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Fear as Haitians Brace for Tropical Storm Tomas
For nearly 10 months, more than 1 million people have been living in Haiti’s earthquake camps, working diligently to maintain order, fight forced evictions, protect their tents and survive on a daily basis. Now Hurricane Tomas threatens to upend that careful balance. The Haitian government has called for the voluntary evacuation of all the quake…
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Van Jones to Headline Energy Forum
Van Jones, best-selling author of The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems and a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, heads a lineup of top leaders in the energy industry set to appear at the “Black Enterprise Conversation on Energy Forum, Part II.” The invitation-only event will…
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Oklahoma Will Not Be Subject to Shariah Law
Fresh from our “Is this for real or for play-play” file, Oklahomans will not be subject to Shariah law anytime in the near future. Ballot initiative SQ755, which bars state courts from using Islamic or international law, has been approved, with yes votes outweighing no votes by more than two to one. Please tell us…
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Youth and Black Voter Turnout Low
According to CBS News’ national exit polls, black and youth voter turnout was low for the 2010 midterm elections. The youth vote — 18- to 29-year-olds — which helped catapult President Obama into office, made up an estimated 9 percent of voters this year, compared with 18 percent in 2008. About 58 percent of the…
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Obama: The Republican Victory Was a 'Shellacking'
According to Rhe Washington Post, President Barack Obama signaled a willingness to compromise with Republicans on tax cuts and energy policy Wednesday, one day after his party lost control of the House and suffered deep Senate losses in the midterm elections. Obama called the Republican victories “a shellacking.” At a White House news conference, the…
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Lion King Actress Shannon Tavarez Dies
Shannon Tavarez, a young soprano who starred in The Lion King on Broadway, has died at age 11 after a battle with acute myeloid leukemia, Broadway World is reporting. The actress played Young Nala from September 2009 until April, when she began feeling pain in her lower back and legs. Soon the emerging star was…
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NPR: Even If House Is Lost, Obama Finds Hope in History
Excerpt: Three times in the past century, a sitting president’s party has lost its majority in at least one house of Congress. And all three times, the president went on to win re-election — Harry Truman in 1948, Dwight Eisenhower in 1956 and Bill Clinton in 1996. So if, as expected, the GOP takes the…
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Harry Reid: Both Sides of Senate Need to Work Together
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says lawmakers of both parties need to start working together now that Republicans have reduced the Democrats’ dominance in the chamber. You think? Reid said on NBC’s Today show that he planned to speak Wednesday with Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on ways to “build a consensus and move this country…
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