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  • A Drift Back to Segregation?

    Could an education ruling speak to a drifting back toward segregation? During her elementary school years in this rural Mississippi town, Addreal Harness, a competitive teenager with plans to be a doctor, said her classes had about the same numbers of white and black students. It was a fact she took little note of until…

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  • Dorothy Height Passes Away at 98

    Dorothy Height, founding matriarch of the Civil Rights Movement, has passed away at 98 Ms. Height was among the coalition of African American leaders who pushed civil rights to the center of the American political stage after World War II, and she was a key figure in the struggles for school desegregation, voting rights, employment…

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  • Schomburg Center Director to Retire

    Howard Dodson, director of Harlem’s Schomburg Center, will be stepping down in early 2011 Howard Dodson, whose wide-ranging acquisitions and major exhibitions have raised the profile of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and burnished its reputation as the premier institution of its kind, plans to retire as its director in 2011. The…

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  • Cheruiyot Sets Boston Marathon Course Record

    The second man named Robert K. Cheruiyot to win the Boston Marathon did so in record fashion yesterday Robert Kiprono Cheruiyot won the 114th Boston race Monday, finishing in 2:05:52 to shatter by 82 seconds the course record set by four-time winner Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot, who’s not related. American Ryan Hall, who finished third last…

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  • Check It Out: James Johnson Cemented in Playoff Legend

    Uh, James? If you’re going to foul, you’re going to want to do it a little harder than that.

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  • Listen Up! "Distrust of Government Undermines Obama's Support"

    SOURCE: NPR’s All Things Considered

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  • Blog Noir: "The Black Republicans Series"

    Below is an excerpt from the Black Republicans series on The Urban Politico  entitled “Black Republicans: The Beginning” This series was inspired by the following question heard all throughout the Black Community from the blogosphere to the barber shop: “How in the hell could a Black person ever vote Republican?!?!?” Although, lately, many of us…

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  • Someone "Lost" a New iPhone Prototype…

    Found this while cruising the Twitternets. It appears someone “lost” a new iPhone prototype out in Redwood City, CA and the team over at Gizmodo took a quick sneak peek While Apple may tinker with the final packaging and design of the final phone, it’s clear that the features in this lost-and-found next-generation iPhone are…

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  • Sprinkle Some Black on It

    Who doesn’t like ground up black people on their pasta? Penguin Group Australia had to reprint 7,000 copies of Pasta Bible last week, the Sydney Morning Herald has reported. The reprint cost A$20,000 ($18,000; £12,000), but stock in bookshops will not be recalled as it is “extremely hard” to do so, Penguin said. The recipe…

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  • Labor Protest Gets Danny Glover Locked Up

    On screen, he’s often been seen as the lawman. In life, Danny Glover has found himself on the other side of things as an ardent champion for labor rights. Glover was arrested Friday during a protest of Sodexo headquarters in Maryland Montgomery County police spokesman Capt. Paul Starks says Glover and others stepped past yellow…

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