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Working among black women - pain or paradise?
11:02 AM on 03/17/2010
From Clutch Magazine - Black women can support each other in a powerful way, or we can tear each other down using intimate knowledge of our insecurities...
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Dr. King's dream will be realized
8:49 AM on 02/03/2010
OPINION - America still falls short of its high ideals, but today far more Americans believe that all men are created equal and--just as important--act on that belief...
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Making the case for affirmative action
3:31 PM on 01/18/2010
VIDEO - Amos Williams, a retired Detroit police lieutenant, trial lawyer, and Vietnam veteran, explains why he believes affirmative action is necessary...
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Would Martin Luther King support Obama?
1:15 PM on 01/18/2010
OPINION - Obama and MLK might be "frenemies": Distant friends in public, with a fractured relationship behind closed doors...
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TheGrio talks to Chris Matthews about Obama's America
8:17 AM on 01/18/2010
VIDEO - Chris Matthews of 'Hardball' sits down with theGrio's David Wilson and shares his take on President Obama's first year in office...
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It's official: America is 'post-racial' in the age of Obama
10:20 AM on 01/14/2010
OPINION - President Obama's first year has shown us again and again that race does not matter in America the way it used to...
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Blacks' optimism on race and the economy rises; Latinos wary
11:41 AM on 01/12/2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - One year after the election of Obama, black optimism about America has surged, while Hispanics have become more skeptical about race relations...
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Obama's racial exceptionalism exposed by Reid, Blago remarks
11:39 AM on 01/12/2010
OPINION - Racial exceptionalism stems from the ingrained, but terribly misplaced, belief that blacks are perennially disgruntled, hostile, and rebellious...
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Hate crimes report shows race still an issue
8:54 AM on 12/02/2009
OPINION - More than half of the hate crimes recorded in 2008 were racially motivated and included acts of intimidation, aggravated and simple assaults and, in some instances, murder...
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Black stars left out of 'Couples Retreat' poster in UK
3:55 PM on 11/16/2009
FROM MOVIEFONE> The makers of the recent Vince Vaughn hit comedy, Couples Retreat, are at the centre of a race controversy after two black actors were airbrushed from publicity posters in the UK. The American advert for the film, which stars Vince Vaughn, Jon Favreau and Kristin Davis, shows all...
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Professor arrested in Columbia University gal 'punch'
10:38 AM on 11/11/2009
FROM NY POST> A prominent Columbia architecture professor punched a female university employee in the face at a Harlem bar during a heated argument about race relations, cops said yesterday. Police busted Lionel McIntyre, 59, for assault yesterday after his bruised victim, Camille Davis, filed charges. McIntyre and Davis, who...
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Historian Eric Foner discusses Obama's place in history
9:21 AM on 11/04/2009
OPINION - The face of racism today is not Bull Connor with his dogs in Birmingham. It's a guy at Wells Fargo Bank, in a suit, who for the last several years has been shuffling black would-be homeowners off on sub-prime mortgages...
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For race, what a difference a year makes - and doesn't
9:05 AM on 11/04/2009
OPINION - In Grant Park one year ago, a multigenerational, multiracial crowd celebrated the change they could believe in: a nation finally living out the true meaning of equality and opportunity...
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Dems down to the wire lobbying for reform votes
VIDEO - They've made some progress. A fourth Democrat, John Boccieri of Ohio, has switched his vote from "no" to "yes."...
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