Your Random-Ass Roundup: Down and Out in The Nation’s Wealthiest Black Enclave.

Prince George’s County is a hub of black wealth. But when the housing market cratered, it was not be spared. [...]

Revisiting Real Americas.

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Sarah Palin wouldn’t recognize these places. [...]

Don’t Call It a Comeback. (No, Seriously. Don’t.)

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brutal 12 days in which he hemmorhaged his once-considerable national lead, President Obama got some good news: he’s eked out tiny advantages among likely voters in both the ABC/Washington Post and Politico/GWU polls. Here’s the takeaway from the first poll:

Likely voters give Obama the [...]

When Most of the Pie Is Not Enough.

Some white respondents to a Tufts study on discrimination apparently read this graph's title as "Career Major League Hits."

A recent Tufts University study found that white folks believe they are more likely to be the victims of racism than Negroes:

Whites believe that they have replaced blacks as the [...]

Quote of the Day.

Adam Serwer on this afternoon’s crushing defeat “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal:

More than 60 senators, enough to overcome a filibuster, agreed DADT should end. Military leadership has endorsed repeal. Volumes of empirical evidence, including the Pentagon’s own study and the experiences of the U.S.’s own military allies, show that ending the policy would [...]

Postbourgie Podcast #12: Black Boy Blues.

On this week’s podcast, Nicole, Jamelle, Monica and G.D. sit around an actual dinner table to discuss some depressing new stats about the academic woes of black boys. They also try to make sense of some high-profile attempts to regulate food purchases (including a push to forbade people on government assistance from buying [...]

Black Youth Losing Its Future in Job Crisis.

Crossposted from ColorLines.

A job deferred is a dream deferred. The Great Recession has set youth unemployment rates skyrocketing to unprecedented altitudes, leaving 4.4 million young people without work just as we begin our careers—a stunning share of them African Americans. There are of course immediate consequences—wrestling with college loans, overstaying our welcome [...]

More on Dress Codes, Mean Girls, and Morehouse Men.

I’ve a piece in The Root about the Morehouse dress code and Aliya S. King’s Vibe article. As I’ve indicated before, I’m squarely in the camp of people who believe that expressions of gender identity are far more fluid than what one wears or how one behaves. But I dug a little deeper and [...]