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Cerere Kihoro

Buried Civil Rights Treasures Unearthed in New Texts, by Cerere Kihoro

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  Buried Civil Rights Treasures Unearthed in New Texts by Cerere Kihoro (bio) To many, Barack Obama's election marked a new era of race relations - a time when Americans will come closer to resolving the lingering racial issues in ...
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Jimmie L. Hollis

Race, Police, Courtesy and Respect, by Jimmie L. Hollis

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  Race, Police, Courtesy and Respect by Jimmie L. Hollis (bio) Racial profiling made headlines again recently when Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. was arrested by police in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A neighbor reported seeing two men forcing their way ...
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Black Activists Praise Supreme Court's Affirmative Action Decision; Justices' Ruling Throws Sotomayor Nomination into Serious Question

Black Activists Praise Supreme Court’s Affirmative Action Decision; Justices’ Ruling Throws Sotomayor Nomination into Serious Question

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Washington, D.C. - An apparent effort by the Congressional Black Caucus to deter ethics investigations of its membership is drawing sharp criticism from members of the black leadership group Project 21. CBC members reportedly are considering changes to the law ...
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Project 21 Critical of Members of Congress Under Ethics Investigation for Retaliating Against House Ethics Office and for Playing "Race Card"

Project 21 Critical of Members of Congress Under Ethics Investigation for Retaliating Against House Ethics Office and for Playing “Race Card”

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Washington, D.C. - An apparent effort by the Congressional Black Caucus to deter ethics investigations of its membership is drawing sharp criticism from members of the black leadership group Project 21. CBC members reportedly are considering changes to the law ...
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Enlightened Intolerance an Enemy of Democracy, by Bishop Council Nedd II

Enlightened Intolerance an Enemy of Democracy, by Bishop Council Nedd II

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Washington, DC - 76% of African-Americans want Congress to make economic recovery, not climate change, its top priority, says a newly-released nationwide poll of African-Americans conducted by the National Center for Public Policy Research. The poll's release comes as the ...
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African-Americans Favor Delay on Climate Change Legislation

African-Americans Favor Delay on Climate Change Legislation

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Washington, DC - Democrats risk alienating one of their most important constituencies by advancing the Waxman-Markey climate change bill this week or any time before an economic recovery is underway, according to the non-partisan National Center for Public Policy Research ...
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Black Activists Call Senate Slavery Apology "Useless"; Say It Will Empower the Call for Reparations

Black Activists Call Senate Slavery Apology “Useless”; Say It Will Empower the Call for Reparations

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Washington, D.C. - The U.S. Senate resolution apologizing for slavery and segregation will be used as a lobbying tool to acquire reparations payments, say members of the black leadership network Project 21.  The group urges the Senate to "move on," ...
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Black Conservatives Warn of Threat to Continued Freedom on “Juneteenth” Civil Rights Holiday

Black Conservatives Warn of Threat to Continued Freedom on “Juneteenth” Civil Rights Holiday

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Washington, D.C. - On the occasion of “Juneteenth,” the oldest and most recognized annual commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States, members of the Project 21 black leadership network suggest the civil rights-themed holiday be used to ...
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Black Leader Criticizes Voting Rights Act Supreme Court Compromise

Black Leader Criticizes Voting Rights Act Supreme Court Compromise

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Justices Note “Serious Constitutional Concerns,” Yet Do Nothing to Fix Problem Washington, D.C. - A failure by the U.S. Supreme Court to act decisively to fix an inherent problem within the Voting Rights Act is drawing the condemnation of the ...
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Jeffery Temple

Racism is Not the Cause of Health Disparities, by Jeffery Temple

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  Racism is Not the Cause of Health Disparities by Jeffery Temple (bio) In 2002, a congressionally-commissioned report by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) determined health disparities between whites and minorities were caused by racial bias in America's health care ...
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