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The Pride of Precious Jones

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 11.13.2009 | New York

Read More: Whites, Harlem, Poverty, Gabourey Sidibe, Real Estate, Race, Hollywood, Barack Obama, New York, Rodney King, South Africa, Unemployed, Precious, Oprah Winfrey, Lenny Kravitz, Blacks, Paula Patton, Lee Daniels, Michael Mccollom, Brooklyn, Sapphire, Push, Mo'Nique, Armand White, A. O. Scott, Divas, The Color Purple, New York Press, Mariah Carey, New York Times, New York News
Michael Henry Adams

Almost every African-American knows, is related to, or is acquainted with a Precious Jones or her mother, Mary.

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'Whites are People Too': Why Some White People are Stating the Obvious

Carol M. Swain | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Whites, White Nationalism, President Obama, Race, Blacks, Sotomayor, White Supremacy, Glenn Beck, Racism in Politics, Town Hall Meetings, Post-Racial, Black-Nationalism, Politics News
Carol M. Swain

Hadassah's is one of many such e-mails I have received over the years from whites who confess to having been raised in liberal democratic- homes, but who are now flirting with white nationalism.

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

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hate Mongers, President Obama, News, African American President, Hateful Acts, White Ambivalence, Obama, White Privilege, Hate Crimes, Racists, Hate Groups, Rosa Parks, John Dovidio, Liberal Racism, Great White Hope, African Americans, Post Racial Society, Politics, Right Wing, Blacks, Barack Obama, Reparations, Breaking News, Yale, Racism, Race, Healthcare Reform, Functional Racism, Whites, Prof. Dovidio, Health Care, Dr. John Dovidio, Hate, Dovidio, Politics News
Yvonne R. Davis

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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Whether Gates or Health Care, Race Matters

Abby L. Ferber | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Town Hall Debate, Gates, President Obama, Obama, The Nation, Race, Institutionalized Racism, Obama Town Hall Meetings, Officer Crowley, Town Hall, White Privilege, Racism, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Henry Louis Gates Arrested, African-Americans, Privilege, Health Care, African Americans, Whites, Leonard Zeskind, Pat Buchanan, Barack Obama, Driving While Black, White Nationalism, Lynching, People of Color, Sarah Palin, Sonia Sotomayor, Health Care Reform, Town Halls, Erik Ward, Henry Louis Gates, Racial Inequality, Town Hall Meetings, Eric Alterman, Healthcare, Class, Politics News
Abby L. Ferber

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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HuffPost Review: Prom Night in Mississippi

Katya Wachtel | Posted 08.20.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Whites, Supreme Court, Poverty, Morgan Freeman, Paul Saltzman, Confederate Flag, Charleston, Prom Night in Mississippi, Sotomayor Hearings, Tallahatchie County, Jim Crow, Ku Klux Klan Photos, Charleston High School, Blacks, Segregation, Ku Klux Klan, George Wallace, Racism, Mississippi Delta, Desegregation, Integration, Charleston Mississippi, Entertainment News
Katya Wachtel

Morgan Freeman attempts to coax a revolution in his hometown of Charleston, Mississippi, where the local high school still has segregated proms.

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Why do White People Have to Outscore Everybody Else on Tests? And Other Questions You've Wondered but Didn't Dare Ask!

Richard M. Benjamin | Posted 07.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ricci v. Destefano, Whites, Supreme Court, Education, Conservatives, Judges, Sonia Sotomayor, Racism, Conservatism, Fire, Race, Prejudice, Politics News
Richard M. Benjamin

How can public institutions achieve "diversity" in a way that's fair and legal?

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Pssssst. Has Someone Told The Times About Latinos?

Richard M. Benjamin | Posted 06.03.2009 | Media

Read More: Whites, Latinos, National-Council-of-La-Raza, Race Relations, New York Times, Racism, National Council of La Raza, Black, Immigration, Immigrants, Janet MurguíA, Media News
Richard M. Benjamin

For the Times -- and most of the media -- "Race Relations" means "Are white and black people chatting along fine at the office water cooler, the Pilates class, and the corner bar?"

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Failed Drug War Now Targets Whites

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Meth, Whites, Drug Sentencing, Bush, Clinton, Blacks, Crack Cocaine, Sentencing Project, Powdered Cocaine, Drug War, Drugs, Race, Politics News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The result of the fiction that blacks are the prime drug users and abusers has been devastating in law and public policy.

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Black AIDS Day

Gloria Reuben | Posted 03.08.2009 | 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
Gloria Reuben

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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Hillary Got The Whites-Who-Won't-Vote-Black Vote

John K. Wilson | Posted 05.01.2008 | Home

Read More: Whites, Hillary, Pennsylvania, Clinton, Victory, Race, Primary Election, Hillary Clinton, Home News
John K. Wilson

The numbers tell the story: Hillary Clinton's margin of victory in Pennsylvania was due to racist white Democratic voters who openly opposed Barack Obama because he is black.

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