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It's OK for Black Moms to Stay at Home, Too
The concept of modern motherhood varies for different women, but the common denominator has always been work. The working mother is a force to be reckoned with; often with BlackBerry in hand, she is a woman constantly on the move, struggling to balance the persistent demands of life and love, career and family. But what…
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At NYC Protest, Everyone Was Trayvon
A crowd reaching the thousands gathered for the Million Hoodie March at New York City’s Union Square Wednesday to protest the February shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. Martin’s parents, Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulton, and their lawyer Ben Crump, addressed supporters before the mass spilled into the streets. “Our son is your son,” Fulton…
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Channels of Diversity
Clocking in with nearly 213 hours per month, African Americans watch more television than any other ethnicity, according to a Nielsen study. That’s twice as many hours as Asians and 57 more hours than whites. Yet you wouldn’t know it from a casual flip through your local and cable channels. Despite some high-profile wins —…
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He Would End Black History Month
It’s an inevitable question as Jan. 31 rolls into Feb. 1: Do Americans still need to celebrate Black History Month? For a black person, questioning the tradition’s existence may sometimes be considered akin to turning in your black card, jokes filmmaker Shukree Hassan Tilghman in his new documentary, More Than a Month. The film follows…
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That's the Funny Thing About Race
We didn’t need the “S—t [Insert racial group here] Say” meme to recognize that Americans prefer laughing about race to talking about it. Even the phrase “That’s racist” has been stripped of its call-to-arms roots to become a sitcom punch line, an Internet meme and the name of a hipster hip-hop group (Das Racist). A…
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