Avoiding Arrest on "K" Street

Five years ago, I enjoyed dinner at DC Coast, a fine K-Street restaurant in Washington DC. When the valet brought my car around, he pulled it into the main thoroughfare instead of the parallel side street where cars are parked.

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This week, the fog of racial profiling hung heavy over Harvard Square. The arrest of Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., the eminent Harvard scholar, at his own home thrust the police's treatment of minorities, particularly black men, back into the spotlight.

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The police report that is bound to get plenty of attention in light of Barack Obama talking about it tonight at the News Conference

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With African Americans disproportionately affected by HIV, we asked Donna Hubbard McCree to describe the culturally centered work being done to stem the infection. A Miller-McCune.com interview

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For forty years between 1932 and 1972, the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) conducted an experiment on 399 black men in the late stages of syphilis.

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MEMPHIS, Tenn.: They're no longer the only option for African-American students, but the country's historically black colleges and universities brag that they provide a supportive environment where these students are more likely to succeed.

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Republican U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann is serving as emcee at tonight's opening session of the Conservative Political Action Conference. Watch it in live streaming video after the jump.

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Halle Berry jokes about her unsuccessful record with black men in the new March 2009 issue of Essence magazine, which features the Academy Award-winning actress on the cover.      

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Many assume that HIV primarily affects homosexual men, who are, in fact, heavily afflicted. Nevertheless, high-risk heterosexual contact was the source of 80 percent of newly diagnosed infections in women in 2006, the CDC reports.

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ESSENCE.COM: We've seen you champion African-American issues and fight against injustice.

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The United States prison system keeps marking shameful milestones.

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Imagine being wrongly convicted and jailed for abducting, raping and murdering a 3-year-old girl.

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Bethan, 56, lives in southern England on the same street as best friend Allie, 64. They are on their first holiday to Kenya, a country they say is "just full of big young boys who like us older girls."

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Black men are statistically over-represented among gun victims. Is this due to cultural influences, such as hip hop and rap music, which have been accused of using lyrics and images which glamorise guns?

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PHILADELPHIA - Raymond McCray showed up, bringing along four teenage relatives and his 5- and 8-year-old sons. The 29-year-old North Philadelphian had told his boys, "Y'all going out with Daddy today, for a good cause."

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In the documentary What Black Men Think, director Janks Morton takes a sledgehammer to the falsehoods and misconceptions that are used to describe and categorize black men.

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A Montgomery County judge caused a stir Sunday at a local NAACP forum by partly blaming the problem of absentee black fathers in Alabama on the overindulgence of women of color.

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In an earlier Racialicious post, I wrote about Details magazine and their coverage of the Mandingos - a subset of swingers who play to interracial humiliation and domination fantasies.

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Billy Bob Thornton will join his "Monster's Ball" co-star Halle Berry in the new film "Tulia," based on the true story of a racially-motivated string of arrests in a rural Texas town.

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FINALLY someone breaks down what needed to be said about this. Someone on the 'down low' is an African American male who identifies himself as straight but secretly has sex with men.

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"the real story of murder in America is a story of hope. In particular, it is a story of hope for the group of people who have long suffered the most: black men."

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Over the past 50 years, black men have been perhaps the most studied and dissected population subgroup in America.

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