'African-American' Becomes a Term for Debate
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A growing number of foreign-born blacks have inspired a quiet debate over who can claim the term "African-American."
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A proposal to eliminate "some other race" as an option on the 2010 census has stirred a furious debate.
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The race is forcing a generation of Americans to examine the decisions they made back then.
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Some blacks argue that Senator Barack Obama is distant from the struggles and identities of most black Americans.
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A debate over an anthropologist's book on ancient Hebrew history isn't just academic &#151; it's spilled over into an online dispute between critics trying to keep her from getting tenure and supporters who say the effort stifles scholarly freedom.
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Sen. George Allen's use of the word "macaca" for a young man of Indian descent forced him to spend the past six weeks disputing claims that his past is littered with racist language and a fondness for Confederate symbols. On Thursday, the furor came full circle when the Sons of Confederate Veterans turned on Allen.
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The presence of an African American and a woman at the front of the race for the Democratic U.S. presidential nomination is shaking up the politics of identity in unpredictable ways, analysts said.
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Sensitive to bias charges, news outlets have avoided the term 'civil war,' but now that's changing.
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Expressions of sexism and racism emerging from the contest between Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barak Obama have been blatant, subtle and perhaps sometimes imagined, and they are renewing the national debate over what is and isn't acceptable to say in public.
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A difference of opinion about the genetic basis of race has emerged between scientists at the National Human Genome Center at Howard University and some other geneticists.
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Any Afro-centric person wondering what a life is really worth must now compare some recent facts.
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&quot;W stands for Wrong&quot; - in an effort to focus the debate on domestic issues, but instead got embroiled in a new spat about Iraq.
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African Americans in Congress are weighing whether to shift support from Clinton to Obama.
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"The Race Card: How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations Worse" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 388 pages, $26), by Richard Thompson Ford: The fight against racism is nearing a crossroads, a "crisis of success" that's blurring definitions of discrimination and allowing insidious injustices to persist unaddressed.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama have become embroiled in racially tinged disputes as large numbers of black voters prepare to get their first say in the Democratic presidential campaign.
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After the controversy of the 2000 election, many African-Americans are speaking about voting this year with rekindled fervor.
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GlaxoSmithKlineâs effort to focus Avandiaâs marketing on African-Americans could backfire as questions arise.