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Ex-Alabama State Trooper Gets Six Months for Killing Civil Rights Activist Jimmie Lee Jackson

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By Edrea Davis- Ex-Alabama State Trooper James Fowler, 76, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor – second-degree manslaughter – in the 1965 shooting death of civil rights activist Jimmie Lee Jackson. Fowler was sentenced to six months in the Geneva County Jail and must turn himself in by Dec. 1. Jackson’s murder led to the Selma-Montgomery […]
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Michele Norris, NPR Host to Serve as National Ambassador For StoryCorps’ 3rd Annual National Day of Listening

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New York —The national nonprofit organization StoryCorps announced today that NPR’s Michele Norris will serve as Ambassador for its third annual National Day of Listening, which will take place on Friday, November 26, 2010. Sponsored by the Fetzer Institute, the National Day of Listening is an effort to encourage Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs […]
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Melanie L. Campbell Among Equal Pay Advocates to Meet with President Obama

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National Coalition on Black Civic Participation President & CEO and Convener of Black Women’s Roundtable, Melanie L. Campbell was among a small group of advocates for women and girls that met with President Obama to discuss the Senate vote on the Paycheck Fairness Act and the Administration’s ongoing efforts to promote equality and economic security […]
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NABJ Names Maurice Foster as New Executive Director

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – November 19, 2010 – The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) announced that Maurice Foster is the new Executive Director of the largest organization journalists of color in the nation. Foster joins NABJ from the National Bar Association, where he served as Deputy Executive Director for seven years. He brings more than […]
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Who Let the Ducks Out?

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By Julianne Malveaux – Congress convenes on Monday, November 15 for its lame-duck session. Some of the Democrats that will sit in the majority are not going to be coming back to Congress in January. Some of the Republicans, now in the minority, are licking their chops because they will occupy the majority in a […]
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Joseph C. Phillips

The Failing Promise of Public Education

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By Joseph C. Phillips – We, the American public, hold it as an article of faith that those responsible for devising and implementing public policy have our best interests at heart. Our best minds are hard at work, striving to make the world a better place. Our elected officials are dedicated to protecting our freedoms, […]
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Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Surely, No One Should Be Surprised That Palin Plays the Race Card

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By Earl Ofari Hutchinson – The advance PR flacks for HarperCollins knew exactly what they were doing when they calculatedly leaked a provocative passage from Sara Palin’s newest ego stroke book, America by Heart. The passage incited race. This time the target is not President Obama, at least not directly. It is First Lady Michelle […]
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Environment

Is Your Neighborhood Killing You?

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Winston-Salem, N.C.- Since the 1970s Americans have benefited from legislative action to clean up air and water supplies, remedy toxic spills and increase food safety. In many communities, grassroots efforts provide a backstop where legal compliance is absent. But in both rural and urban areas across the U.S., racial minorities and the economically disenfranchised suffer […]
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Senate Passes Black Farmer Lawsuit Legislation

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Atlanta -Two years after the provision in the 2008 Farm Bill that provided the opportunity for late petitioners in the Black farmer lawsuit to file their claims against the United States Department of Agriculture, the Senate has finally passed an appropriations bill that will fund the lawsuit. It was a vote of unanimous consent. While […]
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