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3 hrs ago | TreeHugger

Coal Pollution in North Omaha, Nebraska: "Kids Deserve Better Than This"

Watching a diverse, powerful coalition of groups in North Omaha, Nebraska, come together against a coal plant has been inspiring in the past few months.

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Related Topix: Family, Kids, Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy, Personal Finance, Retirement

7 hrs ago | The Afro American Newspaper

Fire Department Names Balto.'s First Black Female Battalion Chief

As she settles in as the first African American woman to become a Baltimore Fire Department battalion chief, Charline B. Stokes can look back over a bumpy road.

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Related Topix: Kids, Family

11 hrs ago | Examiner.com

Islamic leader Louis Farrakhan will not apologize for anti-Semitic slurs

Islamic Minister Louis Farrakhan , known for his history as a civil rights leader for the African American community, seems to be getting deeper into trouble for his anti-Semitic speech in Detroit, the birth place of the Nation of Islam .

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Fri May 24, 2013

WUSA9.com

Planning Agency Accused of Witholding Public Records in "Farm Road" Dispute

SANDY SPRING, Md. There are new accusations that for 6 years the region's most powerful land use agency has been intentionally hiding public documents that could might turn the tide in favor of an historic African American community in Montgomery County that's fighting to restore their property values.

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Daily Kos

Chicago Area Ethnic Handbook: A great guide to our regional cultural traditions

Chicago is an ethnically diverse city and I can prove it with a book. The title of the book is "The Chicago Area Ethnic Handbook: A Guide To The Cultures and Traditions of our Region's Diverse Communities by Jeryl Levin and Cynthia Linton." In 1997, the Illinois Ethnic Coalition , published the first edition of The Ethnic Handbook: A Guide to the ... (more)

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Related Topix: US Politics, Barack Obama, US News, US Senate, Democrat, Illinois, Illinois Government, us Travel, Travel, Immigration Reform

The Hollywood Gossip

Teacher Fired for Using Word "Negro" in Class?

A Bronx teacher says a major misunderstand led to her firing - and now she's during for damages as a result.

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WTOP-FM Washington

Tavis Smiley marks 10th year on PBS

Tavis Smiley has stood out in 20 years in broadcasting, and he has no intention of changing his style or substance.

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Related Topix: The Tavis Smiley Show, Entertainment, Television, Tavis Smiley Reports, Charlie Rose

Brandon Sun

Tavis Smiley marks 10th year as host of PBS show; has a knack for blunt talk, controversy

Tavis Smiley has stood out in 20 years in broadcasting, and he has no intention of changing his style or substance.

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Related Topix: The Tavis Smiley Show, Entertainment, Television, Tavis Smiley Reports, Charlie Rose

Examiner.com

Federal court ruling in Fayette County may have future impact in Houston County

The suit had claimed that the current at-large voting process "has discriminatory effects on the voting strength of Fayette County's black community" and violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

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Related Topix: Houston County, GA, US News, W., Warner Robins, GA

The Guardian

Martin Luther King unmoved by death threats - from the archive, 24 May 1961

It seems a stroke of luck for the United States that the Negroes' leader in Montgomery, Alabama, during the present crisis is a scholarly Baptist minister whose hero is Mahatma Gandhi.

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Thu May 23, 2013

Black Enterprise

Jackie Robinson's Son, David Robinson, Blazes Own Path in Coffee Growing Field

If you've had the chance to see the movie 42, which is in theaters now starring Harrison Ford, Chadwick Boseman and Nicole Beharie, you know a little about Jackie Robinson, the first African-American to play major league baseball.

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Related Topix: Drink, Coffee, 42, Celebrities, Harrison Ford, Chadwick Boseman, Nicole Beharie

The Indianapolis Star

Camaraderie, history of Bachelor Benedict club means lot to prominent black men

This weekend race parties abound — cookouts in backyards with beer iced in coolers, cocktail parties around swimming pools with bartenders in white jackets, and everything in between.

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KPLC-TV Lake Charles

Airport to display exhibits about African-Americans in World War II

A traveling exhibit about the Tuskegee Airmen is at New Orleans Lakefront Airport through Saturday.

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Sunherald.com

Maine governor moves out of office over TV dispute

Republican Gov. Paul LePage has temporarily moved his working space, and Democratic legislative leaders said Thursday he's threatened to move out for good by July 1. The squabble stems from LePage's placement of a television in the hallway outside his State House office, an area that's under the control of legislative leadership.

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Related Topix: US Governors, Paul LePage, Healthcare Law, Law

WDBZ-AM Cincinnati

Sgt. William H. Carvey Becomes 1st Black Soldier To Receive Medal Of Honor

Union and United States Army Sergeant William Harvey Carvey owns the honorable distinction as the first African-American solider to be awarded the Medal Of Honor for his services to the country during the great Civil War.

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Metro Weekly

ACTing Out: African-American Collective Theater presents its 15th DC Black Pride production

With all the events that make up the DC Black Pride weekend, quite a few people from workshop coordinators to town hall facilitators to speed-dating overseers will have that well-known phrase in mind at some point: ''It's showtime!'' In the case of Alan Sharpe, however, not only will he bring the phrase back to its roots, he'll use it twice.

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Related Topix: Arts, Theater

Creative Loafing Atlanta

Do black arts festivals have a future?

LEAPS AND BOUNDS: Renowned Philadelphia dance company Philadanco performs a 40th anniversary show set to the music of George Clinton at the Rialto Center for the Performing Arts during the 2010 National Black Arts Festival.

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Related Topix: Theater, Arts, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf, Drama Movies, Comedy Movies

Examiner.com

Mountaintop, about Dr. Martin Luther King, debuts at The Unicorn in Kansas City

Travel back 45 years to April 1968 when America stood divided on the big social issue of the day, Civil Rights and an inspirational Black minister, Dr.

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Related Topix: Alabama, Theater, Arts

Detroit Free Press

Helping Detroiters find work and a DIA gala, on DPTV's 'American Black Journal'

On the latest episode of Detroit Public Television's 'American Black Journal,' Free Press Editorial Page Editor Stephen Henderson talks about a new nonprofit that is helping connect Detroit job-seekers and employers, and also the Bal Africain, a gala at the Detroit Institute of Arts that supports African and African-American art at the museum.

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Related Topix: Detroit, MI, Opinion

Wed May 22, 2013

CBS Local

Court Strikes Down At-Large Voting In Fayette County

A federal court has struck down Fayette County's at-large method of electing members to certain county offices, saying the method was a violation of the Voting Rights Act.

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