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Striking a Balance on the National Debt
Just about everyone in Washington these days is busying themselves talking about America’s debt, plugging their ideas as the surefire solution to trim the deficit. In Tuesday’s State of the Union address, President Obama offered belt-tightening proposals based on the recommendations of his bipartisan fiscal commission. Last week, House Republicans introduced a bill to sharply…
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History's Lost Black Towns
Founded in 1738, Fort Mose, located just north of St. Augustine, is the United States’ first free black settlement. Amid the fight for control of the New World, Great Britain, Spain and other European nations relied on African slave labor. The king of Spain issued an edict: Any male slave of the British colonies who…
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Can Corporations Blush From Embarrassment?
Flush from the Supreme Court’s expansive reading (pdf) last term of corporate personhood in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission to include the First Amendment right to contribute to federal elections, and free from even the fairly modest restrictions in the McCain-Feingold campaign-financing law, corporations are now seeking to expand their rights of personhood to…
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Aretha to Halle: You Don't Have to Sing to Star in My Movie
Halle Berry, in the most R-E-S-P-E-C-T-ful way possible, recently denied that she will play the lead in a film about Aretha Franklin’s life. Stop right there with the jokes. Despite what the blogosphere might have you believe, the Oscar winner didn’t just snub the role. According to Berry, she won’t take the part because she…
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Marian Wright Edelman on Continuing King's Work
Never mind the model of the “Tiger Mother,” Amy Chua’s controversial version of tough parental love pushing sometimes reluctant children to heights of achievement. Marian Wright Edelman’s hopes are far more basic. The founder of the Children’s Defense Fund has always been a fighter. In the week during which the country celebrated the achievements of…
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Oldest African American Carried No Anger, No Stress
Written by Courtland Milloy Mississippi Winn usually sat in the pew in front of my parents, my two sisters and me at the Avenue Baptist Church in my home town, Shreveport, La. If I had known that she’d become the oldest living African American in the country, I might have at least spoken to her…
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Oldest Living African American Dies at 113
Mississippi Winn never wanted to talk about whether her parents were slaves, but they probably were. Both were born before the Civil War. Winn, a former domestic worker from Shreveport, La., had better things to talk about than conditions of servitude. News reports said that she could still stand on her own and never thought…
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Bryan Monroe to Lead CNN Online Politics Team
Ex-Knight-Ridder, Johnson Publishing Exec Moves to D.C. Bryan Monroe, former news executive at the defunct Knight Ridder and at Johnson Publishing Co., has joined CNN as editor of CNNPolitics.com, CNN announced on Monday. Monroe told Journal-isms he considered it his “dream job” and had started on Monday. “In this newly created role, Monroe will lead…
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Most Memorable Award-Show Moments
CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer earned a standing ovation for his attempt to do the Dougie at the 2010 Soul Train Awards. The dance’s namesake, Doug E. Fresh, joined The Situation Room host onstage for a little bit of encouragement. Michael Jackson died just days before the 2009 BET Awards aired; many people complained about the…
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Tavis Smiley Comes to Washington
Tavis Smiley is unabashed about bringing his controversial road show to President Obama’s turf. The talk show host, a persistent critic of the president, has been an advocate of a “black agenda” that would focus federal resources directly on issues that affect black America. Next week Smiley will preside over a three-hour discussion in Washington,…