Read more African Americans stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/818/african-americans.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 13:02:35 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73725/ex-editor-sues-racist-ny-post.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA former associate editor of the New York Post says she was fired for complaining about the paper’s racist and sexist atmosphere. Sandra Guzman, who identified herself as the “only female editor of color at the Post, ” is suing parent News Corp. Her suit claims she was among those who...http://www.newser.com/story/73725/ex-editor-sues-racist-ny-post.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 10 Nov 2009 17:56:27 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73669/steele-i-scare-white-republicans.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagRack up another gaffe for Michael Steele. The Republican National Committee chair has been trying to improve his party’s relationship with minority voters, but he may have been a little too honest in a recent interview with NewsOne's Roland Martin. Martin suggested that white Republicans were "scared" of African Americans,...http://www.newser.com/story/73669/steele-i-scare-white-republicans.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 10 Nov 2009 12:32:38 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73152/atlanta-may-elect-1st-white-mayor-in-36-years.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA simple focus on accounting is poised to radically—read: racially—change the politics of Atlanta . In a majority-black city that hasn’t had a white mayor in 36 years, a Caucasian city councilwoman from a tony neighborhood has a commanding lead in the polls. Mary Norwood has promised to clean...http://www.newser.com/story/73152/atlanta-may-elect-1st-white-mayor-in-36-years.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 03 Nov 2009 9:43:44 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73153/half-of-us-kids-will-get-food-stamps-at-some-point.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagNearly half of all US children and 90% of black youngsters will be on food stamps at some point during childhood, and fallout from the current recession could push those numbers even higher, researchers say. The estimate comes from an analysis of 30 years of national data, and bolsters other...http://www.newser.com/story/73153/half-of-us-kids-will-get-food-stamps-at-some-point.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 02 Nov 2009 21:29:30 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/72277/critics-new-black-barbie-not-black-enough.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMattel's new black Barbie dolls are more than just white dolls with a paint job—which is what the toy company tried last time. But some critics still say Mattel hasn't gone far enough. The trio of Barbies have features like fuller lips and wider noses, but some complain that...http://www.newser.com/story/72277/critics-new-black-barbie-not-black-enough.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 22 Oct 2009 2:27:44 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/71286/good-hair-has-a-few-knots.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagChris Rock is a natural and hilarious interviewer, critics agree. But watchers are split on whether the substance of a rather complicated debate shines through in Big Hair, his documentary on black women and their coifs. A sampling: Rock has helped craft a film with "much good feeling and instinctive...http://www.newser.com/story/71286/good-hair-has-a-few-knots.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 09 Oct 2009 10:24:12 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/71185/first-ladys-roots-linked-to-slave-girl.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMichelle Obama can trace her lineage to a female slave sold as a young girl from a South Carolina plantation and sent to Georgia. As a teenager, Melvinia Shields became impregnated by a white man, possibly her master, and those two are the great-great-great grandparents of Michelle. A genealogist working...http://www.newser.com/story/71185/first-ladys-roots-linked-to-slave-girl.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 07 Oct 2009 17:11:06 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70049/black-caucus-worries-about-resurgent-racism.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Congressional Black Caucus is enjoying unprecedented power, with more of their members in leadership roles than ever before, not to speak of one of their number in the White House, but many are disturbed by changes in the political atmosphere, Politico reports. As the 42-member group holds its annual...http://www.newser.com/story/70049/black-caucus-worries-about-resurgent-racism.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 23 Sep 2009 6:14:26 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69225/slavery-reparations-should-be-obamas-next-stimulus.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPresident Obama is taking so much heat from opponents wrongly convinced that he's keen on redistributing white America's wealth to African-Americans that he might as well go ahead and do it, Naomi Klein writes in the Guardian . Obama's administration has been pursuing "race-neutral" policies that do nothing to close the...http://www.newser.com/story/69225/slavery-reparations-should-be-obamas-next-stimulus.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 12 Sep 2009 9:26:49 CDT