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• Zuma impeachment rebuffed, but calls for removal intensify
• As Bernie Sanders draws 10,000, socialism draws 47 percent
• Obama uses N-Word to make point about not using N-Word?
• Cher: "If Trump's elected I'm moving to Jupiter"
• With #ICantBreathe, new movement for justice inspires
• Communists to convene in Chicago
• Ten best and worst of Obama’s first term
• The Battle of Toledo
• George Clooney, Ben Jealous: Action need to avoid humanitarian crisis in Sudan
• Senate leader Mitch McConnell: Marijuana use risks death
• Martin Sheen touts, Occupy Wall Street, Obama presidency
• Disney uses black Princess Tiana character to sell watermelon candy
• Rev. Franklin Graham apologizes to President Obama for questioning his faith
• First black actor to win an Oscar: Hattie McDaniel
• Black and Latino seniors face double poverty rates
• Happy birthday, Marian Anderson! (with video)
• Former IMF head Strauss-Kahn probed for ties to prostitution, pimping
• University of Pennsylvania awards Du Bois honorary doctorate
• Apple's iPod, iPhone, Macs made in inhuman working conditions
• 100,000 demand Clarence Thomas stay out of health care hearing
• President Obama croons "Sweet Home Chicago" with BB King
• Billy Graham's son Franklin questions Obama's Christianity
• Today is 75th anniversary of Rep. Barbara Jordan's birth (with video)
• 600 percent increase in racial stop-and-frisk policing in NY
• Online campaign to boycott Koch Industries grows
• New York police charged with spying, dirty tricks against Al Sharpton
• Henry Winston centennial celebration to be held in New York
• Black atheists plan billboard campaign for African American History Month
• Clint Eastwood Super Bowl ad has GOP on the defensive
• National Underground Railroad Freedom Center may close doors
• Chris Rock says he’s willing to pay higher taxes
• Don Cornelius, creator of “Soul Train,” dead at 75
• Justice Department investigating over 100 voting rights violations
• North Carolina to pay $50,000 to sterilization victims
• Obama to investigate mortgage fraud
• Ohio says no to new fracking drilling permits
• Foreclosures set to rise in 2012
• Youngstown earthquake hearing reveals public anger, few answers
• Labor and community groups call for action as mortgage fraud settlement nears
• Black farmers protest bar on further claims in discrimination settlement
• Pat Buchanan loses platform at MSNBC?
• White House announces youth summer jobs program
• Movement to end corporate personhood grows
• Bank pays biggest settlement ever in mortgage rip-off
• Senate to hold hearings on early voting restrictions
• Obama administration reverses Bush policy on affirmative action
• Two thirds of HIV victims in U.S. are untreated
• Black public workers first laid off by job cuts
• Routine teen-aged HIV test proposed by doctors
• White House holds first policy conference on African Americans
• National day of action on voting rights set for Dec 10
• Supreme Court says no new hearing to Duane Buck
• In Libya, Al Qaeda banner flies over Benghazi: false flags or true colors?
• Thousands of women in North Carolina victims of sterilization
• House Dems call for voter suppression hearings
• Civil rights groups say: Tell MSNBC to fire Pat Buchanan
• Occupy Wall Street fuels growing bank divestment movement
• Who owns foreclosed homes in Mass.? No one seems to know
• Martin Sheen, George Clooney call for more support for Obama
• Supreme Court says Mumia death sentence is unconstitutional
• Youngstown says vote no on anti-union legislation
• Civil rights, labor groups to hold jobs march Oct. 15
• 35 states get an F on teaching civil rights
• Jesse Jackson calls for White House commission on poverty
• Morgan Freeman charges tea party motivated by racism
• Sharp rise in foreclosure notices
• Obama makes historic achievement in diversifying federal courts
• Groups launch effort to prevent execution of Troy Davis
• Black scientists face discrimination in health funding
• Obama, the debt, and "shared sacrifice"
• Detroit demands action on jobs
• Will Obama get on the bus for federal action to create jobs?
• Smiley and West poverty tour draws criticism, support
• Congressional Black Caucus jobs hearings begin in Cleveland
• Black Caucus demands immediate action on jobs
• Rebuild the Dream movement launched in New York
• Congressional Progressive Caucus launches campaign to push for jobs
• Exonerated political prisoner, Geronimo Pratt, dies in Tanzania
• What will it take to pass a jobs program?
• Letterman, Seinfeld, De Niro hit Trump on racism
• Mumia Abu Jamal granted new sentencing hearing
• Chase forced to pay back military families over foreclosures
• Overturning child labor laws: top priority for GOP
• Groups launch effort to prevent execution of Troy Davis
• Banks agree to compensate foreclosure victims
• Next stop on the Red School Bus Tour: New Haven
• Youngstown protests Kasich Chamber of Commerce visit
• Capitalism sucks: more loyal to profit abroad than jobs at home
• J .P. Morgan Chase forecloses on active duty troops
• Anti-segregation march planned for Raleigh
• With rise of Egypt, Glenn Beck's popularity falls
• Republicans set to kill mortgage assistance programs
• Groups protest GOP censorship at Smithsonian
• Lawmaker panel faults “reckless” banks as causing great recession
• Homelessness, poverty up across the country
• Banks seize over one million homes in 2010
• Youth vote against the GOP
• One-half of black youth with diplomas jobless
• Capitalism sucks, unless you are very very rich
• Cook County sheriff refuses to foreclose as housing crisis deepens
• Republican policies the cause of prison-to-poverty cycle
• Possible foreclosure fraud prompts investigation by feds
• One Nation vs. Restoring Honor: how do you measure success?
• Labor leads campaign for moratorium on foreclosures
• Over 4 million U.S. citizens denied right to vote
• Gold companies make big profits with Glenn Beck
• Groups demand pardon for Scott Sisters in Mississippi
• Groups issue call to action on Paycheck Fairness Act
• Government offers $1 billion more for housing crisis, still hard to keep pace
• Noted scholar and activist Dr. Ron Walters dies at 72
• Business campaigns against EFCA in fall contests
• ACLU sues Obama to stop U.S. hit lists
• Disabled workers suffer more, Labor Department says
• Death Row inmate Troy Davis faces execution, again
• Chamber of Commerce vows to elect best Congress its money can buy
• Wyclef Jean to challenge ballot ruling
• Blackstone billionaire compares Obama to Hitler on taxes
• Sovereign Citizens hate group on the rise
• Civil liberties groups sue Treasury Dept. over assassinations
• GOP blocks bills, drawing Obama ire
• Maxine Waters rejects ethics violation, wants public trial
• House to vote on crack-cocaine sentencing laws
• Obama admin presses Senate to help end gender wage gap
• White House announces plan to end homelessness
• GOP says no to jobless benefits, groups plan D.C. march
• Death row inmate Troy Davis hearing set for Wednesday
• Black and Latino home losses continue to mount
• San Francisco requires cell phone industry to post radiation warnings
• Corporate interests block jobs legislation
• Slaves who built U.S. Capitol to be honored
• Black Caucus members call for reform of ethics office
• Oil cleanup workers fight back against BP
• Outrage spurs BP boycott
• Minority, women farmers’discrimination suits nears settlement
• Racial wealth gap quadruples in 20 years
• Public to Fox News: Drop Stossel
• New foreclosures down, repossessions rise in April
• Despite high unemployment, Black teens more optimistic
• Working-class and rural communities win victory in FCC ruling
• Building jobs movement from the ground up
• Militant action needed to solve youth unemployment
• Court strikes blow against equal Internet access
• Federal panel grills Greenspan, Citigroup on predatory lending
• Immigrant vets face deportation
• Google quits China
• Senate drug sentencing bill reduces disparities, not far enough
• Criminal justice reform takes step forward
• Debate rages on how to solve Black unemployment
• War is peace
• Desperate times in America: selling food stamps to pay bills