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RED the Book: How to Turn Teenage All-About-Me-ism into Altruism

Amy Goldwasser | Posted 03.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Generation Obama, Community Service, Martin Luther King, Charity, Volunteering, Teens, Martin Luther King Jr., Biracial, Community Organizing, Teenage Girls, Martin Luther King Day, Millennial Generation, Race, Teenagers, Ignorance, Hate, President Obama, Civil Rights, Obama Volunteers, Post-Racial, Barack Obama, Blacks, United States, Freedom, African Americans, Racism, Bigotry, Living News
Amy Goldwasser

Obama's call to service for Martin Luther King, Jr., Day was two weeks ago today. But to my generation, I'm afraid it may as well have been issued by Abe Lincoln. It's already history.

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Steele's Slippery Slope

Charles D. Ellison | Posted 03.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Michael Steele, Gop, Rnc, Maryland, Republicans, Black, Conservatives, Steele, African Americans, Republican National Committee, Michael Steele Rnc, Rnc Chair, Politics News
Charles D. Ellison

Republicans needed a public relations break more so than a Michael Steele, a fact that will show itself much sooner rather than later.

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Third Screen: An Interview with Stanley Crouch

Vickie Karp | Posted 03.01.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Jazz, Anti-Semitism, Obama, Jewish History, Racism, Black History, Bennny Goodman, Money, Ethnicity, Music, Bernie Madoff, New York City, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Interviews, Stereotypes, Steven Spielberg, Bernard Madoff, Racial Stereotypes, African-Americans, Finances, Entertainment News
Vickie Karp

SC: I don't think stereotypes can be avoided. If someone's going to be sexist, racist, or anti-Semitic, they don't need you to help them.

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Barack Obama and the American Dream

Lauri Lyons | Posted 03.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Suburbs, Europe, Sweden, Natural Disasters, Civil Rights Act, Presidential Election 2008, President Lyndon Johnson, America, First Black President, Black History Month, New Black Panther Party, Change, Change in America, White Flight, Malcolm X, Racism, Jfk, Nigeria, Nation of Islam, Fela Kuti, R&b, Terrorism, Washington D.C., Ethnic Minorities, Black President T-Shirt, Time Magazine, American Dream, Barack Obama, Lauri Lyons, Election, Militancy, Lyndon B. Johnson, The Beatles, Democratic Nomination, Kenya, Million Man March, Minorities, President Obama, Iowa Caucus, Economic Depression, Affirmative Action, Reparations, Busing, Inauguration, Slavery, Justice, African Americans, "I Have a Dream" Speech, Yes We Can, Equality, Zimbabwe, Africa, Black President, War, Black Panther Party, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Democracy, United States, Dwayne Rodgers, France, Jim Crow, Corporate America, Segregation, Civil Rights Movement, Higher Education, Shepard Fairey, President George W. Bush, Robert Kennedy, Post-Racial, Selma Alabama, Michelle Obama, Obama Family, The Movement, Lauren Erickson, March on Washington, Flag International, Video, Politics News
Lauri Lyons

The past four decades have been a mixture of social growing pains and progress. Even with that said, most people never believed that a Black man would become the President.

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Fashionistas of Black America, Quit Dissin' Lady Obama's Style

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 02.28.2009 | Style

Read More: Dresses, White House, Michelle Obama, Fashion, Black Fashion, Fashion Designer, Designer, Media, First Lady, Obama Family, Designer Dresses, Style, Stylists, First Lady Michelle, Entertainment, African Americans, Fashionistas, Black Artists Association, Michelle Obama Dress Inauguration, Ikram Designers, Stylist, Style News
Yvonne R. Davis

Instead of complaining about why Mrs. Obama did not wear a black designer's dress to the inaugural festivities, take the opportunity to send your samples to the First Lady.

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Our New President

Quinn Bradlee | Posted 02.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Learning Disabilities, Barack Obama, Stigma, Challenges, Presidential Oath, Obama Inauguration, President Obama, Obama Oath of Office, Oath of Office, African-Americans, Chris Matthews, African Americans, Obama Oath, Living News
Quinn Bradlee

As someone who lives with learning disabilities, Obama's ability to transcend stigma and bridge gaps in our society has made me feel part of the world.

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Dr. King's True Legacy: A Lesson for Progressives in the Age of Obama

Kimberle Crenshaw | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Equality, Al Sharpton, Americans, America, Racial Equality, Martin Luther King Jr., World Peace, Legacy, Peace, Civil Rights, Barack Obama, Freedom of Speech, Racial Politics, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Martin Luther King, Lyndon B. Johnson, Vietnam War, Freedom, Abraham Lincoln, Racism, Vietnam, Lyndon Johnson, Justice, African-Americans, Politics News
Kimberle Crenshaw

Not only must we re-dedicate ourselves to King's civil rights mission along with the world peace mission, we must see the two as being so utterly linked that one cannot exist without the other.

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Fear and Envy of Black Masculinity: How Politico's Jonathan Martin Mugged President Obama and Got Away With It

Ronald B. Robinson | Posted 03.25.2009 | Media

Read More: April Ryan, Aggresive, Meltdown, Emotional, Implict Cognition, Obama, Media, Black, White Male Workers, Race, Ashley Todd, Bush, Msnbc, History, Press Room, Male, Agitated, Conservatives, Envy, Implicit Bias, African Americans, Racism, Masculinity, Whiteness, Meme, Rove, Fear, Carrie Budoff Brown, White House Press Corp, Rush Limbaugh, Irritated, Msm, Black Male, Lou Dobbs, Jonathan Martin, Association, White Male, Cnn, White, Politico, Press Corps, Barack Obama, Michelle Malkin, Sean Hannity, Sarah Palin, Fox, Politics, Rnc, Michael Steele, Republican Chair, Media News
Ronald B. Robinson

Almost all black men recognize the contemptuous look Jonathan Martin gave Obama on Thursday.

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America's Islamic Slave Roots

Frankie Martin | Posted 02.27.2009 | World

Read More: Islam, Slavery, President Obama, Martin Luther King, Sapelo Island, Obama Inauguration, Akbar Ahmed, African Americans, Muslim World, Cornelia Walker Bailey, Research, Inauguration, Georgia, Family, World News
Frankie Martin

My team and I were on Sapelo Island, off the coast of Georgia, to investigate links between the US and Islam going back centuries to the Africans brought to this country as slaves.

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A Million Views (and Then Some) on Obama's Inauguration

Raafi Rivero | Posted 02.23.2009 | Business

Read More: The Internet, Twitter, Beer, Computers, Websites, Obama, Media, Business, Facebook, Barack Obama, Internet, Television, Itunes, Video, Viral Video, Online, Youtube, Marketing, Branding, Online Video, Technology, African-Americans, Minorities, Business News
Raafi Rivero

YouTube has become the default TV of the Internet. This is remarkable considering that a) It did not exist during the last presidential campaign and b) so much of the content is by non-professionals.

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Daring to Hope on the Washington Mall

Stephen Zunes | Posted 02.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Patriotism, Civil Rights Movement, Change, Obama's Inauguration, Hope, Inauguration, Obama Inauguration, Obama, Barack Obama, Youth, Sacrifice, Barack Obama Inauguration, Students, Happiness, Jim Crow, Mississippi, Singing, African-Americans, Politics News
Stephen Zunes

I was able to shed tears of joy on a number of occasions this Tuesday. I wasn't just relieved that a Democrat had won the White House. I was actually... happy.

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Watching the Inauguration from a Former Slave Market

Peter J. Ognibene | Posted 02.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Inaugural Speech, Virginia, Obama, Alexandria Virginia, Obama Inauguration, Slaves, Obama's Inauguration, Inauguration, African-Americans, African Americans, Politics News
Peter J. Ognibene

This afternoon, the descendants of slaves bore witness to an event their forebears could not have imagined: the inauguration of an African American as President of the United States.

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Two Parades. Two Coasts. One Hope.

Karen Bass | Posted 02.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: African-American, Civil Rights Movement, Obama's Inauguration, California, Elizabeth Alexander, Obama Inauguration, Martin Luther King Jr., Parades, Barack Obama Inauguration, “I Have a Dream” Speech, California State Assembly, Los Angeles, Barack Obama, Aretha Franklin, Obama Inauguration Aretha Franklin, Politics, Eyes on the Prize, Dreams, Kingdom Day Parade, Martin Luther King, San Francisco Chronicle, Martin Luther King Day, Pride, African-Americans, African Americans, Politics News
Karen Bass

Just as Martin Luther King's dream could not have endured if it was his alone, President Obama's hope and promise can't endure if we don't help shoulder the burden.

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A Blessing for Barack (A Jewish Prayer for All Obama-ites)

Michael L. Millenson | Posted 02.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Inauguration Day 2009, Joseph Lieberman, Obama Inauguration, Prayer, William Kristol, Barack Obama, Jewish, African Americans, Joy, Jews, Obama's Inauguration, Judaism, Obama Jews, Religion, Spirituality and Politics, Inauguration, Religion and Politics, Spirituality, Politics News
Michael L. Millenson

There is a Jewish prayer that captures the sense of relief, gratitude, and joy that so many of us feel as Barack Obama becomes the 44th president of the United States. It is called the Shehechiyanu.

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The Biggest Loser

Gregory Allen Howard | Posted 02.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Affirmative Action and African Americans, Supreme Court, 1960s, Civil Rights Movement, Obama Inauguration, Affirmative Action, Obama Clarence Thomas, Jobs, Harvard, Obama Harvard, Barack Obama, Clarence Thomas, Civil Rights, Yale, Obama Harvard Law Review, Yale Law School, Inauguration, Harvard Law School, Yale Law, Racism, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, African-Americans, Politics News
Gregory Allen Howard

If a white man with Clarence Thomas's meager background of minor government bureaucrat had been put up for the Supreme Court, there would have been outrage. Except that he was Black.

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Obama Does and Doesn't Fulfill King's Dream

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 02.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jr., Civil Rights Movement, Black Politics, Martin Luther King, Barack Obama, Civil Rights, I Have a Dream, March on Washington, Race, African-Americans, Presidency, Politics News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

A percentage of whites who said they'd vote for Obama also said that blacks were more crime prone than whites. Yet Obama was seen as a racial exception, the penchant for making these distinctions between blacks.

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Blaxploitation, GOP Style

Russ Baker | Posted 02.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Republican National Committee, Colin Powell, Jesse Helms, The New York Times, George W. Bush, The New Republic, Chip Saltsman, Rod Paige, Texas Rangers, Chip Saltsman Magic Negro Song, Barack the Magic Negro, The Washington Post, Bush Administration, Ken Blackwell, George H.W. Bush, United Negro College Fund, Condoleezza Rice, Alphonso Jackson, Bush Texas Rangers, New York Times, Racism, Magic Negro, Washington Post, Bush Legacy, African-Americans, Republican Party, Diversity, African-American Issues, Republicans, Politics News
Russ Baker

Tthe GOP is stepping up efforts to stress diversity, but is resorting to a tried-and-true W. tactic: the promotion of compromised, disreputable individuals -- a kind of lemon diversity that only highlights their cynicism and contempt for the public.

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Race in the Obama Age: Still a Long Way to Go

Lola Adesioye | Posted 02.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: BART Shooting, Racism, Race, Obama Inauguration, Barack Obama, Racial Politics, BART Police Shooting, California, Public Transportation, Racial Identity, African-Americans, African-American Issues, Politics News
Lola Adesioye

After Obama's election, many in the media asked if black people can still claim that American society is a racist society if a black man can reach the highest office in the land, and even the world.

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Statewide Races a Challenge for Black Politicians?

Pamela Gentry | Posted 02.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ken Blackwell, Pennsylvania, Republican Candidates, Mel Martinez, Ohio, Michael Steele, Florida, Kendrick Meek, Black Politicians, African-Americans, Republican Party, Obama Black Politicians, Republicans, Politics News
Pamela Gentry

As recent as 2006, three African-Americans ran for high-profile statewide office on the Republican ticket and all were defeated by considerable margins.

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Why the Youth Vote Is the Big Story -- For 2008 and for Decades to Come

Eric Greenberg and Karl Weber | Posted 02.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: The Internet, Jews, John McCain, Youth, Youth Vote, Barack Obama Youth Vote, Web, Hispanics, Facebook, Obama Young People, Barack Obama, Internet, Obama Youth Voters, Millenials, Obama Youth Vote, Voters, Obama Youth, Technology, African-Americans, Myspace, Politics News
Eric Greenberg and Karl Weber

We'd like to state the case for the youth vote as being crucial in understanding the Obama victory and what it means for the future. The youth vote deserves a lot of respect in its shaping of the electoral map.

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What The Inauguration Means To Me

Robert D. Patterson | Posted 02.15.2009 | Living

Read More: Carole Robertson, Indiana University School of Medicine, Goodman, Underground Railroad, Depauw University, Barack Obama Inauguration, Lorraine Wilson Patterson, Rosa Parks, Addie Mae Collins, Medgar Evers, Emmett Till, African Americans, Barack Obamas Mother, Lorraine Patterson, Keith Woodard Scholarship Fund, Robert D Patterson, Mountain Top Speech, Martin Luther King Jr., Frederick Douglas, Chaney, Promised Land, Barack Obama, University of Louisville, George Rawls, We Shall Overcome, Abraham Lincoln, Spike Lee, National Association of Black Journalist, Schwerner, So You Want to Be a Doctor, Ann Dunham Soetoro, Benjamin Carson, Harriet Tubman, Four Little Girls, Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley, Living News
Robert D. Patterson

The significance of Obama's inauguration resides in the sweat, blood, and tears shed by our forefathers so that people of all races, creed, and gender could share in the American inheritance.

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The Folly of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Eric Copage | Posted 02.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Martin Luther King Jr., Martin Luther King Day, Martin Luther King, Black America, African Americans, Martin Luther King Holiday, Politics News
Eric Copage

What if black Americans recognized Dr. King's birthday on the actual day of his birth, today, January 15th? We would make a collective decision, without asking anyone's permission, to exercise our freedom.

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