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Showing posts with label blacks. Show all posts

Showing posts with label blacks. Show all posts

Jun 4, 2010

Obama's win apparently hasn't helped black politicians in campaigns

Image by Getty Images via @daylife By Perry Bacon Jr. Friday, June 4, 2010; A03 Eighteen months after Barack Obama 's presidentia...

Jun 2, 2010

Study Finds Blacks Blocked From Southern Juries

Dale Gerstenslager/Winona Times, via Associated Press Curtis Flowers at his capital trial in 2004. The Mississippi Supreme Court rever...

May 31, 2010

The New Poor - Blacks in Memphis Lose Decades of Gains

Josh Anderson for The New York Times Tyrone Banks in his home in Memphis. He is in danger of losing it after the payments on his mortgage...

Apr 17, 2010

On Religion - Call and Response on the State of the Black Church - NYTimes.com

Image via Wikipedia By SAMUEL G. FREEDMAN In the first decade of the American nation, a former slave turned itinerant minist...

Activist Al Sharpton takes on new role as administration ally

Image via Wikipedia By Krissah Thompson Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, April 17, 2010; A01 NEW YORK -- The Rev. Al Sharpton...

Apr 5, 2010

Rich Benjamin, Nell Irvin Painter, and white culture : The New Yorker

Cover via Amazon Glenn Beck excels at expressing adventurous thoughts in memorable language, but he outdid himself when, one morning last ...

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