Week In Review

Associated Press WASHINGTON — Michael Dunn’s conviction of attempted murder – but not actual murder – in the shooting death of black teenager Jordan Davis prompted the creation of hashtag #dangerousblackkids on Twitter. Users posted photos of black babies and toddlers, spoofing the fear that Dunn testified he felt before opening fire on a car…

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By Alan Fram Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama sent Congress a $3.9 trillion budget Tuesday that would funnel money into road building, education and other economy-bolstering programs, handing Democrats a playbook for their election-year themes of creating jobs and narrowing the income gap between rich and poor. The blueprint for fiscal 2015, which…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Chokwe Lumumba   Min. Louis Farrakhan offers to fund autopsy   NewsOne Hinds County, Miss. supervisor Kenny Stokes believes that late Jackson mayor Chokwe Lumumba was assassinated and he wants an autopsy performed to rule out foul play, reports the Clarion-Ledger. Lumumba, a legendary human rights activist and attorney who was elected mayor…

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By Emily Wagster Pettus and Jeff Amy associated press JACKSON, Miss. — Jackson Mayor Chokwe Lumumba (SHOW-kway Lu-MOOM-bah), a human rights activist and nationally prominent attorney who as city leader persuaded voters to accept a sales tax to fix crumbling infrastructure in Mississippi’s capital, died Tuesday. He was 66. Officials said Lumumba, a Democrat, died…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Josh Hart speaks during a Baltimore Orioles news conference in Baltimore. Hart needed a history lesson at spring training. The outfielder, selected 37th overall in last June’s amateur draft, was visiting Baltimore’s major league spring training camp on Monday, Feb. 24, 2014, when manager Buck Showalter introduced him to Hall of Famer Frank…

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21.8 percent of children poor – including over one-third of Black and Hispanic Children   black politics on the web U.S. Census Bureau data reveals that there are 46.5 million poor people in America in 2012, including 16.1 million children, this essentially unchanged from 2011. Children remain the poorest age group in the country with…

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ABOVE PHOTO: The post included the image of Malcolm X captioned with Minaj’s song title.   associated press Malcolm X’s family and estate said Nicki Minaj’s use of a famous photo of the black nationalist with a rifle in his hands and juxtaposing it with a racial slur for her new song’s artwork was disrespectful and…

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By Jesse J. Holland Associated Press  WASHINGTON — Martin Luther King Jr.’s daughter recently walked up to the pulpit of the Atlanta church where her father preached and, in a painful public display, dissociated herself from her brothers. She accused them of plotting to sell their father’s personal Bible and his Nobel Peace Prize —…

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The White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans  (WHIEEAA) will hold the first of four upcoming summits on improving learning and development for African American children and youth at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Ga., on Thurs.-Fri.,  Feb. 13-14. Cosponsored by Ebony magazine, the summit series is being launched to identify ways to improve…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Pres. Barack Obama. (AP photo)   Associated Press  [Click Here for coverage of President Obama’s meeting with Black youths’ Becoming a Man group in Chicago] WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is obtaining commitments from foundations, businesses and community groups to help young minority men improve their employment opportunities and to intervene before some…

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