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President Obama Grants Clemency To 61 Inmates

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By Zenitha Prince, AFRO.com, President Obama has commuted the sentences of 61 drug offenders, the White House announced March 30, underscoring his administration’s commitment to reforming unfair and overly-harsh sentencing laws. More than one-third of the 61 individuals who were granted clemency were serving life sentences, according to White House Counsel Neil Eggleston. To highlight […]
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Politics

A Poll Shows Americans Like President Obama More Than His Predecessor, or Any of His Would-Be Successors

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Washington, DC — As many in the United States hold their noses in the search for the next president, they’re increasingly warming to the one they already have. Buoyed by some good economic news and a surge of goodwill from his base, President Obama is seeing his approval rating rise. That puts Obama, who leaves […]
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Entertainment

Retired Congresswoman Diane Watson and British Filmmaker Present Town Hall Meeting Accusing FX of Misleading the Public with “The People v O.J. Simpson” TV Series

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Los Angeles, CA – Last week, retired Congresswoman and former US Ambassador to Micronesia, Diane Watson, and award winning British filmmaker, Joshua Newton, held a Town Hall Meeting in South Central, Los Angeles to discuss the OJ Simpson trial and the inconsistencies between what really happened versus FX’s portrayal in “The People v O.J. Simpson.” […]
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Rising Star BRI (Briana Babineaux) Debuts at #1 On Billboard Gospel Albums Chart With Debut Project “KEYS TO MY HEART” And Scores Three Other Chart Debuts

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Social media singing sensation Bri (Briana Babineaux) has scored a No. 1* debut for her first album “Keys To My Heart” (Marquis Boone/Tyscot Records ) on Billboard magazine’s Top Gospel Albums chart. The project has also made impressive debuts on other Billboard charts. It’s hit No. 4* on the Christian/Gospel Albums sales chart, No. 43* […]
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How White Georgia Republicans Are Derailing an African-American Candidate

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Without the protections of the Voting Rights Act, local elections are a free-for-all. BYy Spencer Woodman (The Republic) – Gerald Greene, a white Republican from Georgia, has represented the heavily rural, majority-black District 151 in the state House of Representatives for the past three decades. Because, according to Democrats, 151 is the state’s only minority-dominated […]
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Politics

Bill Clinton To Protesters: You Are Defending the People Who Kill the Lives You Say Matter

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He’s at it again. This time I have to say President Clinton held his own against the protesters – even though their issue is valid and a point I often make. Both Clinton’s must realize they can’t change the facts and statistics about how his tough on crime bill contributed to the high incarceration rate […]
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Entertainment

Comedian Ricky Harris Tavis Smiley to Appear at Hope Flood’s “Comics Rocks! Convention” Awards Dinner and Tribute to Comedy Producer Michael Williams

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Los Angeles – Before there was Def Jam, Comedy Central or Comic View, there was The Comedy Act Theater (CAT), the very first Black comedy club in the country. Just ask Chris Tucker, Eddie Murphy, Damon Wayans or a host of others to name the individual who was singularly responsible for nurturing and launching the […]
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Business

Cannabis Activist Ed Forchion Challenges New Jersey on Race, Reefer and Religion Before the U.S. Supreme Court

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Trenton, NJ – In perhaps one of the boldest moves in the recent history of marijuana activism, long time cannabis advocate and Trentonian newspaper columnist, Ed Forchion aka NJWeedman, and his lawyers, New Jersey attorneys Allan Marain, Esq. and John Vincent Saykanic, Esq., are challenging the state of New Jersey before the United States Supreme […]
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Politics

Donald Trump and the GOP is Struggling to Attract More Black Voters than Mitt Romney Received – Zero Percent

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Because of the browning of America, Donald Trump is trying to do what many other Republican presidential candidates have struggled to do in the past but must do to win future elections: make himself more appealing to black and Latino voters. Trump has been arguing that the Democratic party has been taking the black vote […]
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