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Haiti Drops Kidnapping Charges Against 10 US Missionaries
Ten US Missionaries had kidnapping charges against them dropped, but the group’s leader remains in Haitian custody A Haitian judge has dropped kidnapping charges against all 10 U.S. missionaries detained for trying to take children out of the country after the Jan. 12 earthquake. But the only missionary still in jail, group leader Laura Silsby,…
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Two Lawmakers Declare Chicago a War Zone, Call for National Guard
Chicago Democratic Reps. John Fritchey and LaShawn Ford think the violence in city has gotten to the point that only the National Guard can restore order Chicago has had 113 homicide victims so far this year, Fritchey said. “As we speak, National Guard members are working side-by-side with our troops to fight a war halfway…
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Lawsuits Expected Over AZ Illegal Immigrant Law
The block is about to get hot in Arizona as the legality of the state’s new illegal immigrant law goes to the courts Republican Gov. Jan Brewer, who signed the bill on Friday, said Arizona must act because Washington has failed to stop the flow of illegal immigrants and drugs from Mexico. … The measure…
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AZ Truck Driver Forced to Show Birth Certificate During Stop
A Phoenix trucker driver was detained at a weigh station after being unable to produce his birth certificate. Agents then called his wife, who left her job to retrieve his birth certificate and social security card. Both the driver and his wife were born in the United States. Abdon was told he did not have…
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Gates' Cold Shower on the Reparations Debate
In the world of slang, smack means either heroin or dung. The academy has been overrun by intellectual smack dealers for a good while, but the biggest bust of the game has just taken place. With intellectual honesty as his intent, Henry Louis Gates Jr. set off a bomb in the black wing of “victim studies”…
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When It Comes to the Slave Trade, All Guilt Is Not Equal
Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s op-ed in the New York Times, “Ending the Slavery Blame-Game” (April 22, 2010), is a provocative piece whose core argument is the following: Because African elites were involved in the transatlantic slave trade as commercial partners with Europeans, blame is necessarily and equally assigned to them as well, spreading guilt…
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Black Like Me in Fiji
Chana Garcia is a journalist, blogger, and cancer survivor who lives in New York City. Alpha, a toddler staying at Homes of Hope, in the schoolhouse. Read Eugene Scott’s letter from Fiji on how he found family in an unexpected place. Alpha drinking outside of the school building. Alpha and Salote on the volleyball court.…
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Warming Up to Treme
I finally got hooked on Treme last night; so far for me, the show about New Orleans’ recovery process has moved slower than molasses in a cold cup of chicory. Maybe it’s the expectation and the adrenalin level of David Simon’s last series, The Wire. I was a latecomer to that show and then watched…
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Nothing Gained, Nothing Lost
Just got in from a nine-hour drive from Orlando, including a trip to Raleigh-Durham International to pick up Skyler (who flew in with the coaches and team); a pit stop at the house to unload the van; then dropping the van off at Enterprise; stopping by the bank to get cash to pay the guy…
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Finding Family in Fiji
I don’t recall ever spending time studying the people and cultures of the South Pacific prior to preparing for a missions trip to Fiji. I obviously recognized Fijians as people of color, but did I feel the same connection for these beautiful people that I felt when I met other blacks who lived overseas? No.…