teachers, Education, Secretary of Education, Department of Education Office for Civil Rights, Teachers, Inequality, Home News
Marian Wright Edelman

The struggle to make sure a quality education is available to every child -- and not just a privilege for a few -- is the unfinished and critical business before the nation for it will determine America's future place on the global stage in a rapidly changing competitive world.

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WATCH: 'The Skinny' On LGBT People Of Color In Film

Earnest Winborne | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Video, Lgbt, Outfest Fusion, Outfest Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Lesbian, Latino, Black, Gay, Film, African Americans, Gay Voices News
Earnest Winborne

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Stigmata and Violence as Social Control

Warren J. Blumenfeld | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Stigma, Stigmata, Scapegoating, Transgender, Latino, Bisexual, Lesbian, Oppression, Violence, Minutemen Movement, Black, Gay, Social Control, Politics News
Warren J. Blumenfeld

We must not and cannot dismiss these incidents as simply the actions of a few individuals, for oppression exists on multiple levels in multiple forms.

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Why We Need National Black Marriage Day

Beverly Willett | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Whites, Marriage, Black Marriage, Divorce, President Obama, Black, Children of Divorce, Child Out of Wedlock, Family, National Black Marriage Day, Black Marriage Day, Weddings News
Beverly Willett

"What's the date for Black Marriage Day?" the reporter asked. Nisa told the woman she'd call her right back, hung up, then looked at the calendar. January, February and April-June were out -- New Year's, Black History Month, Easter, Mother's Day, Father's Day. March was empty.

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When First and Third World Meet

Daniel Weeks | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: South Africa, Poverty, White Privilege, White, Black, Race, Privilege, Inequality, Interracial Love, Impact News
Daniel Weeks

I may have worked hard when I was young, but the opportunities to learn and work that defined my growing up are hardly the norm in this country, where half the children are born into degrading poverty. The contrasts go on and on.

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To Phil Valentine: Shut Up About Race, Jeremy Lin, and Political Correctness

Brandon Thomas | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Sports, Talk Radio, Espn, Jeremy Lin, Phil Valentine, Racism, Black, Basketball, Privilege, Chinese, African Americans, Bv-Pop-Culture-Entertainment, Black Voices News
Brandon Thomas

In a recent article in the Murfreesboro Pulse shock jock and local conservative talk radio personality Phil Valentine ignorantly discussed the issue of the racist headline that showed up on ESPN about Jeremy Lin, a basketball player for the New York Knicks.

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Little Billy Blackface: The Academy Awards and the Reestablishment of the Social Order

Javon Johnson | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Blackface Minstrelsy, Oscars, Billy Crystal, Black, Race, Academy Awards, Blackface, Pop Culture, Black Voices News
Javon Johnson

A couple weekends back, the Academy Awards, since its inception in 1929, awarded just its 14th Black Oscar winner in an acting category. Octavia Spenc...

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I'm Just A Person

Charissa Newkirk | Posted 03.19.2012

Read More: Black, Martin Luther King Day, Racial Stereotypes, Race, Diversity, Affirmative Action, High School News
Charissa Newkirk

When I fill out a college application, they will never know that I sing in the shower and used to play with Harry Potter Legos. What will they see? I'm a girl. I'm smart. And I'm black.

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Broken In Fact, Beloved Indeed: Meditating On Sin At The End Of The Year

Lisa Anderson | Posted 02.27.2012

Read More: Scripture, Queer, Lesbian, Broken, Jesus, Theology, Sin, Christianity, Beloved, Black, Gay, Christian, Religion News
Lisa Anderson

I began to starve myself to death, and with an experience of sickness that infiltrated into every fiber of my physical, mental and spiritual being. 'What is sin' and 'what does it mean to be a sinner' became intensely personal questions for me.

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Were You Hoping for a Miracle?

Wale Oyejide | Posted 02.26.2012

Read More: Stylelist-Fashion, Black, Black Voices, Lifestyle, Fashion, Style, Inspiration, Personal Growth, Mindful Living, Mindfulness, Career Advice, Careers, Career Tips, Style News
Wale Oyejide

Where happiness is concerned, there is no blueprint. There are no rules that won't break. The blind lead the blind, and disingenuously offer condolences when the unwitting find themselves led astray. So in your own shoes, you will make your own road.

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Should I Be Mad That They Take My Photo Because I'm Black?

Oneika Raymond | Posted 01.29.2012

Read More: Black, Travel, Blackvoices, Bv-Life, African-American-Travel, Travel Blogs, International Travel, Tourists, Black Voices News
Oneika Raymond

I love who I am and how I look, and evidently, other people do, too. I say this since, as a black female who travels, I get A LOT of attention in certain places I visit. I can honestly say that my looks have stopped traffic. But my question is, should I be mad?

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The Masquerade Is Over

Wale Oyejide | Posted 01.23.2012

Read More: Black, Lifestyle, Menswear, Exposure, Fashion, Style, Style News
Wale Oyejide

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Teaching In The Young Lions' Lair

Turnstyle | Posted 01.09.2012

Read More: New Options, Ousd, Invisible Man, New Options Project, Aam, Push Out Program, Ralph Ellison, Black Male, Students, School, Pendarvis Harshaw, African-American, Teach, African-American Male, Black Men, Education, Oakland Unified School District, Drop-Out, Oakland, High School, Black, Dropout, Teaching, Class, Young Lions' Lair, Education News
Turnstyle

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Beyonce And Baby Bump Dress Up As Halloween Bee

www.mydaily.co.uk | Posted 01.01.2012

Read More: Halloween, Baby, Girl, Mydaily, Pregnant, Beyonce, Yellow, Bumble Bee, Style, Bump, Bee, Costume, Black, Beyonce Knowles, Celebrity, Fashion, Home News

Cute! Sorry slightly-scary Heidi Klum, and pretty-poisonous Kim Kardashian, but we think Beyonce and her bump have just beaten you to be crowned MyDai...

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EXCLUSIVE: Iconic Playmate, Jennifer Jackson, Talks Life After Baring It All & ‘The Playboy Club’

HuffingtonPost.com | Brennan Williams | Posted 11.25.2011

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Hot on the heels of the popular television series "Mad Men," NBC producers are capitalizing on the recent trend of '60s-era shows with their new drama...

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Obama's Burden: Addressing the Black Labor Crisis in "Post-Racial" America

Avis Jones-DeWeever | Posted 11.08.2011

Read More: Economic Recovery, Black, Economic Crisis, Black Unemployment, Black-Unemployment-Crisis, Obama Jobs Speech, Obama, Obama Jobs Proposal, Unemployment, Black Voices News
Avis Jones-DeWeever

When President Obama addresses the nation with his long-awaited jobs prescription, one thing is certain. Any strategy he puts forth now must not only seek to move the needle for the nation as a whole, it must also include specific remedies for the ever-deepening jobs crisis within black America.

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Internet War Of Words Over Alleged Hate Crime Killing In Mississippi

AP | By HOLBROOK MOHR | Posted 10.14.2011

Read More: Deryl Dedmon, John Aaron Rice, Run Over, White, Murder, Video, Mississippi, Mississippi Crime, Beer Run, Hate Crime, Black, Jackson, James Craig Anderson, Crime News

JACKSON, Miss. -- Authorities call it a hate crime by two white teens against a middle-aged black man, "murder by physically assaulting and purposeful...

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Marvel's Mixed Race "Ultimate Spider-Man"

Marcia Dawkins | Posted 10.03.2011

Read More: Latinos, Mixed Race, Brian Michael Bendis, Peter Parker, Superheroes, Ethnicity, Multiracial, Hispanics, Race, Mixed Ethnicity, Marvel Comics, Culture, Entertainment, African American, Ultimate Spider-Man, Miles Morales, Spider-Man, Black, African Americans, Entertainment News
Marcia Dawkins

Today we meet Miles Morales, a younger multiracial and multiethnic Spider-Man. Even though Morales may remind us of the Spider-Man we're used to in the more traditional Marvel universe, there are definite differences.

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Kim Kardashian Shows Off Her Ample Curves In A Strapless LBD

www.mydaily.co.uk | Posted 09.20.2011

Read More: California, Style, Launch, Kris Humphries, Party, Noon by Noor, La, Black, Little Black Dress, Fashion, Celebrity, Kim Kardashian, Lbd, Statement Necklace, Dress, Home News

Kim Kardashian was flaunting her infamous hourglass curves at a Hollywood fashion bash last night, slipping into a teeny tiny strapless LBD. The st...

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Is Our Racial Gap Becoming a Generation Gap?

Angela Glover Blackwell | Posted 09.13.2011

Read More: Latinos, Politics News, Latino, Social Justice, Education, Asian Americans, Native Americans, Immigration, Black, Transit, Impact News
Angela Glover Blackwell

America's seniors, business leaders, and elected officials simply do not see themselves in the faces of today's young. This signals less obligation and commitment to the kinds of programs and resources that provide a boost for the next generation.

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How Marriage Equality Can Save the Black Family

Maya Rupert | Posted 08.05.2011

Read More: Black Fathers, Lgbt, Black, Race, African Americans, Black Family, Same-Sex Marriage, Politics News
Maya Rupert

June is here. Cue the gloom and doom stories about the state of the black family, and the finger pointing as we figure out who to blame. Unfortunate...

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America's Tomorrow: Equity In a Changing Nation

Angela Glover Blackwell | Posted 07.27.2011

Read More: Latino, Education, Equity, Asian Americans, Native Americans, Black, Immigration, Race, Transit, African Americans, Politics News
Angela Glover Blackwell

For America to compete moving forward, we can't continue squandering the skills and potential of millions of young men and women.

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