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CEO compares Michelle Obama to chimpanzee
10:30 AM on 03/08/2010
In the latest unnecessary onslaught of racial slurs, the CEO of Tennessee's Hospitality Association made the bold decision to send an e-mail out to a group of public figures where he compares the first lady, Michelle Obama, to a chimpanzee...
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Why's GOP calling Rangel 'crooked Harlem Democrat'?
10:30 AM on 03/08/2010
That's a rather specific way of referring to the congressman -- he could, after all, just as easily be called "the crooked New York Democrat" or simply "the crooked Democrat."...
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Across USA, many still wait for word about loved ones in Haiti
9:53 AM on 03/08/2010
David Apperson's clothes hang untouched in his closet. His office door remains shut. His Harley-Davidson motorcycle sits in the garage, just where he parked it before he went to Haiti on a business trip in January...
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Every Urban Prep senior is college-bound
9:48 AM on 03/08/2010
100 percent of first senior class at all male, all African-American Englewood academy is accepted to universities...
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Duncan will pressure schools to enforce civil rights laws
9:46 AM on 03/08/2010
Education Secretary Arne Duncan plans to announce Monday that his agency is ramping up enforcement of civil rights laws in schools and colleges, a move that seeks to draw a contrast with the policies of his Republican predecessors...
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Va. health bill could foil Obama proposal
9:36 AM on 03/08/2010
RICHMOND - Here in the former capital of the Old Confederacy, where resistance to the supremacy of federal law has a long and tortuous history, a new battle is being waged over a question that could undercut a key part of President Obama's health care proposal...
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Obama to appeal for public support on health care
9:24 AM on 03/08/2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - With the fate of his signature legislative initiative far from certain, President Obama is taking his last-ditch push for a health care overhaul on the road...
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Paterson faces legal minefield in conduct inquiries
9:18 AM on 03/08/2010
NEW YORK (AP) - Legal experts say the next few days and weeks could be the most dangerous yet for the embattled administration of Gov. David Paterson...
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8-year-old girl pleads with 911 dispatcher as mother dies
9:04 AM on 03/08/2010
VIDEO - Detroit police have released a chilling 911 call made by a young girl trying to get help after her parents were shot...
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Wonder 'breathless' as he gets French honor
8:37 AM on 03/08/2010
PARIS (AP) - It's taken nearly 30 years, but Stevie Wonder has finally received his medal for being named into France's prestigious National Order of Arts and Letters...
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Mo'Nique wins best supporting actress Oscar for 'Precious'
10:04 PM on 03/07/2010
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Mo'Nique became the fifth black woman to win an acting Oscar, 70 years after Hattie McDaniel became the first to do so for 'Gone with the Wind'...
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US troops withdrawing en masse from Haiti
9:02 PM on 03/07/2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- U.S. troops are withdrawing from the shattered capital, leaving many Haitians anxious that the most visible portion of international aid is ending...
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John Lewis remembers 'Bloody Sunday' march, beatings
4:53 PM on 03/07/2010
SELMA, Alabama (AP) - Georgia Congressman John Lewis strolled to the middle of the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Sunday and remembered the incident 45 years ago...
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Former Birmingham mayor gets 15 years for bribery
4:23 PM on 03/07/2010
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) - Former Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford was sentenced Friday to 15 years in federal prison for taking clothes, Rolex watches, loan payments and cash worth more than $240,000...
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Slideshow: African-Americans overlooked by Oscar
8:13 AM on 03/07/2010
'The Hurt Locker''s Anthony Mackie is just one of a large community of black actors who have yet to be nominated for Hollywood's highest honor...
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'Precious' dominates Spirit Awards with five prizes
10:17 AM on 03/06/2010
LOS ANGELES (AP) - 'Precious' took the best picture prize as it dominated the Spirit Awards, winning four other honors that included trophies for stars Sidibe and Mo'Nique...
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Paterson refuses to resign, pledges to clear his name
4:36 PM on 03/05/2010
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - New York Gov. David Paterson says he expects to clear his name soon in two scandals threatening his administration...
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Kanye West visits 'The Cleveland Show'
3:16 PM on 03/05/2010
Kanye West has kept a fairly low profile in recent months, but soon you'll be able to catch him -- or at least his animated alter ego...
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Son of Jermaine Jackson knocks out little brother on camera
3:09 PM on 03/05/2010
In the video Jermajesty is talking to the camera when his older brother Jaaffar knocks him off out of the frame with a swift punch...
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Jay-Z, Beyoncé meet President Obama during White House visit
2:51 PM on 03/05/2010
It was the president of rap meeting the President of the United States...
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