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Racism Against Native Americans Must Be Addressed

Tim Giago | Posted 10.05.2009 | Home

Read More: American Indians, George Will, Native Americans, Pechanga, Raina Kelley, Native Times, Huffington Post, Willaim Safire, Racial Profiling, Newsweek, African Americans, Home News

Less known in most of America, but well known to Native Americans, is the covert racism that afflicts those Americans with "red skin" as opposed to black.

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Yoo Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg Documents Radio/TV Diva Gertrude Berg Popular from Great Depression Through McCarthy Era

Penelope Andrew | Posted 11.18.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Chris Milanos Downey, A Majority of One, Ed Asner, African-Americans, Actresses, Aviva Kempner, Catholic-Americans, Emmy Award, Red Channels, Richmond-Virginia, Documentary Film, Tony Award, Gertrude Berg, Jewish-Americans, Rosalind Russell, Aphrodite Palans Andrew, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Communism, The Black List, Screenwriters, Red Scare, Philip Loeb, Huac, Socialism, Susan Stamberg, Yoo-Hoo Mrs. Goldberg, Women Directors, Norman Lear, Radio, The Rise of the Goldbergs, Greek-Americans, The Goldbergs, Entertainment News

Yoo Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg underscores a unique moment in our history when the Jewish experience crossed over into households composed of African Americans and Midwesterners, as they all listened to The Rise of the Goldbergs.

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Head in the Sand?

Clarence B. Jones | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Andrew Sullivan, Robert Gibbs, Joe Wilson, Race, Maureen Dowd, Mlk, Jimmy Carter, Barack Obama, Marten Luther King, African Americans, James Crowley, Beer Summit, New York Times, Racism, Henry Gates, Health Care, Deep South, Politics News

On issues of race, Obama will forever be either the man who healed the septic wound that runs across the back of this nation, or the man who turned away from the mirror to solve more "practical" issues.

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Life Span Of African-Americans In New Orleans Rivals North Korea's

The Huffington Post | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Statistics, America, Katrina, Race, American Human Development Project, Louisiana, Life Expectancy Statistics, Hurricane Katrina, Life Expectancy, African-Americans, North Korea, Human Development Project Louisiana, Politics News

The average life span for African-Americans living in New Orleans is nearly as low as average life expectancy in North Korea, according to A Portrait ...

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Defending Unpatriotic Racism

Robbie Gennet | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Msnbc, Hate, Bush, War, George W. Bush, Racist, President Obama, Obama, Democratic Party, Democrats, Barack Obama, Afghanistan War, Iraq War, Religion, Bush Administration, Patriotism, Joe Wilson, Jimmy Carter, Fox News, Racism, Glenn Beck, Hate Speech, President Bush, Health Care, Town Hall Meetings, Republican Party, African Americans, Republicans, Politics News

They say the best offense is a good defense. Our only real defense against right wing insanity is to put them on the defense and keep them there.

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Coming Out for DOMA Repeal

Michael J. Wilson | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: LGBT Rights, Liberals, African Americans, Gay Marriage, Obama Doma, Doma, Defense of Marriage Act, Politics News

The notion that marriage is threatened by legally sanctioned relationships because of sexual orientation is patently absurd.

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The Recession's Racial Divide: Downturn Harder On Minorities

nytimes.com | BARBARA EHRENREICH and DEDRICK MUHAMMAD | Posted 11.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Recession Blacks, African-Americans, Recession, Racial Divide, Business News

WHAT do you get when you combine the worst economic downturn since the Depression with the first black president? A surge of white racial resentment, ...

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Good Hair Wars

Adia Colar | Posted 11.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Howard University, Rihanna, Women, Tyra Banks, Chris Rock, Halle Berry, Good Hair, Beyonce, Hair, African Americans, Self-Image, Living News

The fear of not fitting someone's ideal of beauty should not be a reason for people to continually alter who they are. As Atlanta housewife NeNe told fellow housewife Kim Zolciak, "You do you."

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Isn't Adequate Healthcare a Moral Issue?

Byron Williams | Posted 10.22.2009 | Home

Read More: California, Type 2 Diabetes, Statistics, Blindness, Moral Issues, Homosexuality, Uninsured, Barack Obama, Amputations, Ethics, Same Sex Marriage, Health Care Reform, Morality, Diabetes, Health Care, African-Americans, Gay Marriage, Kidney Disease, Home News

Why don't we see the same fervor -- particularly emanating from the churches that seek to block gay marriage -- transferred, at least temporarily, to the 47 million Americans who must go without health care?

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A House in the Hamptons?: Historic Vacation Spots of the Black Elite

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 10.19.2009 | New York

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Some African-Americans, seemingly born under an auspicious star, apparently have always gathered to share their leisure pursuits with others who were similarly favored.

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Minorities and Health Care: What's the Real Story?

Francesca Biller-Safran | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Low Birth Rate, “Infant Mortality Rate”, African-Americans, Recidivism, Incarceration, Classicism, President Barack Obama, African-American Women, Melting Pot, Healthcare Reform, HIV/AIDS, African-American Infants, Breast Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Senator Ted Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Socialism, Heart Disease, Diabetes, Rehabilitation, Town Hall Meetings, Medical Care, Prenatal Care, Minorities, Stomach Cancer, Politics News

While health care is in need of radical reform for millions of Americans, minorities and especially blacks have historically suffered disproportionately from poor or non-existent health care.

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The Old Packard Plant: From the Detroit Stories

Lester Sloan | Posted 09.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Marilyn Monroe, Studebaker-Packard, New Jersey, Gilbert Smith, Avanti, Automobile Industry, Alabama, Tennessee, Purple Gang, Tommy Bridges, The South, Packard Motor Company, African Americans, Detroit, UAW., Living News

While the old Packard is an image of urban decay, it has nothing to do with the demise of the auto industry as we know it today.

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African-American Wendell Scott Should be in NASCAR's Hall of Fame

Steve Parker | Posted 09.28.2009 | Business

Scott was the first African-American to compete regularly in and certainly the only one to win a NASCAR Grand National race, now known as Sprint Cup, the sport's top national series.

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Living With HIV/AIDS: Marvelyn Brown

Martha St Jean | Posted 09.27.2009 | Living

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Marvelyn Brown, Women and Aids, African Americans, Living With HIV/AIDs, Living News

Marvelyn Brown: "The guy who infected me knew he was infected when he passed the virus to me. But I had a choice. I chose to have unprotected sex."

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Microsoft's Ad In Poland Photoshops Black Man, But Keeps Asian Man, White Woman

Posted 09.26.2009 | Business

Read More: Photoshop, Black Americans, Poland, Advertising, Microsoft, Asian Americans, Racism, Race, Business, African Americans, Business News

Doing business abroad sometimes requires companies to tweak their marketing strategies. Companies often swap idiomatic phrases or images in advertisem...

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Why Won't Health Care Advocates Talk About Race?

The American Prospect | Adam Serwer | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Uninsured, America's Affordable Health Choices Act, Segregation, Hispanics, Healthcare Reform, Race, African Americans, Politics News

Last week, over 8,000 people lined up to be treated by medical volunteers at the Forum stadium in Inglewood, California. It was a rare moment of visib...

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The Uninsured Has a Black Face -- White Ambivalence Is Obama's Struggle

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics

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Yale professor, John Dovidio, does not feel the ongoing protests, name calling and Hitler labels by white protesters are hate, but a fight by whites struggling to defend and maintain their position and status.

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Health Reform: NBC Polls America and Gets it 60% Correct

Mario Solis-Marich | Posted 09.19.2009 | Media

Read More: Latinos, Health Care Reform, Polls, Health Insurance, African-Americans, Nbc, Health Care, Media News

While NBC touts its intellectual vigor and news credentials it has done a great disservice to its viewers and the entire country by portraying a poll as legitimate that undervalues the opinion of 40% of Americans.

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Whether Gates or Health Care, Race Matters

Abby L. Ferber | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

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Discussions of race are not merely a distraction from more important matters; they are essential to understanding political mobilization around many of the significant policy issues facing us today.

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"She's Pretty for a Dark-Skinned Girl..."

Tameka J. Raymond | Posted 09.11.2009 | Style

Read More: African American Beauty, Beauty, African Americans, Gender Roles, Tameka Raymond, Style News

The deeply rooted intra-racial contempt that lies beneath this inane "compliment" is the reason I've chosen to spark dialogue surrounding the topic of self-hatred in African-American culture.

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Good Hair? Bad Hair? Great Style!

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 09.07.2009 | Style

The varied and imaginative ways African Americans dress their hair represents a high-point of human creativity that's dependency, the very quintessence of style.

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The Skip Gates Arrest May Not Have Been About Race -- But About Something Even Worse

William Easterly | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bureaucracy, Civil Liberties, Democracy, Henry Louis Gates, African Americans, Civil Rights, Politics News

My guess is that Sergeant James Crowley was following an inflexible rule that you arrest anyone who shouts angrily at a cop.

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The Unteachable Lesson: Can We Learn From Gates and Crowley?

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 08.25.2009 | Politics

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Whether he likes it or not, Gates stands as America's new 21st Century Poster Child for "racial profiling."

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Racism or Not, Cambridge Police Owes Professor Gates an Apology

Ahmed Rehab | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Black, Harvard, Henry Louis Gates, Cambridge, African-Americans, Post-Racial, Henry Louis Gates Jr. Arrested, Racial Profiling, Politics News

While it is easy to come to the defense of a black man who happens to be a world class scholar, how many less fortunate blacks get arrested on even more flimsy grounds with no public outcry?

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