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Walmart to Offer Layaway Again
Market Watch is reporting that retail giant Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will bring back its layaway program in U.S. stores this holiday season in order to help lower-income consumers. In 2006 Walmart canceled the plan in the U.S., except for the fine-jewelry category, as it cited costs and limited customer use. This time around, the program,…
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Tayshana Murphy: Top Girls'-Basketball Recruit Killed
Yahoo Sports is reporting that one of the nation’s top female high school basketball recruits has been killed. Tayshana Murphy, 18, was killed in her New York City housing project in what friends are calling a case of mistaken identity. Murphy was shot and killed in Harlem’s Grant Houses housing project after attempting to run…
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Obama Increases Number of Women, Minority Judges
Jesse J. Holland of the Associated Press is reporting that President Barack Obama is moving at a historic pace to try to diversify the nation’s federal judiciary: Nearly three of every four people he has gotten confirmed to the federal bench are women or minorities. He is the first president who hasn’t selected a majority…
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Troy Davis' Execution Date Set
Trymaine Lee of Huffington Post Black Voices is reporting that the state of Georgia has set an execution date for Troy Davis, the high-profile death row inmate who has maintained his innocence before and during his incarceration. Lee reports that it is the fourth time in as many years that officials have set an execution…
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Hate Crime Victim's Partner Banned From Lawsuit
ColorLines is reporting that hate crime victim James Craig Anderson’s partner of 17 years will not be allowed to participate in the civil lawsuit that Anderson’s family has brought against the seven white teens who participated in his murder. The state of Mississippi will not allow James Bradfield, Anderson’s male partner of 17 years, to…
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MLK Memorial Dedication Rescheduled for October
News One is reporting that organizers have set a new date in October for the dedication of the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial in Washington. Executive Architect Ed Jackson Jr. told the Associated Press on Sunday that the memorial will now be dedicated Oct. 16. A formal announcement is expected soon. The dedication had…
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VIDEO: Serena Williams 'Upset' at U.S. Open
Serena Williams suffered a humiliating loss in the women’s final of the U.S. Open on Sunday. Ninth-seeded Samantha Stosur of Australia won her first major championship with a 6-2, 6-3 win over 28th-seeded Williams on Sunday on Arthur Ashe Stadium. If the seedings made Stosur the favorite, Williams, who was already a 13-time major winner,…
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President Obama Discreetly Honors Fallen 9/11 Victims
The Associated Press is reporting that President Barack Obama visited three sites of loss on the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks that happened the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. Ben Feller reports that President Obama honored the dead of Sept. 11 with his quiet presence Sunday at the three most tangible reminders of both…
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Police Arrest BART Protesters
News One is reporting that several dozen protesters faced off with riot police at a downtown Bay Area Rapid Transit station Thursday in the latest demonstration against the transit agency and its police department, leading to a two-hour shutdown of the station during rush hour and as many as 30 arrests. Protesters had promised to…
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Kelley Williams-Bolar: Ohio Governor Reduces Charges
Julianne Hing of ColorLines is reporting that Kelley Williams-Bolar has finally caught a bit of a break. After being targeted with unusually harsh prosecution, thrown in jail for nine days and denied a pardon when she falsified her home address to get her daughters into a better public school, Ohio Gov. John Kasich reduced the…
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