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First Lady Michelle Obama on Election Night: ‘I Went to Bed Before Trump Won’
While first lady Michelle Obama scorched President-elect Donald Trump on the campaign trail, she wasn’t interested in watching the returns come in on election night. “I went to bed. I don’t like to watch the political discourse; I never have,” she said in a joint interview with her husband, President Barack Obama, with People magazine. Michelle Obama went on…
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What Does a Trump Presidency Mean for the AIDS Epidemic in Black America?
It’s no secret that the reality of President-elect Donald Trump scares the hell out of many of us. Granted, our situation was suspect under eight years of President Barack Obama, but it cannot be denied that there’s much more at stake for African Americans after Inauguration Day. This includes the threat of millions of Americans…
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'Scandal' Fans: Guilty by Association?
(The Root) — I love Scandal. The storylines are incredibly addictive; the show has a great blend of humor and drama; and the chemistry between Kerry Washington’s Olivia Pope and Fitzgerald “Fitz” Grant (Tony Goldwyn), the married love of Olivia’s life — and president of the United States — is crazy. However, since the ABC…
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When Revealing HIV Status Turns Deadly
(The Root) — Cicely Bolden, 28, was a mother, a twin sister, a daughter and a friend to many in Dallas. “She was born one minute after me, so I grew up protecting her. We had this bond. Her life was my life,” her twin, Chelsea Bolden, told The Root. “My sister wasn’t perfect —…
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Paul Ryan: No Help for Minority Health
In a piece for BET, Kellee Terrell says that Paul Ryan’s vision for health care would be disastrous for blacks and Latinos, in part because of the billions in cuts he has proposed to programs like Medicare. With presidential nominee Mitt Romney naming Wisconsin Sen. Paul Ryan as his running mate for the 2012 election, there are some serious concerns…
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No Justice for CeCe
“I never thought I would make it past my 16th birthday. To grow up and have that thought at a young age is unsettling — the thought or feeling of knowing or expecting that today could be my last day on Earth, only because someone hates me for being the person I felt would make…
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A Playwright's Vision of MLK's Last Day
It was a stormy night in Memphis, Tenn., at the Lorraine Hotel on April 3, 1968, when civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. was gearing up for what would be his last speech, “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop.” All of a sudden a mysterious hotel maid named Camae, who seems harmless, delivers King a…
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Black and Transgender: A Double Burden
“Can you imagine what it’s like to see people you work with refuse to walk on the same side of the street with you or sit with you at lunch, or to be told that you are unhirable, just because you are a transgender man?” asks Kylar Broadus, an African-American lawyer and board member of…
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Ain't I a Victim?
“Where were [her parents] when this girl was seen wandering at all hours with no supervision and pretending to be much older?” —Kisha Williams, Cleveland, Texas, resident, in “Girl’s Sex Assault Rocks Cleveland,” Houston Chronicle I’m pretty sure that when James C. McKinley, a reporter for the New York Times, filed “Vicious Assault Shakes Texas…
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A Cheat Sheet for Talking About Safe Sex
Last week the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released its annual report on sexually transmitted diseases in the United States. Although the data, which are for 2009, show some progress in lowering the rates of STDs, blacks are still bearing the brunt. African Americans accounted for approximately half of all chlamydia (48 percent) and…
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