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Campaign To Block Uganda's Kutesa From United Nations G.A. Presidency...
Uganda's foreign minister Sam Kutesa[Publisher's Commentary]A campaign to block Ugandan's foreign affairs minister who faces scores of corruption allegations against him from becoming president of the...
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Year Of Action: As 280,000 New Jobs Power Recovery Obama Presses Congress For...
Remarks of President Barack ObamaWeekly AddressThe White HouseMay 3, 2014My number one priority as President is doing whatever I can to create more jobs and opportunity for hardworking families. And...
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Heat's Mourning On President Obama's Fitness Council
Mourning tapped by President Obama for fitness council[Presidential Appointments]President Barack Obama this week announced his intent to appoint the following individuals to key Administration posts:·...
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Sejusa, Top Uganda General In Exile Meets Visiting MPs -- Says FUF
Freedom and Unity Front (FUF) Executive member Gen. David Sejusa has met with a group of Ugandan Members of Parliament who paid him a visit in London, FUF officials announced in a statement."The...
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Boxing Columnist: Mayweather Gets Early Christmas Gift Over Maidana
After the clowns paved the way Mayweather found Maidana wasn't there to laugh [BoxingGlove Notes]Floyd “Money” Mayweather stepped out of his dressing room in the M.G.M Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas,...
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Evil Budget: Paul Ryan Plan Would Increase Wealth Gap Between Haves And...
Rep. Paul Ryan -catering to the very wealthy?“The budget is not fair, Mr. Chair, if 69 percent of the cuts comes from programs for low-income children and families and we are giving extra tax cuts to...
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Nailah Jefferson's "Vanishing Pearls" Chronicles BP Spill's Destruction Of...
[Film]In recent months BP commercials have been plugging the air waves attesting to the company’s accountability and integrity.The purpose of the commercials seems to be clearing the BP name after the...
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Actor Barkhad Abdi Joins Rep. Keith Ellison for Somali Remittances Roundtable
Rep. EllisonHosted by Oxfam America and Adeso on May 12 in MinneapolisOxfam America and Adeso will hold a Roundtable discussion on Monday, May 12, 2014 to discuss ways to improve the flow of...
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F. Michael Higginbotham Discusses His Book – “Ghosts of Jim Crow”
F. Michael HigginbothamIf a Black boy can be thrown out of a swimming pool, then you know we are still a long way off from post-racial America, says F. Michael Higginbotham.The setting was the Oracle...
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State Of Black America: The Widening Wealth Gap And Reparations Agenda
Dr. Ron Daniels[Vantage Point]I recently attended the release of the National Urban League’s Annual State of Black America Report at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.The Report is an...
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Family Of Exiled Uganda Colonel, Museveni Foe In War, Rejects Government's...
The late Lt. Col John Charles OgoleStatement:We, the family of John Charles Ogole in London would like to announce that the arrangements for the burial of their beloved late Lt. Col. John Charles...
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Republican Policies And How America's One-Percenters Thrive While The...
Speaker Boehner and Senate Minority leader McConnell[Comment]Last week, Senate Republicans blocked a vote on raising the federal minimum wage.To economists, wages, goods and services must be priced in...
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John Abadallah Wambere, Uganda Gay Activist, Files For U.S. Asylum
John Abadallah Wambere John Abadallah Wambere, a prominent Ugandan gay activist who was featured in the documentaries “Call Me Kuchu” and “Missionaries of Hate,” filed for asylum today in the United...
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BAM Presents DanceAfrica 2014: Celebrating Africa’s Bantaba
[] The festive Memorial Day weekend tradition under the artistic direction of Baba Chuck Davis returns with Groupe Bakomanga (Madagascar), AACC Dance & Drum Performance Company (Buffalo), Asase...
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Fearing Return To Conflict, Opposition Leader Denounces Mixed Signals On...
Fears that President Koroma may try to scrap two-term limit and plunge country into conflict H E Dr. Ernest Bai KoromaThe President of the Republic of Sierra LeoneState HouseFREETOWN6th May, 2014.Dear...
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Mayor De Blasio Announces RFPs To Access Flood Insurance Affordability
[City Hall]Mayor De Blasio Following vulnerability exposed by Hurricane Sandy, and in the aftermath of last week’s flooding, the de Blasio administration announced that it is launching two key studies,...
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Do No Harm: How To Fix America's Broken Africa Foreign Policy
Secretary of State Kerry[An open Memo to Secretary of State John Kerry] SEVEN PATHWAYS TO FIX BROKEN USA POLICIES IN AFRICAHonorable Secretary,You have been on a tour of Africa that took you to some of...
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Mayor De Blasio's $41 Billion NYC Affordable Housing Initiative
Mayor de Blasio[City Hall] $41 billion total investment to yield 200,000 new and preserved affordable apartments over the coming decade—the largest and most ambitious affordability plan of its kind in...
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KERRY SCORES FEW HITS IN SHORT AFRICA TOUR
May 5 (GIN) – In his just concluded Africa tour, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was striking few deals with African leaders who are intent on pursuing their own agendas on elections, the...
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NIGERIA'S 'MISSING GIRLS' SPARK RALLIES, PROTESTS WORLDWIDE
May 5 (GIN) – An unprecedented surge of gatherings and rallies across the U.S. and abroad, sparked by the kidnapping of over 200 Nigerian boarding school girls, have made plain the growing anger and...
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