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Racial Advancement on TV: Is the Progress Depicted Well-Intentioned Fantasy?

Michael Russnow | Posted 07.09.2009 | Media

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Michael Russnow

I've been noticing over the past several years a tendency for the Media to depict racial togetherness in a manner that doesn't come close to representing reality.

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Quick, Which Ethnic Group Is More Patriotic Than the Average?

John Ridley | Posted 06.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Asians, Asian Heritage Month, History Months, Hispanic Heritage Month, Black History Month, Minorities, Politics News
John Ridley

Asian Pacific American Heritage Month doesn't get nearly the play that Black History Month does. But then neither do Women's History Month, Hispanic Heritage Month, or American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month.

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Young and Black in the Age of Obama

Sara Haile-Mariam | Posted 04.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Equality, Youth, Race, Obama Inauguration, Gay Marriage, Barack Obama, Black History Month, Black People, President Obama, African Americans, Obama Young People, Politics News
Sara Haile-Mariam

These truths are self-evident, but are they fully realized? No. They are not. Complacency is what we have to fear, it's what this generation must fight.

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February '09: A Month So Bad, I Joined Facebook

Dan Pashman | Posted 04.02.2009 | Media

Read More: Damascus, Baseball, St. Patrick's Day, Football, Economic Crisis, Spring, Grape Soda, Winter, Facebook, Winter Blues, Black History Month, Hallmark, Facebook Status, February, Media News
Dan Pashman

Facebook is cool enough, although I haven't become obsessed the way many of my friends have. I don't care what you ate for breakfast, you don't care what I ate for breakfast, let's not pretend.

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How Eric Holder and Michael Steele Spent Their February

John Ridley | Posted 03.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Republican National Committee, Michael Steele Rnc, Eric Holder Attorney General, Rnc, Michael Steele, Racism, Black History, Race, Eric Holder, Black History Month, Politics News
John Ridley

What's clear now is that after Tuesday night's flame out by Jindal, Steele is going to have to work double time in finding a new messenger. First, perhaps, he needs to figure out what the message is and how to deliver it.

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Michelle Obama, First Ladies and African-American History

Carl Sferrazza Anthony | Posted 03.28.2009 | Style

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Carl Sferrazza Anthony

There were few powerful women in mid-19th century America who more vigorously pressed the case first for abolition and then for the education, housing, and welfare of freed African-American slaves than did Mrs. Lincoln.

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Black History Month Remains Important

George Alexander | Posted 03.28.2009 | Politics

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George Alexander

While celebrating Black History Month will not erase bigotry, it remains one of the all-important cornerstones to continuing any meaningful discussion of race relations in our society.

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We, Too, Are Abolitionists: Black History Month, Slavery and the Death Penalty

Diann Rust-Tierney | Posted 03.27.2009 | Politics

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Diann Rust-Tierney

We Americans should honor abolitionists of the past and present not only by remembering them during Black History Month, but by working to repeal capital punishment throughout the USA.

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The Racial Comeback

Charles D. Ellison | Posted 03.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Racial Politics, Richard Shelby, James Clyburn, Race, Eric Holder, Black History Month, Politics News
Charles D. Ellison

Even if we've made strides in accomplishing a decent level of social comfort and affability, we have some ways to go before truly claiming a complete, unconditional truce on the subject of race.

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Holder, the New York Post and Us

Rabbi Irwin Kula | Posted 03.23.2009 | Media

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Rabbi Irwin Kula

In calling Americans "cowards," Attorney General Holder undermines his very goal of helping us to become a more just society.

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It Takes a Nation of Cowards to Prove Eric Holder Right

Rinku Sen | Posted 03.22.2009 | Politics

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Rinku Sen

Apparently, there's only room for one black man at the highest levels of government taking the nation to task on race.

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Michelle Obama Entertains Kids At The White House In Celebration Of African American History Month (SLIDESHOW)

AP | DARLENE SUPERVILLE | Posted 03.21.2009 | Style

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* Scroll down for slideshow* WASHINGTON — Foot-stomping music filled the East Room of the White House on Wednesday as first lady Michelle Obama...

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10 African American Women Who Changed the World

divinecaroline.com | Vicki Santillano | Posted 03.18.2009 | Living

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Black History Month dates back to 1976, when "Negro History Week" was extended to the month of February. That year doesn't seem so long ago, but when ...

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George Washington, Carver

Ross Hyzer | Posted 03.16.2009 | Comedy

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Ross Hyzer

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Dear Obama and Gov. Manchin: Act on Coal River Crisis

Jeff Biggers | Posted 03.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Dirty Coal, Coal, Carol Browner, Renewable Energy, George Washington, Martin Luther King, Mountaintop Removal, Black History Month, Stephen Chu, Big Coal, Civil Disobedience, Barack Obama, Wind Energy, Joe Manchin, Epa, Lisa Jackson, Green News
Jeff Biggers

The mechanization of above-ground mountaintop removal has prevented a diverse economy and led to a decrease in coal mining jobs in some of the highest poverty stricken strip-mining areas.

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Black History, American History

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 03.05.2009 | Politics

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Marian Wright Edelman

Black History Month feels especially significant this year. At too many points in our national experience, black history and American history have seemed to tell different stories.

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Barack Obama and the American Dream

Lauri Lyons | Posted 03.01.2009 | Politics

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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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