June 2008
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Study: Gentrification benefits many blacks
UPI – The authors of a study on gentrification in U.S. cities say its supposed ill effects on low-income urban neighborhood residents are exaggerated. The study by researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder, the University of Pittsburgh and Duke University found that when white, college-educated residents move into low-income neighborhoods, the resulting economic [...]
Why Barack Owes Clarence Thomas
Sam Fulwood III, TheRoot.com – Lately, I’ve had the most spirited debates with my students and friends, and I always come away feeling like the loser. I, for argument’s sake, draw a straight line between Barack Obama’s White House aspirations and the embarrassing spectacle of Clarence Thomas’ Supreme Court confirmation. As soon as I dare [...]
African Americans Break Billion-Dollar Barrier
Latif Lewis and Tanisha A. Sykes, Black Enterprise – Born Sarah Breedlove in 1867 in Delta, Louisiana, the legendary Madame C.J. Walker was the daughter of former slaves. From her beginnings as an uneducated farm laborer and laundress, she transformed her life to become one of the most successful businesswomen of the 20th century. Walker, [...]
Fox News Channel has crossed the racist line
Harry C. Alford, NNPA Columnist – The famed comedian D.J. Hughley has stated that whenever he accidentally rests his television dial on the Fox News station it will automatically start tilting to the right. That’s funny, but it also illustrates the dogma and mantra that comes from this station that claims to be “fair and [...]
Obama pursues aggressive Southern strategy
UPI – Aides say likely U.S. presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama is aggressively courting voters in the U.S. South, a region long considered hostile to Democrats. Ever since the region consistently began electing Republican candidates 40 years ago, the Democratic Party has debated how much effort it should put into trying to sway white Southern [...]
