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Top news stories personally selected by the publishers for their relevance to the BlackAmerican community.
March 2008 - Posts
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Approaching the 40th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King's martyrdom on April 4, 1968, many people seek to speak authoritatively about what his focus would be today. Some forget that President Johnson, the FBI, national media and conservative religious Read More...
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Shivering in blankets of Penn State's colors, some 20,000 people filled a campus lawn Sunday to hear Barack Obama say he can win the Democratic nomination even if rival Hillary Rodham Clinton stays in the race. Supporters stood in long lines for hours Read More...
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Maggie Williams Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign manager, Maggie Williams, earned about $200,000 on the board of a Long Island subprime lender that charged prepayment penalties — a practice that Clinton, a critic of the subprime industry, now seeks to Read More...
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Office Hours Senator Barack Obama behind his desk on Capitol Hill. As the smoke cleared from this weekend's regional Democratic conventions, Barack Obama emerged with a majority of the state's at-large presidential nominating delegates and possibly a Read More...
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Rapper T.I. has admitted having unregistered machine guns and being a felon in possession of a firearm. Now he has a chance to avoid a lengthy prison sentence by telling kids not to make the same mistakes he did. T.I. plead guilty to weapons charges and Read More...
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Newt Gingrich For African-Americans and other minority citizens, it is “totally authentic to be angry,” declared Newt Gingrich, a former Republican House speaker. The “horrible institution” of segregation ruined the lives and crippled the future of African-Americans, Read More...
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said yesterday that the United States still has trouble dealing with race because of a national "birth defect " that denied black Americans the opportunities given to whites at the country's very founding. "Black Americans Read More...
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There is a gathering consensus among political observers that Senator Hillary Clinton cannot win the Democratic Presidential nomination, and that she should step aside soon for the good of the party. Recent polling data shows better news for McCain than Read More...
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The Rev. Jeremiah Wright made a surprise appearance in Chicago Friday night. Wright, Sen. Barack Obama's former pastor, appeared at Saint Sabina church to hear famed African American poet Maya Angelou speak, CBS station WBBM-TV reported. Wright has been Read More...
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IT WAS not 3 a.m., but Hillary Clinton heard the red phone ringing on racism. Without prompting, she began a teleconference interview Thursday with the Trotter Group of African-American newspaper columnists by saying, "There is an ugly perception which Read More...
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Chris Pizzello / AP Sean "Diddy" Combs arrives at the 80th Academy Awards on Feb. 24, 2008. The Los Angeles Times apologized for using apparently fabricated documents in a story implying that a 1994 assault on Tupac Shakur was carried out by associates Read More...
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Sean Bell's vision was greatly impaired in his right eye without lenses, but his left eye was strong enough for him to drive legally in the State of New York, an optometrist testified on Thursday. Pool photo by Julia Xanthos The optometrist, Daniel Friedman, Read More...
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Tavis Smiley will travel to Memphis to broadcast his PBS late-night talk show from the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, March 31 through April 4, in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In addition, Read More...
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Senator Bob Casey Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey plans to endorse Sen. Barack Obama for president today in Pittsburgh, sending a message both to the state's primary voters and to undecided superdelegates who might decide the close race for the Democratic Read More...
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Foundry United Methodist Church Rev. Dean J. Synder A STATEMENT CONCERNING THE REV. JEREMIAH WRIGHT The Reverend Jeremiah Wright is an outstanding church leader whom I have heard speak a number of times. He has served for decades as a profound voice for Read More...
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Florida A&M University administrators have mailed letters to 66 employees asking them to return unapproved bonuses they received because of a payroll system glitch. "About $67,000 was overpaid to the employees during the Jan. 18 payroll," said Teresa Read More...
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The racially charged debate over Barack Obama's relationship with his longtime pastor hasn't much changed his close contest against Hillary Clinton, or hurt him against Republican nominee-in-waiting John McCain, according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC Read More...
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Eleven African-American Drivers Stunned By Law Enforcement Seventeen drivers in South Carolina have been tasered by Highway Patrol troopers. Eleven were African-Americans, a statistic that bothers African-American lawmakwers. There is more outrage from Read More...
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Roland S. Martin says all the presidential candidates have supporters with controversial views. Its been an interesting week watching folks analyze the outcry over the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's controversial comments, especially when they try to link them Read More...
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Security concerns have prompted the Rev. Jeremiah Wright to cancel his appearance at Houston's Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church for the first time in two decades. Wright, who until February was minister of Sen. Barack Obama's church, Chicago's Trinity United Read More...
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What are we doing now for the children? This provocative question and many others were asked in Miami-Dade County by Dr. Mae Jemison, the world's first black female astronaut. She was the speaker at a recent centennial luncheon hosted by Gamma Zeta Omega Read More...
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Kym Worthy Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said Monday that even if Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick resigned, it would not spare him a trial on criminal charges that threaten to send him from the mayoral Manoogian Mansion to a prison cell. "I don't Read More...
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Sen. Barack Obama is challenging Sen. Hillary Clinton to release her 2006 tax returns. Barack Obama and his wife released their tax returns from 2000 to 2006 on his campaign Web site Tuesday, and the Illinois senator challenged Sen. Hillary Clinton to Read More...
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Washington commentator Robert Novak believes that Barack Obama ’s "hastily arranged" speech on race was not a perfect response to the furore that erupted over the Rev Jeremiah Wright ’s controversial comments. Although the speech was stylish and eloquent, Read More...
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Collectively Black Americans are the richest Blacks in the world. But, only two Black Americans can claim a nine-figure. Times are changing and Black Africans are making more money than African Americans and have made it onto Forbes' list of the world's Read More...
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The S.U.V. guy was late. After days of dry, scientific testimony in the trial of three detectives accused of killing Sean Bell , with forensic experts telling of a bullet fragment here and a shell casing there, the prosecution was at last calling a major Read More...
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Sharyl Attkisson And Hillary Clinton On Bosnia Trip It was supposed to be an example of Hillary Rodham Clinton 's battle-tested experience: "I remember landing under sniper fire," Clinton said at a recent campaign event. It started when, in a recent speech, Read More...
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Talk about going back to square one. On the national front, Democrats are virtually evenly split over the candidacies of Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, the newest tracking poll shows. Obama is the choice of 47 percent, Clinton 46, a neglible Read More...
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Mayor Kwame M. Kilpatrick was charged on Monday with misconduct in office, obstruction of justice, conspiracy to commit obstruction of justice and perjury, felonies that could end his political career and send him to prison for as long as 80 years. Among Read More...
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Critics of the Fox News Channel regularly complain that the network beats up on Democrats and takes comments out of context. Usually, though, those critics are not Fox anchors. On Friday Chris Wallace, host of the weekend political talk show “Fox News Read More...
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Sinbad , the comedian who lit up the Internet earlier this month in an exclusive interview with the Sleuth about his 1996 trip to Bosnia with then-first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton , isn't fighting back against Clinton's dismissive remarks about him. Read More...
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Rev. Amos Brown The Rev. Amos Brown's Easter sermon at the Third Baptist Church of San Francisco didn't have much to do with Jesus' crucifixion or resurrection from the dead and instead covered everything from skyrocketing gas prices and the subprime Read More...
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Obama's speech called for a conversation that not everyone wants. How do we start a national dialogue on race? Charlotte Griffin was at a restaurant one evening when a white woman complimented her on her children's behavior. The stranger may have meant Read More...
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Willie Earl Green breaks into tears as he greets his wife Mary after being released from jail. Willie Green spent a quarter-century in prison for a murder he says he did not commit. He was released Thursday. Willie Earl Green looked dazed. He walked slowly. Read More...
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Governor Paterson concluded his troublesome first week in office with a Saturday Harlem gathering organized by the Reverend Al Sharpton, to re-direct focus on upcoming budget challenges. NY1's Lily Jamali filed the following report. Eager to leave behind Read More...
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Analysis Corp. President John Brennan, shown here in 2004, advises Barack Obama, a source tells CNN. The CEO of a company whose employee is accused of improperly looking at the passport files of presidential candidates is a consultant to the Barack Obama Read More...
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In Barack Obama's candidacy and in his own interracial marriage, William Geary, a regular at American Legion Post 733, sees hope for race relations in America. " In Barack Obama's candidacy and in his own interracial marriage, William Geary, a regular Read More...
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Troy Anthony Davis is an innocent man on Georgia's death row. His lawyers believe it, his supporters believe it, even most of those who sent him to die believe it. Accused of killing a police officer in Savannah, Ga., in 1989, his conviction was based Read More...
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Uli Seit for The New York Times Detective Gescard F. Isnora, right, arriving at the courthouse in Queens with Michael Palladino, president of the police detectives’ union, on Monday. An undercover detective, in detailed and at times apologetic grand jury Read More...
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Since coming onto the national scene at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, White House presidential hopeful and Democratic frontrunner Barack Obama has become an epic figure. Now Hollywood wants to capture the essence of the man who embodies the Read More...
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One big fact has largely been lost in the recent coverage of the Democratic presidential race: Hillary Rodham Clinton has virtually no chance of winning. Her own campaign acknowledges there is no way that she will finish ahead in pledged delegates. That Read More...
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A Boston woman claims to have pitched a reality show idea titled "The Philanthropist" to producers for Oprah Winfrey, only to see her idea come to fruition and air three years later under the name "Oprah's Big Give." According to the New York Daily News' Read More...
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Richardson formally endorsed Obama Friday Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico endorsed Sen. Barack Obama in the Democratic race for president Friday. "Barack Obama will make a great and historic president," Richardson told a rally in Portland, Oregon, Read More...
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WTA head Larry Scott said Thursday that he strongly disagrees with comments made by Richard Williams, father of Serena and Venus, regarding racism on the women's tour. Saying he was disappointed by Williams' recent remarks during an interview in India, Read More...
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An undercover cop who unleashed 11 of the 50 shots that killed Sean Bell said he was "scared and nervous" moments before the shooting and that all he could think about was that someone "had a gun," Queens prosecutors said this afternoon. Detective Gescard Read More...
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Sen. Barack Obama's passport file was breached three times since January, the State Department said. On three occasions since January, Sen. Barack Obama's passport file was looked at by three different contract workers, said State Department spokesman Read More...
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned the guilty verdict and death sentence of a Louisiana man convicted of hacking his wife's lover to death, concluding that an African-American juror was unfairly excluded from the panel. The court ordered that the Read More...
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Pat Robertson Rod Parsley John Hagee The scrutiny of Sen. Barack Obama's relationship to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the recently retired pastor of Obama's Chicago church, highlights the complex intersections of religion and race in the United States. Neither Read More...
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Carolyn Devine wiped the sweat out of her eyes and glanced up at her gym's TV sets, where a national debate over race was roiling. Newscasters heatedly debated Illinois Sen. Barack Obama's recent speech about his longtime pastor's incendiary comments. Read More...
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It was an extraordinary moment — the first black candidate with a good chance at becoming a presidential nominee, in a country in which racial distrust runs deep and often unspoken, embarking at a critical juncture in his campaign upon what may be the Read More...
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SUSAN TUSADFP Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick made public appearances Tuesday as the City Council voted. He told reporters that he could still work with the council. "I don't blame anybody on council," he said. "The incredible scrutiny and overwhelming pressure Read More...
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Gov. David Paterson admits to sleeping with another woman while he was married to wife, Michelle. The thunderous applause was still ringing in his ears when the state's new governor, David Paterson, told the Daily News that he and his wife had extramarital Read More...
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Marty Nesbitt, a friend of presidential candidate Barack Obama's, tears up during Obama's address on race and politics in Philadelphia yesterday. Before Barack Obama took to the podium yesterday, I was pretty angry at how slimy the presidential campaign Read More...
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The following is the text as prepared for delivery of Senator Barack Obama’s speech on race in Philadelphia, as provided by his presidential campaign. “We the people, in order to form a more perfect union.” Two hundred and twenty one years ago, in a hall Read More...
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A new poll out Monday shows Democrats prefer Sen. Obama over Sen. Clinton to win the nomination. A majority of Democrats would like to see Barack Obama rather than Hillary Clinton win their party's presidential nomination, according to a national poll Read More...
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In June 2006, when the bulk of papers belonging to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. were about to be auctioned at Sotheby’s and possibly into private hands, Mayor Shirley Jackson and the city of Atlanta pre-empted the bidding with a $32 million offer — ensuring Read More...
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UCLA coach Ben Howland holds the net after cutting it down following their win over Stanford in the championship game of the Pac-10 Conference at the Staples Center in Los Angeles Saturday, March 15, 2008. North Carolina was the only school among the Read More...
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Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama will deliver what his campaign is billing as "a major address on race and politics" today, following days of controversy over comments by his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright. Obama will speak at the National Read More...
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David Paterson, the new governor of New York, reportedly admitted that he and his wife both had affairs when their 'marriage appeared to be going sour'. With his predecessor's term doomed by a sex scandal, brand-new Gov. David Paterson tried to come clean Read More...
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African Americans liked Bill Clinton so much that he was once dubbed "the first black president," but perceptions that his wife's campaigning has been racially tinged have taken a toll on Hillary Clinton's White House bid. Some accuse Clinton's campaign Read More...
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