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Nymphomania, Christian video games and holy high tops: Or, what happens when...
If you thought Christianity in today’s world was for the birds, then you might want to think again. I’ve been reading God is Back, by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, in which the authors make...
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During my last year at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, I took a pretty cool class by Alan Mutter about disruptive change in the news media industry. For our final class project, we came up...
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I had the great pleasure of doing some freelance work for healthycal.org, a website started by veteran reporter Daniel Weintraub that focuses on informing Californians about public health issues...
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“A Seed is Forever” wins award
My master’s project, “A Seed is Forever,” recently won an award at the 2010 Online Journalism Awards. It won the “Best Student Multimedia Feature Presentation” award, of which I’m very proud. This is...
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‘I sho is hungry…’
Photo by sfbike (via Flickr) A story in the LA Times this past week (“UC Irvine says fried chicken and waffle dinner on Martin Luther King Jr. Day was insensitive”) immediately caught my attention not...
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To all my black women, you are beautiful—no matter the skin color
I recently got word of an upcoming film called “Dark Girls” (thanks Robert Pierre), and the reaction to the film has seemed so strong that I almost felt obligated to chime in on the conversation. The...
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The one thing the Occupy movement is missing
Occupy Wall Street protesters join a labor union rally in Foley Square in New York’s Financial District. (Jason DeCrow/AP) The Occupy Wall Street protests that have now turned into a global movement...
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Racism in the age of Obama: Obama Waffles, Planet of the Apes and a whole lot...
Obama Waffles (via Christianitytoday.com) Updated April 8, 2013 Last month, I ran across a story about a young white woman’s racist rant against President Obama. The incident got under my skin so bad...
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A progress report for Black History Month 2013: How far we’ve come and how...
Clarence Otis, CEO of Darden Restaurants, which operates Olive Garden and Red Lobster, is one of 35,000 black millionaires in the U.S. In the words of Kane Kinnebrew III, Black History Month is often...
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Black people (especially President Obama) can’t be racists
I know that President Obama’s comments on the George Zimmerman verdict stirred up a lot of emotions over the last few weeks. But the one thing that still doesn’t sit right with me is the fact that so...
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