Posts Tagged ‘Race and ethnicity in the United States Census’

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Oct15

What Happens When You Tell The Truth

by Duane on October 15th, 2009 at 1:07 am
Posted In: Commentary, HBCU, Headlines, Our Expression

First non-black Miss Hampton U says sorry (msnbc)
Apologizes for saying people disapproved her win because of her skin color
HAMPTON, Va. – The first non-black winner of the annual beauty pageant at historically black Hampton University says she’s sorry for writing a letter to President Barack Obama contending her crowning was not “widely accepted” on campus [...]

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Sep01

How Long Can This Theory Last?

by Duane on September 1st, 2009 at 7:51 am
Posted In: Our Expression, Our Health

Black hypertension patients experience poor communication with doctors than white patients

Participants in Cen-’s study included 226 Hypertension high blood pressure patients and 39 physicians from 15 primary care practices in Baltimore. Coders listened to recordings of the patient visits and measured several outcomes. These included, but were not limited to, the length of visits and [...]

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Aug28

Perpetual Denial

by Duane on August 28th, 2009 at 7:03 am
Posted In: Headlines, Politics

Back in the day (1960)~
Tennessee Federation for Constitutional Government (a smaller version of the White Citizens’ Council)
“At the same meeting, according to the article, District Attorney David P. Murray called on the audience to “help maintain our Southern way of life” and added, “Let’s fight for it to the bitter end.” According to The Sun’s [...]

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Aug02

The struggle for one voice

by Duane on August 2nd, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Posted In: Commentary, Our Expression, Soul Food, The Media

Chris Rock said it best when he said “There’s like a civil war going on with black people”.  He continued by by saying that on one side you have Black people and on the other side, niggas.  His words, not mine.
For years now, the bulk of this civil war has been waged not on the [...]

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Jul27

Some background noise should not be ignored

by Duane on July 27th, 2009 at 6:40 am
Posted In: Education, Our children, Politics

While Obama was having his “Cosby” moment with the NAACP recently, this is what was going on in the background.

“At almost the same time Obama was giving that speech to the NAACP, Russlynn Ali, the new head of the Office of Civil Rights at the Department of Education, gave an interview with Education Daily (subscription [...]

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Jul21

Make it “news” and it will be covered

by Duane on July 21st, 2009 at 4:55 am
Posted In: Commentary, Politics

As reported by Eugene Robinson for the Washington Post~
“I’ve noticed that when I talk about personal responsibility in the African American community, that gets highlighted,” Obama said in an interview Friday. “But then the whole other half of the speech, where I talked about government’s responsibility . . . that somehow doesn’t make news.”
I could [...]

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Jun30

African students: Kicking butt

by Duane on June 30th, 2009 at 2:34 pm
Posted In: Commentary, Education, World

“According to U.S. Census Bureau data, in an analysis performed by the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, African immigrants here were more likely to be college educated than any other immigrant group. Not only that, but African immigrants are also more highly educated than any other native-born ethnic group including white Americans. [...]

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May28

6-Piece News Brief for 5/28/09

by Duane on May 28th, 2009 at 10:31 am
Posted In: Economy, Education, Headlines, Just "Why?", Our children, Our Expression, Politics, Should Be Slapped, The Media

Here are six nuggets picked from around the web. Find your own dippin’ sauce!
Cobb county, Georgia adopts the “everybody’s a winner” grading system.
Some Cobb County parents plan to plead with the school board Thursday night to scuttle a move to standards-based report cards for third-graders, arguing that a 3-2-1 grading scale promotes mediocrity.
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The traditional A, [...]

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May27

Reality bites in the classroom

by Duane on May 27th, 2009 at 11:18 am
Posted In: Commentary, Education, Mentoring, Our children

University of Chicago Press Journals
Study: Teachers choose schools according to student race
A study forthcoming in the Journal of Labor Economics suggests that high-quality teachers tend to leave schools that experience inflows of black students. According to the study’s author, C. Kirabo Jackson (Cornell University), this is the first study to show that a school’s racial [...]

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May05

All you can eat history

by Duane on May 5th, 2009 at 10:42 am
Posted In: Uncategorized

Since the recollection of history of some these days is more like a buffet line, allow me to spoon up a side item from the past.
2006
From the Democratic Policy Committee (link)
President Bush’s Budget Would Harm African American Families
On February 6, 2006, the President submitted his Fiscal Year 2007 budget request. Rather than presenting the [...]

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Apr10

I would be pissed, too

by Duane on April 10th, 2009 at 8:35 am
Posted In: Headlines, Just "Why?"

NEW HAVEN — (NYTimes.com) Frank Ricci has been a firefighter here for 11 years, and he would do just about anything to advance to lieutenant.
The last time the city offered a promotional exam, he said in a sworn statement, he gave up a second job and studied up to 13 hours a day. Mr. Ricci, [...]

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Apr02

What the doll test DOESN’T reflect

by Duane on April 2nd, 2009 at 11:22 am
Posted In: Commentary, Our children, Our Expression, Sistahs, The Media

Yesterday, ABC’s Good Morning America decided to bring back the famous doll test by asking a group of Black children questions like “Which one would you prefer?” and “Which on is prettiest?”

What a Doll Tells Us About Race
“GMA” recreated a famous doll experiment, which gave insight into race relations and the self-esteem of children.
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Sixty years [...]

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Mar24

What’s the difference, folk?

by Duane on March 24th, 2009 at 9:16 am
Posted In: Just "Why?", Our Expression

Online social networks like MySpace and Facebook allows you to build your own social networks. For my Facebook account, the majority of my network is made up of Black folks. Why? Because I have associated with other Blacks the most over the years. The same goes for my Asian friends I have out here in [...]

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