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Black Republicans offer hope after Barack Obama’s failures on race
Tim Scott at his office in Charleston. Scott will be the first black Republican congressman from the Deep South in more than a century Photo: AP
Campaigning a few miles from Fort Sumter, where the first shots of the Civil War were fired in 1861, Tim Scott described last week […]
Use of word Negro on 2010 census forms raises memories of Jim Crow
The census form for 2010 features a word more often heard in 1966: Negro.
For many New York blacks, the word conjures visions of Jim Crow and segregation - even if the Census Bureau says it’s included to ensure an accurate count of the nation’s minority residents.
“It’s a bad vibe word,” said Kevin Bishop, 45, a […]
Blacks have gotten a ‘black’ president and they’re still complaining about Race (Video)
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70% of black babies are born out of wedlock
Eugene Cane (an African American writer for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) tackles the tough social question regarding single parenting in the African-American community. An issue, which he believes has an impact on everything from crime to education to poverty.
“Why are there so many out-of-wedlock births in the African-American community?” He asks, and presents statistics indicating […]