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Herman Cain defends Rick Santorum 'black people' comment on 'The View' (VIDEO)
January 9, 2012 - Herman Cain might be out of the race but that doesn’t mean he’s going away! Following in the illustrious “Oh, are they still here?” footsteps of Christine O’Donnell (yes, she’s still here), Cain has taken to the airwaves to further push the 999 Revolution Solution, a plan which, we assume, won’t involve an actual revolution. Today he appeared on The View‘s first show of 2012 and spoke about his former rivals, taking the chance to defend Rick Santorum’s controversial “black people” comment. Read more at mediate.com.
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Beverly Johnson: 'I've paid a price' to reach the top (VIDEO)
January 9, 2012 - Beverly Johnson decided to become a brand way before "branding" became a well-known marketing phrase. "I can go back to Newsweek in 1975 when I began modeling," Johnson told theGrio. "People asked me, 'what do you want to do,' and I said 'I want to be a brand' before it became popular. I have been pretty fortunate." Read more at thegrio.com.
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Summer Jobs+: Obama sets goal of 250,000 new jobs for youth
January 6, 2012 - Bryan Holston couldn't quite believe he was at the White House on Thursday, among the invited guests as President Obama unveiled a summer jobs initiative aimed at America's youth.
Yet the topic is one the 27-year-old from Providence, Rhode Island knows well. A former busboy, dishwasher and dietary aide, he empathizes with other young people -- particularly black males like himself -- trying to find work in today's tight job market. Read more at thegrio.com.
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Manager: Etta James Released From Hospital
January 6, 2011 - Etta James’ longtime friend and manager says the singer has been released from a Southern California hospital and is back at home with her family.
Lupe De Leon says James was released Thursday afternoon, just a few days after the terminally ill singer’s condition improved enough for her to be removed from a breathing machine. Read more at newsone.com.
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Tuskegee Airman And Business School Dean Dies At 92
January 5, 2012 - Stewart Fulbright, a trailblazing black educator who piloted a bomber during World War II as one of the Tuskegee Airmen and later served as the first dean of the North Carolina Central University School of Business, has died, He was 92. Read more at newsone.com.
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Report: Missing Texas 14-year-old mistakenly deported to Colombia
January 4, 2012 - A 14-year-old Texas girl who has been missing since 2010 was mistakenly deported to Colombia by immigration agents and is now sitting in a detention facility waiting to come home.
According to CBS affiliate KHOU Jakadrien Turner ran away from home in the fall of 2010 following her parents divorce and the death of her grandfather. Read more at cbsnews.com.
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Does the 2012 Election Mean Anything To African America?
January 4, 2011 - A full three years since our First Black President assumed power in January 2009 with thumping majorities in both the House and Senate, and with a full year of campaigning ahead of us, it's time for black America to ask the obvious question.
Once black America gets beyond bragging rights, what difference have presidential and congressional politics made lately? What, if anything is likely to change when Democrats or Republicans win or lose Congress and/or the White House in 2012? Can we really say that who wins or loses this election will really change how and how well we live? The honest answer is probably not. Read more at blackagendareport.com.
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NAACP Slams Santorum for Remarks About Blacks
January 4, 2011 - Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum is quickly becoming familiar with the front-runner scrutiny machine: A day after this break-out performance in Iowa’s Republican caucuses, he came under fire from the country’s leading civil rights organization for comments singling out blacks as people whose lives he would improve without using “somebody else’s money.”
In response to a voters’ question, Santorum on Monday was discussing the Medicaid program for the poor and disabled when he commented, “That’s what the bottom line is. So I don’t want to make black people’s lives better by giving them somebody else’s money. I want to give them the opportunity to go out and earn the money and provide for themselves and their families.” Read more at nationaljournal.com.
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Ct. racial profiling law ignored for a decade
January 4, 2012 - Only 27 police departments consistently file annual reports required by state law to show whether minorities are targeted in traffic stops — not that it would matter if more departments complied. No one has analyzed the limited data that is filed since 2001.
A dozen years after the Connecticut General Assembly banned racial profiling in traffic stops and required police departments to file annual reports, a new group of minority lawmakers is pressing to make the reports relevant. Read more at blackpoliticsontheweb.com.
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Black American Income Inequality
January 4, 2012 - As we begin 2012, the issue of income inequality is a matter of high importance for millions of Black Americans and others who struggle to improve their overall quality of life. The fact is that the contradiction of economic injustice for decades has had a devastating impact on Black people across America. Inequality and systematic racial discrimination in education, economics, and the environment have been so pervasive and institutionalized that too many of us have come to falsely believe that this situation is permanent without recourse to challenge and change it. Read more at seattlemedium.com.
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Obama names Richard Cordray consumer watchdog chief over GOP objections
January 4, 2012 - President Obama appointed Richard Cordray as head of a federal consumer watchdog agency on Wednesday, defiantly using his executive authority after the Senate rejected the nomination last month.
Speaking in Cordray’s home state of Ohio, where Cordray served as attorney general until losing reelection in 2010, Obama chided Senate Republicans for holding up the nomination since last summer, saying, “I refuse to take ‘no’ for an answer.” Read more at washingtonpost.com.
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59 Percent Of Latinos Unhappy With Obama’s Deportation Policies
January 5, 2011 - Fifty-nine percent of Latinos are unsatisfied with the Obama Administration’s handling of deportations, a survey published by The Pew Hispanic Center reports.
Deportations under the Obama’s watch have increased in record numbers, according to the survey. Nearly 400,000 immigrants are deported annually since Obama assumed the Oval Office, a roughly 30 percent higher annual average than his predecessor George W. Bush. Read more at newsone.com.
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Amber Rose: Kim Kardashian’s A Homewrecker!
January 5, 2011 - Kim Kardashian’s a “homewrecker” Amber Rose says in Star Magazine.
Rose and Kanye West were a hot item a few years ago until, Rose alleges, Kardashian stole West from her.
“They were both cheating,” Amber, 28, said. “They were both cheating on me and Reggie with each other.” Read more at newsone.com.
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Lozada Postpones Wedding Because Of Ochocinco’s Cheating?
January 5, 2011 - Reality star Evelyn Lozada‘s engagement to the NFL’s Chad Ochocinco might be on the skids. Apparently, the couple’s nuptials have been put on hold due to Lozada’s intuition that her outgoing fiance might have cheated on her, according to TMZ. Read more at newsone.com.
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YEAH, RIGHT. Santorum: I Said “Blah People,” Not “Black People”
January 5, 2012 - Rick Santorum must think we’re stuck on stupid.
The GOP presidential candidate clearly said “I don’t want to make black people’s lives better by giving them somebody else’s money,” during a recent campaign stop in Iowa. Read more at newsone.com.
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Michele Bachmann Ends Presidential Campaign
January 4, 2011 - Michele Bachmann is quitting the Republican presidential campaign, saying she’s “decided to stand aside” in the wake of her sixth place finish in the Iowa precinct caucuses.
Speaking deliberatively at a news conference in Des Moines, Bachmann said she had “no regrets” whatsoever and said she ran her race with integrity and will continue to fight for the causes she emphasized on the campaign trail. Read more at newsone.com.
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Spike Lee to Host $38,000-Per-Ticket Obama Fundraiser
January 4, 2011 - It looks like President Obama's war chest for the 2012 elections will receive some hefty deposits on Jan. 19.
Legendary filmmaker Spike Lee will host a $38,000-per-ticket fundraiser for Obama that evening in New York City. Earlier that same day, the president will hope to leave a few pockets with lint as he hosts a dinner at a four-star restaurant. Read more at theroot.com.
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Sickle Cell Sidelines a Pittsburgh Steeler
January 4, 2011 - Ryan Clark thought that Saturday might be different. Even though he sat out the Pittsburgh Steelers' last two games at Denver -- after suffering a severe medical condition when he played there in 2007 -- Clark thought he might have a shot this week because it's a playoff game.
But Steelers coach Mike Tomlin has decided otherwise. Read more at theroot.com.
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Don Cheadle feels the wrath of Barack Obama's Twitter warriors
January 5, 2012 - Hollywood actor Don Cheadle learned the hard way what many public figures have known for a while: don't say anything bad about President Obama.
There is certainly an increase in the level of accessibility of media and entertainment figures in an age of social media, where regular people can tweet directly to their favorite pundits and performers. While many may assume that it's vocal critics of President Obama like Cornel West and Matt Damon who are the only ones making all the ruckus, in many ways it's the very passionate and vocal supporters of Obama on Twitter and elsewhere who are having an impact. Read more at thegrio.com.
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Marion Barry: 75-year-old ex-DC mayor gears up for another campaign
January 5, 2011 - As HBO considers making a movie about Marion Barry with Eddie Murphy in the title role, the real Barry is doing something that comes naturally: running for re-election in the nation's capital.
Barry, the former four-term District of Columbia mayor whose legacy will always be tainted by his 1990 arrest after being caught on video smoking crack cocaine in an FBI sting operation, now plays the role of elder statesman on the D.C. Council, where he represents a poor, predominantly black ward. Read more at thegrio.com.
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