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  • Obama's Day, Feb. 22: Breaking Ground on a Black Museum

    Office of the Press SecretaryDAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FORWEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2012

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  • Investor Uses Rap to Teach Business Lessons

    Ben Horowitz, a venture-capital investor in Silicon Valley, is getting attention for his unusual approach to communicating business lessons, especially to tech entrepreneurs: rap lyrics. He says they provide a direct mode of expression that helps him “connect emotionally,” often in far fewer words than it would normally take to explain a concept.  For example,…

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  • Obama Catches Jeremy Lin Fever

    They’re both Harvard grads and racial trailblazers who seemed to rise from obscurity to capture the nation’s attention. It’s no surprise that President Obama is a fan of New York Knicks star Jeremy Lin. The Washington Post reports that the president (a longtime basketball fan who even coaches his daughter’s team) has watched Lin play,…

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  • Black Politicians Harassed, Book Shows

    For black elected officials serving over the past five decades, race-related challenges haven’t ended with getting voted into office. In Rumor, Repression and Racial Politics: How the Harassment of Black Elected Officials Shaped Post-Civil Rights America, author George Derek Musgrove chronicles these politicians’ allegations of disproportionate harassment and repression by the state and the news…

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  • Obama's Day, Feb. 21: Celebrating Blues Music

    THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FOR TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2012 In the morning, the President and the Vice President will receive the Presidential Daily Briefing in the Oval Office. This meeting is closed press. Later in the morning, the President will meet with senior…

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  • BlackPlanet Gets an Update

    One of the first social networking Web sites on the Web, BlackPlanet.com recently witnessed a major facelift with BlackPlanet Next, including easier ways to connect and interact on one of the Web’s foremost black Web sites.  BlackPlanet Next, the Interactive One site’s latest name, adds local and mobile capabilities to the many features BlackPlanet users…

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  • Photos: Whitney's Touching Send-Off

    Houston’s hearse arrives at the church. An emotionally distraught Bobby Brown arrived at Whitney Houston’s funeral but he left before the service started because of a dispute over seating. In a statement, Brown said, “I fail to understand why security treated my family this way and continue to ask us and no one else to…

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  • Bobby Brown Leaves Church Before Funeral

    Update as of 4:35 p.m. ET, February 18: ABC News’ web site has published a statement released by a representative for Bobby Brown, which says, “My children and I were invited to the funeral of my ex-wife Whitney Houston.  We were seated by security and then subsequently asked to move on three separate occasions. I…

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  • Chris Brown: Worse Than You Thought

    By now you’ve probably heard that Rihanna and Chris Brown are making music — and possibly more — together again. How disturbing should this be to us? Very. Slate’s Emily Bazelon argues in a piece today that Brown not only beats women but makes a conscious choice to do so. And if you’ve considered the idea that…

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  • 'Mc StinkyN–ger': Racist-Receipt Suit Settled

    It’s so outrageous that it seems like a bad joke about racism, but it’s real: A restaurant employee who is accused of referring to an African-American customer on his receipts as “Mc Stinkyn—ger” and “Mc Nigsh—” has embarrassed himself, lost his job and cost his former employer what we can only guess is a large…

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