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Haitian Disaster Relief Efforts
From The Washington Post: Haiti was rocked by a massive earthquake on Jan. 12. To donate to specific relief efforts in Haiti: Mercy Corps Save the Children International Red Cross World Vision UNICEF International Medical Corps The State Dept has set up hotline for Americans to inquire after family in Haiti: 888-407-4747 Haitian musician Wyclef…
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Raw Video: Haitian Earthquake
The 7.0 quake leaves a town in dust. WARNING: The video below has graphic footage from the quake aftermath
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Saving Haiti
Some countries are just not lucky. Haiti is one of those places where bad things keep happening. The massive earthquake that destroyed a large part of the 250-year-old capital city, Port-au-Prince, is just the latest blow for a country that can ill afford any more disasters. In the last two decades, Haiti has suffered a…
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Listen Up! Obama's Winning Streak on Hill Unprecedented
While there is much room for improvement within the Obama administration, he can say in his first year that he won more congressional votes than any other president on issues in which he took a position. From NPR’s Morning Edition
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Mad People: Ad Apartheid on Madison Avenue
Considering the President and First Lady’s recent (illegal) ad popularity, this article by Sanford Moore on Ad Week, originally published last August is both interesting and timely As reported by Nielsen, black-targeted media received some $2.3 billion in 2008. This figure represented 1 percent of measured ad spending. The figures for Q1 2009 reveal the…
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Poll: Blacks Have Mixed Feelings on 'Negro'; Water Still Wet
A hard-hitting NewsOne poll shows that some Black people are OK with the use of ‘Negro’, while others have problems with it depending on the speaker. In one poll, NewsOne/Blackplanet asked members, “Does the word ‘Negro’ offend you?” 70 percent said no, the word does not offend them, while only 30 percent said yes. However,…
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Read/React: Limbaugh on Clinton-Kennedy Convo
“It was Negroes that brought Ted Kennedy his booze.” That is Rush Limbaugh’s explanation for why he was offended at Bill Clinton’s “fetching of coffee” remark described in the new book “Game Change” when discussing the viability of Barack Obama as a presidential candidate. I know the real reason that Teddy Kennedy was mad and…
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US Senate Intelligence Panel on Abdulmutallab to Convene
A Senate Intelligence Panel is set to convene January 21st. Subject? Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab and how he was able to smuggle an incendiary device in his Calvin Kleins. From All Africa: US Senate Intelligence Committee Chairperson, Dianne Feinstein, has said the Senate Intelligence Panel is in the midst of a review of intelligence failures that…
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Poll Says Feeling of Progress Rises Among African-Americans
So, according to a Pew poll, African-Americans feel as though progress is being made despite a lot things being less than great. From The Washington Post: Despite being hit especially hard by the bad economy, job losses and the high rate of foreclosures, African Americans’ assessment of race relations and prospects for the future has…