(November 20, 2008) - When Cornel West gave us his first book, Race Matters, the world in 1993 was a much different place than it is today. “We are in a new day. I couldn’t have said that 15 years ago with Race Matters because I wrote Race Matters in the middle of the bleak ages, political Ice Age,” West said.
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(November 18, 2008) - Sources tell CNN and other news media that former Clinton Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder is President-elect Barack Obama's top choice to be the next attorney general.
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(November 16, 2008) - While President-elect Barack Obama and his team methodically build his administration, the nation's capital prepares for more than one million – with some estimates as high as three million -- people from around the world who want to witness the historic swearing-in...
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(November 15, 2008) -- As the frenzy intensifies over President-elect Barack Obama’s transition moves and potential Cabinet appointees, he conducted one final piece of business as the junior senator from Illinois when he formally resigned from the U.S. Senate, effective Sunday, Nov. 16.
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(November 15, 2008) -- Acknowledging that he and his entire family wept the night Barack Obama became the first Black president in U.S. history, former Secretary of State Colin Powell called Obama the “man to lead us into a new world.”
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(November 14, 2008) - Two men were arrested this morning in the shooting death of former Baltimore City Councilman Kenneth Harris, Sr. 19-year-old Charles McGaney and 20-year old Gary Collins were both arrested at a house in the 1600 block of Pentwood Road about a mile north of the Northwood Shopping Center, where Harris was gunned down outside of the New Haven Lounge jazz club in September.
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(November 10, 2008) - Already elected under historic circumstances, President-elect Barack Obama’s transition to power seems to be moving at unprecedented speed, beginning with his appointment of Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill., as his chief of staff two days after the Nov. 4 election.
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(November 9, 2008) - Washington, D.C., will be bursting at the seams come January. With President-elect Barack Obama poised to become the first African-American president of the United States, and with continuing interest in the charismatic man and his family whose vision birthed a movement, people from around the world are clamoring for access to the never-to-be-seen-again inauguration on Jan. 20.
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(November 9, 2008) - Even as President-elect Barack Obama continues to prep, this time with President Bush in the Oval Office Monday, his wife, Michelle, will take the first step in what she sees as her main job—lining the White House nest for her family.
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(November 9, 2008) – As the death toll rose to 88 late Saturday night, most of them children, police say they have arrested the owner of a Haitian school that collapsed, according to the Associated Press.
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(November 8, 2008) --Two days after his former parishioner’s victory as president of the United States, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright denounced the media for using him as a weapon to destroy Barak Obama’s campaign.
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(November 6, 2008) - Sources within the Democratic Party have confirmed what has been speculated for more than a week—Illinois Rep. Rahm Emanuel, known in Washington for his hard-nosed reputation, has accepted the job as President-elect Barack Obama’s chief of staff.
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(November 5, 2008) - For president-elect Barack Obama, there will be no time for resting on his laurels now that he has defeated John McCain. Immediately after he is sworn in, Obama will begin one of the toughest four-year tests a president has ever faced in the nation’s history.
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(November 19, 2008) - Evan Olaf Ross was born to pop diva Diana Ross and Norwegian shipping magnate Ame Naess Aug. 28 1988. Following not only in his mom’s footsteps, but in those of three of his sisters...
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(November 19, 2008) - There are some names that are synonymous with reggae music—Bob Marley, Dennis Brown and Peter Tosh. But when it comes to lover’s rock—the kind of reggae music that speaks to love, lust and romance—Beres Hammond stands alone.
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(November 15, 2008) -- One caller to the AFRO last week was upset after hearing actress Lindsay Lohan refer to President-elect Barack Obama as the country's "first colored president," using the outdated term in a TV interview.
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(November 15, 2008) - The Los Angeles city attorney has charged Don Cornelius, former host of "Soul Train," in connection with two domestic incidents involving his wife last month.
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(November 13, 2008) - From the small screen to the silver screen, the actors in Disney's “High School Musical” series have seen their work expand into lucrative careers since its television premier almost three years ago. For actors Monique Coleman and Corbin Bleu, the two African-American leads in the series,...
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(November 12, 2008) - Judge Karen Mills-Francis redefines the appearance, attitude and swagger of the stiff-collared, stony-faced judges of years past. Her bold personality is matched only by the vibrant color of her shockingly blonde, pixie-cut hairstyle. | | | |