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More Than 20 Injured on D.C.-to-Los Angeles United Airlines Flight
United Flight 967 from D.C. to Los Angeles hit an extreme patch of turbulence, causing passengers and flight attendants to be thrown around the cabin. Twenty people, including four flight attendants, were injured on the flight that left Dulles Airport heading to LAX. Although most of the injuries were mild, one person was critically injured.…
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Can Financial Reform Narrow the White-Black Wealth Gap?
With the Obama administration’s hard-fought passage of financial reform, Americans are waiting with bated breath and open wallets to see if their windfall is on the horizon. While people of all races have struggled in the past few years, black Americans have been disproportionately affected by the recent economic collapse, and many are eager to…
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What the U.S. Supreme Court Did to Us This Year
Now that the Senate Judiciary Committee has voted along party lines to confirm Solicitor General Elena Kagan for a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court (and full approval by the Democratic-controlled Senate seems like a shoo-in), a new chapter in the court’s history will begin. Kagan will join a court whose conservative majority has aggressively…
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New York's Useless Stop-and-Harass Policy
.0005! That’s the batting average of the mayor of New York City and his police commissioner in patrolling New York City the week George Steinbrenner died. The Yankees owner would have fired them both a thousand times over for weak hitting. New Yorkers, to their credit, tried to fire their mayor by twice voting to…
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Between Truths and Indulgences, Part Two
Read part I of Wole Soyinka’s piece here. Fascination with the slave trade as part of my own history, right from elementary school, was as routine as that generation’s immersion in — for example — local mythology. The most notorious part of this human misadventure, unarguably the transatlantic slave trade, was the stuff on which…
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Between Truths and Indulgences
”Are these the kings of whom the griots sang? Are these their descendants? We do not know them, but we know from which lines—between those who resisted, and those who fawned on the presence of their enslavers—the majority are descended …. If, in a freak teleological reversal, the world were to follow Napoleon’s example and…
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The Plot Thickens: NAACP Retracts Condemnation of Shirley Sherrod's Remarks
This firing of USDA official Shirley Sherrod has more drama than an episode of As the World Turns. Sherrod resigned after a tape surfaced that seemed to show her for making racist remarks about withholding help from a white farmer. Conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart posted the clip and Fox News ran it. Sherrod insisted that…
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The Shameful Shirley Sherrod Witch Hunt
In the wake of former USDA official Shirley Sherrod’s firing for a speech she gave in March, new details have emerged that call into question the punitive actions of her superiors, including the Obama administration. If you’ll recall: Shirley Sherrod, a black woman who served as the USDA’s rural development director for Georgia, says she…
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Once You Go Black: Lindsay Lohan Back With Shawn Chapman Holley
In what amounts to a legal version of musical chairs, Lindsay Lohan has reunited with attorney Shawn Chapman Holley, who resigned after Lohan was sentenced to 30 days in jail for not complying with probation requirement for a 2007 D.U.I. arrest. Holley supposedly dumped Lohan because of her uncontrollable behavior. Lohan insists that Robert Shapiro…
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Bill Restoring Jobless Benefits Extension Ends Senate Republican Delays
Finally, some relief for unemployed Americans whose unemployment benefits had expired. Senate Republicans had filibustered the proposed extension of benefits because many believed that it would cause the unemployed to stop looking for work. Have they been reading Ben Stein’s writing? At any rate, millions of unemployed Americans now have a little wiggle room for…