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Gil Scott-Heron, Poet And Musician, Has Died

Sat, 28 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

NPR - By Daoud Tyler-Ameen - May. 28 (News) - The influential poet and musician is often credited with being one of the progenitors of hip-hop, and is best known for the spoken-word piece "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised."

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Census Bureau briefing

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - By Michael Martinez, David Ariosto - Mar. 24 (News Report) - The growing Hispanic population in the United States has reached a new milestone, topping 50 million, or 16.3% of the nation, officially solidifying its position as the country's second-largest group, U.S. Census Bureau officials said Thursday. "Overall, we've learned that our nation's population has become more racially and ethnically diverse over the past 10 years," Nicholas A. Jones, chief of the bureau's racial statistics branch, told reporters.

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Black populations fall in major cities - USATODAY.com

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

USA Today - By Haya El Nasser - Mar. 22 (News) - The black population is declining in a growing number of major cities more evidence that African Americans' settlement pattern is changing.

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Report says too many whites, men leading military

Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - By Pauline Jelinek - Mar. 08 (Poll) - The U.S. military is too white and too male at the top and needs to change recruiting and promotion policies and lift its ban on women in combat, an independent report for Congress said Monday.

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For Lila Rose, Planned Parenthood video 'sting' is about revolution

Fri, 04 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Christian Science Monitor - By Patrik Jonsson - Feb. 04 (News Analysis) - "Real social revolutions are basically media revolutions ... and this is a media revolution," says Brian Anse Patrick, author of "Rise of the Anti-Media" and a communications professor at the University of Toledo in Ohio. "There's a battle going on between orthodoxies. What was unthinkable or not discussed – well, here we are, we're talking about it."

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Maine governor says NAACP can “kiss my butt”

Fri, 14 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

CNN - By CNN Political Unit - Jan. 14 (News) - Maine Republican Gov. Paul LePage is keeping up his reputation for blunt language, telling an unhappy NAACP chapter that they can "kiss my butt."

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Last Straw for Detroit Residents

Sun, 06 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - Jun. 06 (News Report) - One woman's journey from diehard to defector in her troubled Detroit neighborhood illustrates the city's precarious state today. As a result of plummeting property values and high crime, Detroit - which has shed roughly 1 million residents since the 1950s - is now losing the African- American professionals who had stayed steadfastly, almost defiantly, loyal.

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Detroit's Black Flight

Sat, 05 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Alex P. Kellogg - Jun. 05 (Special Report) - The city—which has shed roughly 1 million residents since the 1950s—is now losing the African-American professionals who had stayed steadfastly, almost defiantly, loyal.

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Study Finds Blacks Blocked From Southern Juries

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Shaila Dewan - Jun. 02 (News Report) - The practice of excluding minorities from Southern juries remains widespread and largely unchecked.

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Segregated clubs in Kentucky raise issues for private business, civil rights law

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Krissah Thompson - Jun. 02 (News Report) - The push to integrate Kentucky's private social clubs, whose members clung to old notions of Southern white privilege for decades after the end of Jim Crow, began in the early 1990s with a lone, quiet protest: At lunchtime on days when the weather was nice, a black preacher and civil rights activist named Louis Coleman would put up a folding card table in front of one of the many unofficially restricted clubs here; set it with a tablecloth, china and candles; and dine on buns and lemonade.

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Andrew Young decries infighting at SCLC group

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - Jun. 01 (News) - Civil rights icon Andrew Young says he has little use for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, where he once worked alongside the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Today, infighting and allegations of financial mismanagement are threatening to undermine the social justice group King co-founded in 1957. Young says the fight is not over a movement, but an organization. He says "If anybody is doing anything that is a movement, or the possibility of a movement, I would be glad to support it. But I'm not interested in organizations. None of them. Except the NAACP," the oldest U.S. civil rights group, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

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The New Poor: Blacks in Memphis Lose Decades of Gains

Mon, 31 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Michael Powell - May. 31 (Special Report) - The combination of growing foreclosures and rising unemployment have destroyed black wealth and income and erased two decades of slow progress.

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A drift back into segregation

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Stephanie McCrummen - Apr. 20 (News Report) - School system practices across nation contribute to a present-day version that is no less insidious.

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Miss. county schools ordered to comply with desegregation order

Wed, 14 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Spencer S. Hsu - Apr. 14 (News Report) - A federal judge Tuesday ordered a rural county in southwestern Mississippi to stop segregating its schools by grouping African American students into all-black classrooms and allowing white students to transfer to the county's only majority-white school, the U.S. Justice Department announced.

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Virginia governor amends Confederate history proclamation to include slavery

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Anita Kumar - Apr. 08 (News Report) - After a barrage of nationwide criticism for excluding slavery from his Confederate History Month proclamation, Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell (R) on Wednesday conceded that it was "a major omission" and amended the document to acknowledge the state's complicated past.

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McDonnell's Confederate History Month proclamation irks civil rights leaders

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Anita Kumar, Rosalind S. Helderman - Apr. 07 (News Report) - Gov. Robert F. McDonnell, reviving a controversy that had been dormant for eight years, has declared that April will be Confederate History Month in Virginia, a move that angered civil rights leaders Tuesday but that political observers said would strengthen his position with his conservative base.

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'Tea party' protesters accused of spitting on lawmaker, using slurs

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Paul Kane - Mar. 21 (News Report) - Members of the Congressional Black Caucus said that racial epithets were hurled at them Saturday by angry protesters who had gathered at the Capitol to protest health-care legislation, and one congressman said he was spit upon. The most high-profile openly gay congressman, Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), was heckled with anti-gay chants.

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U.S. approves settlement for black farmers

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Carrie Johnson - Feb. 19 (News Report) - The Obama administration announced a $1.25 billion settlement Thursday to resolve charges by thousands of black farmers who say that for decades the Agriculture Department discriminated against them in loan programs.

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Blacks hit hard by economy's punch

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By V. Dion Haynes - Nov. 24 (News Report) - Joblessness for 16-to-24-year-old black men has reached Great Depression proportions -- 34.5 percent in October, more than three times the rate for the general U.S. population. And last Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that unemployment

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Henry Louis Gates Jr. arrested. Seriously, Cambridge?

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Carolyn Kellogg - Jul. 21 (Breaking News) - Preeminent scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr., who holds one of 20 elite professorship at Harvard University and has hosted several PBS television programs was arrested in Cambridge, Mass., on Thursday at his home. According to an Associated Press report,

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Steele Reaches Out to Skeptical NAACP

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

CBS News - By Brian Montopoli - Jul. 15 (News Report) - It was clear that Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele was facing a skeptical crowd even before he stepped onstage to address the NAACP's 100th anniversary convention Tuesday.

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Obama: Slavery's past should be taught He says past cruelty should be connected to current events

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - Jul. 14 (News Report) - President Barack Obama says slavery is a terrible part of the United States' history and should be taught in a way that connects that past cruelty to current events, such as the genocide in Sudan's Darfur region

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Senate Apologizes For Slavery

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

All Things Considered - Jun. 19 (News Report) - The U.S. Senate apologized Thursday for slavery and for the segregationist Jim Crow laws, 144 years after the Civil War and 45 years after passing the Civil Rights Act.

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Racist e-mail aimed at Obama raises hackles in Tennessee

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - Jun. 16 (News Report) - Sherri Goforth, an administrative assistant to state Sen. Diane Black, R-Gallatin, has admitted she sent the e-mail May 28 with the title "Historical Keepsake Photo." She said, without elaborating, that she mistakenly sent it "to the wrong list of people."

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Another 'black man did it' hoax sparks outrage

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Jesse Washington - Jun. 02 (News Report) - It's an old lie, claiming that The Black Man Did It. But it was trotted out again last week when a white mother from suburban Philadelphia said two black men snatched her and her 9-year-old daughter from their SUV and abducted them in the trunk of a black Cadillac.

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