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The Wonkblog over at the Washington Post has a pretty interesting write-up of new research from the Public Religion Research Institute. In a study of race and friendship, PRRI found that…

Racial tensions have grown in the days since unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown was killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. Brown was black. Darren…

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The majority of Black Americans sympathize more with Israel in the ongoing conflict in the Middle East than with Palestine. That’s according to a recent…

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“The right to vote is threatened today in a way that it has not been since the Voting Rights Act was passed in to law…

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2013 was a banner year for black movies, television and music. For example, films like “12 Years a Slave,” “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” and “Fruitvale…

Are you happy? Hopefully you are because the Nation’s Capitol was named the nation’s happiest city, according to a new poll. The DC Metro areas not tops the list but is also the only East Coast city in the top 5. The cities that round out the top five are Austin, Texas, San Jose, Calif., Seattle and San […]

VIA WJLA: A majority of D.C. residents disapprove of Mayor Adrian M. Fenty’s job performance and even more believe he cares more about advancing his career than about the city’s needs, according to an exclusive SurveyUSA poll commissioned by WJLA-TV. SurveyUSA asked 500 D.C. residents several questions about Mayor Fenty re-election prospects one year before […]