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The Jarawa tribe, 400 members strong, live in the reserve lush forests of South Andamans in the Indian Ocean. The Jarawa people lived successfully on their island without contact with outsiders for probably about 55,000 years until 1998. Since then, many have left their forest to settle in nearby towns and settlements. Now there are reports that Jarawan women and young girls are being forced to dance, some
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What is up with Republicans and welfare?
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First, it was Rick Santorum who said he didn’t want to help blacks with welfare. Now it’s Newt Gingrich‘s turn to alienate African Americans, TheGrio reports.
Slate journalist Dave Weigel tweeted that Gingrich told an audience in New Hampshire that he plans to attend the upcoming NAACP National Convention to lecture
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Missouri State University is apologizing after its band performed “Dixie,” a song that originated in the blackface minstrel shows of the 1850s, at a site where three black men were lynched in 1906.
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Officials at Akron University recently issued a campus wide email instructing Black male students to “cooperate” with police officers, after a string of robberies that are suspected to have been done by African-American males who don’t attend the college.
The email instructs Black male students to identify themselves as students, and cooperate with the police when they are stopped.
Here is an excerpt of the letter:
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Vogue Italia has apologized for posting a fashion editorial on large metallic hoop earrings that they described as “Slave Earrings” after protests from consumers.
They’ve replaced the description with “Ethnic Earrings,” and maintain that it was a mistake due to an improper translation.
TheRoot.com reports:
Read MoreWe apologise for the inconvenience. It is a matter of really bad translation from Italian into English,” the magazine’s editor-in-chief, Franca Sozzani, said in
Community leaders from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and local businesses in Fort Worth, Texas are unhappy with the name of a local food-mart titled “Da Hood Food Mart.”
“The name is insulting to our African-American heritage and the over-saturation of these types of establishments within the economically disadvantaged communities is simply a continuation of the exploitation of the poor,” the Rev. Kyev Tatum, president of the SCLC,
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An African-American soldier alleges that he experienced racial harassment while serving in Afghanistan.
Slurs and a noose strung up outside his barracks were among the alleged forms of harassment he filed in a complaint this week.
Read MoreSpecialist Adam Jarrell, the only African American in a unit of 216 soldiers of the New Mexico Army National Guard, told Reuters on Tuesday that his complaints to superiors were not only ignored, but resulted in
The conversation on race continued even after Eric Deters and Lincoln Ware ended the show. Find out what happened inside.
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The commentary continues on Eric Deters’ racist remarks. Find out what the Dayton Informer has to say about publishing the controversial video.
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WLW’s Eric Deters stops by The Lincoln Ware Show to defend himself after being fired for racist remarks this week.
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