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  • July 2008
    • Blacks Charge Harassment in China

      Blacks Charge Harassment in China

      (Newser) - African residents of Beijing say they are facing growing harassment from police ahead of the Olympics, reports the Globe and Mail . Bar owners near the city's Workers Stadium have reportedly been ordered not to serve "black people or Mongolians." The groups have been targeted as part of China's crackdown on groups it sees as potential troublemakers. More »

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      China   2008 Beijing Olympics   Beijing   Chinese officials   African

  • March 2008
    • Are Black Immigrants Black?

      Are Black Immigrants Black?

      (Newser) - The notion that a black American must be a “descendant of West African slaves brought here to labor for whites against their will” just reinforces the “invisibility that black immigrants face in America,” Debra Dickerson writes in Mother Jones . But she can’t escape it herself, she admits; she has said that Barack Obama isn’t black, endorsing “a politico-cultural reality which I reject.” More »

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      Barack Obama   education   African Americans   Ivy League   black community   West Africa   African   Malcolm X

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