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Excluded Again Plus: Revisiting A Raisin in the Sun I'm angry. I know that we Black dudes like to take junkets to Las Vegas, just the same as the White boys … but noooooo, we were never invited, not even once, and I want to...

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From Parks to King and from Mandela to Obama

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By Our Correspondent When Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white man 40 years ago she made history. Her arrest and trial, a 381-day Montgomery bus boycott, and finally, the US Supreme Court’s ruling in November...

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The black "insiders" and the Obama administration

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Butler's role in Lawndale Restoration is a potent illustration of the class interests of the layer of black businessmen who formed a key base for Obama. In a 2004 article on North Lawndale, the Chicago Tribune exposed how...

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Obama's Debt To The 'Moses Generation'

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David Remnick, editor-in-chief of The New Yorker, discusses Obama's debt to the "Moses generation" of American civil rights leaders — activists who made it possible for Obama to lead his own "Joshua generation."

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Rain, Delays Didn't Keep Prop 8 Protesters Away

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Written by DCist Contributor Shauna Miller Gay rights supporters gathered near the White House Saturday as part of simultaneous nationwide demonstrations against recently passed ballot measures limiting marriage and adoption...

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New hope for global change

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In his concession speech, John McCain recalled the scandal President Theodore Roosevelt once caused by inviting the renowned educator Booker T. Washington, an African-American slave freed in his infancy, to dine at the White...

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Celebration, challenge

baltimoresun.com
17-Nov-2008 35 related
        

Jackson calls Obama administration 'a chance to start over' In his first public address since Barack Obama was elected president, when cameras captured tears of joy and reflection streaming down his face, the Rev. Jesse L....

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Center for kids opens

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17-Nov-2008 1 related
        

About 300 people Saturday celebrated the opening of the new Rainier Vista Boys & Girls Club and Rainier Valley Teen Center. The 40,000-square-foot building offers gyms, a recording studio and classrooms.

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Written reflection: Author looks back on 60 years as a minister

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17-Nov-2008 1 related
        

Fred Doty discusses his new book 'A Ministry Remembered' Sarah Gilbert Frederick Special to The Free Press No one thought Fred Doty should be a minister. But for as long as he can remember, Doty’s heart was committed to the...

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Africa Can Only Fantasize About Obama’s victory - By Bashir Goth

harowo.com
17-Nov-2008 3 related
        

Obama’s election as the 44th President of the United States has resounded throughout the African continent as it did in many other parts of the world. It was a definitive moment in history, an incredible dream come true for...

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