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BY KAREN CHILTON
While the introduction of three new voices to talk TV--all African-American and all women--is historically significant, what is equally relevant is the relative ease with which they've been acknowledged and accepted by viewers across the demographic spectrum.
Whether it is the shoot-from-the-hip style of
Mo'Nique, the bawdy comedy of
Wanda Sykes (pictured below), or the girlfriend-next-door gossip of former on-air radio personality
Wendy Williams, television networks now offer audiences a choice of Black female ...
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BY BRANDY HAGELSTEIN
Each year, the President of the United States issues a
proclamation that sets aside November as
National Adoption Month. In addition to the presidential proclamation, many state governors also issue proclamations, in an effort to raise awareness of the need for loving and permanent homes for children in their states.
National Adoption Month, which was originally put in place to make adoption from the foster care system an important social issue, has now become the ...
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This post was first published at VeniceforChange.com.BY MARTA EVRY
I have a tiny, 750 square-foot house. But I've somehow made room for one of those enormous Obama "Hope" posters. You know the one. You've seen it a million times. This one sits framed in my kitchen. On it are the signatures of many of the volunteers I worked with on the Obama campaign last year.
Every day I am reminded of the miracle we pulled off. Every day ...
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BY KATHY-ELLEN KUPS
I have been taking some college classes recently, with students just out of high school. It is exciting to get to know these young men and women and hear about their goals, their dreams and their strategies for the future.
When I tell a woman in her twenties that I had breast cancer, I see her eyes glaze over. It is pretty obvious that this is a topic that she is just not interested in.
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BY ADRIANNE GEORGE
I remember summer vacations with my family--my sister and I in the back of our parents' station wagon. We traveled from Washington, DC as far and as wide as Canada, Mexico and many states in between. But I never left the continent until I was an undergraduate and joined a group of African American students on a pilgrimage to Dakar, Senegal.
I made a point of kissing the ground after deplaning. And I will never forget how thrilling ...
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BY AMITA PARASHARIt was an unseasonably hot day in Washington D.C. when tens of thousands of activists
marched to the capitol Sunday demanding federal rights for gay and lesbian Americans. Supporters walked two miles past the White House, decked out in rainbow flags, rainbow tights, rainbow scarves. There was even a giant rainbow flag stretched on the Capitol lawn. If there ever was a day to march, this was it.
Not everybody was seeing rainbows, though. Openly ...
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BY MATT PALAZZOLO
The passage of Proposition 8 in California led to a dramatically increased awareness of homophobia around the country as well as the launch of a new generation of activists.
What I didn't realize until recently, though, is that Prop. 8 was also a unique catalyst in battling racism and faith-phobia.
Following the LGBTQ (lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender/queer) community's sometimes racist reactions to false reports that the African American community overwhelmingly supported Prop. 8 as well as faith-phobic language written on ...
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This excerpt is from a post first published at the USC Center on Public Diplomacy. Powell is blogging while in South Africa.
BY ADAM CLAYTON POWELL III
GRAHAMSTOWN, South Africa - Here in South Africa, the downfall of apartheid, the first multi-racial election in 1993 and the victory at the ballot box of the formerly outlawed African National Congress remains a source of considerable pride and celebration. And there is also an examination of the public diplomacy tools used by the ANC ...
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BY ROSA CLEMENTE
Over the Labor Day weekend, Van Jones, a member of the hip-hop generation and special advisor for green jobs at the White House Council for Environmental Quality, tendered his resignation, and it was accepted by the Obama administration. I will be the first to say that I never found Van Jones to be a radical, a Black Nationalist or a communist as Fox News suggested.
Although I appreciate his book The Green Collar Economy, I ...
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