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Queen Latifah continues to garner awards for her acting. After earning a Golden Globe Award and gaining an Emmy nomination, the 37 year-old earned a Screen Actor's Guild Award Sunday night (January 27). The award come from Latifah's performance in Life Support, an HBO film that aired in March.
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On this day in 1926, Violette Neatley Anderson is the first African American woman admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Black and Hispanic children have made significant gains in health, safety and income over the past two decades, narrowing gaps between them and white children, according to a pioneering report on child development to be released Tuesday.
They still fare worse overall than whites, but they're catching up in several areas and are less likely to smoke cigarettes, drink alcohol, abuse drugs or commit suicide, according to the report. It was sponsored by the Foundation for Child Development, a philanthropy that funds research on children.
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The Washington Post Co. plans to launch a Web magazine today called The Root that aims to be a "Slate for black readers," according to one of its founders, Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Slate, the online magazine founded by Microsoft and purchased by The Post Co. in 2004, offers a mix of news and opinion, arts and sports coverage. The Root will feature news and opinions on black issues in the United States and worldwide and include a genealogy application designed to help black users build their family trees.
The site, which began coming together in October, is the brainchild of Gates and Post Co. Chairman Donald E. Graham. Gates got to know Graham through several years of joint service on the Pulitzer Prize committee. The Root is a spinoff of Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive (WPNI), a wholly owned subsidiary of The Post Co. and the parent of washingtonpost.com.
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Last week the New York Times declared that “It” designer bags were over. I say thank goodness. Why not wear a bag that’s a one-of-a-kind? Like these cuties from etsy.com. Click image to enlarge.
On this day in 1938, the first Black woman was elected to a state legislature. Crystal Byrd Fauset was elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
Sen. Barack Obama claimed a significant victory in the South Carolina Democratic primary on Saturday, telling supporters "we are hungry for change."
The Illinois senator earned more than twice the vote that rival Sen. Hillary Clinton did, 55 percent to 27 percent, unofficial returns showed.
Former Sen. John Edwards was third with 18 percent.
"Tonight, the cynics who believed that what began in the snows of Iowa was just an illusion were told a different story by the good people of South Carolina," Obama said to supporters Saturday.
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Overwhelming support from African American voters fueled Sen. Barack Obama's big win in yesterday's South Carolina Democratic primary, but he also continued to demonstrate broad appeal across racial lines, particularly among younger, better-educated and wealthier voters.
Black voters made up 55 percent of primary voters, up from 47 percent in 2004, and nearly eight in 10 supported Obama in South Carolina, according to National Election Pool exit poll results. White voters split more evenly, with 40 percent supporting former senator John Edwards (N.C.), 36 percent backing Sen.
Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) and 24 percent opting for Obama (Ill.).
As he has elsewhere, Obama scored better among younger white voters, and among those with higher incomes and more education. Half of white voters younger than 30 voted for Obama, as did about one-third of those with at least a college degree and a similar percentage of those with family incomes of $100,000 or more. Edwards did particularly well among white voters who said they made their final decision on a candidate within the three days leading up to the vote.
Read more: The Washington Post
The daughter of President John F. Kennedy endorsed Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, saying he could inspire Americans in the same way her father once did.
"I have never had a president who inspired me the way people tell me that my father inspired them," Caroline Kennedy wrote in an op-ed posted Saturday on the Web site of The New York Times. "But for the first time, I believe I have found the man who could be that president — not just for me, but for a new generation of Americans."
Read more: The Associated Press
