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President Obama Reacts To Tornado Disaster
President Barack Obama spoke Tuesday on the damage from a massive tornado that ripped through the town of Moore, Oklahoma, on Monday. "In an instant, neighborhoods were destroyed, dozens of people lost their live," Obama said. "In some cases there will be enormous grief that has to be absorbed, but you will not travel that path alone. Your country will travel with you," Obama continued. "We are a nation that stands with our fellow citizens as long as... Read more
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Oklahoma Senators Repeatedly Opposed Disaster Relief Funds
As frantic rescue missions continued Monday in Oklahoma following the catastrophic tornadoes that ripped through the state, it appeared increasingly likely that residents who lost homes and businesses would turn to the federal government for emergency disaster aid. That could put the state's two Republican senators in an awkward position. Sens. Jim Inhofe and Tom Coburn, both Republicans, are fiscal hawks who have repeatedly voted against funding disaster aid for other parts of the country. They... Read more
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What Black High School Grads Need to Hear
During a graduation speech this month at Martin Luther King Jr. Academic Magnet High School in Nashville, Tenn., Michelle Obama told students, "When something doesn't go your way, you've just got to adjust. You've got to dig deep and work like crazy, and that's when you'll find out what you're really made of during those hard times. But you can only do that if you're willing to put yourself in a position where you might... Read more
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Virginia Republican: ‘Black civil rights leaders’ responsible for ‘genocide’
“The Democrat Party has created an unholy alliance between certain so-called civil rights leaders and Planned Parenthood, which has killed unborn black babies by the tens of millions,” he said in a video published to his official YouTube page. “Planned Parenthood has been far more lethal to black lives than the KKK ever was.” During his last run for public office, Jackson insisted that the so-called 3/5ths clause in the Constitution, which counted slaves as 3/5ths... Read more
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Michigan has highest unemployment rate for African Americans in nation
Michigan workers were hit hard by the Great Recession but the state’s African American workers continue to suffer a far higher unemployment rate, a new Economic Policy Institute Issue Brief finds, with Michigan’s black unemployment rate the highest among the 24 states where it can be measured. In Ongoing Joblessness in Michigan: Unemployment rate for African Americans tops in nation, more than double the state’s white rate, EPI researchers Douglas Hall and Mary Gable find that the African American... Read more
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First lady bemoans culture of African Americans aspiring to be 'a baller or a rapper'
First lady Michelle Obama called on the graduates of historically black Bowie State University to lead the charge in encouraging more young African Americans to follow in their footsteps and focus on education. "Be an example of excellence to the next generation," she said Friday at commencement ceremonies held at the nearby University of Maryland, College Park, campus, just north of Washington. "Today, more than 150 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, more than 50 years after the... Read more
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More African-American boomers taking better care of their health
More African-American boomers taking better care of their health Five days a week, Carolyn Banks rises at 5 a.m., dresses and drives 22 miles to the Beulah Baptist Church Family Life Center to work out the kinks in her joints, to rev up her heart and health. Exercise, she says, has been a part of her daily routine since 2009, when she was diagnosed with neurosarcoidosis, a chronic inflammatory disorder, and her physical health began to decline. “I... Read more
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