Tag Archives: race

How Don Lemon’s Race Comments Market White Supremacy

    Don Lemon speaks about race, but he’s doing it the wrong way.     Click to Watch

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Was Cornel Wrong to Call Obama a Coward on Gun Control?

    Dr. Boyce Watkins and Yvette Carnell discuss recent accusations of Cowardice on the part of the Obama administration on the issues of race and gun control.     Click to Watch

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Dr Boyce & Yvette: Soledad O’Brien Criticized for Speaking about Race on CNN

      Dr Boyce Watkins and Yvette Carnell discuss Soledad Obrien’s remarks about race and CNN       Click to Watch

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Ophthalmologists urge African-American seniors to get routine eye exams

    April is National Minority Health Month.   To help curb vision loss among at-risk communities, the American Academy of Ophthalmology is reminding African-Americans about race-related risk factors for eye disease during National Minority Health Month in April.  African-Americans are more than twice as likely to develop diabetic retinopathycompared to Caucasians and are four times more likely than Caucasians to go blind fromglaucoma.  African-Americans ...

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The Art of Race War: Larry Pratt & Wayne LaPierre

    What are they afraid of? Apparently, when it comes to the issue of gun control, some activists in the gun rights movement are really afraid of a race war. Take a listen to a recent conversation on the Talk to Solomon show. On the air with host Stan Solomon were Greg W. Howard, a conservative blogger with just under 100,000 Twitter followers, ...

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Some patients refuse to see nurses of different race

    DETROIT (AP) — It’s been called one of medicine’s “open secrets” — allowing patients to refuse treatment by a doctor or nurse of another race. In the latest example, a white man with a swastika tattoo insisted that black nurses not be allowed to touch his newborn. Now two black nurses are suing the hospital, claiming it bowed ...

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Race and Obama’s Second Term — Part I

  One of the most common questions I get — frequently turning up in comments here on The Huffington Post — is, “Why do you keep talking about race?” Personally, I’d say a better question is, “Why does America try so hard not to talk about race?” As our first and only nonwhite president begins his second term, we might ...

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Dr. Darron Smith: Re-conceptualizing the black quarterback through the emergence of Robert Griffin III

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By Dr. Darron Smith No one can argue that Robert Griffin III has been anything but sensational in his masterful rookie season. His football skills combined with his leadership abilities have earned him much respect and admiration among his fellow Redskin teammates (being named captain midway through his rookie season) and across the league, as he became the only rookie, ...

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Courtney Herring: Domestic Terrorism By Another Name; The Painful Truth About The Sandy Hook Elementary Shooting

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We can talk about gun control all day long, but until we get to the root of the problem, we will just be talking in circles. What everyone isn’t talking about is the fact that gun control is but one slice of the complicated pie that helped create this and other similar tragedies in the first place.

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Dr. Darron Smith: Seceded States of America and Mass White Hysteria

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By Dr. Darron Smith White Americans took the loss of Mitt Romney exceedingly hard. Mormons, in particular, are mourning the defeat of the first Latter-day Saint GOP candidate to make it as far as Romney did in a national election. But what lessons have we, the American people, actually learned about race since the presidential elections of 2008 and 2012? ...

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