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June 14, 2009
BRUCE MILES (Arlington Heights) Daily Herald SCHAUMBURG, Illl. (AP) — Louis Clarizio remembers riding the buses. He remembers seeing the
June 14, 2009
Here’s something you wouldn’t expect to see in the middle of a big city like Washington, D.C.: a working farm
June 14, 2009
HOBSON CITY, Ala. (AP) – The cafes, the school and the roller rink are long gone from Alabama’s oldest black
June 14, 2009
MICHELLE LOCKE Associated Press Writer (AP Photo/Eric Risberg) SAN QUENTIN, California (AP) — Like journalists everywhere, the staff of the
June 13, 2009
Dolphins rookie receiver Brennan Marion is trying to make his living on the football field. But at one time, Marion
June 13, 2009
MARK POTTER Miami Gardens, FL – Some Miami residents have decided that they are going to take control of their
June 13, 2009
Walking with a limp after sorting some of the heaviest packages at a the mail facility where he works, a
June 13, 2009
JAKE COYLE AP Entertainment Writer MANCHESTER, Tennessee (AP) — The Bonnaroo Music Festival is large enough that it contains mini-festivals
June 13, 2009
“Lazy” or “thugs” are just a few stereotypes that have haunted African Americans for generations. Now, being black and Muslim
June 12, 2009
MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — State health officials are looking into the latest HIV case
June 12, 2009
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — A reputed Ku Klux Klansman convicted of kidnapping two black men 43 years after the abductions
June 12, 2009
DETROIT- If guiding the city of Detroit through a political scandal that resulted in prison time for former-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick
June 12, 2009
When Reverend Wright spoke about “them Jews” who are keeping him away from speaking to President Obama, he waded into
June 12, 2009
RAPHAEL TENTHANI Associated Press Writer (AP Photo/Riccardo Gangale) BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) — Madonna can get “Mercy,” Malawi’s highest court ruled
June 11, 2009
The school board in St. Lucie County, Florida decided to reinstate suspended teacher Wendy Portillo. She was suspended for allowing
June 11, 2009
It’s a symbol of history — but also of hate. Some 150 years after the Civil War, the confederate flag
June 11, 2009
MARTHA WAGGONER Associated Press Writer DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — The late historian John Hope Franklin was “an angry, happy man”
June 11, 2009
PHILIP ELLIOTT Associated Press Writer (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) GREEN BAY, Wisconsin (AP) — President Barack Obama went to America’s heartland
June 11, 2009
(AP Photo/Keystone/Martial Trezzini) LONDON (AP) — Retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu says that President Barack Obama’s background and race will help
June 11, 2009
On Wednesday, 39-year-old security guard Stephen Tyrone Johns died at George Washington Hospital after a gunman shot him at the