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National Action Network Climbing Out of Debt
by Krissah Thompson The Rev. Al Sharpton’s civil rights organization, National Action Network, said Tuesday that it is putting its deep financial difficulties behind it. The statement came in response to a news report providing details about the organization’s shaky financial footing at the end of 2008. Tax records show it was constantly in debt…
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Eddie Bernice Johnson's Dumb Scholarship Awards
by Jonathan Capeheart Beware members of Congress in safe districts. More often than not, they end up wrapping themselves in the corrupting cloak of entitlement. My favorite, as you probably know, is Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.). If you didn’t, just click here to get the quick debrief. But the gold in gall might have to…
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Plaxico Burress' Punishment Doesn't Fit the Crime
by LaVar Arrington My former teammate while with the New York Giants Plaxico Burress was denied a work furlough Tuesday. The New York State Department of Correctional Services said the serious nature of his November 2008 crime led them to turning down his request for a second time. Burress can appeal but otherwise can’t reapply for…
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Brutal Slave History Unearthed in D.C. Suburb
By Michael E. Ruane From the old road that crossed the Monocacy River, you could plainly see the slave cabins of L’Hermitage. They were lined up in front of the plantation house, not hidden out back, as was the custom. And passersby could see the implements of oppression — whips and stocks — that the…
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Glenn Beck Rally Spurs Countermarches
By DeNeen Brown Social activists and civil rights leaders, among them the Rev. Al Sharpton, are planning marches and demonstrations — including the unveiling of a nearly four-story original sculpture on the Mall — on Aug. 28 to coincide with a rally organized by Fox News personality Glenn Beck. Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally, with former…
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Ex-White House Social Secretary Desirée Rogers to Lead Johnson Publishing
By Robin Givhan Desirée Rogers, the former White House social secretary, has been named chief executive officer of Johnson Publishing, the company announced Tuesday. Rogers will oversee the day-to-day operations of the Chicago-based firm that publishes Ebony and Jet magazines. Linda Johnson Rice, the daughter of company founder John H. Johnson — who died in…
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The Glacial Pace of Justice
By Hank Klibanoff Attorney General Eric Holder is circulating in Congress his second report on the Justice Department’s efforts to solve 109 murder cases in the South during the 1950s and ’60s that appear to have been racially motivated. What began as a Justice Department initiative in 2006 to investigate cold cases became a mandate…
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Black History Unearthed in Timbuctoo, N.J.
By DeNeen Brown TIMBUCTOO, N.J. — In Timbuctoo lies a hill. Underneath that hill lies a house, or what archaeologists think might have been a house once upon a time. The silver clasp of a woman’s handbag, piles of Mason jars, chips of dinner plates and an empty jar of Dixie Peach Pomade lie among…
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It's Never Too Late To Honor a Fallen Hero
by Col. Charles D. Allen An evening TV news broadcast caught my attention this week and since then I have followed the reports of the death of Vernon Baker. Mr. Baker, an African American who served in World War II in the segregated units of the U.S. Army, died after 90 years of very full…
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RIP, Vernon J. Baker
by T. Rees Shapiro First Lt. Vernon J. Baker, 90, an Army infantryman who, more than 50 years after the end of World War II, became the only surviving African American to receive the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions during the war, died July 13 at his home near St. Maries, Idaho. He…
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