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What Black People Can Learn From the LGBT Community

Gil Robertson | Posted 05.15.2013 | Black Voices
Read More: Lgbt, Black Community, African Americans, Marriage Equality, Black Women, Black People, Marriage, LGBT Rights, Gay Marriage, Black Voices News
Gil Robertson

It's simple: people work better together than alone. To believe that you can stand alone and navigate the world by yourself might be a liberating experience, but at the end of the day it usually adds up to a poor day at the races.

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Obama's America: Transcending Whiteness

Ian Reifowitz | Posted 08.19.2012 | Black Voices
Read More: Race Relations, Black People, Race, Demographics, Bv-Life, White People, Black Voices News
Ian Reifowitz

For the first time in our history, more than half the babies being born in the United States are non-white. This milestone signals a new chapter in the centuries-long struggle over who is included in what we call "the American people."

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21 Things You'll Never See Black People Doing in Horror Movies

Orlando Jones | Posted 06.23.2012 | Comedy
Read More: Black People, Lists, Spooky, Monsters, Orlando Jones, Ghosts, Horror Movies, Chernobyl Diaries, Primeval, Best-Horror-Movies, Worst Horror Movies, Comedy News
Orlando Jones

Split up to look for somebody. If you got separated from the group you deserve to die.

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Hip Hop: Time to Occupy It

Jerry Ashton | Posted 03.24.2012 | Black Voices
Read More: Black People, Hip Hop Caucus, Hip Hop, Protest, Occupy Wall Street, War on Drugs, Music Industry, Hip-Hop, #Occupywallstreet, Occupy Movement, Black Voices News
Jerry Ashton

In Ernie Paniccioli's mind, what originated as a "voice for the voiceless" has become just one more way for Wall Street to extract money from people's pockets. Essentially, he feels the black community is being subjected to the tyrannical equivalent of the musical 1 percent.

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POLL: Do Clothes Reflect Your Race?

Posted 12.17.2011 | Black Voices
Read More: Black People, Clothing, Hair-Beauty-Beauty, Racism, PloS One, Race, Study, White People, Black Voices News

Do clothes reflect your race? This is the question being explored in a new study entitled “Looking the Part: Social Status Cues Shape Race Perce...

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Watch: What If Michael Vick Were White?

Posted 10.26.2011 | Sports
Read More: Racial Politics, Black People, Michael Vick Dog Fighting, Video, Football, Espn, Race, Michael Vick, White People, White Michael Vick, What if Michael Vick Was White, Michael Vick White, Sports News

An ESPN article asking if Michael Vick, the NFL quarterback who was convicted of dog-fighting offenses, would have been treated differently if he was ...

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Al Sharpton on MSNBC Presents Both Risk and Opportunities for Black America

Dr. Boyce Watkins | Posted 10.24.2011 | Media
Read More: Black People, Msnbc, Dr Boyce Watkins, Black Scholars, Black Politics, Al Sharpton, NABJ 2012, Media News
Dr. Boyce Watkins

Al Sharpton's presence on MSNBC will hopefully open the door for black journalists to find access to the platforms that continue to evade them.

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Black In Latin America: Brazil's Complex View Of Race And Color

The Root | Posted 06.11.2011 | World
Read More: Black People, Pbs, Black in Brazil, Afro-Brazilian, Latin America, Brazil, Race, African Americans, World News

Brazil once touted itself as free of racism. It turns out that the truth was more complicated -- a lot more complicated. In his new PBS series, The Ro...

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On Black Men

Rebecca Carroll | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Fences August Wilson, President Barack Obama, August Wilson Fences, President Obama, Black Americans, Barack Obama, Black People, Black Men, Blacks, African-American Identity, Barack Obamafences, Relationships, Black, August Wilson, African Americans, African-American Issues, Healthy Living News
Rebecca Carroll

Despite the hope, as a parent raising a black son in a country very presently immersed in the horrific beauty of racial change and evolution, I am careful to remind him that there are still fences.

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Shell Shocked: We Are in Crisis

James Perry | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Nord, Black People, Murder, New Orleans, Film, Crime, New Orleans Recreation Department, Murder Rate, Shell Shock, Drugs, Entertainment News
James Perry

A group of local filmmakers have produced a compelling local film about the realities of growing up in New Orleans' blood soaked streets.

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Worst Typo Ever In A Cookbook? (POLL)

The Huffington Post | Amy Hertz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Black People, Misprint, Black Pepper, Australia, Recipes, Poll, Cookbooks, Typo, Penguin, Cooking, Food, Books News

The BBC reported on Saturday that An Australian publisher has had to pulp and reprint a cook-book after one recipe listed "salt and freshly ground bl...

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Dick Cheney's Spine Surgery to Install Much-Needed Spine in Formerly Spineless Body

Ben Berkon | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
Read More: Comedy, Article, News, Spine Surgery, Politics, Black People, Health Care, Republicans, Douche, Spineless, Economy, Comedy News
Ben Berkon

The surgery is a more simple procedure than one would think. It merely entails slicing an opening in the patient's back, and placing a spine where normal, politically-sane, and spined-humans have a spine

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A Message from the Average Black Person

Elon James White | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Black People, Twib, Elon James White, Soulja Boy, The Truth, Barack Obama, Healthy Living News
Elon James White

After reading this, the next time you talk to a Black person you can feel comfortable in now knowing with every fiber of your being that you have no clue what they think or feel based on their skin color.

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The Movie They Didn't Want You to See

Stacy Peralta | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Nazi Germany, Crips and Bloods, Baron Davis, Sundance Film Festival, AK 47, Beverly Hills, Film, Gangs, Los Angeles, African American, Movies, Black People, Steve Luczo, Documentary, Sundance, Silicon Valley, Hollywood, Stacy Peralta, Entertainment News
Stacy Peralta

The more time I spent with gang members of Bloods and Crips, the more I began to see a far different America than the America I was raised in.

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Young and Black in the Age of Obama

Sara Haile-Mariam | Posted 05.25.2011 | 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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Black AIDS Day

xxXGloria RubenXxx | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Centers for Disease Control, Whites, Latinos, Poverty, Statistics, US Poverty, National Black Aids Awareness Day, Siecus, AIDs Epidemic, Hiv, Race, Barack Obama, Sex Education, HIV/AIDS, Black People, Education, AIDS Awareness, Blacks, Caucasians, Health, Disease, Sex, Poverty and Health, Aids, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, African-Americans, African Americans, Antiretroviral Drugs, Politics News
xxXGloria RubenXxx

We must turn a critical eye inward, and face the fact that HIV/AIDS has reached crisis levels among the Black population of the US. The statistics are startling.

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Asian Women: Rape And Hate Crimes

Jaemin Kim | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Gawker Media, Ethnicity, Chinese, White People, Michael Phelps, Gawker.com, Videogames, Anime, Sexism, Dating, Defamer, Racism, Racial Stereotypes, African Americans, Korean, Rape, Rachel Getting Married, Gawker, Asian Americans, Washington State, Los Angeles, Sexuality, Black People, Stereotypes, Spokane, Asians, Japanese, Nerds, Hate Crimes, Violence Against Women, Prejudice, Legal, Prosecution, Justice, Bigotry, Interracial Dating, Sexual Violence, Interracial Relationships, Fetish, Sexual Assault, Laws, Asian Women, Bias Crime, Living News, Women, Asian Fetish, Caucasians, Sex Crimes, Salon.com, Media Responsibility, Media Bias, Healthy Living News
Jaemin Kim

Reducing Asian women into a sexual object is not funny, it is not flattering. It is perilous. We can see this when Asian women are subject to race-targeted sexual violence.

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Fox News Doesn't Care About Black People

Joseph Minton Amann and Tom Breuer | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Black People, Fox News Inauguration, Fox News Racist, Barack Obama Inauguration, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Race, Michelle Malkin, Bill O'Reilly, Barack Obama, Media News
Joseph Minton Amann and Tom Breuer

At Fox News, inauguration day looked like the first afternoon a Negro used the local country club tennis courts following a legal settlement.

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Gay is not the New Black

Irene Monroe | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Black People, California Gay Marriage, Proposition 8, California, Racial Tensions, Prop 8, Prop 8 Black Voters, California Prop 8, Race, African-Americans, African Americans, California Proposition 8, Politics News
Irene Monroe

The Prop 8 debate has caused polarization between white gay community and African Americans. Saying "Gay is the new black" poses the problems for many African Americans

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This Era of Black Women and HIV/AIDS

Irene Monroe | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Black People, Black Women, HIV/AIDS, Gwen Ifill, African-Americans, World AIDS Day, Healthy Living News
Irene Monroe

Seventeen percent of the U.S. teen population is African American. In 2004, 70 percent of all teens testing HIV-positive were black.

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White Pundits: Make Some Black Friends Before Opining on Obama Effect

Gail Vida Hamburg | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Black People, Maureen Dowd, Washington DC, New York Times, Frank Rich, Barack Obama, African Americans, Media News
Gail Vida Hamburg

In her Nov 8, '08 column, Maureen Dowd attempted to elucidate the stunning new history of our young country by talking about what Obama meant to African Americans.

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What Obama Can Learn from The Wire

Casey Gane-McCalla | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Black People, The Wire, Television, Tv, War on Drugs, White People, Barack Obama, Entertainment News
Casey Gane-McCalla

If anything is clear from The Wire, it is that the War on Drugs is a failed war, one that only keeps the cycle of addiction, poverty and violence going.

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Obama, In Black and White

Joan Z. Shore | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Black People, Obama Family, Race, Ann Dunham, Obama Parents, White People, Barack Obama, Politics News
Joan Z. Shore

This is not simply the victory of one black man in America; it is the victory of American tolerance and integration, where black can marry white, where barriers are broken.

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This Week in Blackness Episode 12: President-Elect OBAMA

Elon James White | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Black People, Election, Barack Obama, John McCain, President Obama, Obama Wins, Obama Election Day, HuffPost Election Analysis, Election Day 2008, Election Day, Joe Biden, Election Results, 2008 Election, Sarah Palin, Presidential Results, Election Reaction, Obama Presidency, Election 2008 coverageHuffPost Election Reaction, Obama President, Presidential Election, Election Analysis, Politics News
Elon James White

The Brooklyn Comedy Company is proud to present its 12th installment of the web series. Comedian Elon James White has a few spaztastic moments after hearing of the Obama win.

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Jesse's Obama Problem: He Needs Barack More Than Barack Needs Him

Eric Deggans | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Black People, Politics, Barack Obama, Ralph Nader, Jesse Jackson, Presidential Election, Fox News, Media, Race, Barack Obama Jesse Jackson, Obama Jesse Jackson, Politics News
Eric Deggans

If tradition civil rights leaders are stuck on the outside when Obama gets elected president, what does that mean for them and for the struggle to free black folks from oppression?

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