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House honors ‘four little girls’ killed in Birmingham church bombing

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Ed O'Keefe - Apr. 25 (Special Report) - The House voted Wednesday to award the Congressional Gold Medal to the four young girls killed in the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., a seminal moment in the civil rights movement. ...

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White men have much to discuss about mass shootings

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Charlotte Childress, Harriet Childress - Mar. 30 (Opinion) - Imagine if African American men and boys were committing mass shootings month after month, year after year. Articles and interviews would flood the media, and we’d have political debates demanding that African Americans be “held accountable.” Then, if an atrocity such as the Newtown, Conn., shootings took place and African American male leaders held a news conference to offer solutions, their credibility would be questionable. The public would tell these leaders that they need to focus on problems in their own culture and communities. ...

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Race, education linked to differences in HIV mortality rates

Sun, 04 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Monte Morin - Nov. 04 (News) - "HIV has risen in prominence as a cause of death for blacks while simultaneously falling in prominence for whites."

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Cultural, economic barriers mean higher breast cancer mortality rates for women of color

Sun, 04 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0700

San Jose Mercury News - By Angela Hill - Nov. 04 (News) - "It was all just overwhelming, and when I did decide I needed support, I wanted someone who looked like me, but there was no one available."

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George Zimmerman judge OKs question: Who was the real Trayvon Martin?

Sat, 20 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Patrik Jonsson - Oct. 20 (News Report) - The new judge in George Zimmerman's second degree murder trial allowed defense attorneys to subpoena social media networks and peruse Trayvon Martin’s school records to determine whether the slain teen had a violent past. ...

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Opinion: Romney's 0% black support

Thu, 11 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - By Sherrilyn Ifill - Oct. 11 (Opinion) - Sherrilyn Ifill says GOP attacks on President Obama are experienced viscerally and personally by millions of black voters, which is why they won't vote for Romney.

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Is the Republican Party Racist?

Mon, 08 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Slate - By Ron Rosenbaum - Oct. 08 (Opinion) - Now that Romney supporters have sought to make race, once again, an issue against Obama with an "explosive" five-year-old video reminding voters that Obama (yes, it's true!) consorts with black people, perhaps it's time to remind people of the real reason Romney deserves rejection at the polls in November: He is the candidate of the neo-racist Republican Party.

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Risk of Disenfranchisement High for Ex-Felons

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700

New America Media - By Alexis Taylor - Sep. 30 (Special Report) - Walter Lomax can still remember the day he cast his first vote in an election. The emotion in his voice changes as he takes a pause, attempting to put into words how it felt to exercise the right after serving 40 years, wrongly convicted, in a Maryland prison.

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Eugene Robinson: GOP is making a voting issue out of one that isn't

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700

San Jose Mercury News - By Eugene Robinson - Sep. 26 (Opinion) - What did happen in 2008 was that African-Americans, Hispanics and poor people -- traditional Democratic Party constituencies -- voted in unusually large numbers.

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Cancer surpasses heart disease as cause of death among Hispanics

Sun, 23 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Michael Muskal - Sep. 23 (News) - Cancer is now the leading cause of death among Hispanics in the United States, surpassing deaths due to heart disease, researchers reported Monday. The development is expected to eventually be seen in society overall.

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Health disparities found among black, white and Latino children

Sun, 23 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Anna Gorman - Sep. 23 (News) - There is a strong likelihood that these disparities will persist unless we intervene to change them.

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Studies expand on soda's role in growing obesity

Sat, 22 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times - Sep. 22 (News) - New studies make a direct link between sugary drinks and added weight, showing that removing such beverages slows weight gain in heavy teens and reduces the odds of obesity in other children.As public health leaders step up their efforts to temper Americans' thirst for sugar-sweetened beverages, a new set of published studies has found that removing sugary drinks from kids' diets slows weight gain in heavy teens and reduces the odds that normal-weight children will become obese.

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Voter ID Laws Could Disenfranchise 1 Million Young Minority Voters

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Trymaine Lee - Sep. 13 (News Report) - An estimated 700,000 young minority voters could be barred from voting in November because of photo ID laws passed across the country in recent years,...

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Fear of a Black President

Tue, 11 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Atlantic Monthly - By Ta-Nehisi Coates - Sep. 11 (Opinion) - As a candidate, Barack Obama said we needed to reckon with race and with America's original sin, slavery. But as our first black president, he has avoided mention of race almost entirely.

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DNC Conventioneers Worry About Voter-Suppression Laws

Tue, 11 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700

New America Media - By Anthony Advincula - Sep. 11 (Special Report) - With two months left before the election, Democrats who attended the Democratic National Convention (DNC) said that time is short to address voter suppression laws in critical states, acknowledging that it could hurt President Obama’s voter turnout in November.

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What to Make of Mitt Romney's Birther Joke?

Fri, 24 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - Aug. 24 (Opinion) - Romney is not himself a birther. He was engaging in ironic post-birtherism—showing solidarity with birthers by making a humorous remark that can be plausibly denied as a joke later. This is a necessary device for a Republican politician who wants to rile up the base without seeming like a lunatic, because the belief that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States is still held by nearly half of self-identified Republicans even after the very public release of the president's birth certificate.

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NAACP Official: Romney Flew In Black Supporters To Back Him During Speech To Civil Rights Group

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Gene Demby - Jul. 12 (News Report) - Did Mitt Romney bring in supporters to cheer him on during his Wednesday speech to the NAACP? That's the charge made by Hilary Shelton, who heads up the Washington, D.C., chapter of the NAACP. Shelton told Ed Schultz on MSNBC Wednesday night that Romney

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How Racist Are We? Ask Google

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Seth Stephens Davidowitz - Jun. 11 (Opinion) - Barack Obama won 52.9 percent of the popular vote in 2008 and 365 electoral votes, 95 more than he needed. Many naturally concluded that prejudice was not a major factor against a black presidential candidate in modern America. My research, a comparison of Americans’ Google searches and their voting patterns, found otherwise. If my results are correct, racial animus cost Mr. Obama many more votes than we may have realized.

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For Some, Occupy Movement is a Test of Faith

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

City Limits - Apr. 30 (News) - Financial District — Thirty-two days after they had been evicted from their Zuccotti Park encampment in Lower Manhattan, approximately 1,000 Occupy Wall Street activists rallied together to take over another public space for their movement. They hoped to

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Texas A&M Cadets to be led by 1st black commander

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Yahoo! News - By Michael Graczyk - Apr. 12 (News) - Nearly a half-century after African-Americans were admitted to predominantly white Texas A&M University, a black student has finally reached the pinnacle of one of its signature organizations. ...

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Occupy Sunset Park: Seeking Change in Many Languages | Brooklyn Bureau | News & Journalism, Citizen Commentary & Multimedia

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

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Years of Warnings, Then a Boy’s Death

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

City Limits - Mar. 13 (News) - Norwood — This is the second chapter in a five-chapter story. Click here to see the rest of the series. But the fire that took 8-year-old Jashawn Parker in the late evening of Aug. 6, 2002, on a typically dense northwest-Bronx block somehow never got muc

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As NYCHA Seeks Flexibility, Tenant Advocates ConcernedCityLimits.org

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

City Limits - Mar. 13 (News) - The city's public housing agency wants rules relaxed to allow creative budgeting. But advocates for residents want stronger assurances that financial flexibility won't come at the cost of tenant rights.

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Michelle Alexander: Jim Crow Still Exists In America : NPR

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

All Things Considered - By Fresh Air - Jan. 16 (Interview) - "Many of the old forms of discrimination that we supposedly left behind during the Jim Crow era are suddenly legal again, once you've been branded a felon."

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Obama's 2012 Chances and Democratic Demographic Dreaming

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Real Clear Politics - By Sean Trende - Nov. 30 (Opinion) - The latest report from Ruy Teixeira and John Halpin of the progressive Center for American Progress contains a thoughtful examination of President Obama's re-election chances. There's an awful lot packed into the 60 pages of text, but the basic thrust is

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