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How to improve police/community relations
The Sean Bell verdict in New York and the recent videotaped police beating in Philadelphia have again threatened the relationship between law enforcement and the community. Every new incident, particularly when race seems to be a factor, only increases distrust.
Jessie Lee is the executive director of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives.
You don't have to be a rocket scientist
When Albert Einstein was a child, he was so slow in learning to speak that his parents consulted a doctor. There are many other children in our schools today who have the potential to contribute great things to our nation, but we can't tell who they are on the basis of standardized tests.
Reg Weaver is president of the National Education Association, which represents 3.2 million teachers and other public school educators.
Exploiting black women in photography
In deciding whether or not to snap a picture of a topless woman in South Africa, the writer discovers a larger problem in the way images of exploited and marginalized groups circulate around the globe and work to perpetuate and reinforce stereotypes.
Nicole Barden is a junior English major and women's studies minor at Spelman College who is currently studying abroad in South Africa.
Racism is dead: Long live racism
Is it real or is it Memorex? Is racism an unhealthy addiction for America and Americans perpetrated by an unimaginative press that poorly serves concerned parties, or does it, and our careful tending of it, carry real constructive weight in this the strangest of political times? What? You mean you don't know?!?!
Eugene S. Robinson is the author of FIGHT: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Ass-Kicking But Were Afraid You'd Get Your Ass Kicked For Asking.
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YESTERDAY'S NEWS
- Senator Robert Byrd endorses Obama
- McCain to rely on party money
- Picking Obama's running mate
- Gender issues outlive Hillary Clinton
- Black turnout could help Obama in the south
- Young girls pledge abstinence at 'purity balls'
- TX voter fraud cases target black Democrats
- Narnia beats Iron Man at box office
- Indiana Jones gets mixed reviews at Cannes
- Rubin: McCain's 'hypocrisy on Hamas'
- McCain sets timeline for Iraq withdrawal
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SPECIAL FEATURES
- List of black superdelegates
- Real Life Divas series: Susan L. Taylor
- Ferraro says she may not vote for Obama in the fall (35 comments)
- What about black voters? (28 comments)
- What our TV series means for the black community (28 comments)
- California legalizes same-sex marriage (25 comments)
- Pat Buchanan says Hillary Clinton is "one of us" (22 comments)
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Sappho commented on Ferraro says she may not vote for Obama in the fall:
Pat give me a break Mrs. William Jefferson Clinton is the fraud. She has used her husbands’ name, co... -
Purl Gurl commented on Please stop whining Geraldine:
Joni, iron my blouse, sweetie! You are whining about Ferraro whining! You, Joni, are truly whining.... -
Pat commented on Ferraro says she may not vote for Obama in the fall:
Your man is a fraud. As for Hillary Clinton being a racist you must be kidding. Her approval ratin... -
Purl Gurl commented on How to improve police/community relations:
Jessie Lee writes, in part, "The bottom line - law enforcement is more effective when there is a pa... -
harlemboy commented on How Jeremiah Wright got invited to the National Press Club:
It seems to me that Dr. Reynolds is a victim of misdirected anger. Why should she take responsibilit...
