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• NCAA Anti-trust Lawsuit May Lead to Athlete Compensation

  
  Black Politics, Black Voters, Black People — Authority: 112
  A district court judge in San Francisco on Monday denied the N.C.A.A. ’s motion for dismissal in a class-action lawsuit headed by the former U.C.L.A. basketball star Ed O’Bannon. The ruling leaves the N.C.A.A.’s licensing contracts open to discovery. O’Bannon’s lawyers filed the antitrust suit in July, ...
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• Your News: Vanity Fair Gets Criticism for Cover

  
  Black Politics, Black Voters, Black People — Authority: 112
  Vanity Fair One thing magazines love to do is call dibs on who will be the new "It" celebrities in the year to come. Sometimes they pick stars whose careers are destined to take off, occasionally they make incredible calls with near-nobodies who later become A-listers, and usually the majority of their picks fade ...
  6 days ago

• Black News: Cynthia McKinney Breaks Silence about Government Killings

  
  Black Politics, Black Voters, Black People — Authority: 112
  They shot this Black man in his genitals and in his back.  It sounds like a hate crime to me.  How else could one describe it? Well, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, it was self-defense.  But how many times have we heard self-defense by cops used as a cop out?  Well, what about Amadou ...
  1 week ago

• Cynthia McKinney Breaks Silence about Government Killings

  
  Black Public Scholars — Authority: 485
  They shot this Black man in his genitals and in his back.  It sounds like a hate crime to me.  How else could one describe it? Well, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, it was self-defense.  But how many times have we heard self-defense by cops used as a cop out?  Well, what about Amadou ...
  1 week ago

• "I Forgot Obama was Black": Reflections on Chris Matthewss Comment

  
  Blogs — Authority: 159
  I enjoyed Obamas first State of the Union address, in large part because I like listening to our President. I like seeing our first African American President too. Though Im not so naive as to think that its an indication of a post-racial society (more on that later), I do think its an important milestone in U.S. race ...
  1 week ago

• Your Black News: Chris Matthews Says He Forgot Obama was Black

  
  Black Public Scholars — Authority: 485
  From the Huffington Post: Chris Matthews is definitely going to take some heat for exclaiming that he “forgot [Obama] was black tonight for an hour… I said wait a minute, he’s an African American guy in front of a bunch of other white people.” Matthews was analyzing President Obama’s first State of the ...
  1 week ago

• News: Clark Atlanta University Draws the Ire of Investigators

  
  Black Politics, Black Voters, Black People — Authority: 112
  The  firing of nearly one-quarter of the full-time faculty members at Clark Atlanta University a year go led to an investigation by the American Association of University Professors. The investigatory committee has just released its report about the sudden termination of 55 faculty member, concluding that the ...
  2 weeks ago

• News: Did Clark Atlanta University Violate the Law?

  
  Black Public Scholars — Authority: 485
  The  firing of nearly one-quarter of the full-time faculty members at Clark Atlanta University a year go led to an investigation by the American Association of University Professors. The investigatory committee has just released its report about the sudden termination of 55 faculty member, concluding that the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Leader of Whom?

  
  DarkStar Spouts Off — Authority: 422
  Obama got 95% of the Black vote. When Al Sharpton ran for the Democratic nomination, he won ONE mostly Black voting district. The greater Black population support vouchers and charters but not Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Sr, or the NAACP. The membership of the NAACP is falling and has been at least since the ...
  3 weeks ago

• President Obama’s King Holiday Address

  
  Skeptical Brotha — Authority: 414
  Tagged: Barack Obama, civil rights, Economic Stagnation, education reform, faith, Health Care Reform, Jeremiah Generation, King Holiday, Martin Luther King Jr, MLK, Moses Generation, politics of incrementalism, Recession, responsible stewardship, Vermont Avenue Baptist Church, Washington D.C.
  3 weeks ago

• Wyclef Jean’s Charity Being Questioned by Authorities

  
  Black Public Scholars — Authority: 485
  Haiti’s musician Wyclef Jean, left, arrives at the airport in Port-au-Prince on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010, the day after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit his country. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky) (AP) Groups that vet charities are raising doubts about the organization backed by Haitian-born rapper Wyclef Jean, questioning ...
  3 weeks ago

• Wyclef Jean’s Charity Being Questioned by Authorities

  
  Black Politics, Black Voters, Black People — Authority: 112
  Haiti’s musician Wyclef Jean, left, arrives at the airport in Port-au-Prince on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010, the day after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit his country. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky) (AP) Groups that vet charities are raising doubts about the organization backed by Haitian-born rapper Wyclef Jean, questioning ...
  3 weeks ago

• OPINION: Robertson’s Comments Are Ill-Timed And Ignorant

  
  NewsOne — Authority: 633
  Pat Robertson, evangelical Christian and host of the 700 Club blamed Tuesday’s tragic 7.0 earthquake on something that “happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it.”  He says that a ‘pact with the devil’ brought on the devastation. The Haitians “were under the heel ...
  3 weeks ago

• Black Politics from TheGrio – 1/13/10

  
  Black Leadership and Everything in It — Authority: 126
  Wash. lawmaker wants to banish negative language By theGrio 3:25 PM on 01/12/2010 A Washington lawmaker wants to replace euphemisms like "disadvantaged" and "at-risk" with a new one, "at hope"… > MORE Ford may seek seat held by Senator Gillibrand of NY By theGrio 12:39 PM on 01/12/2010 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Rush Limbaugh says Negroes Served Ted Kennedy Booze

  
  Black Entertainment, Money, Style and Beauty Blogs - Black Voices — Authority: 154
  Filed under: News , Politics , Race and Civil Rights Radio show host Rush Limbaugh is at it again. The other day, in response to the recent flap over Harry Reids comments on President Barack Obama, Limbaugh had this to say: "I know the real reason that Teddy Kennedy was mad and offended when Bill Clinton ...
  3 weeks ago

• Your Black News: Michael Eric Dyson Puts the Hammer on Obama

  
  Black Public Scholars — Authority: 485
  Michael Eric Dyson, professor of African American studies at Georgetown, addressed the Harry Reid “negro dialect” controversy last night on MSNBC.  He criticized Obama for avoiding racial issue. You ain’t talking about civil rights, you ain’t talking bout affirmative action, you’re not pressing the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Senator Kate Lundy speaks out against mandatory filtering

  
  Larvatus Prodeo — Authority: 586
  Jason Whittaker has an article in today’s Crikey , which I’ve reproduced below the fold. At least one member of the federal government stands opposed to mandatory internet censorship, with Senator Kate Lundy pushing the Minister for an “opt-out” alternative from the online blacklist. But Lundy says she ...
  4 weeks ago

• Question For Public Black Conservatives

  
  DarkStar Spouts Off — Authority: 422
  Care to guess how many articles Blackconservatives have written stating Black teens/men who dont speakAmerican standard English are at a disadvantage in the job market? How is that different from what Reid said?
  4 weeks ago

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