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Post-Obama black politics: A private race debate enters the public sphere

Thursday, August 07, 2008

An article to be published in the August 10, 2008, New York Times magazine provocatively asks, “Is Obama the End of Black Politics?” The Takeaway tests that notion with the article’s author.

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A black plague: A new report says blacks are hit hardest by AIDS

Wednesday, August 06, 2008

Last week the Black AIDS Institute, an advocacy group, reported that if Black America were its own nation it would rank 16th in the world in the number of people living with AIDS. Among its findings the report also states that nearly 600,000 blacks are living with HIV and up to 30,000 are becoming infected each year. The report provides a new perspective on the AIDS epidemic and negligence in its treatment.

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Journalists of color talk about an unprecedented presidential election season

Thursday, July 31, 2008

Last week, 6,800 people gathered in Chicago for UNITY, a conference held every four years for journalists of color. It's the largest reoccurring journalism convention in the nation. Between panels, a Sunday appearance by Barack Obama and industry parties, attendees spoke with The Takeaway about media coverage of the 2008 election.

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McCain and Obama weigh in on affirmative-action measures

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Controversial affirmative-action ballot initiatives in three states — Nebraska, Colorado and Arizona — are making news for the presidential candidates. Arizona senator and presidential candidate John McCain has said he supports a measure in his state that would ban the use of preferential treatment when it comes to race or gender. He says he's always opposed quotas. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama wagged his finger at his rival.

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A grassroots movement to bring Hispanic voters to the polls

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

As the presidential candidates work to court the growing Hispanic population, the National Latino Congreso, a minority activism group, is registering Hispanic voters like never before. The Takeaway talks with two organizers about what they're doing to bring the powerful bloc to the voting booth come November.

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Blogging While Brown is the first conference for bloggers of color

Friday, July 25, 2008

The Blogging While Brown conference is on until Sunday, where, for the first time, bloggers of color from around the world have united in Atlanta to discuss their influence on the media and elections.

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David Wall Rice: A million conversations with Nelson Mandela

Friday, July 18, 2008

By David Wall Rice : Takeaway Contributor

The thing I remember most vividly about beginning my internship at TransAfrica Forum, the foreign policy lobbyist group founded in 1977 to pressure the U.S. Government to do right by Africa and the African Diaspora, was that I didn't want to be there.

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Vincent Williams: When the scary becomes the stupid: Obama satire in the New Yorker

Monday, July 14, 2008

By Vincent Williams : Guest Contributor

So... the New Yorker cover... Barack Obama's wearing the Somali garb, Michelle Obama has a huge afro, donned in black militant fatigues and, uh-oh, they're giving each other that strange greeting called "dap." Hey, it's the New Yorker. They do satire. Of course Obama's campaign said it was too much ...

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A long time coming: American Medical Association apologizes to black doctors

Friday, July 11, 2008

The American Medical Association has issued an apology to black doctors for a history of racial discrimination. But is it a case of too little too late? The Takeaway talks with Dr. George C. Debnam, who experienced the AMA’s racial prejudice firsthand as a young doctor in North Carolina in the 1950’s.

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McCain and Obama vie for Latino vote with contrasting immigration policies

Wednesday, July 09, 2008

Guest: Fernando Pizarro, Univision

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Red, white, black and blue: Patrik Henry Bass on July 4's "multiple meanings"

Friday, July 04, 2008

Americans have widely varying interpretations of the Fourth of July. For some, it’s a day off from work. For others, it’s a sacred day, commemorating the American colonies declaration of independence from England. In one of his famous moments of oratory, former slave Frederick Douglass offered another take: "This Fourth of July is yours, not mine.” The July 5, 1852, speech was called "The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro."

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Vincent Williams on Obama's Father's Day message: Yes, we should be doing this anyway

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

By Vincent Williams : Guest Contributor

When Barack Obama discussed fatherhood and, specifically, black fatherhood on Father’s Day, he was, of course, opening a can of worms. As he rattled off the grim statistics about how many African-American children are being raised without their fathers and the effect that absence is having on their lives, I could almost feel large sections of the black community tightening up.

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Canadian prime minister apologizes to aboriginal students who endured abuse

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

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Remembering Robert F. Kennedy and a message of hope, 40 years after assassination

Thursday, June 05, 2008

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What people are saying about Obama's historic claim to the nomination

Thursday, June 05, 2008

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Obama makes history as first black presidential candidate for major party

Thursday, June 05, 2008

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Is colorblind adoption short-sighted?

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

A new report suggests that colorblind adoption leaves white parents unprepared to raise black children. Parents may not be mentally ready or have the appropriate social tools to parent children of a different race from their own. In turn, youngsters may experience social and psychological problems later in life. What does this mean for 1994's Multiethnic Placement Act, which says adoptive parents cannot request a specific race for their children? The Takeaway talks about these issues with a transracial family.

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Guest Blogger David Wall Rice: White Morehouse valedictorian not "slumming it"

Thursday, May 15, 2008

By David Wall Rice : Takeaway Contributor

Morehouse College, the nation's only all-male historically black college, has selected a white student as its valedictorian for the first time. David Wall Rice is a graduate of Morehouse and now an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology.

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Guest blogger Vincent Williams: And blacks will vote for...

Monday, April 28, 2008

By Vincent Williams : Guest Contributor

Well, now that we’ve finally moved on from the Pennsylvania primary, and all of the media attention paid to the white working class, the most important bloc of voters, like, ever, to Pennsylvania, we’re moving on to North Carolina. And I can’t wait to have the same lavish, dare I say, slavish attention paid to me, the black voter.

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A missed message? Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. forty years on

Friday, April 04, 2008

Has our vision of Dr. King's message been sanitized by the passing of time? We've all heard, "I have a dream." In a less-well known speech, King said, "There comes a time when a man must take the position that it is neither safe nor politic nor popular — but he must take it because it is right..."

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