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Health Care Reform Will Become Law
12:20 am ET, March 22 – The House passed a package of measures to reconcile the just-passed Senate bill with one the House approved last year. Now those “fixes” are in the hands of the Senate. “This is what change looks like,” said President Barack Obama in televised remarks about the historic passage of health care…
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VIDEO: Jesse Jackson Sr. Laughs at Tea Party Protesters
Activist and former presidential candidate Jesse Jackson Sr. laughed in the face of catcalls from Tea Party protesters outside the Capitol on Sunday, while his son took care of business inside. Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. – Democrat from Illinois – presided over a sizable portion of the House’s health care debate Sunday. He refereed the debate from the…
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Tea Partiers Spit on Black Lawmaker, Yell N-Word
Rep. John Lewis must be having flashbacks to his days as a civil rights activist, when racial hostility was the order of the day. Forty-five years ago he was beaten by state troopers in Selma, Ala. as he marched for equal voting rights. Yesterday he was one of several lawmakers who were heckled with racial…
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Does Your Lawmaker Need a Call From You?
The Hill blog is tracking House Democrats’ positions on the health care reform bill they are expected to vote on Sunday. See where your local lawmaker stands, and reach out with a phone call or email if you’re not happy with his or her position. For the latest coverage, check out the Washington Post’s Health-Care…
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ACORN Plans To File for Bankruptcy
The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), the community organizing group that pressed banks to offer home loans to low-income Americans and helped several hundred thousand people to vote, is on the ropes.The community organizing group Acorn, battered politically from the right and suffering from mismanagement along with a severe loss of government…
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See Tavis Smiley's 'We Count!' Summit Live
“We Count! The Black Agenda is the American Agenda,” takes place today, Saturday, March 20, at Chicago State University. Up to 5,000 people are expected to attend the panel discussion, which will include Nation of Islam minister Louis Farrakhan; Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr.; Angela Glover Blackwell, founder and chief executive officer of Policylink; professors Michael…
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Malcolm X's Killer Will Be Released From Prison
According to the New York Times, Thomas Hagan, the only man who confessed to killing Malcolm X, will be paroled from his New York prison in late April. Hagan had applied for parole 16 times prior to his last attempt. Each request was denied … until now. While in prison, he earned a master’s degree and…
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A Senseless Sail for Amistad?
More than 150 years after it became the cause celèbre of American abolitionists, the freedom ship Amistad will sail back to Cuba, where its legendary story began. This exercise will commemorate the famous schooner’s voyage, during which African slaves rebelled. The reproduction vessel is being marketed as a piece of shared cultural heritage between the United…
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Paterson Claims He Leaked Story To Media
He can’t be serious. Even if David Paterson’s latest claims are true, why didn’t he reveal that he leaked the scandal before it became a scandal? Sounds like it’s time for a political intervention, or at least professional crisis management…Oh wait, his press secretary just resigned. New York Gov. David Paterson said Thursday that he…
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