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• The Greatest Sportswriter Who Ever Lived

  
  MoJo Blog Posts: riff — Authority: 127
  Lester "Red" Rodney , arguably one of the most influential sportswriters in the professions history, who used his sports page in the communist Daily Worker newspaper to campaign against baseballs color line, to cover Negro League stars like Jackie Robinson and Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson, and to pioneer a brand of ...
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• Today’s Quotable and Notable

  
  Flypaper — Authority: 602
  Quotable : “You don’t want to get into a situation where a teacher is going to argue or parse words, or get defensive about a rating, if you’re interested in teacher performance improving.  I think it’s easy to create unanticipated consequences inadvertently.” -Charlotte Danielson, educational ...
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• "Jackass Ghetto Name."

  
  TAPPED — Authority: 151
  Ta-Nehisi Coates finds a commenter at Ann Althouse s blog who doesnt think much of his name: I might respect Ta-Nehisi Coates more if he has less of a jackass ghetto name and was more of a serious thinker. Does he seriously think womens problem with Palin is about respect? Does he really think women (apart ...
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• Houstons Lesbian Mayor?

  
  Mojo Feed | Mother Jones — Authority: 142
  Houstons mayoral race has come down to a notable runoff, with a final vote scheduled for this Saturday. Last months first round of votes in a seven-way race favored Annise Parker , a white lesbian who, if elected, would make Houston the largest U.S. city ever to have an openly gay mayor. Anti-gay activists and ...
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• Its official: Kasim Reed clinches Atlanta mayoral race

  
  Top of the Ticket — Authority: 790
  After a dramatically tense mayoral race, Kasim Reed , an attorney and former Georgia state senator, will continue the Atlanta status quo of African American mayors, after a recount Wednesday clinched Reed’s victory. Reed was neck and neck with Mary Norwood , who was vying to become the first white mayor in ...
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• The New Faces of the Welfare: Overcoming the Stigma of State Assistance

  
  Sociology Lens — Authority: 507
  by ChristinaBlunt Despite last week’s promising government figures showing a decline in the American unemployment rate, “Welfare and Citizenship: The Effects of Government Assistance on Young Adults’ Civic Participation,” serves as a reminder to social scientists that with every great social shift (such as ...
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• On Motherhood, as an immigrant

  
  Blog Nosh Magazine — Authority: 489
  {Originally Published on Classy Chaos} Naturally as a mother, my ultimate goal is to raise happy, confident and loving children. However as an immigrant in this country, I desire more. This desire. This hungry for more is a common thread between many immigrant experiences. Library shelves are full of ...
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• Kasim Reed leading in Atlantas tight mayoral race

  
  Top of the Ticket — Authority: 790
  Atlanta will swear in a new mayor Jan. 4, and although its not exactly clear yet who that will be, it looks as though the likely winner of Tuesday night’s dramatically tight runoff race will be Kasim Reed , 40, a former state senator and African American who had the support of many of the city’s black ...
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• Telling the Truth: Immigrants and their communities

  
  Sociology Lens — Authority: 507
  by ChristinaBlunt Today, December 2, Maryland pastor Lennox Abrigo will be at the White House to discuss immigration reform. According to the New York Times, Abrigo and other pastors across the state have witnessed increases in the number of immigrants in their congregations as well as increases in the problems ...
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• Race, Unemployment, And How We Sleep At Night.

  
  TAPPED — Authority: 151
  The response to the election of Barack Obama was a deliberate effort   on the part of Republicans to stoke and benefit from an escalation in racial tensions. We saw this play out during the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor , where Republicans made a deliberate effort to make the United States look like the kind of ...
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• The "Race Card," Conveniently Defined.

  
  TAPPED — Authority: 151
  Lately, Ive been fascinated by Cornell Law School professor William A. Jacobson s blog . Although most of his posts are boilerplate wingnuttia -- health-care reform is tyranny, diplomacy is weakness, etc. -- there are a few gems here and there, most notably with his ongoing attempt to document liberal use of "the ...
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• Cyborg Systems: Sociology’s Proper Unit of Analysis

  
  Sociology Lens — Authority: 507
  by pj.rey The increasing centrality of the Internet in our daily lives has precipitated a spate of theorizing about how we – as humans and as a society – are changing (or not) due to the constant technological mediation of our most basic interactions and activities.  Let’s face it: This sort of theorizing is ...
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• Muslim Identity, Cultural Trauma, and the Racialized Backlash

  
  Sociology Lens — Authority: 507
  by Nickie Wild Jeffrey Alexander writes that “cultural trauma occurs when members of a collectivity feel they have been subjected to a horrendous event that leaves indelible marks upon their group consciousness, marking their memories forever and changing their future identity in fundamental and irrevocable ways” ...
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