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NEWS STAND: Obama's Wall St. Showdown, Naomi Campbell's Blow-Up, Reggie Bush and more..
Party Over Here: Democrats set showdown vote on Wall Street bill http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100422/ap_on_bi_ge/us_financial_overhaul Well it seems that the Democratic Party has finally figured out that bi-partisanship doesn’t really work. They have dropped the hammer on Wall Street and the Republican Party by setting a vote on financial industry regulation for Monday. President Obama even shamed the…
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Benjamin L. Hooks Passes Away at 85
Benjamin Hooks, former head of the NAACP, has died Benjamin L. Hooks, a civil rights leader who led the NAACP from 1977 to 1992, has died, said the vice president for communication at the NAACP. … Born in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1925, Hooks grew up in the segregated South. Hooks served in the U.S. Army…
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Sudan's Elections and The Prospects for Peace
Darfur’s fall from the headlines has rendered Africa’s largest country, Sudan, an afterthought to most Americans. But the country is at the most significant crossroads in its short and tumultuous post-colonial history. Over the past few days, Sudanese have been casting ballots in the first national elections in 25 years. Though the outcome in the…
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Happy 95th Birthday, Elizabeth Catlett!
CUERNAVACA, Mexico—Time and age have slowed legendary black sculptor and printmaker Elizabeth Catlett, but just short of her 95th birthday, the lioness in winter is still hot stuff. Brilliant in conversation, with a dry wit and naughty twinkle in her eyes, she gestures with her long hands and fingers at her home here, about 40…
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Everything You Wanted to Know About Barack Obama
On the day he had officially proclaimed United States Census Day 2010, President Barack Obama ticked off a box marked “Black, African American or Negro.” Though the form provided space for him to write in the story we know so well by now—Kenya, Kansas, Hawaii, Hyde Park—he chose the simpler, less divisive route. David Remnick,…
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Some Light Reading: The President's Nuclear Posture Review
Below is the president’s statement on the Nuclear Posture Review One year ago yesterday in Prague, I outlined a comprehensive agenda to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and to pursue the peace and security of a world without them. I look forward to advancing this agenda in Prague this week when I sign the…
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Tech's Ten Most Influential Women
Saw this list of women doing big things in tech over on Laptop Mag in celebration of Ada Lovelace Day. Who is Ada Lovelace you ask? The short version is that Ada’s mother, Lady Byron (once married to poet Lord Byron), was not all that fond of her ex-husband, and saw to it that Ada…
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NEWS STAND: Is Obama's Stimulus Program Shortchanging Minorities?
Minority-Owned Firms Get Fewer Stimulus ContractsThey were hit hardest by the recession but receive less of the money that’s being doled out Latino and black business owners are asking the Obama administration to do a better job of seeing who gets federal stimulus money. According the U.S. Census Bureau, blacks and Hispanics own 5.2 and…
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DC High School Hires Female Head Coach
It’s like ‘Wildcats’, except Natalie Randolph would lay Goldie Hawn out When Coolidge High announced in January that it was looking for a new football coach, one of the school’s science teachers was sitting in a conference room in the building when a colleague asked, “Why don’t you put your name in for it?” Natalie…
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Henrietta Lacks and Her Cancer Cells
What are we to do with the waves of pain, humiliation and outrage that flood from the pages of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks? Not that I blame the author for the high emotions this story elicits. Rebecca Skloot did her job, and she did it expertly. As was the case with Harriet A.…