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Homeless But Not Helpless -- Protest Challenges Mayor de Blasio's Aggressive...
Homeless people and their allies will rallied on 125th Street yesterday, demanding an end to rampant violations of their rights by the NYPD under Mayor Bill de Blasio. "We crashed the mayor's phone...
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Beyond Tennis: Serena And Venus Williams Have Already Made History
Venus and Serena Williams[Commentary]No matter what happens in the U.S Open Tennis Tournament, Serena Williams must go down in history as one of the most intelligent and mentally tough athletes to play...
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The Ballot And American Democracy: One Step Foward One Step Back?
President Johnson and Dr. King seal the deal[Witness for Justice]I graduated from high school just a few months before the monumental Voting Rights Act was passed on August 6, 1965. In the photographs...
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South Sudan: Dr. Horace Campbell calls for release of AU report
Fighting has continued in South Sudan’s oil rich Upper Nile State, despite the peace agreement signed on August 26th. Since December 2013, South Sudan's brutal civil war has cost more thousands of...
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VICTORY: Effort To Kill The Iran Deal Dies In The Senate
President Obama and John KerryThe two-month Republican-led effort to kill the Iranian nuclear accord in Congress failed Thursday, after 42 Democrats filibustered a procedural vote related to the...
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The New Southern Strategy: GOP Calumny Against "Black Lives Matter"
GOP should see this image daily--Cold blooded execution of Walter Scott[Speaking Truth To Power]For over a year Congress has ignored the problem of institutional racism within America’s police...
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9/11 -- Vice President Biden and New York Governor Cuomo Address 300-plus...
Governor Cuomo shown with New Jersey Governor Chris ChristieGovernor Joins Participants in Final Leg of Ride Down to World Trade Center SiteVice President Joe Biden and Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today...
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Why County Clerk Kim Davis Is Not Above The Law
Kim Davis --no Rosa ParksRowan County Clerk, Kim Davis, disagrees with the settled law of the land and is refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex Kentucky couples in violation of a federal...
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Rangel On 9/11: We Must Do More For Victims and Victims' Survivors
Rep. Charles RangelFourteen years ago on September 11th, our nation suffered a tragic loss of nearly 3,000 lives when terrorist attacked the World Trade Center (WTC) and the Pentagon.We will never...
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Toward The Looming US Fiscal Crisis
Lee HamiltonA couple of months ago, the Congressional Budget Office issued a sobering report on the U.S. economy’s long-term prospects. Not to put too fine a point on it, we’re headed for the fiscal...
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Talib Kweli's Concert Film "Prisoner of Conscious"
Talib KweliOne of this years can’t-miss exclusive film and music events will take place Saturday, September 26th as world-renowned hip-hop artist and political activist Talib Kweli will be on hand for...
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White House Spokesman Discusses Iran Deal, Syrian Refugees, ISIS, Venezuela
White House Press Secretary Josh EarnestMR. EARNEST: Good afternoon, everybody. Nice to see you all today. Finally Friday. I don’t have anything at the top, so let’s go straight to your questions....
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How to fundraise without a powerful board
What if your nonprofit isn’t comprised of people with power, wealth and influence? What if your board chair can’t pick up the phone and raise $1 million? How do you compete when you feel other...
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Earth: The View from out there
I need you to put on your thinking cap for this op-ed piece. Have you ever looked up into a clear, star-filled nighttime sky and wondered if mankind is alone in the universe? Allow me to play angel’s...
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Top Uganda Security Minister Dead At 56
The interior minister Gen. Nyakairima was once army commander[Global: Africa]Uganda's Minister of Internal Affairs and former Army Commander Gen. Aronda Nyakairima died while on his way back to Uganda...
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American Violence: With 320 Million People U.S. Has Almost One Gun Per Person
Reverend Otis Moss, JrRecently Reverend Otis Moss, Jr., pastor emeritus at Olivet Institutional Baptist Church in Cleveland, Ohio and former co-pastor at Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church after Dr....
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I Support U.S.-Iran Deal Because Diplomacy Must Supercede War
Rep. Charles RangelFourteen years ago a terrible thing happened to our country, to our city, when terrorists attacked us on September 11. Then there were no Republicans, there were no Democrats; there...
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Uganda Security Forces Deny "Massacre" In Acholi Over Alleged "Land Grab"...
Mzee Nekanori Pere, 80 years old, who survived the Apaa attack shows the wounds he sustained to the religious leaders and the army commander.[Global: Africa]By Okot Ronny Job and Okumu Langol...
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Higher Education Is The Best ticket to the middle class--Obama
Remarks of President Barack ObamaWeekly AddressThe White HouseHi, everybody. Next week marks seven years since a financial crisis on Wall Street that would usher in some hard years for working...
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Excellence Through Scholarship: Theme Of AAI Gala 2015
Hage GeingobDuring the United Nations General Assembly, The Africa-America Institute will host its Future Leaders Legacy Fund Awards Gala -- one of the most anticipated and high profile events...
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