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Racial Profiling Cases on Center Stage After High-Profile Arrest
- By John B. Landers
- Published Wednesday 26th 2009
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Regardless of what side you come down on regarding the recent incident involving the arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, it is one of those racial profiling cases that has propelled the issue back into the minds of average Americans Gates, a prominent Harvard professor, was arrested in his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts and charged with disorderly conduct after a neighbor called the police and reported that two men were trying to break into Gates' home
Black Politicians Face Pressure in New York
- By Meta J. Mereday
- Published Wednesday 26th 2009
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New York State has a historic track record with the caliber of Black politicians it has launched onto the national platform
With congressional dynamos including the late Adam Clayton Powell Jr
The Horror of Socliazed Medicine
- By Alex Avram
- Published Wednesday 26th 2009
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Ronald Reagan once said:
"Freedom is always just one generation away from extinction We don’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream; we have to fight for it and protect it, and then hand it to them so that they shall do the same, or we’re going to find ourselves spending our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children about a time in America, back in the day, when men and women were free
100th Anniversary Celebrated at NAACP Convention
- By Todd A. Smith
- Published Friday 21st 2009
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On March 9, 1892 in Memphis, Tenn three successful African American businessmen were brutally lynched and accused of raping White women, when their actual “crime” was the competition they represented to their White counterparts
A little over a month and a half ago the world watched with glee as India's voters buried their leftist parties, including that country's communist party, under the trash heap of history India set off an avalanche that is sweeping the globe
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