Thursday, April 28, 2011

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African-American - News April 28, 2011

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Tentative accord reached on redistricting proposal

Tentative accord reached on redistricting proposal (Staunton Daily News Leader)
Senate Democrats and Republicans reached a tentative agreement Wednesday after two days of talks over revised boundaries for the Senate's 40 districts.

Why Obama Shouldn't Have Had To 'Show His Papers' (thegrio)
"Show me your papers!" Major Blackard, then just 19 years old, dug into his trousers in search of his wallet. He padded his jacket, but could not find his billfold. "Sir, I done left my wallet..." Blackard said. Before he could finish his sentence, the young man was posted against the brick wall, cuffed and taken to the St. Louis city jail. Unable to prove his identity, he would spend the next 21 days in a cramped, musty cell. That's where his older brother Matt found him, beaten and bloodied. Matt returned with Major's employer later that day, wallet and identification card in hand, to post bond. The year was 1899. Major Blackard was my great, great grandfather. The real crime, as Pulitzer Prize winning author Doug Blackmon points on in his seminal work Slavery by Any Other Name, was that my grandfather was a colored man in America. This morning, as White House staffers released copies of the president's long form birth certificate, I couldn't shake the feeling that something very ugly was going on. For the first time in recorded history, a sitting president of the United States found it necessary to produce his original birth certificate for public inspection. Not once, in 235 years, have we ever demanded proof that our president was born on American soil. ENOUGH OF THIS BLATANT RACISM. IT CAN NO LONGER BE TOLERATED AND CAN NO LONGER BE ACCEPTED ANYWHERE AND WITH ANYTHING!

Organizations kick off initiative to emphasize importance of education (O-R Online)
This article has been read 244 times. Four community organizations kicked off a campaign for educational excellence in Washington this afternoon with the hope that others will step up and help toward their goals.

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