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Unemployment Back on the Rise, Will Obama Recover in Time for 2012?
Filed under: The Economy From The New York Times: It's getting harder to say that this is just temporary. For the second month in a row, employers added a dismally small number of jobs, showing that...
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Moving? How to be a Good Tenant in Your New Place.
Filed under: Housing From Madame Noire: Eagerly awaiting your next move, you found a rental home well-suited for you at a bargained price! The luxury in renting your own place from a landlord affords...
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Are tattoos more acceptable in the workplace now?
Filed under: Lynnette Khalfani-Cox, Careers From The Grio: Are tattoos becoming more acceptable in the workplace? Some people think so -- thanks to greater tolerance in American society in general, and...
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Oprah Winfrey's Next Role: High School Teacher!
From Popeater: Oprah Winfrey is back in the USA after spending time with her "girls" at the school she opened in South Africa, but don't fear, ladies, Miss O will be returning soon in the role of...
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Gallery: The Week's Best Celebrity Style
Filed under: Celebrity Style This week celebrities celebrated the Fourth of July holiday and the Essence Music Festival in New Orleans was the hottest ticket in town. Check out the best dressed stars...
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Trend Alert: Feathers
Filed under: Accessories, Trends Feather earrings have been popular for the last few seasons (count the times you've seen someone wearing peacock earrings), and they'll probably stay that way for a...
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What to do This Weekend: Race and Racism in Cuban Contemporary Art
Currently taking place at New York City's 8th Floor gallery, 'Queloides: Race and Racism in Contemporary Cuban' examines the history and resurgence of racism in Cuba. The exhibition, which features...
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South Sudan Becomes an Independent Nation
From BBC News: South Sudan has become the world's newest nation, the climax of a process made possible by the 2005 peace deal that ended a long and bloody civil war. Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir...
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If Caylee Anthony Had Been Black, Would You Know Her Name?
From the Washington Post: Here's a quiz: Which names do you recognize? Aja. N'Kiah. Tatianna. Brittany. Caylee. All five girls, authorities said, were killed by their mothers. Yet it's likely that,...
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Conservative Group Backtracks on Marriage Pledge Slavery Language
From Politico: A social conservative Iowa group has retracted language regarding slavery from the opening of a presidential candidates' pledge, amid a growing controversy over the document that...
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Herman Cain and the Sadness of Black Folks
From the Root: "Oh, I think we'll always be a sad people," a black woman said to me in 2001. She was very smart, very well-informed. And that remark seemed utterly ordinary to her. It didn't to me....
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Long Live Aretha, the Queen of Soul
From the New York Times: Aretha Franklin sat alone with a Coke. It was the night of her 69th birthday, and all around, guests were filing into the Park Room at the Helmsley Park Lane Hotel on Central...
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The First Lady of the N.B.A.
From the New York Times: AS she was finishing lunch at the R Lounge overlooking Times Square recently, La La Anthony craned her neck and motioned toward the back of the room, over the head of her...
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New Mom Tia Mowry Hardict Pens Parenting Book
Filed under: Celeb Updates 'The Game's Tia Mowry Hardict recently delivered baby boy Cree last month and is set to release her first parenting book "Oh Baby!"Share Tweet "Great News!!!!! I am now an...
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Jennifer Hudson's Goes Tropical in New Photoshoot
Filed under: Red Carpet Jennifer Hudson attracted a lot of attention competing on 'American Idol' and later for her Oscar winning performance in 'Dreamgirls' but her dramatic weight loss has garnered...
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Black News Sites Join Forces Ahead of 2012 Election
Filed under: News Two major providers of online content geared toward African Americans have merged, looking to become a force in the increasingly competitive black-centric media space.TheGrio.com and...
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Jay-Z Calls Criticism of Pres. Obama 'Fair'
Filed under: The Economy From Billboard.com: During a private listening of "Watch The Throne," his collaborative album with Kanye West, on Thursday night (July 7) at New York's Mercer Hotel, Jay-Z was...
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5 Supermodels That Transformed Into Super Moguls
Filed under: Careers From The Atlanta Post: Since the late 1960s when Donyale Luna became the first African-American model to grace the cover of British Vogue, African-American models have been...
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Rumor: Essence Hires White Man As Managing Editor
Filed under: Gossip If the rumor is true, this won't be the first time that Essence employed a white person in an economy where blacks are hit hardest by unemployment. Just last year the magazine came...
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Why Do Black Women Have Worse Long-Term Health Outcomes?
Filed under: News Back in the 1990s, a researcher named Arline Geronimus became a pariah in academic circles for suggesting that the constant stress from dealing with hardship and structural racism was...
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