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 Ex-Editor Sues 'Racist' NY Post 

Employee says boss called her 'Cha Cha #1'

Nov 10, 09 5:56 PM CST
(Newser) - A former associate editor of the New York Post says she was fired for complaining about the paper’s racist and sexist atmosphere. Sandra Guzman, who identified herself as the “only female editor of color at the Post,” is suing parent News Corp. Her suit claims she was... More »

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African Americans • New York Post • sexism • racism • chimpanzees • News Corp

Steele: I Scare White Republicans

RNC chair says he sees it in meetings

Nov 10, 09 12:32 PM CST
(Newser) - Rack up another gaffe for Michael Steele. The Republican National Committee chair has been trying to improve his party’s relationship with minority voters, but he may have been a little too honest in a recent interview with NewsOne's Roland Martin. Martin suggested that white Republicans were "scared" of... More »

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Republican • African Americans • RNC • race relations • Michael Steele • Republican National Committee

Atlanta May Elect 1st White Mayor in 36 Years 

Frontrunner Mary Norwood vows to fix the city's accounting mess

Nov 3, 09 9:43 AM CST
(Newser) - A simple focus on accounting is poised to radically—read: racially—change the politics of Atlanta . In a majority-black city that hasn’t had a white mayor in 36 years, a Caucasian city councilwoman from a tony neighborhood has a commanding lead in the polls. Mary Norwood has promised... More »

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Atlanta • African Americans • Georgia • accounting • mayor • Shirley Franklin • white women • mayoral race • Election 09 • Mary Norwood • election day November 2009

Half of US Kids Will Get Food Stamps at Some Point

Figure hits 90% for black children, study finds

Nov 2, 09 9:29 PM CST
(AP) - Nearly half of all US children and 90% of black youngsters will be on food stamps at some point during childhood, and fallout from the current recession could push those numbers even higher, researchers say. The estimate comes from an analysis of 30 years of national data, and bolsters other... More »

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African Americans • children • recession • poverty • children's health care • food stamps • financial crisis • women's issues

 Critics: New 
 Black Barbie 
 Not Black 
 Enough 

But fans say black women come in all 'shades, shapes, varieties'

Oct 22, 09 2:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - Mattel's new black Barbie dolls are more than just white dolls with a paint job—which is what the toy company tried last time. But some critics still say Mattel hasn't gone far enough. The trio of Barbies have features like fuller lips and wider noses, but some complain that... More »

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African Americans • Mattel • Barbie • doll • women's issues

MOVIE REVIEW

 Good Hair Has a Few Knots 

Chris Rock shines as interviewer, but social issues get lost in the weave

Oct 9, 09 10:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - Chris Rock is a natural and hilarious interviewer, critics agree. But watchers are split on whether the substance of a rather complicated debate shines through in Big Hair, his documentary on black women and their coifs. A sampling:
  • Rock has helped craft a film with "much good feeling
... More »

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entertainment • film • African Americans • movie review • Chris Rock • black women • documentary film • hair care • perm • straightening • Good Hair

 First Lady's 
 Roots Linked 
 to Slave Girl 

Genealogist fills in gaps of her lineage

Oct 7, 09 5:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - Michelle Obama can trace her lineage to a female slave sold as a young girl from a South Carolina plantation and sent to Georgia. As a teenager, Melvinia Shields became impregnated by a white man, possibly her master, and those two are the great-great-great grandparents of Michelle. A genealogist working... More »

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African Americans • Michelle Obama • segregation • slavery • ancestry

Black Caucus Worries About Resurgent Racism

Anti-Obama anger troubles CBC ahead of triumphant annual conferences

Sep 23, 09 6:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Congressional Black Caucus is enjoying unprecedented power, with more of their members in leadership roles than ever before, not to speak of one of their number in the White House, but many are disturbed by changes in the political atmosphere, Politico reports. As the 42-member group holds its annual... More »

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Barack Obama • Congress • African Americans • racism • Barbara Lee • Democratic Party • Jim Clyburn • Congressional Black Caucus

OPINION

 Slavery Reparations Should Be Obama's Next Stimulus

Time for the president to break his long silence on America's racial divide

Sep 12, 09 9:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama is taking so much heat from opponents wrongly convinced that he's keen on redistributing white America's wealth to African-Americans that he might as well go ahead and do it, Naomi Klein writes in the Guardian. Obama's administration has been pursuing "race-neutral" policies that do nothing to close... More »

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Barack Obama • African Americans • race relations • slavery • President Obama • reparations

Milwaukee Cops Arrest Suspected Serial Killer

Man linked to murders of 9 women from 1986-2007

Sep 7, 09 7:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - Authorities in Milwaukee said tonight they have arrested a man they suspect in the murders of at least nine women during the past 21 years, the Journal Sentinel reports. Walter E. Ellis, 49, is charged with two counts of first-degree murder, and his DNA was found on nine women killed... More »

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African Americans • Milwaukee • murder • violence • prostitute • serial killers • Walter Ellis

Americans Split on Health Care Priorities: Poll

But they're divided by race, age, location,
not political party

Aug 10, 09 4:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - Americans have differing priorities for health care reform based not on a Republican/Democrat divide but on their race, age, and location, a USA Today/Gallup poll found. A majority of African-American and Latino voters among those polled think extending coverage to the uninsured should be the most important aspect of reform... More »

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race • health insurance • African Americans • health care industry • Latinos • health care reform • South • women's issues

(Newser) - Another black member of Harvard's faculty has accused the Cambridge Police Department of racism, the Boston Globe reports. S. Allen Counter, a Harvard Medical School professor, was arrested outside his home in 2006 on assault and battery charges. “I was polite, and yet police lied and said I was... More »

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Harvard Medical School • African Americans • racism • professor • police department • Harvard University • Henry Louis Gates Jr • Cambridge, Mass. • S. Allen Counter

OBITUARY

Breakthrough Black Model Naomi Sims Dead at 61


Aug 3, 09 4:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Naomi Sims, the first black model to grace the cover of Ladies Home Journal—and arguably the first black supermodel—has died at 61, the New York Times reports. Her family says the cause was cancer. Sims burst onto the scene in the late 1960s, but chose in the ‘... More »

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African Americans • Andy Warhol • obituary • black women • supermodel • magazine cover • Jay-ZTV • designer fashion • Salvador Dali • Naomi Sims • cover girl

Caller in Gates Arrest Didn't Mention Race

Tapes show I'm not a racist, says woman
who alerted police

Jul 29, 09 2:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Massachusetts woman who called 911 on Henry Louis Gates and his chauffeur as they wrestled with the Harvard professor’s front door said today she never mentioned race to Sgt. James Crowley, the officer who arrested Gates. Lucia Whalen’s statement contradicts the police report filed by Crowley, which... More »

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African Americans • police • 911 call • arrest • racial profiling • Henry Louis Gates Jr • Cambridge, Mass.

(Newser) - Money, power, and status count for little in the face of persistent racial profiling by police, African-American men tell the Los Angeles Times. Many say they know all too well how Henry Louis Gates Jr. must have felt in his home last week. The consensus generally seems to be that... More »

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African Americans • police • racism • racial profiling • racial discrimination • Henry Louis Gates Jr

(Newser) - Henry Louis Gates Jr. and the Cambridge cop who arrested him both say they will take up President Obama on his offer to have a beer at the White House. "It is time for all of us to move on, and to assess what we can learn from this... More »

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African Americans • race relations • Massachusetts • Harvard • President Obama • police action • Henry Louis Gates Jr • James Crowley

(Newser) - Author E. Lynn Harris, who offered a glimpse into the secret lives of closeted gay black men, died last night at 54, the AP reports. His publicist says the cause is unknown, and that Harris suddenly took ill just days ago. An autopsy will be performed next week. Harris was... More »

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entertainment • African Americans • obituary • fiction • author • novel • LGBT • best seller • Jay-ZTV • gay • E. Lynn Harris • black men

UPDATED

Obama Regrets 'Acted Stupidly' Jab at Cops

Prez: I could have 'calibrated' remarks on Gates arrest differently

Jul 24, 09 2:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama today backpedaled from his comment that the Massachusetts police who arrested Henry Louis Gates Jr. “acted stupidly,” the New York Times reports. In an unannounced appearance at the daily White House briefing, Obama said he “could have calibrated” his words more carefully in speaking on... More »

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African Americans • police • race relations • President Obama • Henry Louis Gates Jr • Cambridge, Mass. • James Crowley

(Newser) - The Gates controversy might finally change—for the better—the way the media portray President Obama on race issues, writes Brent Staples in the New York Times. "Up to now, he has been consistently and wrongly portrayed as a stern black exceptionalist who takes Negroes to task for not... More »

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race • African Americans • discrimination • race relations • President Obama • Henry Louis Gates Jr

 Cop Who Arrested Gates 
 Teaches Racial-Profiling Class 

Sgt. James Crowley's class instructs recruits not to 'single people out because of ethnic background'

Jul 23, 09 3:33 PM CDT
(AP) - The white police sergeant criticized by President Barack Obama for arresting black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. at his Massachusetts home is a police-academy expert on racial profiling. Cambridge Sgt. James Crowley has taught a class on racial profiling for 5 years at the Lowell Police Academy after being hand-picked... More »

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African Americans • scholar • arrest • Harvard • racial profiling • President Obama • Henry Louis Gates Jr • Cambridge, Mass. • James Crowley

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