Tag: Washington Post

  • When whites are guilty of colorism The Washington Post 2014-11-08 Lance Hannon, Professor Department of Sociology and Criminology Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania Robert DeFina, Professor Department of Sociology and Criminology Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania The 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibits employment discrimination based on “race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.” However, in our public…

  • Republican Larry Hogan wins Md. governor’s race in stunning upset The Washington Post 2014-11-05 John Wagner, Maryland Political Reporter Jenna Johnson, Maryland Political Reporter Republican businessman Larry Hogan pulled off a stunning upset in heavily Democratic Maryland on Tuesday, winning the governor’s race against Lt. Gov. Anthony G. Brown by relentlessly promising to roll back…

  • Iowa memorial for six brothers who died as Union soldiers The Washington Post 2014-05-07 Linda Wheeler A site was approved Tuesday for a memorial to honor six brothers of an African American farm family of Toolesboro, Iowa, who died as Union soldiers during the Civil War. The Louisa County Board of Supervisors choose a site…

  • Light-Skinned Latinos Tend To Vote More Republican. Be Careful How You Interpret That. Latino Voices The Huffington Post 2014-09-18 Roque Planas, Editor Lighter-skinned Latinos are more likely to vote Republican, according to polling data analyzed by the Washington Post. The data highlights rarely recognized racial divisions within the Latino community that have perplexed the U.S.…

  • Study reveals the mysterious ancestors of modern Europeans The Washington Post 2014-09-18 Gail Sullivan, Reporter Some had dark skin and blue eyes. Some had light skin and brown eyes. And no one is sure what some others looked like. But, according to a new study of ancient human genomes, three very different populations got together…

  • A surprising number of people change their race and ethnicity from one Census to the next The Washington Post 2014-08-06 Emily Badger, Reporter On Census forms, the option to check a box for racial or ethnic identity presupposes that there’s an unambiguous answer: white, black, American Indian, Hispanic, etc. But identity is a fluid thing.…

  • Herb Jeffries, a jazz balladeer whose matinee-idol looks won him fame in the late 1930s as the “Bronze Buckaroo” — the first singing star of all-black cowboy movies for segregated audiences — died May 25 at a hospital in West Hills, Calif. He was widely believed to be 100, but for years he insisted he…

  • The legend of Lone Star Dietz: Redskins namesake, coach — and possible impostor? The Washington Post 2013-11-06 Richard Leiby Reading, Pa. — Here lies the celebrated Lone Star Dietz — in a donated cemetery plot, aside a back road, under a drooping evergreen. A simple marker, paid for by friends, bears only one word that…

  • Cory Booker wins New Jersey Senate race The Washington Post 2013-10-16 Sean Sullivan Newark Mayor Cory Booker, a rising national Democratic star, was elected to the U.S. Senate Wednesday and will become New Jersey’s first ever African American senator. Booker defeated Republican Steve Lonegan, a former mayor of Bogota. With 58 percent of the vote…

  • Albert Murray, author who drew on the free-wheeling spirit of jazz, dies at 97 The Washington Post 2013-08-19 Adam Bernstein, Reporter Albert Murray, a self-described “riff-style intellectual” whose novels, nonfiction books and essays drew on the free-wheeling spirit of jazz and whose works underscored how black culture and the blues in particular were braided into…