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Blacks hit hard by economy's punch

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By V. Dion Haynes - Nov. 24 (News Report) - Joblessness for 16-to-24-year-old black men has reached Great Depression proportions -- 34.5 percent in October, more than three times the rate for the general U.S. population. And last Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that unemployment

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Henry Louis Gates Jr. arrested. Seriously, Cambridge?

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Carolyn Kellogg - Jul. 21 (Breaking News) - Preeminent scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr., who holds one of 20 elite professorship at Harvard University and has hosted several PBS television programs was arrested in Cambridge, Mass., on Thursday at his home. According to an Associated Press report,

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Steele Reaches Out to Skeptical NAACP

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

CBS News - By Brian Montopoli - Jul. 15 (News Report) - It was clear that Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele was facing a skeptical crowd even before he stepped onstage to address the NAACP's 100th anniversary convention Tuesday.

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Obama: Slavery's past should be taught He says past cruelty should be connected to current events

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - Jul. 14 (News Report) - President Barack Obama says slavery is a terrible part of the United States' history and should be taught in a way that connects that past cruelty to current events, such as the genocide in Sudan's Darfur region

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Senate Apologizes For Slavery

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

All Things Considered - Jun. 19 (News Report) - The U.S. Senate apologized Thursday for slavery and for the segregationist Jim Crow laws, 144 years after the Civil War and 45 years after passing the Civil Rights Act.

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Racist e-mail aimed at Obama raises hackles in Tennessee

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - Jun. 16 (News Report) - Sherri Goforth, an administrative assistant to state Sen. Diane Black, R-Gallatin, has admitted she sent the e-mail May 28 with the title "Historical Keepsake Photo." She said, without elaborating, that she mistakenly sent it "to the wrong list of people."

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Another 'black man did it' hoax sparks outrage

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Jesse Washington - Jun. 02 (News Report) - It's an old lie, claiming that The Black Man Did It. But it was trotted out again last week when a white mother from suburban Philadelphia said two black men snatched her and her 9-year-old daughter from their SUV and abducted them in the trunk of a black Cadillac.

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A Hundred Anxious Days

Sun, 26 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Eli Saslow - Apr. 26 (Special Report) - In a South Carolina Town Where the Downturn Has Deepened Since the Inauguration, Two Obama Supporters Have Struggled, Going From ’Fired Up’ to Tired Out

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DC's rising AIDS rate 'worse than West Africa'

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

MSNBC - By Robert Bazell - Mar. 16 (News Report) - A new report issued by the Department of Health Monday on Washington, D.C.'s AIDS epidemic has set off alarm signals in the nation's capital.

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Highway robbery? Texas police seize black motorists' cash, cars

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Chicago Tribune - By Howard Witt - Mar. 10 (Special Report) - Suit says cops force motorists, largely black, to forfeit cash and cars—or be charged with trumped-up crimes

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African American churches join fight for health

Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800

San Francisco Chronicle - By Elizabeth Fernandez - Mar. 01 (Special Report) - In the last year, Tami Crane, a mother of three in San Ramon, has lost nearly 100 pounds. All credit, she says, goes to her church. Staci Smith, 45, who teaches sixth-graders in Oakland, was on dialysis after her kidneys failed. But shortly after getting a transplant last summer, she started working out with fellow parishioners and now says she's in the best shape of her life. Both women are involved in a competition among African American churches and community organizations in the East Bay designed to help their members live healthier lives. By promoting physical activity, good nutrition and health education, the competition aims to reduce disproportionately high rates of stroke and heart disease among people of color.

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On Sunday, Fifth Grader Takes to Pulpit

Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Adolfo Flores - Mar. 01 (Special Report) - Terry sat in a living room decorated with three posters of him in his Sunday clothes and bearing the words “Little Man of God.” Sitting on a large red and gold couch, he tapped his shoes against the floor and explained how he prepared for his sermons.

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ACC tries pilot program to help black men graduate

Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Austin American-Statesman - By Joshunda Sanders - Mar. 01 (Special Report) - John James, a full-time assistant manager at a Valero gas station, started thinking seriously about going to college for the first time last fall. It's been a decade since James, 29, graduated from high school in San Antonio. "I was just scared, not knowing what college would be like," he said. In January, James decided to enroll at Austin Community College after hearing about an ACC program designed to make his transition to college smoother. Men of Distinction, a mentoring program for black male students, started in October and is meant to address some of the issues mentioned in a statewide plan called Closing the Gaps. The plan was adopted by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board in 2000 and calls, in part, for increasing college enrollment of blacks to 5.6 percent of their population by 2010 and to 5.7 percent by 2015. In a 2008 statewide progress report, the board reported that 145,387 blacks were enrolled in 2007, 12,939 students shy of the 2010 target.

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Web site details black history in W. Md.

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Baltimore Sun - By Elizabeth Malby - Feb. 28 (Special Report) - Lorraine Wells was about to give up. More than 10 years of searching for clues about the now-deceased father she never knew while growing up in Cumberland had produced nothing. Then the 46-year-old Oakland, Calif., resident got a call from her brother Jeffrey, who lives in Cumberland, about a Web site that chronicles Western Maryland's black history. The Allegany County African American History collection comprises more than 400 images, includes information dating back 200 years - and was created by an amateur historian who happens to be white. Dozens of volunteers helped Albert Feldstein of Cumberland create the site. In addition to etching Western Maryland black history for the world to see, the site has enabled those who have moved away to reconnect with their past.

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Top Officials Expand The Dialogue on Race

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Krissah Thompson - Feb. 28 (News Report) - When the country's racial chasms seemed to threaten President Obama's election, his team had to tread carefully. A month into his administration, the tone has changed. Top officials are engaging the subject of race more freely, with a boldness and confidence they once shunned.

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Dean Grose to quit as Los Alamitos mayor over racial cartoon - Los Angeles Times

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Tony Barboza - Feb. 28 (News Report) - The announcement came less than a week after Grose sent the e-mail, which had a picture of the White House lawn planted with watermelons and the title "No Easter egg hunt this year."

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BBC NEWS | Africa | Mugabe vows to seize more farms

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

BBC News - By BBC Staff - Feb. 28 (News Report) - Mugabe supporters raised $250,000 (£176,000) for a lavish birthday party in Chinhoyi, north-west of Harare. Zimbabwe asked African states for $2bn (£1.4bn) in economic aid just days ago.

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