Putting a face on the statistics

For the next couple of weeks or so, I will be doing a series of posts that will feature our young Black men or women who have had their lives cut short due to homicide from around the country.
Rattling off gobs of homicide statistics is very easy–all you have to do is COPY and PASTE–BAM! [...]

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Is America ready to elect a minority president? (Carol Swain)

[e-mailed by professor Carol M. Swain]

We must separate the question of whether America is ready to elect a minority president from the individuals currently running on the Democratic ticket. In other words, the success or failure of Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama says nothing about the willingness of the country to place its fate in [...]

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Beautiful!

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Rachida Dati becomes first person of African decent to hold top post in Paris government

(bbc.com) Lawyer Rachida Dati, named as French justice minister by President Sarkozy, is the first person of North African origin to hold a top government post in Paris.
She was born in 1965 to an Moroccan mason father and an Algerian mother, one of 12 children raised in humble circumstances.
At the age of 16, she started [...]

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You think they could have made their lips any bigger?

MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish airline Iberia has cut an advertisement showing black Cuban women in bikinis bottle feeding a baby tourist as he sings “feed me mulattas … come on little mamas, take me to my cot” after complaints it was sexist.
A consumer rights group demanded Iberia, Spain’s national flag carrier, pull the ad for [...]

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