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Top news stories personally selected by the publishers for their relevance to the BlackAmerican community.
February 2008 - Posts
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BRIAN KAUFMAN/Detroit Free Press Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick speaks to reporters after meeting with residents Thursday at Greenhouse Senior Apartments. Kilpatrick said his "life has completely changed in one month," but he is focused on going to work Read More...
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This photo released by ABC, shows Whoopi Goldberg on ABC's talk show "The View," in this Sept. 4, 2007, file photo in New York. Whoopi Goldberg has accepted an apology from producer Gil Cates for not including her in a montage featuring Oscar hosts during Read More...
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Maryann Reid’s “dream board” is propped on a plastic lawn chair in her living room in Brooklyn. Magazine clippings cover the entire poster board: a drawing of a pile of books, a photo of a Range Rover, the phrase “Gucci shoes click-clacking.” “These are Read More...
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Bailey County Commissioner Juan Chavez said he supported Sen. Hillary Clinton's presidential bid until about two weeks ago. "But I switched to (Sen. Barack) Obama after he won 10 or 11 primaries in a row," Chavez said of the current front-runner in the Read More...
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David Ahntholz for The New York Times Representative Laura Richardson of California, right, stumped for Hillary Rodham Clinton on the East Side of Cleveland on Sunday. The way Eugene R. Miller was hemming and hawing about Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton Read More...
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Scott Olson/Getty Images Happier times. Presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton embrace during a civil rights celebration in Selma, Ala. last year. Feb. 26, 2008 --In music, they call laying the lyrics from one song Read More...
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Bobby Brown Young people in Brockton, Mass. beware. A judge has given Bobby Brown community service in his cocaine possession case and has recommended that he volunteer to mentor area youth. According to the Associated Press, Brown, 39, will not face Read More...
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Eric Dyson Michael Eric Dyson has said he will come out with his own rap album in response to a reported hip hop disc being recorded by Bill Cosby. “There’s nothing worse than a comedian that’s trying to be serious on a certain level. That could be hazardous Read More...
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Louis Farrakhan addresses 20,000 people Sunday at McCormick Place. Louis Farrakhan’s return as the head of the Nation of Islam was met with an audience 20,000 strong, cash support totaling more than $25,000 and a religious nation looking to him for solutions Read More...
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Civil rights leader John Lewis dropped his support for Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential bid Wednesday in favor of Barack Obama. Lewis, a Democratic congressman from Atlanta, is the most prominent black leader to defect from Clinton's campaign in Read More...
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William Bell outside the court on Monday. William Bell, the father of Sean Bell , testified this morning about the final night he spent with his son. The testimony, on the second day of the trial of three New York City police detectives charged in the Read More...
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During President Clinton's trip to Africa in 1998, Rep. William Jefferson joined the cadre of politicians, press advisers, trade experts and foreign diplomats aboard Air Force One. For the next 12 days, Jefferson was never far behind as the president Read More...
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Senator John McCain of Arizona arriving to speak on Tuesday at a rally at Hamilton County Memorial Hall in Cincinnati. Republican White House contender John McCain Tuesday condemned remarks at a campaign rally by a right-wing radio host disparaging McCain's Read More...
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Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama during their debate Tuesday evening in Cleveland, Ohio. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton confronted Senator Barack Obama on health care, Nafta, Iraq and his political tactics on Tuesday night in one of her most Read More...
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Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch will be put up for sale at a public auction next month unless the pop star pays the more than $24 million he still owes on the property, according to a Tuesday court filing. Financial Title Co. filed the notice of trustee's Read More...
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Nicole Paultre, fiancee of Sean Bell, man killed by police after leaving his bachelor party in Queens, New York. Three police officers went on trial Monday in the death of an unarmed man killed in a barrage of 50 bullets on his wedding day, with prosecutors Read More...
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Students at Bethune Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Fla. are offended by a sign at a nearby Citgo Gas station/convenience store that reads "Only 1 BCU Student Allowed At Once." The effort is an attempt by the owner to prevent shoplifting, however, Read More...
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No single group has given African-American spirituals greater exposure in this country, or around the world, than the Jubilee Singers of Fisk University in Nashville. Mark Twain, in a letter to friends in England in the early 1870s, a year or two after Read More...
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Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., right, is dressed as a Somali Elder by Sheikh Mahmed Hassan, left, during his visit to Wajir, a rural area in northeastern Kenya, near the borders with Somalia and Ethiopia in August 2006. A photograph circulating in the Internet Read More...
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Most of the more than 1,500 crack cocaine offenders who are immediately eligible to petition courts to be released from federal prisons under new guidelines issued by the U.S. Sentencing Commission are small-time dealers or addicts who are not career Read More...
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When people think of the 1960s civil rights movement, they think of the leaders and lieutenants ... Martin Luther King Jr., Andrew Young, Jesse Jackson, Ralph Abernathy, Hosea Williams. Tom Houck, who was Martin Luther King Jr.'s driver and assistant, Read More...
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Ray Nagin, Mayou New Orleans No one can accuse New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin of hiding his emotions. During a live TV interview, he told two reporters that he wanted to have "a good one on one" with their boss in the parking lot because of an upcoming report Read More...
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Julian Bond, Chairman NAACP The NAACP's national board is poised to select a new president and CEO. But a rift among members threatens to shake up the plans, as some complain they have been shut out of the process to choose a new leader for the Baltimore-based Read More...
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It's time for Hillary Clinton to give up her futile quest for the U.S. presidency. She needs to get out soon, putting a united Democratic party ahead of personal ambition before her reputation in a sometimes-ugly campaign is further sullied. After Barack Read More...
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Texas Southern University's new president wants to end the school's long-standing practice of accepting all applicants, no matter their academic background, saying the policy contributes to its alarmingly low graduation rate. President John Rudley said Read More...
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PROVIDENCE, R.I.: “I can stand up here and say...let’s get unified, the sky will open, the light will come down...But I have no illusions,” Clinton said. Trying to reclaim the edge, she has accused him of plagiarism, dodging debates and falsehoods in Read More...
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Sean, Nicole and Daughter His killer was a cop. That much, at least, is clear from the way 23-year-old Sean Bell was shot dead in a confrontation with police early on Nov. 25, 2006, outside a notorious strip club in Jamaica. He died just hours before Read More...
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Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clint, D-N.Y., criticizes Democratic presidential rival, Sen. Barack Obama during a news conference after her rally at Cincinnati State Technical and Community College, Saturday, Feb. 23, 2008, in Cincinnati, Read More...
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Johnnie Carr, who joined childhood friend Rosa Parks in the historic Montgomery bus boycott and kept a busy schedule of civil rights activism up to her final days, has died. She was 97. Carr died Friday night, said Baptist Health hospital spokeswoman Read More...
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The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis has announced plans to bring together several civil rights leaders for a night of storytelling on the eve of the 40th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s death. The April 3 event will include the speech Read More...
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Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., left, listens to Tavis Smiley during a campaign stop during the annual State of the Black Union conference, on Saturday in New Orleans. Hillary Rodham Clinton strongly defended her husband's record on civil rights Read More...
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Actor Will Smith received a public apology and damages in the High Court in London over a false allegation that he had described Hitler as a "good person". The star's solicitor Rachel Atkins told Mr Justice Eady that the libel was "deeply distressing Read More...
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Television commentator Tavis Smiley’s State of the Black Union Symposium opened Friday. Community rebuilding projects and a long list of public discussions with local leaders are on the agenda. Activities surrounding the State of the Black Union 2008 Read More...
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Presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., greets supporters during a rally on the campus of University of Texas-Pan American Friday, Feb. 22, 2008, in Edinburg, Texas. Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., accompanied Read More...
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Lorraine Hansberry's (1930-1965) Lorraine Hansberry's (1930-1965) A Raisin in the Sun was the first play written by a Black woman ever to open on Broadway. It takes its title from the opening line in Harlem , a poem by Langston Hughes which poses the Read More...
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Colbert I. King, Op-Ed Columnist Today, it's almost an article of faith among pundits and pollsters that Hillary Clinton can't win the African American vote because Barack Obama has that bloc sewn up. A year ago, many pundits held another unshakable belief. Read More...
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Mayor Michael Bloomberg Mayor Michael Bloomberg renewed his attacks Tuesday on the city Board of Elections, calling the apparent under-counting of votes for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama in this month's presidential primary a "euphemism Read More...
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Nearly $100,000 went for party platters and groceries before the Iowa caucuses, even though the partying mood evaporated quickly. Rooms at the Bellagio luxury hotel in Las Vegas consumed more than $25,000; the Four Seasons, another $5,000. And top consultants Read More...
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Hillary Rodham Clinton accused presidential rival Barack Obama of political plagiarism Thursday night, but drew boos from a Democratic debate audience when she ridiculed him as the candidate of "change you can Xerox." Obama dismissed the charge out of Read More...
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George Curry As one who has written extensively on disparities in the criminal justice system, I am familiar with assorted statistics associated with selective prosecution. The Justice Policy Institute recently released a comprehensive study on the issues Read More...
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Democrats who think it's going to be a cakewalk into the White House next November had best remember one name: Condoleezza Rice. John McCain is a formidable candidate in his own right, but if he has the political imagination to do it, he can cause the Read More...
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Santita Jackson. Santita Jackson has been suspended as midday host at WVON-AM (1690) in a dispute over Black History Month features on the African-American news/talk station. Jackson, 44, eldest daughter of the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, has been off the Read More...
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Rev. Dr. Markel Hutchins Congressman John Lewis A 30-year-old Atlanta minister with a talent for gaining the public's eye and who backs Barack Obama for president says he's ready to challenge 5th District Congressman John Lewis, who supported Hillary Read More...
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Before the Iowa caucuses, senior aides to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton fell into a heated argument during a 7:30 a.m. conference call about the basic message their candidate was delivering to voters. Mark Penn, chief strategist and pollster, liked Clinton's Read More...
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Celebrity bounty hunter Duane "Dog" Chapman is set to return to television after his reality TV show was pulled from the air three months ago in a controversy over his use of a racial slur, cable channel A&E said on Tuesday. A&E took the popular Read More...
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Republican White House hopeful John McCain has lashed out at The New York Times for playing "gutter politics" after it reported on his relationship eight years ago with a female lobbyist. Both parties denied a romantic entanglement but his aides tried Read More...
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The wife of Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama sought Wednesday to clarify her comment that for the first time she's really proud of her country. On Monday, Michelle Obama told an audience in Milwaukee that "For the first time in my adult Read More...
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Just 23 years old, Barack Obama was nicknamed "Baby Face" by mothers as he tried to organize poor people on Chicago's South Side to join together and pressure the city to fix potholes, clean parks and remove asbestos insulation from public housing. Those Read More...
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Student organizers in collaboration with the Center for Leadership and Civic Engagement (LEADS) at Spelman will present the College's second annual Women of Color Student Leadership Conference: "Women 2 Women Coming Together as Leaders to Elevate the Read More...
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Hawaii handed Sen. Barack Obama his 10th consecutive win Tuesday, CNN projects, while Sen. John McCain inched forward on his march to the Republican nomination, picking up two more states. Earlier on Tuesday, Obama won the Democratic primary in Wisconsin. Read More...
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Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., greets supporters during a campaign stop in Parma, Ohio, Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2008. Ignoring her crushing loss in Wisconsin to rival Barack Obama, Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton pressed her case Tuesday that the Illinois senator Read More...
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Barack Obama welcomed his latest Democratic presidential primary triumph with a caution to exultant supporters Tuesday that they've all got "months and miles" to go and it won't be easy. Obama addressed a boisterous rally in Houston on Tuesday night after Read More...
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Recognizing the vitality of African American small business owners throughout the nation, Wells Fargo & Company said Sunday it has reached its goal, set in 1998, to lend $1 billion to African American business owners nationwide by 2010. A new multi-year Read More...
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Barack Obama sneaked down to North Carolina Sunday and met with former rival John Edwards, who has yet to make an endorsement in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. Officials at North Carolina television station WTVD said they have video Read More...
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Credit: News & Record file N.C. A&T used this year’s $4.9 million allocation to hire counselors to help improve student retention and graduation rates President Bush's 2009 education budget proposal cuts $85 million in funds designated for historically Read More...
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You can see the confusion on some of their faces, hear the concern in their voices. How in the world do we deal with this ? Hillary Clinton t's black supporters -- especially the most prominent ones -- hadn't expected their candidate to be in a dogfight Read More...
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Frankie Brewster A fourth defendant has pleaded guilty to charges stemming from the suspected torture of a young black woman who authorities say was held captive last summer for days. Frankie Brewster, 49, faces 10 to 25 years in prison after pleading Read More...
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Barack Obama's primary-night results were strikingly underrecorded in several districts around the city - in some cases leaving him with zero votes when, in fact, he had pulled in hundreds, the Board of Elections said yesterday. Unofficial primary results Read More...
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Sean "Diddy" Combs filed a declaration in his upcoming assault case stating that the man suing him in civil court actually ran into his open hand during an incident outside of the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood. In recent depositions, four witnesses testified Read More...
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Who put Tavis Smiley in charge? Over the past two months African Americans have emerged as equal partners in a multi-racial, intergenerational, bipartisan, national coalition led by the most exciting political candidate of the past four decades, who also Read More...
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