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Rep. Weiner to Seek Treatment, Leave of Absence From House
By Chris Cillizza The top leaders in the Democratic Party called on embattled Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) to resign Saturday even as the scandal-tarred congressman announced he would seek a leave of absence from the House to seek treatment. Weiner spokeswoman Risa Heller said Saturday afternoon that the congressman “departed this morning to seek professional…
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Plessy and Ferguson: Progeny of a Divisive Court Decision Unite
Written by Robert Barnes When Keith Plessy and Phoebe Ferguson decided to start a new civil rights education organization that would bear their famous names, they sealed the deal in a fitting local spot: Cafe Reconcile. They represent the opposing principals in one of the Supreme Court’s landmark decisions, Plessy v. Ferguson, which upheld the…
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Rep. Weiner: I Sent Photo, Won't Resign
Rep. Anthony Weiner said Monday that he had lied about the origins of a lewd photo sent from his personal Twitter account nine days ago, although he added that he would not resign from office because of the scandal. “I have not been honest with myself,” Weiner said at a press conference in New York…
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Today’s Youth Not Engaged, Say Freedom Riders
Written by Krissah Thompson JACKSON, MISS. — A half-dozen blacks and whites sat with boxed sandwiches and sweet tea in a community center on a recent afternoon, wrestling with what’s changed — and what hasn’t — since the Freedom Riders came to town 50 years ago. “We’re still trying to see each other as human,”…
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Can the Birthers Actually Help Obama?
Written by Perry Bacon Jr. Can the so-called birthers help President Obama win re-election? In an interview with ABC News last week, Obama, who has generally avoided talking about the 2012 election, suggested that continued questions about his background from Republicans such as Donald Trump would hurt Republicans in next year’s elections. Some conservatives have…
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Pondering the Meaning of Changing D.C. Demographics
By Marc Fisher Tony Puesan felt very much the pioneer when he opened his jazz club on 14th Street NW in 1993. On an avenue of boarded-up storefronts, a desolate reminder of the devastation wrought by the city’s 1968 race riots, the low rents were more than justified by the high crime rate. But Puesan…
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Notorious B.I.G.'s FBI Murder Case Files Released
By Melissa Bell The murders of Tupac Shakur and Christopher Wallace, a.k.a Notorious B.I.G., rattled the rap world in 1997, creating a vast subject for controversy, West Coast-East Coast battles and two criminal cases that remain unsolved to this day. More than 350 pages of FBI files will give those interested in the case plenty…
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In the Center of the Ring
Written by Stephanie Green Circus life is a wild ride, and Johnathan Lee Iverson, the first African American and the youngest ringmaster in the history of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey’s “greatest show on earth” is right in the middle of the madness. Iverson was in the center spotlight when the circus began its…
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Emmett J. Rice, Federal Reserve Governor, Dies at 91
Emmett J. Rice, 91, a former World Bank official and member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, and the father of Susan E. Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, died March 10 at his home in Camas, Wash. He had congestive heart failure. Dr. Rice was a pioneering economist, banking official and…
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Interview: Jessica Harris on African-American Food and 'High on the Hog'
By DeNeen Brown African-American culinary historian and cookbook author Jessica B. Harris says her latest book, High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey From Africa to America (Bloomsbury), is more about narrative than recipe. In it, the Queens College (CUNY) English professor and founder of the Institute for the Study of Culinary Cultures at Dillard…
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