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  • Young black voters came out for Obama, but may not return

    By G'Ra Asim

    8:12 AM on 07/29/2009

    During last year's presidential campaign, the second-most talked about aspect of Barack Obama's historic candidacy was the fervor with which he was widely embraced among young people. His popularity with Generation Y, and particularly voters ages 18-24, was at least as attributable to the tech-savvy infrastructure of his campaign and...

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  • Sotomayor's effect on race debate

    Sotomayor's effect on race debate

    By G'Ra Asim

    7:47 AM on 07/13/2009

    (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds) With Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's Senate confirmation hearings beginning on July 13, the political peanut gallery will likely once again reach saturation with hackneyed characterizations of both her judicial philosophy and her place in history. Whether she is regarded warily as an "activist judge" or openly...

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  • Religion and young black America

    By G'Ra Asim

    7:35 AM on 06/17/2009

    Once, upon answering an unexpected knock at my apartment door, I was greeted with the pleasant surprise of the presence of two pretty, twenty-something black girls. I spoke with them and quickly discerned that they were proselytizing and despite not being religious myself, succumbed to their feminine charms and provided...

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