Word: blackness
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...Owens says she devotes most of her time to the black community, instead of Girlspot parties, lesbian bars, or final clubs, and was able to find her own support network of queer women of color...
...Owens responded to the perceived lack of racial diversity by co-founding BlackOut—a confidential group for queer black students...
...number may even be slightly higher for the former group, Fitzsimmons said, which he said demonstrated that “financial need would not deter people from coming here.” The Class of 2013 will also be the most racially diverse in College history—with Black students composing 10 percent of the class and Latino students composing 9.5 percent. Yield for Black students was almost 71 percent, up from last year’s 64 percent, and 66 percent for Latino students (the number for last year was unavailable). The first round of waitlist deliberations will...
...Kemp might as well have been selling raincoats in the Sahara. He and Bob Dole, his presidential running mate, had no chance of breaking through in Harlem, the solidly Democratic capital of black America. GOP strategists had figured a visit there might demonstrate the kind of tolerance and inclusion necessary to nail down moderate swing votes in white suburbs. But while that was the reason everyone else gave for the unusual stop at Sylvia's soul food café, it was not the reason for Kemp, who believed wholeheartedly that Republicans could and had to win over blacks. "For Jack...
...Those words serve as a lasting political testament of Kemp, who died Saturday and is being memorialized at the National Cathedral Friday. Thirteen years later, a black Democrat occupies the White House and Kemp's party is fighting off political isolation, popular only among a small fraction of voters who are mainly white, conservative or Christian...