• 2012 Budget: Obama Reveals $3.73 Trillion Budget

    The Associated Press is reporting that President Barack Obama is sending Congress a $3.73 trillion spending blueprint that pledges $1.1 trillion in deficit savings over the next decade through spending cuts and tax increases. Obama’s new budget projects that the deficit for the current year will surge to an all-time high of $1.65 trillion. That…

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  • National Urban League Accuses Dayton, Ohio, Affiliate of Fiscal Mismanagement

    The Dayton Daily News is reporting that the National Urban League released an e-mail saying that the closing of Ohio’s Dayton Urban League was triggered by “mismanagement and financial errors,” and the local affiliate had a gross lack of leadership in a “bristling” response to questions submitted by the Dayton Daily News. In an e-mail…

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  • Is it Really Over? Mubarak Steps Down

    The Washington Post is reporting that the embattled president of Egypt, Hosni Murabak, has officially stepped down. Mubarak resigned Friday and handed power to the Egyptian military, setting off wild celebrations among protesters across the country who had been demanding his ouster for the last 18 days. When the announcement by Vice President Omar Suleiman…

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  • ColorLines: Microbicides Could Forever Change HIV for Black Women

    Excerpt: If you’re not directly involved in HIV/AIDS research, prevention or treatment, the word microbicide probably means as much to you as, say, integrase inhibitor S/GSK1349572. (For the record, that’s an anti-HIV drug that’s in clinical trials.) But, as ColorLines recently reported, microbicide researchers have brought us one step closer to an HIV prevention method that…

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  • NYT: Counting by Race Presents Challenges to Uniformity in Data Collection

    The New York Times is reporting that complications can arise when data are collected about racial groups, specifically in terms of how people of mixed race are counted. The categories that were originally created for collecting data on race and ethnicity were designed to record one racial- and ethnic-group identity. Multiracial Americans are identifying themselves…

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  • Mississippi: License Plate Proposed to Honor KKK Icon

    Black America Web is reporting that a fight is brewing in Mississippi over a proposal to issue specialty license plates honoring Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, who was an early leader of the Ku Klux Klan. The Mississippi Division of Sons of Confederate Veterans wants to sponsor a series of state-issued license plates to mark…

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  • Rihanna Agrees to 'Soften' Restraining Order Against Chris Brown

    EURweb is reporting that nearly two years after the Grammy-night assault on her by Chris Brown, Rihanna has agreed to allow the restraining order keeping him away from her to be softened, her lawyer, Donald Etra, said. The pop star has requested that the restraining order be dropped to a level one, meaning that they…

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  • Obama to Propose Solutions for Reducing Government Support of Mortgage Market

    The Associated Press is reporting that the Obama administration will release long-awaited proposals for reducing government support of the mortgage market, but Congress will choose the path for reforming financially teetering mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The Treasury Department is scheduled to release a report Friday that lays out three choices for…

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  • Déjà Vu: Jennifer Hudson to Appear on Oprah Show to Discuss Weight Loss

    Renaissance woman Jennifer Hudson will appear on Thursday’s episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show. The Academy Award-winning, Grammy Award-winning Weight Watchers spokesperson chats candidly with Lady O about “some big things happening in her life, including her recent weight loss.” Hudson will show off her lean, fit look after dropping several dress sizes while telling…

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  • CNN Poll: Obama Will Not Win Re-Election in 2012

    EURweb is reporting that roughly 51 percent of Americans expect President Obama to lose his 2012 re-election bid, according to the results of a new CNN-Opinion Research Corp. poll. The new poll finds that 26 percent of registered voters will definitely vote for Obama in the 2012 election, and another 23 percent will probably vote…

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