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 Angry Gates to Make 
 Film on Racial Profiling 

Harvard prof. inspired by recent brush with the law

Jul 21, 09 4:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - After his up-close and personal look at the criminal justice system, Henry Louis Gates Jr. intends to tackle the issue of racial profiling in a documentary for PBS, the Harvard scholar tells the Washington Post. "It had never crossed my mind but it has now," says Gates, who... More »

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race • African Americans • racism • racial profiling • police action • Henry Louis Gates Jr • Cambridge, Mass.

(Newser) - African-American Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. was hauled into custody after repeatedly asking a police officer for his badge number, Prof. Charles Ogletree writes in the Root. Gates forced open his front door after arriving home from a foreign trip to find it damaged. When a police officer arrived... More »

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African Americans • racism • disorderly conduct • Harvard • Harvard University • Henry Louis Gates Jr

Harvard Scholar Arrested at Mass. Home

'This is what happens to black men in America': Gates to cop

Jul 20, 09 1:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - A prominent Harvard scholar was arrested last week outside his Cambridge, Mass., home and charged with disorderly conduct after “exhibiting loud and tumultuous behavior,” the Harvard Crimson reports. Henry Louis Gates, a renowned professor of African-American studies, was trying to get into the locked house when a neighbor... More »

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African Americans • police • Massachusetts • racism • scholar • arrest • Harvard • Henry Louis Gates Jr • Cambridge, Mass.

(Newser) - President Obama made his most direct appeal yet to black America with a rousing speech that sounded more like a sermon, the New York Times reports. Addressing the NAACP on its 100th anniversary, Obama said the "pain of discrimination" still exists in America, but he told black parents they... More »

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African Americans • black culture • civil rights • NAACP • President Obama

(Newser) - President Obama toured the Cape Coast Castle in Ghana today, a shipping-off point for African slaves to America, Reuters reports. He saw the monument as a reminder. “As painful as it is,” the president said, “I think that it helps to teach all of us that we... More »

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Africa • African Americans • slavery • Ghana • President Obama • slave trade • Cape Coast Castle

(Newser) - Bill O’Reilly can’t figure out why African Americans would care about Michael Jackson’s death. “Michael Jackson has white children, and he chose to have white children,” he said on his show last night. “And the face deal, I don’t even want to... More »

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race • African Americans • Bill O'Reilly • race relations • Michael Jackson • white people

(Newser) - NFL Hall of Famer and activist Jim Brown recently ripped Tiger Woods for not giving back to his community, and that’s just "dead wrong," Michael Wilbon writes in the Washington Post. Brown seems to think Woods' Learning Center in Anaheim exists to teach kids how to... More »

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education • African Americans • golf • Tiger Woods • HBO • football • social services • youth • Jim Brown • community outreach

(Newser) - A new Los Angeles Times poll shows why gay marriage advocates and opponents are targeting LA Latinos after Proposition 8: Unlike African Americans, they are divided on the issue. While African American voters oppose gay marriage by 54% to 37%, Latinos are split, 45% in favor and 46% against.... More »

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California • gay marriage • African Americans • Los Angeles • Latinos • Proposition 8 • blacks

(Newser) - The Senate today apologized for slavery and civil rights abuses against African-Americans, CNN reports. The unanimous gesture—it comes on the eve of Juneteenth, which marks the end of the Civil War—carries a disclaimer that it's not meant to authorize reparations, notes the Chicago Tribune. The House will vote... More »

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African Americans • civil rights • slavery • US Senate • reparations • Jim Crow laws • nonbinding resolution

(Newser) - Don't look now, but Al Sharpton is emerging as one of President Obama's go-to guys on race. Given that Obama is the candidate who supposedly transcended racial politics and Sharpton is the character who "perfected" them, it just may be the "oddest political pairing of the year,"... More »

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race • African Americans • Al Sharpton • President Obama

Obama Picks Ex-Astronaut as NASA Chief

Bolden would be first African-American to lead agency

May 23, 09 4:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama will name former astronaut Charles Bolden Jr. as his NASA administrator soon after the Atlantis shuttle returns to Earth this weekend, sources tell the Los Angeles Times. Bolden, a military aviator who flew four shuttle missions, will be the first African-American to lead NASA if he is confirmed... More »

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NASA • African Americans • astronauts • Scott Gration • NASA administrator • President Obama • Charles Bolden

Foreclosure Crisis Wallops Minority Neighborhoods

Lenders accused of 'redlining' black neighborhoods for subprime loans

May 16, 09 6:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - The national foreclosure crisis is battering minority neighborhoods with disproportionate force, the New York Times reports. Few areas in the New York region have been untouched by the crisis, but 85% of the worst-hit neighborhoods have a majority of black and Latino homeowners. Experts blame the trend on subprime lenders'... More »

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African Americans • housing market • subprime mortgages • foreclosure • mortgage • minorities • subprime crisis

(Newser) - African-American and Latino car dealers will likely take a big hit in the dealership closures announced by Chrysler and planned at GM, the Wall Street Journal reports. The minority dealerships, located mainly in urban areas, have faced stiff competition as business has moved increasingly to suburbia. “We're more... More »

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Chrysler • African Americans • General Motors • minority • Latinos • auto industry • car dealers • dealership • Jay-ZTV

 Africans Have World's 
 Greatest Genetic Diversity 

Landmark study tracks modern humanity's origins to area in South Africa

May 1, 09 6:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - The people of Africa have by far the world's most diverse genes, says a new study that sheds light on humanity's origins. Researchers—who traveled deep into remote areas of Africa to study more than a hundred populations—have pinpointed the origin of modern humans to an area near the... More »

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Africa • African Americans • genetics • human evolution • human • genetic research

(Newser) - More Americans say race relations are looking good since the election of Barack Obama, according to a New York Times/CBS News poll. Among 973 adults surveyed last week, two-thirds said race relations were good and the number of blacks in agreement doubled since last summer. Despite resignation over the economy... More »

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Barack Obama • race • African Americans • poll • racism

US Boycotts United Nations Racism Meeting

Obama bows out
over Israel critique;
black caucus upset

Apr 18, 09 8:10 PM CDT
(AP) - The Obama administration will boycott "with regret" a UN conference on racism next week over language in the meeting's final document that could single out Israel for criticism and restrict free speech, the State Department said today. The decision will likely please Jewish groups that lobbied against US participation,... More »

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Barack Obama • United Nations • African Americans • racism • Israel and Palestinians

Number of
Blacks Jailed
for Drugs Declines

But number of white inmates increases

Apr 14, 09 5:52 PM CDT
(Newser) - A profound shift may be under way in the racial makeup of the nation's prison population, the Washington Post reports. For the first time in 20 years, the number of blacks imprisoned for drug offenses is falling sharply while the number of whites is rising, the Washington Post reports.... More »

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drugs • African Americans • sentencing • jail • crystal meth • crack cocaine • prison population • white people • blacks

analysis

 Few Blacks Followed 
 Anderson's Lead 


Apr 6, 09 5:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - Marian Anderson shattered a racial barrier when she sang at the Lincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday, 1939—70 years ago this week—yet despite planned tributes, the power of the moment has faded, Alex Ross writes in the New Yorker. Most young people know nothing of Anderson, and "black... More »

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African Americans • classical music • opera • jazz • black women

 Obama Inspires School's 
 'Pull Up Your Pants' Day 

Florida school hands out belts to tighten waistbands

Mar 26, 09 11:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Among Barack Obama’s many inspirational quips, it’s “Brothers should pull up their pants” that stuck with the Florida high school teacher behind today’s Pull Up Your Pants Day. Fed up with droopy drawers, she enlisted community members to hand out belts to kids who could use... More »

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Florida • high school • African Americans • teenager • President Obama • Howard Stern Grid

obituary

 Scholar Who Lived 
 Black History Dead at 94 

John Hope Franklin embodied black history

Mar 26, 09 8:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - Influential historian John Hope Franklin died yesterday at 94. The author of a seminal book on race, Franklin was born and raised in an all-black community in Oklahoma, marched in Selma, and assisted on a Brown v. Board of Education brief. "He managed to embody this history and yet... More »

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African Americans • obituary • racism • Selma to Montgomery • historian • slavery • Brown v. Board of Education • John Hope Franklin

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