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ColorLines Spotlight: Jay Smooth
by Hatty Lee   July 21, 2009
Check out our profile of Jay Smooth at ColorLines.com. An excerpt: Before videoblogging, Jay Smooth didn’t even have a mirror in his house, except that tiny mirror in the bathroom near the sink. “Being aware of how I look...

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NY State Senate Stalemate Reveals Knee Jerk Party and Racial Politics
by Guest Columnist   July 21, 2009
By Miriam Leshin Electing a Black governor and a Black state senate president and majority leader don’t necessarily mean real change for the state of New York. Just a few months into the first Democratic-majority state senate session in over...

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Lawyer's Statement on the Arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr.
by Jorge Rivas   July 21, 2009
In a statement released last night, Rev. Al Sharpton called Henry Louis Gates Jr's arrest "an outrage of no small implication... I have heard of driving while Black and even shopping while Black, but now even going to your...

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Breakdown in New Orleans
by Michelle Chen   July 20, 2009
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, there's been sporadic media coverage of traumatized survivors struggling with mental health problems. Years later, the children who experienced the disaster are still drowning in the emotional fallout. In a mostly Black community,...

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BREAKING: Top Black Scholar Gates Arrested in Massachusetts
by Jorge Rivas   July 20, 2009
Associated Press is reporting: "Henry Louis Gates Jr., the nation's pre-eminent black scholar, is accusing Cambridge police of racism after he was arrested while trying to force open the locked front door of his home near Harvard University."...

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New Research on Black vs. White Women and Breast Cancer Fights off Biological Differences
by Guest Columnist   July 20, 2009
By Nina Jacinto This post originally appeared on Wiretap. New research suggests that the race gap in breast cancer outcomes cannot be attributed to biological factors alone. A disparity that emerged in the mid-1980s showed that black women were more...

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On Sonia Sotomayor: Words from 'Wise Latinas'
by Jorge Rivas   July 20, 2009
The LA Times asked several successful Latinas to "assess" Sonia Sotomayor and the way Senators treated her during the Judicial Committee nominations hearings last week. All the woman surveyed had very poignant observations but I thought Josefina Lopez, author...

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Achievement Gap Widens in Midwestern and Northern States
by Guest Columnist   July 15, 2009
Written by Miriam Leshin Some in America may imagine the North and the Midwest to be far more progressive than the formerly Jim Crow South. But when it comes to education reform, this is patently false. The New York Times...

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Oakland's Memorial T-shirts Give New Meaning to Industry Phrase "Urban Fashion" [VIDEO]
by Julianne Hing   July 15, 2009
Check out the audio slideshow above with photos by Sean Donnelly. Writes Donnelly for the Oakland Tribune: The R.I.P T-shirts aren't as prominent for grandfathers passing away from cancer or elderly mothers dying peacefully in their sleep in a...

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Obama and Willie Mays: The Men of Summer
by Gina Acebo   July 15, 2009
President Barack Obama talks with baseball great Willie Mays aboard Air Force One en route to the MLB All-Star Game in St. Louis, July 14, 2009. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) Myself, I'm an Oakland A's fan,...

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