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By George E. Curry
NNPA Columnist
After more than a
quarter century of crafting well-intentioned, but poorly thought out drug laws,
there are increasing signs that the nation is finally moving toward adopting
more reasonable drug policies. READ MORE
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Family of Dr. King Charged Group Building His Monument
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April 18, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) - The family of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. has charged the foundation building a monument to him on the Mall about $800,000 for the use of his words and image, an arrangement one leading scholar said Dr. King would have found offensive. READ MORE
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Damage Control at Racism Conference
By Nick Cumming-Bruce and Neil MacFarquhar
© New York Times
April 22, 2009
GENEVA -- The United Nations conference on racism reconvened Tuesday, minus another participant as the Czech Republic refused to return after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's speech on Monday attacking Israel.
The Czechs joined a list of countries including the United States, Israel and four other European Union members in snubbing the conference.
U.N. officials engaged in hasty damage control efforts after Mr. Ahmadinejad's speech Navi Pillay, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, Navi Pillay said she found Mr. Ahmadinejad's speech "totally objectionable" but said it did not "provide any justification" for countries to walk out. READ MORE
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By Scott Wilson
© Washington Post
April 19, 2009
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, April 18 -- In presenting himself at a summit here as an equal partner to Latin America, President Obama is drawing on his race as evidence of U.S. social progress and of his own affinity for the region's poor. READ MORE
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Republicans Firing Blanks at Obama
By Albert R. Hunt
© New York Times
April 18, 2009
WASHINGTON - William Faulkner famously wrote that every Southern boy's dreams peaked at "not yet 2 o'clock" on July 3, 1863, at Gettysburg, moments before Pickett's Charge doomed the Confederacy in the American Civil War.
For some elements of the anti-Barack Obama rightists, a comparable moment might be on April 12 when it was barely noon in Washington, moments before U.S. Navy commandos killed three Somali pirates and rescued the kidnapped American sea captain Richard Phillips.
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Civil Lawsuit Over Katrina Begins
By John Schwartz
(C) New York Times
April 21, 2009
NEW ORLEANS - A groundbreaking civil suit began in federal court here Monday to consider claims by property owners that the Army Corps of Engineers amplified the destructive effects of Hurricane Katrina by building a poorly designed navigation channel adjacent to the city.
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Progression is made on Jackie Robinson's legacy
By Kurt Streeter
© Los Angeles Times
April 16, 2009
"Have you seen what we've got now?" asks Don Newcombe, sitting proudly in the stands at Dodger Stadium on a Wednesday night that was bathed in symbolism and dedicated to his great friend: Jackie Robinson. "We've got some real numbers now. I wasn't even really aware of it until Frank McCourt told me the other day . . . we're making progress."
Newcombe was referring to the six African Americans who have begun this season wearing Dodgers blue: James Loney, Juan Pierre, Matt Kemp, Cory Wade, James McDonald and Orlando Hudson.
Progress? Seen from a certain angle, certainly.
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| A kiss is just a kiss -- well, not this one |
By Doug Moore
© St. Louis Post-Dispatch
April 19, 2009
ST. LOUIS - Their kiss launched an online frenzy.
This particular kiss wasn't the first for Chris Spencer and his girlfriend, Emilee Murphree. In fact, they are hundreds of smooches into their 2 1/2- year-old relationship.
But this kiss, captured in a photo April 10 in the Post-Dispatch's Go! section, quickly attracted 350-plus comments on the newspaper's race blog. Specifically, it wasn't the kiss so much as those doing the kissing that created such buzz.
Spencer is black. Murphree is white.
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Affirmations help narrow achievement gap: study
By Julie Steenhuysen
April 16, 2009
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Short writing assignments in which students discuss their most cherished value may be a powerful new tool to help struggling black youths reduce stress and boost their grades, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.
Twelve- and 13-year-old black students who did a series of 15-minute writing exercises saw their grades improve significantly over the course a year, and the benefit has persisted two years after the exercises stopped, they said. READ MORE
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Impoverished Haiti Slips Further as Remittances Dry Up
By Mary Beth Sheridan
Washington Post
April 17, 2009
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, April 16 -- The U.S. economic crisis touched down recently in the dusty town where Marie Rosita Simon ekes out a living selling sandals. Her brother, a New Jersey cabdriver, slashed his monthly $400 transfer to her by half because his business was off.
For Simon, that amounted to a 40 percent plunge in income for her family of five. Coming after a horrendous year in which food prices soared and hurricanes washed away her plantain and bean crops, the 43-year-old street vendor decided something had to go: dinner. And sometimes she can't provide breakfast for her children.
"They're hungry," she confessed. READ MORE
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April 16-22, 2009
Bridges Program
Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia
April 23-24, 2009
King Prajadhipok's Institute
Bangkok, Thailand
April 25, 2009
Barber-Scotia College National Alumni Association
Concord, N.C.
May 2, 2009
Freedom Weekend
Nat. Town Hall Metting
May 8, 2009
Alabama A&M Univ.
(Commencement)
Normal, Ala.
May 9, 2009
Knoxville College
(Commencement)
Knoxville, Tenn.
June 5, 2009
Urban Financial Services Coalition
Detroit, Mich.
June 10-14, 2009
100 Black Men of America
New York, N.Y.
June 21, 2009
Old Storm Branch Baptist Church
North Augusta, S.C.
June 23, 2009
Atlanta Chapter
Knoxville College
Alumni Association
Atlanta, Ga.
June 24-26, 2009
The PowerNetworking Conference
Atlanta, Ga.
June 26,2009
National Newspaper Publishers Association
Minneapolis, Minn.
June 28-30, 2009
Raindbow PUSH
Convention
Chicago, Ill.
July 18-21, 2009
National Speakers Association Convention
Phoenix, Ariz.
August 2-5, 2009
National Black Nurses Association
Toronto, Canada
August 6-9, 2009
National Association of Black Journalists
Tampa, Fla.
August 30-September 3, 2009
White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Washington, D.C.
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The Best of Emerge Magazine
Edited by
George E. Curry
"This whopper of an anthology perfectly captures black life and culture...This retrospective volume is journalism at its best: probing, controversial and serious...Although Emerge was devoted unequivocally to African-Americans, Curry's vision and editorship of this book will instruct, provoke and sometimes entertain or inspire any reader."
- Publishers Weekly
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The Affirmative Action Debate
Edited by George E. Curry
"... Collects the leading voices on all sides of this crucial dialogue...the one book you need to understand and discuss the nation's sharpest political divide."
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Jake Gaither: America's Most Famous Black Coach
By George E. Curry
"Curry has some telling points to make on the unlooked for effects of court-ordered desegregation."
- The New York Times
"... an excellent example of sports writing."
- Library Journal
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