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Congressional Black Caucus: President Obama's not listening
10:12 AM on 03/11/2010
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus are headed to the White House for a meeting on jobs Thursday, and they'll have a few words to say about how President Barack Obama is doing his.
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Leona Lewis auctions date for Haiti
12:29 PM on 02/22/2010
Leona Lewis is auctioning off a night of her company to raise money for the Haiti aid appeal...
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Cornel West urges people not to 'sanitize' King's legacy
10:47 AM on 01/19/2010
ATLANTA (AP) - Scholar and activist Cornel West invoked the fiery side of Martin Luther King Jr.'s rhetoric Monday...
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Wash. lawmaker wants to banish negative language
3:25 PM on 01/12/2010
A Washington lawmaker wants to replace euphemisms like "disadvantaged" and "at-risk" with a new one, "at hope"...
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Forget holidays; caring should be year-round activity
8:16 AM on 11/29/2009
OPINION - Should we really set aside just one or two days a year to prove ourselves grateful and thankful, or to help our fellow man?
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Ownership is key to unlocking true freedom
8:51 AM on 11/01/2009
OPINION - Financial freedom is one of the keys to psychological, spiritual and political freedom - they are all inextricably linked...
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'About our Children' featuring Bill Cosby
4:29 PM on 09/20/2009
VIDEO -- Watch MSNBC's telecast "About Our Children," featuring Bill Cosby and moderated by Independent Women's Forum president and MSNBC political analyst Michelle Bernard, which aired Sunday, September 20th....
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Why it's time to talk about our children
9:55 AM on 09/20/2009
OPINION -- Fifty-four years ago, the late Thurgood Marshall via the Brown v. Board of Education decision, affirmed one of the core principals upon which this society is based: equality...
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87-year-old woman who lives in a shack gets a new home
12:31 PM on 08/31/2009
VIDEO -- Last month we covered a story of an 87-year old woman living in a one-room shack in rural Scott County south of Lena.Thanks to that story over $35,000 has been raised to build her a new house...
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Donations assist 87-year-old woman living in a shack
7:01 AM on 08/12/2009
VIDEO - TheGrio has an update concerning 87-year-old Ester Davis of Lena. We first showed you that Ms. Davis is living in a 160-year-old leaky shack in deplorable conditions...
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87-year-old woman lives in leaky shack, prays for help
9:21 AM on 07/31/2009
An 87-year-old woman, living alone, in a 160-year-old shack about three miles south of Lena, Mississippi says she has no one to help her get out of the deplorable conditions. Every room in her shack leaks, except for the living room in the center of the badly deteriorated structure. In...
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Atlanta to be first major city to demolish large housing projects
10:21 AM on 07/28/2009
The nation's bulldozer attack on crime and poverty will soon make Atlanta -- home of the first public housing development -- the first major city to eliminate all of its large housing projects. Cities from Boston to Los Angeles are following its lead...
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American poverty as serious as in developing world
7:48 AM on 06/16/2009
On June 20, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and other activists are hoping to draw as many as 50,000 people...
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Obama to Dems: Health reform 'is in your hands'
VIDEO - Victory within reach, President Obama exhorted House Democrats on Saturday to stay true to their party's legacy and make history...
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