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July 10, 2011
Bolstered by support from his loyal radio talk-show audience and tea party backers, businessman Herman Cain has revved up mainstream conservatives, rising recently to third place in a poll of voters in Iowa, the leadoff caucus state.
July 10, 2011
President Barack Obama prodded Congress Tuesday to reach a sweeping long-term deal within two weeks to raise the nation’s borrowing limit rather than “kick the can down the road” with a makeshift, short-term solution to stave off a first-ever U.S. default.
July 5, 2011
As the news flashed around the globe that New York state had legalized gay marriage, New York fashion designer Malcolm Harris didn’t waste any time. He dashed off a Twitter message to his boyfriend of nine years: “‘Will you marry me?”
July 5, 2011
Headlining controversial former mayor of Detroit, Kwame Kilpatrick has been granted parole and will be released from his jail cell no later than July 24. The politician pled guilty in 2008 to obstruction of justice…
July 5, 2011
African-Americans once were clustered so heavily in urban areas that the terms “black” and “inner city” came to be used almost synonymously. According to the 2010 U.S. Census results, that time is history.
June 27, 2011
Nearly half of young men of color age 15 to 24 who graduate from high school will end up unemployed, incarcerated or dead, according to two new reports released today by the College Board Advocacy & Policy Center.
June 26, 2011
The national civil rights group ColorOfChange.org today launched a campaign urging the FCC to block the proposed AT&T and T-Mobile merger, arguing that the merger will have hugely negative consequences, especially for African Americans.
June 26, 2011
The U.S. military’s top officer told Congress on Thursday that President Barack Obama’s decision to withdraw up to 33,000 troops from Afghanistan by next summer is risky but keeps the U.S. and its allies on a path toward stabilizing the country.
June 20, 2011
Edythe Scott Bagley, the elder sister of Coretta Scott King and an active King Center board member, died Saturday at her Cheney, Pa., home. A family statement said Bagley died peacefully…
June 20, 2011
For more than ten years, the African American Civil War Monument and Museum has stood as a testament to the struggle of African Americans and others to rid this nation of the scourge of slavery and racial bias. There is no doubt, America is a much better place…
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