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How do pro-choice blacks combat billboards?
8:27 AM on 03/30/2011
OPINION - These recent months have not been an easy time for African Americans who support a woman's right to choose...
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Trump banks on birtherism for 2012 race
8:22 AM on 03/24/2011
OPINION - Donald, please stop casting aspersions on our president. With a combover like that, you simply have no right...
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From Haiti to Japan: Is looting economic or cultural?
9:06 AM on 03/18/2011
OPINION - The cultural explanation for looting just doesn't cut it, and at its worst it shows signs of racism...
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What giving to Haiti can teach us about Japan
9:24 AM on 03/15/2011
OPINION - Those who want to give should do so wisely, and use a little common sense, learning important lessons from the Haiti relief efforts...
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Is 'racial resentment' behind health reform backlash?
8:50 AM on 03/09/2011
OPINION - An interesting study was released suggesting that white opposition to heath care may be racially motivated...
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Rodney King beating 20 years later: Can't we all just get along?
9:30 AM on 03/03/2011
theGRIO REPORT - For all of the attention that the King incident brought in terms of the need for reforms, statistics suggest that these incidents have increased...
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White-males-only scholarship reflects fear of minority majority
8:16 AM on 02/28/2011
OPINION - A white-male-only scholarship is a tacky, demeaning and overly simplistic way to discuss issues of race, inequality and opportunity...
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Can a black mayor ever rise again in Chicago?
8:18 AM on 02/23/2011
OPINION - It depends on whether there is a willingness to take a lesson from the playbook of Harold Washington, Chicago's first and only elected black mayor...
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Critics throw weight behind cheap shots on first lady
8:26 AM on 02/16/2011
OPINION - No one can really object with a straight face to encouraging healthier lifestyles. Yet, somehow, the right-wing has managed to do so...
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Why Allen West gives black Republicans a bad name
8:25 AM on 02/10/2011
OPINION - Rep. West not only shames black people when he utters offensive statements. He also tarnishes the proud and honorable legacy of black Republicans...
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Egyptians draw inspiration from Civil Rights Movement comic book
9:04 AM on 02/02/2011
OPINION - Over fifty years later, 'The Montgomery Story' has been given new life -- in the Arab world...
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Racial gaffes get GOP 2012 wannabes in hot water
9:56 AM on 01/27/2011
OPINION - These racial gaffes and smears may tell us about the character of these candidates, or lack thereof, yet reveal far more about the Republican Party...
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Can Braun capitalize on Emanuel's residency crisis?
8:01 AM on 01/25/2011
OPINION - Carol Moseley Braun benefits from her status as the consensus candidate of the black community...
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Reagan revisionism can't whitewash his history with blacks
9:29 AM on 01/19/2011
OPINION - Michael Reagan argues that his father was more of a friend to black people than President Obama...
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Is Sharpton the closest thing we have to a King?
12:57 AM on 01/17/2011
OPINION - Sharpton has proven that black leadership is useful and even necessary on the outside, even when the most powerful leader in the free world is a black man...
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Change you can be afraid of: AZ shooting should give us all pause
8:15 AM on 01/10/2011
OPINION - The recent assassination attempt on Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is all the proof you need that America's political climate is out of control...
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Why GOP probes of Obama could suppress the black vote
10:23 AM on 01/04/2011
OPINION - Republicans are making Obama their 'whipping boy' and perpetuating the voter fraud myth for two reasons...
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Did race force Meeks out of Chicago mayoral campaign?
8:08 AM on 12/28/2010
OPINION - Having more than one African-American competitor almost certainly guarantees that Chicago will not have a black mayor this time around...
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Slideshow: What has Obama done for black America in 2010?
8:58 AM on 12/26/2010
SLIDESHOW - In light of the bad economy and attacks on Obama from all directions, the public has lost sight of the many accomplishments of the nation's first black president...
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Chicago mayoral campaign stung by affirmative action scandal
8:41 AM on 12/17/2010
OPINION - Meeks is dead wrong to think that blacks are the only minorities, and the only people facing discrimination. But with that said, he does speak some truths...
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Slideshow: Butt-kicking women of color on big screen
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Slideshow: Female R&B singers turned movie stars
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Michelle Obama: Province in Italy dedicates 1,400-year-old olive tree to first lady
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Donna Summer dead: Remembering her greatest songs (SLIDESHOW)
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Tyra Banks sticks up for women's 'flawsome' features in open letter to Vogue
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