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  • Tuesday's Headlines

    WP: DC Votes to Recognize Other States’ Same-Sex Marriages RD: Cinco de Mayo: Discovering more about Blacks and Mexicans AJE: Judges Reject Former Liberian President’s Request for War Crimes Acquittal BET: School Bus Driver Accused of Punching Student NO: Oprah, KFC Team Up to Give Away Chicken HP: Race and Obama: 390 Years Minus 100…

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  • Monday's Headlines

    AP: Obama Announces Plan to Cut Tax Loopholes AA: Zimbabwe: Mukanya Revisits Chimurenga Classics CBS: Malawian Dad Opposes Madonna Adoption FOX: First Family May Vacation in Martha’s Vineyard NWS: Doctors Warn Skin Cancer is Equal-Opportunity Disease SFC: Senators Want Obama to Look Beyond Fed. Bench for Souter Replacement TR: Black Youth Shunning Baseball BET: LeBron…

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  • Jack Kemp—The Reason I Became a Republican

    “I would like to see an America where black and white actually listen to each other. These issues can’t be solved with rhetoric but with sound positive progressive inclusive policies. I want to see the Republican Party lead that debate because we are the Party of Lincoln and we must be an inclusionary party. .…

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  • The Confab — May 1, 2009

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  • Friday's Headlines

    J: The Aged Believe Not in Personal Space SOHH:This (Money) Is Bigger Than Hip Hop: Jay-Z, Kelly Clarkson Paired Up in Concert MG: Net Gain: Soweto Serves Tennis Dreams AJC: Not Post-Racial Anymore: Leah Ward Sears a Possible Supreme Court Replacement CNN: Maybe It Was in Leviticus? Churchgoers More Inclined to Back Torture INON: Ante…

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  • Thursday's Headlines

    HP: CNN Assesses Obama’s “Swagga”; Attempt Is in No Way Awkward (…) NPR:South Africa’s New Black Opposition Party Can’t Cope NS: Huge Gene Study Sheds Light on African History (So Thaaaat’s Why We’re So Fast!) USNWR: Civil Right Leaders Dissatisfied with Obama on Race Relations; CBC: “Take a Number, Pal!” NWS: Do ‘Babyfaceness’ and Warmth…

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  • Bryant Terry Book Signing

    WATCH VIDEO of Bryant Terry’s recent book signing in San Francisco.

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  • How Beethoven Killed Black Classical Music

    Way, way back in the day, there was an Afro-Polish violinist, a biracial child prodigy of such virtuosity that even Beethoven felt compelled to dedicate a sonata to him. There were honors and accolades and patronage from a prince. But fortunes changed, as poet laureate Rita Dove describes in her novel-sized book of poems, Sonata…

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  • Specter Says Moderate or Die

    Publicly, GOP leaders and operatives are slamming Republican Sen. Arlen Specter for being an “opportunist.” In a scathing statement released soon after the Tuesday announcement that Specter is becoming a Democrat, GOP chairman Michael Steele charged that Specter “only cares about furthering his personal political interests because he knew that he was going to lose…

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  • Wednesday's Headlines

    PPG: Obamas Make Chocolate City ‘Chocolate People Who Run Ish’ City WSJ: Turning His Swag On: The Making of a Celebrity President NYDN: Don’t Let 44 Fool You: Racial Equality Still a Work-in-Progress SPP: Where Are the White Guys with Money and/or Guns?!? The GOP Base is Shrinking! WP: DOJ Urges Equalizing Drug Sentences Because…

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