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New York Daily News: Harlem's Black elected officials, business leaders are second-guessing loyalties to Paterson.


Reuters: New Orleans elects first white mayor since 1978. Mitch Landrieu was elected mayor of New Orleans on Saturday, the first time in over 30 years that voters of this majority-Black city have chosen a white candidate.


Times-Picayune: Ray Nagin: 'We spoke truth to power and just wasn't afraid'. "I watch our leadership around this city, & we're going to have to grow, develop a new crop of leaders that have that same sense of independence," he said.


Benjamin: White Racial Resentment Bubbles Under the Surface of the Tea Party Movement. The simmering movement is the whitest phenomenon on the national scene, evident not just in its Caucasian numbers but in the bedrock beliefs...


New York Times: Anti-Abortion Ads Split Atlanta. Anti-abortion groups have erected scores of billboards here with an alarming message: “Black children are an endangered species.”


India West: Indian Americans Raise $20K for Kamala Harris’s bid for the California Attorney General’s race.

Final Call: Is Pres. Obama's political success tied to distance from Black issues?


WSFA 12: The Alabama Legislative Black Caucus is speaking out against Governor Bob Riley's raids on gaming centers around the state.


Erin Aubry Kaplan: The term 'Negro'? Color it obsolete. When a website pointed out that 'Negro' was going to appear once more on the 2010 census, many blacks reacted with shock and distaste. They see it as a relic of the bad old days of segregation.

LA Weekly: Latino Gang Member Who Targeted Black Victims Gets Life.


Crew of 42: Conyers: Demote USAID Administrator Shah. Conyers has already voiced concern that the Obama Administration, and more pointedly USAID, has no real plan of action for Haiti. 


Washington Post: Senate likely to be less diverse after elections. That historically all-white club known as the U.S. Senate is likely to lose what little diversity it has after November's elections.


Comercial Appeal: Candidate for Congress & former Memphis Mayor Willie Herenton argued Thursday that fairness demands election of an African-American representative from the 9th Congressional District in his current race with Cohen.


Times Picayune: African American Mayoral candidates in New Orleans frustrated in quest for endorsements.


Fox News: Grand Jury in Louisiana Refuses to Indict White Cop Who Killed 73 Yr Old Black Man last February.


Los Angeles Times: Charter schools' growth promoting segregation, studies say.A UCLA study is one of two finding that the increasingly popular campuses skew toward racially separate student bodies. Charter advocates criticize the reports.


New York Times: Mayoral Primary Gives New Orleans Another Contest This Weekend.

Philadelphia Weekly: Is there an African-American backlash brewing against Barack Obama?


Chicago News Cooperative/NYTimes: Hyde Park-Style Politics Are Evident in Preckwinkle Victory.

Watkins: Republicans' fear of a Black president reaches new heights.


Baltimore Sun: Maryland's 2nd highest court handed the NAACP a victory in the long-running "driving while black" issue, ordering the State Police to turn over records showing how the dept dealt with complaints of racial profiling by its troopers.

Chicago Current: Quinn's Black support in Cook could tip the governor's race.


Memphis Commercial Appeal: African-American clergy commit to help Memphis City Schools.

LA Times: California redistricting effort is out of the backroom but not free of politics. Ethnic groups say the pool of applicants for a citizen commission to redraw Assembly & Senate districts is too white & too male to reflect the state's diversity.


St. Louis American: Ways & Means Committee Chairman Conway snubs Black caucus.

Tuskegee News: Macon County Probate Judge Alfonza Menefee assumed the reins of the Alabama Association of Probate Judges, making history as the first Black male to lead the group.


Dallas Morning News: First Black member of Richardson school board won't seek re-election.

Warikoo: Protest planned over death of Muslim leader.


Detroit Free Press: Imam's autopsy report stuns widow.

NBC Chicago: Illinois Will Lose African-American in U.S. Senate Seat. Two white candidates are now competing for a senate seat that has been held by a Black politician for 11 of the last 17 years.

Chicago Tribune: Toni Preckwinkle ousts Stroger for Cook County Board president.


Trice-Edney/NNPA: Rep. Artur Davis (D-Ala.), a candidate for governor in his home state of Alabama, was the only representative in the 42-member Congressional Black Caucus who did not get an “A” on the NAACP Civil Rights Report Card released this week.


Hill: Black farmers look to Obama to resolve discrimination suits.


Main Justice: Black Panther Leader Skips Deposition scheduled for Tuesday morning by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.


Friess: Reid's Black History Month Column Raises Questions.


Washington Examiner: Fenty's racial problem: Black voters sour on D.C. mayor.


LA Times: Congress should keep pressure on FBI. Skirting legal procedures to obtain phone records is the latest abuse by the agency.


Veterans Today: Gov. Schwarzenegger announced the appointment of Brigadier General Mary J. Kight as the first female adjutant general of the California National Guard and first African-American female National Guard adjutant general in the nation.


Crawley: Why didn’t Obama mention our issues?

NY Daily News: Rep. Charlie Rangel spent $574K on lawyers last quarter - most of his campaign spending.


Time: Why Was a Controversial Imam Shot 20 Times?


CQ Politics: Ford Finds Out What He's Up Against.


St. Louis Post-Dispatch: The president of a Black officers' group blasted the St. Louis Police Department on Monday, claiming it tolerates a culture of racism.


Boston Globe: Panel faults Emerson College on diversity. Says school has ignored role of racial bias in faculty tenure, promotion.


Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Civil rights icon Joseph Lowery admitted to hospital.

Salon: Nostalgia for Bush/Cheney radicalism. The Reagan administration's policy -- treat terrorists as criminals -- is now deemed fringe leftist.


Detroit Free Press: Muslim cleric was shot 21 times by FBl Agents in Dearborn raid, then handcuffed.


Michigan Citizen: U.S. case against Riddle rife with racism.


NY Daily News: Gov. Paterson has mere $620G to battle $12 million-man Andrew Cuomo in primary.


Chicago Sun-Times: Quinn, Hynes woo Black congregations. In Democratic Governor's Race Jabs continue during church tour here.


ObamaJournal.com: Visit this new highly recommended website. The Obama Journal is an ongoing effort to record the key policy decisions & substantive accomplishments of Pres. Obama & his administration.


Boston Globe: Kennedy says decision not to run & enter the campaign to succeed his late uncle "wasn’t the greatest decision I ever made in my life.’’

San Francisco Chronicle: Chris Matthews forgot Obama was Black; many forgot Obama was Black.


Newsweek/Cose: A New Jim Crow? The tragedy of America’s jails.


Detroit News: FBI sting yields tapes on alleged city bribes. Prosecutors want to use secret recordings in Riddle's trial.


Medill Reports-Chicago: An infusion of cash, laughter and maybe votes for Stroger.


Inside Higher Ed: Race and Power in Mississippi

Clarion-Ledger: Higher education leaders assured a room packed Thursday with supporters of Mississippi's historically Black universities that there is little support for a merger of the three schools. Hundreds rally in protest against merger.


Clarion Ledger/Crisp: A proposal to merge Mississippi's three HBCU's apparently has been getting a behind-the-scenes push from an unexpected proponent: Jackson State president Ronald Mason Jr.

White House: Transcript of Remarks by the President in State of the Union Address.


Washington Post: First State of the Union speech by President Obama: 'We face a deficit of trust'.


Watkins: What if Obama gave a State of the Black Union address?


Washington Post: Chris Matthews: I forgot Obama was Black for an hour.


LA Times/AP: Lawsuits accuse police in Calif. of failing to protect Black youth against racial attacks.


AP: The FBI is investigating a threat scrawled last week on a bathroom wall at Hocking College warning that Black students would be killed Feb. 2. Racial threat puts Ohio college on alert, on edge.


Bay State Banner: Some Blacks support Scott Brown on education, business.

Bay State Banner: Coakley lukewarm in Black community.


Amsterdam News: Brooklyn City Council Member Charles Barron vows fight after being ousted by Council as chair of the Higher Education Committee.


Topics upcoming on today's (Jan 27, 2010) Edition Of ‘The Cedric Muhammad & Black Coffee Program’: Cedric’s Rant: ‘Pres. Obama, Please Only Seek One Term!’ & Human Motivation and A Movement For Entrepreneurship In Haiti. Tune in 12noon-5pm EST.


NYTimes/Zeleny: In Speech, Obama to Admit Missteps in First Year.


Politico: South Carolina Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer has compared those on government assistance to “stray animals,” saying that the reason you stop feeding animals is that “they breed.”


South Florida Caribbean News: Haitian Ambassador To US, Joseph to Meet with Congressional Black Caucus to discuss the reconstruction efforts in Haiti.


Williams: Where is the Immigration Debate?


Washington Times: Lobbying gets fierce for Obama's address. Industry, activists seek mention.


Herbert: Obama’s Credibility Gap.


ABC7Chicago: Poll shows race for Illinois governor virtual dead heat.


NBC Chicago: Hynes Leads in Poll, Gets Black Support in Illinois Governor's race primary. "Quinn is the typewriter, Hynes is the computer".


USA Today: Obama pitches plan for middle class, eyes budget freeze as he prepares for his State of the Union address on Wednesday.


Politico: Gloves off in Kirsten Gillibrand vs. Harold Ford fight.


Media Matters for America: Hannity falsely claims charges dropped against New Black Panther carrying nightstick.


Salem-News; White Inmate's Shoulder Injury Means 70 Months for Black Prison Guard in Oregon.


Philadelphia Inquirer: State Sen. Anthony Hardy Williams raises possibility of race for governor of PA.


Washington Post: NAACP seeks dept. probe for bias against Black police officers.


DaveyD: Pittsburgh Police Brutally Beat Young Violinist Who Played for First Lady Michele Obama.

Times of Trenton: Would a white president better serve black America?


Wall St. Journal: Obama Sharpens His Populist Tone.


Plouffe: November doesn't need to be a nightmare for Democrats.


Hakim/NYTimes: Preparing to challenge New York’s first Black governor, Andrew Cuomo Courts Black Support.


NY Daily News: Gov. Paterson's team starts firing away at expected primary foe Andrew Cuomo.


Wall St. Journal: Ford's Focus: Don't Allow a Bay State Repeat. The centrist Democrat thinks that his party needs to take a page from Bill Clinton's playbook.


Hill: Brown's win shows Republicans how to seize Obama's old Illinois Senate seat.


Washington Post: GOP division could keep Va. seat in Democrats' hands.


Washington Post: Rhee says some laid-off teachers in D.C. abused kids:  Union calls D.C. schools chief's claims 'reckless' and without basis in fact.

Philadelphia Daily News: Lies and racism behind her leaving Delco school, principal says.


Politics Daily: Stay the Course: Reagan's Example for Obama.


Chicago Sun-Times: Sparks Fly Over Campaign Ads. One of Chicago’s most iconic politicians, Mayor Harold Washington, surfaced from the grave Thursday to call his 1986 hiring of Gov. Quinn as city revenue director “perhaps my greatest mistake in govt.”

CQ Politics: Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill pledged to explore legislative alternatives to mitigate Thursday's Supreme Court ruling that lifted long-held bans on corporate & union spending in federal elections.


WSJ: Grayson on High Court Ruling Striking Down Limits on Corporate Political Spending: ‘Worst Decision Since Dred Scott’.

National Center for Public Policy Research: Black Conservatives Condemn Grayson Remarks Comparing Protection of Free Speech to Racist Dred Scott Decision.

Dallas Morning News: Federal appeals court orders new trial for Black suspect. A 3-judge panel concluded that prosecutors illegally struck 2 qualified Black prospective jurors & then tried to disguise their intentions to seat an all-white jury.


NYTimes: Census Figures Challenge Views of Race and Ethnicity.


Carribean Life: Staten Island’s first African American elected official.


South Florida Times: Judge Denies Spence-Jones’ Request To Temporarily Block Suspension.

Courthouse News Service: Black Voters Say They Were Disenfranchised.


Washington Post: Obama blames Massachusetts Senate loss on middle-class economic pain.


Whyte: Coakley ignored Black voters at her own peril.


Boston Globe: Tea Party shows its muscle in Bay State. And this week it helped fuel a modern political revolt right here on the turf of its tea-dumping forbears.

Media Matters for America: Wash. Times tries in vain to link Obama to New Black Panthers.


Bayou Buzz: Morial Family, Troy Henry In Tiff In New Orleans Mayor Race .


Florida Times-Union: Florida Legislative Black Caucus gears up to boost Census count.


Yesterday at 2 PM EST Former Washington Post Reporter, Jefferson Morley, Appeared On 'The Cedric Muhammad and Black Coffee Program' To Discuss His Lawsuit Against The CIA On Classified Files; COINTELPRO; and the Recent DHS Spying On The Nation of Islam.


Bloomberg: Geithner Says U.S. Will ‘Never’ Lose Aaa Debt Rating.


Fortune: Alan Greenspan fights back against critics.


Financial Times: Ailing securitisation market hits Citigroup asset sales.


Oregonian: Gasoline station being reborn as community center by African American sorority in North Portland.


Chicago Tribune: African-American entrepreneurs face more challenges to start, build business.


New York Times: 2 Bronx Communities Are Accused of Preventing Blacks From Buying Homes.


Morial: Mission to Beijing: From Dialogue To Partnership. Chinese and African American exchange program and Confucius Institute planned.


Washington Independent: The Democrats’ Jobs Pickle. With unemployment in double digits & no relief in sight, swift passage of the Democrats’ “jobs agenda” might seem like a sure thing. Well, not quite. Blue Dogs Will Be Central in Coming Debate.


Faber/Russia Today: Social obligations will lead Western states to default.


Political Affairs Magazine : African Americans and the Jobs Crisis.


Black Voice News: Toyota Ignores Black Community Customers.


Variety: Bravado, the global music merchandising arm that operates as part of the Universal Music Group, has signed Alicia Keys, Rihanna, Mariah Carey & Whitney Houston to create merchandise in support of their recent album releases & concert tours.


Davey D: Why are Civil Rights Orgs & Leaders Helping Big Media Giants & Telecoms Take Over & Cripple the Internet?


Miami Herald: Obama boosts funds for Historically Black Colleges.


Hill: Fergie, Mary J. Blige, Dave Matthews press Congress for radio compensation.


All Hip Hop: Jay-Z Sues Bank For $3.7 Mil Over Planned Hotel.


Scheer: Obama's endorsement of what he calls the “Volcker Rule” for once puts him squarely on the side of ordinary Americans as opposed to the banking bandits who have so thoroughly fleeced the public.


Roubini: The Ticking U.S. Fiscal Bomb. The administration lacks the political capital for financial reform.


Forbes: George Soros is pouring money into Chinese stocks. That's because the billionaire believes China will emerge as the big winner after the global financial crisis passes, while the U.S. will lose the most in the long run from the recent turmoil.


Gear Live: Negro Leagues Hall of Fame facing financial trouble.


Reuters: Do entrepreneurs need education? Who needs Harvard? Bill Gates is just one of many billionaire entrepreneurs who ditched college early to start a business. But it's not for everyone.


Black Enterprise: Mission to Beijing: Seeking Equal Opportunity in China. An exclusive inside look at the Urban League's effort to bring Chinese investment to African-American communities.

CNN Money: Urban unemployment grows.


Fortune: Why doing good is good for business.

Forbes: America's Two Economies. One is recovering and one isn't.


Wall St. Journal: The SEC v. Investors. The mutual fund lobby loves Mary Schapiro.


Washington Post: AIG plans to pay $100 million in another round of bonuses.

Blogging Stocks: Is the New York Fed a Black Ops Outfit for the Nation's Central Bank?


Smith: Tax credits won't help small business end the recession.


BizJournal: OneUnited Bank, one of the country's largest Black owned banks, swung to a profit in 2009 & its CEO vows to put up to $150 million worth of new loans on its balance sheet, as the lender works to get beyond a controversial stretch.


Hill: Clyburn: 'We've got to spend our way out of this recession'.


AdWeek/Dolliver: How to Reach Affluent African Americans. By not targeting this key segment, some marketers may be missing out.


Philadelphia Business Journal: Mayor Nutter announces new small business loans and grants for Philadelphia.


Volcker/NYTimes: How to Reform Our Financial System.

Naked Capitalism: Volcker Does Not Get It.


Politico: CIA ops moonlight in corporate world, a policy that gives financial firms and hedge funds access to the nation’s top-level intelligence talent.


Bloomberg: Secret Banking Cabal Emerges From AIG Shadows.


Miami Herald: Research shows strength in Miami's inner-city Contrary to U.S. Census data, Social Compact research shows promise for investors focusing their efforts on Miami's inner-city neighborhoods.

Dallas Morning News: It's harder to minority-owned firms to get capital, says government agency report.

LA Times: Owners are skeptical of Obama plan. They and lenders hope that more federal money will work its way to the thousands of small firms that dot the Southland and into the economy. But they also see roadblocks.


South Florida Business Journal: ICABA helps local black business leaders build relationships.


BU Magazine Exchange: The 5 Laws of a Great Team.


Black America Web: Study: Black Buying Power Increased Dramatically.

BusinessWeek: U.S. Recovery Depends on Jobs at Small Businesses.


Bloomberg: Bank Chiefs Plot Response to Financial Regulators in Private Davos Huddle.


NPR: Gates Foundation Pledges $10 Billion For Vaccines. Bill Gates says the decision came because spending on vaccines is "such a good investment."


Financial Times: Volcker has the measure of the banks.


Black Enterprise: Move Your Money. Consumers offer banks a lesson, but will they learn?


Baller Status: 50 Cent Explains Olivia Failure, Says He Lost Millions in Just Hair & Make-Up.


Chicago Tribune: Fire dims economic hopes in Bronzeville.


Charlotte Post: Champion of Black press. Civil rights leader lauds publishers for standing up for federal stimulus money.


Telegraph: Davos 2010: George Soros warns gold is now the 'ultimate bubble'. However, the chairman of Barrick Gold, the world's biggest producer, Peter Munk, said he expected the metal's upward march to continue.


Forbes/Oxford Analytica: The 'Obama-Volcker' Proposal. How the proposed legislation would affect the global economy.


Edmonds: Can This Woman Get You A Job? The stage is set for Labor Secretary Hilda Solis to play a leadership role in solving American unemployment.


WSJ: The Fed's Anti-Inflation Exit Strategy Will Fail. Sooner or later the pressure to lend out excess bank reserves will be unstoppable.


All Gov: Tennessee Firm Exposed Black Workers to More Radioactive Waste than Whites.


Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Jobless Black men are in crisis.


Seattle Medium/Martin: Census Bureau 'Insults' Historic Influence Of Black Newspapers, Publishers Say.


Carolina Peacemaker: Black publishers strategize in Charlotte.


Root: The Art of Turning $25 Million Into $560 Million. The Syncom Venture Partners story.


Du Pont: An Economic Time Bomb. Even if Congress does nothing, tax hikes will hit hard a year from now.


Weekly Standard/Kristol: Why Not Praise Obama’s Spending Freeze? A political opportunity for the GOP.


Nichols: Blocking Bernanke is Smart Economics, Smart Politics for Dems.


Jackson: Forget the deficit; people need jobs.

Time: In Defense of Obama's Spending Freeze.


BusinessWire: The U.S. Small Business Administration announced that it renewed its two-year partnership agreement with the Minority Business RoundTable (MBRT) to continue joint outreach efforts to minority entrepreneurs.


Bloomberg: Fed Weighs Interest on Reserves as New Benchmark to replace the one they’ve used for the last two decades. The central bank has been unable to control the fed funds rate since the Sept. 2008 bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers.

Tammy: It's Time for Ben Bernanke to Resign.


Crudele: Paul Volcker has president's ear on economy.


AllHipHop/Olorunda: What the Cash Money Oil Deal Might Mean For Hip-Hop.


Kolodny/NYTimes: Encouraging Minority Entrepreneurship at Morehouse.

Chicago Tribune: Illinois teen employment at new low. Decline puts jobless youths at risk of falling further behind economically for years to come, says new report.


Rolling Out: 5 Reasons Rich Black People Live On a Budget.


BusinessWeek: Obama is targeting companies to sop up the $1.4 trillion deficit. Here's how they will fight back.


Greider: Geithner Must Go. The first casualty of Obama's political debacle will likely be Timothy Geithner, the severely over-confident treasury secretary well-known as a lapdog of Wall Street.


Hanke: The Great 18-Year Real Estate Cycle.


Gonzalez: President Obama's toxic mix: Economic leaders too married to Wall St. and not Main St.


Singletary: You can be generous even during a financial fast.


LA Times: Marketing to Muslims poses a challenge for retailers. As Best Buy recently discovered, reaching out to Muslims can cause a backlash. Even those who champion the targeting of ads to the community steer corps away from the mainstream media.


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CBS NY: Bloomberg Hammers Obama, Congress Over Bank Plan. Mayor Says President's Idea To Limit Size And Investments Will Lead To Big Problems For NYC, Including Layoffs. Hizzoner Suggests Salaries Of D.C. Lawmakers Be Held Back For Decade.


Malpass: Fed Should Go Back to Basics.


Black Enterprise: What You Need to Know Before Donating. Tips for charitable giving.


Bloomberg: Morgan Stanley Asia Chairman Stephen Roach said President Barack Obama’s plan to restrict banks’ investment activities amounts to “bank bashing” and called on politicians to take a more balanced approach.


BusinessWeek: President Barack Obama's tough talk against Wall Street rattled stocks on Jan. 21. And, market observers warn, this could be just the beginning of a tough political year for investors.


Fortune: Betting on Buffett gets cheaper. Berkshire Hathaway shareholders approve a 50-for-1 stock split that will bring the price of the company's B shares below $100.


Economist: Another one bites the dust. Cadbury goes American. Is this healthy for British manufacturing? Why can’t Britain hang on to ownership of iconic brands such as Jaguar, Land Rover, & now Cadbury, purveyor of chocolate to the British empire?


Atlanta Biz Chronicle: Capitol City Bank & Trust under oversight. The Atlanta-based bank & one of the largest Black owned banks-said in a SEC filing that the order was signed Jan. 13 & came after the FDIC visited it & published a report in Sept.


Calabria: Geithner's lifelong love of bailouts.


Real Clear Markets: When Pres. Obama delivers his State of The Union next Weds & offers help on the employment front, he could usefully approach job creation by adopting measures to help entrepreneurs, the main drivers of innovation & job creation.


Barron’s: Obama’s First-Year Stock Gain Tops Recent Presidents’.


Inquiring News: Black Businessman Gives $1 Million to Local Hospital.


Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder: Black janitorial workers claim discrimination.


Latina Lista: Latino and Black children have highest rates of media usage -- and it shows.


BlackWeb 2.0: African American Magazines Need to Look Online for Advertising Future.


Cedric Muhammad/AllHipHop.com: Is The Film Game The New Rap Game?


Wall St. Journal: The Great D.C. Migration. Americans move to where your money is.


Bloomberg: Bernanke Seeks to Defuse Criticism Over AIG With Call for Audit.


Financial Times: The Federal Reserve is sitting on billions of dollars in paper profits from its controversial effort to unwind credit insurance contracts that AIG provided to banks such as Goldman Sachs, people familiar with the matter said.


BBC: Almost half of Black people aged between 16 and 24 are unemployed, compared with 20% of white people of the same age, a think tank has claimed.


Pioneer Press: Expressing frustration over grievances they say haven't been addressed, an alliance of organizations, business owners, residents & leaders in St. Paul's Black Rondo community filed a federal lawsuit over the proposed Central Corridor.


WBIR: Urban renewal scars Black history in Knoxville.


Real Clear Sports: Ain't this super for hard-luck New Orleans?


Washington Times: Miss Black USA sees beauty in hardship survival. Her new book advises inner-city women. "I just want young ladies not to run away from the greatness that they have," said Shayna Rudd.

Herring/State Journal-Register: We need Black teachers in the classroom.


Las Vegas Now: Las Vegas Ranks Fourth in African American Homicides. "We don't know what the environment is. Is it gangs? Is it neighborhoods? Is it just people angry with each other," said Pastor James Harden with Youth Eternal.


Reed: From the mail I’ve received, the conversations I’ve had & all that I’ve read, the responses to “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” fall largely along racial lines. Among Blacks, revulsion-among whites, enthusiatic love.


Newsweek: A Black President Before a Black ‘Bachelor’? ABC's matchmaking show features all-white contenders. Why that won't change for a while.

USA Today: Jesse Jackson: Colleges should follow NFL's lead in adopting Rooney Rule.


New York Times: In Rememberance of Imari Obadele, 79, Who Fought for Reparations.


ABC News: Shani Davis shuns the spotlight and does things his way--even if it comes at a cost.


AP/Philly Burbs: West Virginia University Press is reprinting important African American texts that have either gone unnoticed for generations or fallen out of print.


Gatson: Family Trees: African-Americans find it difficult to trace history.

Philadelphia Inquirer: Local teen musicians learn Arabic music.


Indianapolis Star: All the talk, What should Freeney do? Is it a smokescreen, a ruse? It could be.

MedPage Today: Perinatal HIV Infection Highest Among Blacks.


MTV: New Orleans Natives React To Lil Wayne's 'We Are The World' Katrina Comment. During recording session, rapper praised what's been done for Haiti while condemning efforts in his hometown.


Gary Post-Tribune: Dance company relays Black experience in 'Nubian Odyssey'.


Evans: The golf course doesn't know a player's race, but Black golf pros face unique challenges.


MSNBC: Black stars don’t mean Hollywood is color-blind. Washington, Smith often play roles that don’t require racial consciousness.


Grio: NBC Serves Fried Chicken & Collard Greens In Celebration Of Black History Month. Questlove Twitpic began row. Cook defends choice for Black History Month menu branded as racist.


Times Picayune: Drew Brees, Marshall Faulk support effort to rebuild 9th Ward football stadium.

Star Ledger: Tap-dancing, Howard-bound lineman Khalid Jordan first from Arts High to earn full athletic scholarship.


Gilbert Arenas/Washington Post: Learning to be a better role model.


Sporting Blog: A Reminder of Soccer's Intensity: DaMarcus Beasley's Car Bombed in Scotland.


Washington Post: D.C. judge dismisses AKA sorority suit over leader's spending.


Newsweek/Samuels: Children Are Not Bling. Adopting from countries like Haiti should be done carefully. And why not consider all those U.S. kids looking for a home?


USA Today: For Jerry Pinkney's bunch, books bind a literary dynasty.


Martha’s Vineyard Times: Two new sites for African-American Heritage Trail.


Cedric Muhammad/All Hip Hop: How To Market (and Protect) Jay Electronica (Part I).


Kansas City Star: Freeney's injury is blessing for Saints.


Hughes/Chicago Now: The Oscars & The Black Female Image. Two Black Women: the Mammy & the Siren.


Guardian: Fightback in U.K. over claims on mental illness and its prevalence among Black people. Campaigners are worried by the government's latest mental health strategy and the exploitation of research on schizophrenia by the far-right.


EURweb: Milli Vanilli Biopic in the Works.


Broadway World: Oprah to Film Documentary on Final Season of The Oprah Winfrey Show.


BoomBox: Fabolous, Q-Tip Question Lack of Airtime for Hip-Hop Categories at Grammys.


Journal-isms: Is Hollywood or Vanity Fair the Problem? March Issue Features All-White Bevy of Starlets.


Health Behavior News Service: Most African-American Adults Skip Sun Protection, Study Suggests.


Nola: New Orleans Saints fans build color-blind bonds in Who Dat Nation.


AllHipHop: Wyclef Issues Warning To Child Kidnappers.


Varsallone: Successful MMA debut for 47-year-old Herschel Walker.


BET: Being Young, Black American and Muslim Explored in Sundance Film 'Bilal's Stand'


Philadelphia Daily News: 'Project' a different view of Michael Vick.

Tuscaloosa News: Work of Tuscaloosa's first Black architect shines in churches.


Mormon Times: Addressing interracial adoption issues important.

Washington Post: Calling Black men in D.C.: Step up and mentor.


NYTimes: Black Priest Shares Past, Enlightening White Town.


San Francisco Chronicle The Black Student Union at SFSU was the first at any school anywhere. Its official history has not yet been written, but the oral history is being kept alive by two men in their mid-60s talking about the mid-'60s.


Times Picayune: NFL says it has exclusive rights to 'Who Dat'.


Indypendent: A Faith-driven Renaissance: Performers Highlight Muslim Art and Culture.


Times Online: Director Lee Daniels on Precious. The film, shows how its director wears his heart on his sleeve. Daniels is not a trained director. He grew up in the Philadelphia housing projects with a “mom who really cared for me & a dad who didn’t”.


Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Georgia State: A national model in graduating minority students.


NYTimes: 'Off & Running, A Race for Identity" review. All Avery understands, is how to be white & Jewish. She was raised in an observant household in Brooklyn by Tova Klein & Travis Cloud, a lesbian couple with two other adopted nonwhite children.


ABC News: Paul R. Jones, noted collector of African-American art who donated troves of works to universities in Delaware & Alabama, dies at 81 in Georgia.


Catholic Spirit: The 100th anniversary of the ordination of Father Stephen Theobald, the first & only Black priest to be ordained for the Archdiocese of St. Paul & Minneapolis, will be celebrated this year.


Brazzil Magazine: Ebony Goddess, a Brazilian Documentary in Praise of Black Beauty.


Orlando Sentinel: Run-down Black cemetery a symbol of the past. Effort in works to clean up 'part of Mount Dora and Orange County's history'.


Rosa, Finland’s first Black citizen.


Christian Science Monitor: ESPN fired former professional basketball player and current blogger Paul Shirley on Wednesday after he wrote a long piece arguing that Haiti doesn't deserve aid following the Jan. 12 earthquake.


Pioneer Local: 'Old Setter' explores race, family relationships. Parson says he feels a sense of purpose whenever he directs plays about Black characters at theaters where the audiences are predominantly white.


Hour: Indigenous rap. Algonquin hip-hop artist Samian raps about the realities of life on First Nations reserves in Quebec.


Indian Country Today: Addressing the issue of domestic violence against Native American women. Native American women experience the highest rate of domestic violence of any ethnicity in the United States.


Akron Beacon Journal: LeBron sure looks like MVP repeat.


AFP: Somali-born hip-hop star to feature at World Cup.


Russell Simmons: Swizz Beatz: The Unsung Haiti Hero.


ESPN: Super Bowl halftime needs hip-hop.


Jewish Week: Jewish Professor, Black Culture. Herskovits’ indifferent attitude towards politics led him to secretly sabotage the work of ostensible cohorts like W.E.B. DuBois, one of the few Black scholars tolerated by whites at the time.


Smallwood: Rooney Rule has worked well for NFL. The success of minority coaches since the implementation of the Rooney Rule is not lost on teams looking to maximize profits.


LA Times: Tanya Hamilton's 'Night Catches Us' captures a point in time. Her debut feature film, about what's left in the wake of the black power movement, delves into her interest in 'the price you pay for dedication to a political movement.'


Cedric Muhammad/AllHipHop.com: My Pain Is Your Pain: Hip-Hop's Nervous System and Language.


Us Magazine: Diddy Buys Son $360,000 Maybach for 16th Birthday.


Ross School of Business: Racial Barriers Still Exist, but Anything is Achievable, says PBS' Gwen Ifill.


Houston Chronicle: Former first lady Laura Bush is joining an advisory board to help raise money to build the Smithsonian Institution's planned Black history museum.


St. Louis American: Caldwell becomes fourth consecutive African American Super Bowl coach.


Palm Beach Post: Tony Dungy bet on right horse picking Jim Caldwell to follow him as Colts' coach.


McWhorter: It's time to retire the term "African American." Black is good enough. Did "African American" History Really Happen in Atlanta, Cleveland, Philly, and Detroit? Listening to the Census.


WFAA: Future of Black burial ground raises concerns in Rockwall.


New York Times: Black Babies, Boys Less Likely to Be Adopted.


Dallas Morning News: Plano steroids dealer said he supplied NFL's Vick. DEA informant also had Vick under surveillance.


Times-Picayune: New Orleans Saints give faithful fans what they have long deserved.


Washington Post: Race issue a two-edged sword for Black contemporary artists.


Tennessean: Marriage eludes many Black women. Fewer men, cultural changes among reasons for disparity.


New York Times: In Sugar Hill, a Street Nurtured Black Talent When the World Wouldn’t.


Toronto Sun: UFC fights still not welcome in Ontario despite the sports growing popularity in the province. Marc Ratner says bluntly that if Ontario were to legalize mixed martial arts, the biggest-ever UFC event in history would go down in Toronto.


Sunday Standard: Celebrities have become icons for Black women.


Bonner: Want a tour of LA Gangland? Founded by Alfred Lomas, an ex F13 member who says, “The objective is to create jobs for the residents of South Central, LA; to give profits from the tours back to these areas for economic growth and development.


Mariotti: LeBron Outduels Kobe, Shows MVP Pose.


All Hip Hop: NYOIL, Queen YoNasda, Head Up HipHop4Haiti National Fundraiser.


Tri-State Defender: Hip Hop 4 Haiti unfolds in Memphis and elsewhere.


Augusta Chronicle: Basketball league for white Americans targets Augusta.


Westside Gazette: The new Pap smear guidelines: Are they right for Black women and girls?


Philadelphia Tribune: DNA freed him, now he seeks to aid others.


Africa Watch: Western Press Claims Africa Unworthy Of Hosting World Cup.


AP: Education Secretary suggests NCAA tie post-season play to graduation rates. "You had four teams that didn't graduate any African-American players. Zero. If that was my son, I don't know if I would want him playing there," Secretary Duncan said.


Baltimore Sun: Michelle Obama's Anti-Obesity Plan. First Lady decries rapid spread of childhood obesity.


Goochland Courier: High cancer rate for Goochland's Black men. Black males in Goochland are more likely to get cancer than Black males living anywhere else in Virginia.


Times Picayune: New Orleans Saints' Drew Brees sets gold standard for preparation.


BET: ESPN Host Mike Greenberg Refers to MLK as Martin Luther “Coon”.


AFP: Andre Berto pulled out of next week's World Boxing Council welterweight title fight with Shane Mosley, saying the pain of dealing with the horrific earthquake has taken too big a toll on him emotionally.


History News Network: Too Hard for the White Folks? Americans and the Haitian Revolution.


Star Tribune: St. Paul's Black clergy to help in school. A newly required state test spurs church leaders to step up efforts to keep St. Paul students on track to graduate.


Tennessean/Lewis: A qualified Black coach is overlooked again.


Business Daily Africa: World’s top lawyers vie for slice of East Africa’s mega contracts.

Garowe: Somalia: Al-Shabaab declares jihad on Kenya.


Sudan Vision Daily: Al-Bashir: ICC Resolution Western Conspiracy for Distorting Elections.


Mail & Guardian: President Jacob Zuma on Sunday appealed for unity in the African National Congress ahead of State of Nation speech, in the wake of his apology for fathering a child out of wedlock.


Press TV: Iran blames US-led mission for Afghan quagmire.

Economist: A search for allies in a hostile world. Iran’s proclaimed ambitions in Africa are particularly worrying for Israel, which once had a lot of friends on the continent and wants to keep the few that remain.


East African: Ethiopia-Kenya power grid link to go live this year despite protests.


BusinessWeek: Madagascar’s Economy Reels as European Union Mulls Sanctions.

Africa News: Libya orders arms worth $1.8 billion from Russia.


Africa News: There is no basis to form a United States of Africa when there is no unity among the various governments on the continent, stated newly elected Africa Union Chair Bingu wa Mutharika. He said it was "nonsense" to pursue that dream.


Mail & Guardian: The African Union says a decision by the ICC to consider adding genocide charges to an arrest warrant for President Omar al-Bashir harms the peace process in Sudan.


Scahill: The Expanding US War in Pakistan. 3 US special forces soldiers were killed in NW Pakistan this week, confirming that the US military is more deeply engaged on the ground in Pakistan than previously acknowledged by the White House & Pentagon.

Grogg: 'Race still an issue in Cuba'.


Bloomberg: Congo Lifts Ban on Exports by 16 Mining Companies.


Standard Times Press: Crackdown on Black Magic Sorcerers Intensifies in Sierra Leone. As Over Hundreds of Witch ‘Paw Paw’ Guns Confiscated.

Al Jazeera: Poor nations face cancer burden.


New York Times: Rawlings, A Manufacturer’s Debt to Haiti.


Business Day: African Union quandary over Sudan ‘genocide’.


Tanzania Citizen: An American Congressman wants President Barack Obama to put diplomatic pressure on the Kikwete Government to end the albino killings in parts of the country.


Daily Nation: Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka has opened a public relations offensive aimed at repairing the Kenya's damaged reputation in the United States.

Nigeria Vanguard: Yar’Adua: MEND warns, asks govt to do the right thing.


Mail & Guardian: "We have to admit the speed of economic transformation has been frustratingly slow at times," Motlanthe told the inaugural meeting of the president's Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) Council.


VOA: African Union Again Urges Lifting of Zimbabwe Sanctions; Harare Parliament in Row.


Forbes/Oxford Analytica: Benefits Of Doing Business In Libya. There are risks to consider, but the opportunities are greater.


Abdel-Hamid: South Sudan just a year away?

Ashine: The Eritrean government has circulated a letter to African heads of state accusing Ethiopia of blocking its right to participate in African Union summits and meetings.


Daily Nation: Kenya PM warns UN, African Union over Sudan referendum & against taking sides in the vote to determine the future of Southern Sudan.


All Africa: Court to Reconsider Bashir Genocide Charge.


AP: Swiss court OKs return of $4.6M to Duvalier family, rejects handover to Haiti aid groups.


Miami Herald: Some having doubts about Haiti aid plans. As engineers try to measure the damage in Port-au-Prince, some are skeptical of the international community's long-term commitment and the Haitian government's ability to guide reconstruction.


China Daily: China on Wednesday expressed firm opposition to the planned meeting between US President Barack Obama and the Dalai Lama.

VOA: AU Summit Approves Tougher Anti-Coup Measures.


Martin/NNPA: Puerto Rico-Virgin Islands Rum War Threatens Economic Ruin, Says Congresswoman.


Foreign Policy: Haiti medevac flights were suspended because of Super Bowl preparations.


Minister Farrakhan: Rebuilding Haiti: An Opportunity to Redeem Ourselves.


AFP: Africa leaders wrap up summit on continent's crises Addis Ababa.


Voice of America: Guinea Interim Government Could Help Stabilize West Africa.


Afrique en ligne: Mauritian president, Sir Jugnauth, presided over the ceremony marking the 175th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in Mauritius & expressed regret that slavery still exists in other forms which future generations will face.


Afrique en ligne: NEPAD formally integrated into AU.


Al Jazeera: The president of Malawi has been chosen to assume the rotating presidency of the African Union, Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader and the body's outgoing chairman, has said.


Reuters: The African Union (AU) agreed on Sunday to consider a Senegalese proposal to resettle Haiti's earthquake homeless & possibly create a state for them in Africa. The AU had opened an account for Haiti with the African Development Bank, he said.

Tripoli Post: AU Promises to Support African Journalists.


Africa News: Continued economic developments across the continent have necessitated the need to expedite the implementation of a massive hydro power project by the African Union (AU).


Economist: Rising Angola. Oil, glorious oil. The country’s breakneck growth is slowly benefiting the masses.

USA Today: China's interests may limit sanctions on U.S. firms.


The Guardian: Chinese media accuses US of 'cold war thinking' over Taiwan arms deal.


Xinhua: Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi urges U.S. to stop selling weapons to Taiwan.

Times of Nigeria: Shell Shuts Nigerian Oil Flow Stations After Sabotage. The leak was detected Jan. 30, the same day MEND, the main rebel group in the region, said it was ending an “indefinite cease-fire” after three months.

Mail & Guardian: The West owes Haiti a bail-out. The Caribbean nation should be reimbursed for centuries of punitive treatment and brutality by the outside world.


Gleaner: Costly Haiti-Jamaica struggles with big relief bill. As the leader of CARICOM's response the Gov. could be forced to recall health & Defence Force personnel from Haiti this week as the country struggles with a $700,000 per day operational bill.


Africa Watch: Africa Opens Its Heart To Earthquake Victims In Haiti.


Dominican Today: Dominican Republic will host a World Summit for the Reconstruction of Haiti on April 14, to which Venezuela president Hugo Chavez will be invited, said Foreign Relations minister Carlos Morales.


Jamaica Gleaner: Keep them out! Diaspora group wants non-Jamaican Commonwealth citizens barred from Parliament.


VOA: DRC Rebel Group Demands Promised Government Ministerial Positions. The spokesman for the Mai Mai armed group says Pres. Joseph Kabila’s government has failed to meet their demands for ministerial positions after integrating into the national army.


Sudan Tribune: ICC judges to rule on genocide appeal against Sudanese president next week.

IPS: Zambia: Let Local Councils Decide.


Mathaba: Mossad orchestrated Christmas Day bomb plot.


BBC: Davos 2010: South Africa's President Jacob Zuma has defended polygamy during a question and answer session at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.


This Day: Yar’Adua: National & Global Pressure Mounts. Gowon, Shagari, Shonekan, 200 House members demand vacation letter. US, UK, France, EU worry over ‘uncertainty’.


The East African: Kenya, Uganda now want Monetary Union delayed.


Africa News: Djibouti has announced to send 450 troops to Somalia next month as to join the African Union peacekeepers mission in that country.

NYTimes: For Disaster-Struck Haitians, Arrival in U.S. Does Not Mean an End to Problems.


SW Radio: Pressure mounts on Zuma to act on Zimbabwe.

Sudan Tribune: NCP endorses Kiir for South Sudan presidency, calls on SPLM to reciprocate.


BBC: Sudan President Omar al-Bashir's party has said it will back the leader of its former civil-war enemies, Salva Kiir, in the south's presidential election in April.


Telegraph: British/Foreign troops needed in Afghanistan for 15 years, says Hamid Karzai.


Mail & Guardian: Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe's party will not make concessions in talks with its partners in the unity government until sanctions imposed by Western nations are lifted, the party said on Wednesday.


Al Jazeera: US congressmen urge end to Gaza siege.

Denver Post: Calls to adopt Haitian orphans flood agencies.


Network Journal: Black Professional & Business Groups Rally Behind Haiti. The National Organization of Minority Architects is ready to provide urban design & planning & will use members who have experience in disaster stricken/seismic areas to rebuild.


CBS News: Wyclef Jean Talks About Haiti Relief Efforts In NY. Wyclef Talks Relief Efforts, Urges Obama To Make 'sustainable Commitment' To Rebuilding Haiti.


CaribWorldNews: Sharpton Pledges To Stand By Yele Haiti.

Loop21: Can Rwanda be a Model for Haiti's Rebuild?


Final Call: Haiti - Support for National Mobilization grows.


Maathai: African leaders are finally solving African problems. While other international efforts have failed to resolve conflict in long-troubled Sudan, a special African Union commission is poised for a breakthrough.


This Day: AU Wants Strong African Solidarity for Haiti.


New Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe's High Court has rejected a Southern African Development Community [SADC] tribunal's ruling that blocked the government's move to resettle blacks on more than 70 white-owned farms.


Times Live: Black South African bankers score big from empowerment deals.


Granma Internacional: Reflections of Fidel: We are sending doctors, not soldiers.


Uganda Daily Monitor: Former Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi, campaigns for the 4th term of Uganda's Museveni.


Keen News Service: U.S. Reps call for action against Ugandan bill which calls for life imprisonment for anyone convicted of having sex with a person of the same gender.

Nigeria Guardian: Africa's oil production to hit 2.68m bpd in 2010, says OPEC.


Wall Street Journal: Haiti: Obama's Katrina. Many post-quake deaths could have been prevented.

CNN International: Brazilian minister: Haiti government must 'appear more to the people'.


Africa News: World Bank boss President Zoellick tours Africa, as he is there to attend the AU Summit in Addis Ababa.


Zimbabwean: Military wants Mugabe until 2020.


Jamaica Gleaner: Despite a public statement on the reason the Jamaican Government has denied an extradition request from St James businessman, Presley Bingham, the United States (US) Government is still waiting on answers.


Nigeria Daily Independent: Defence Chiefs Warn Against Coup.


Voice of America: End of Gadhafi's AU Presidency Stirs Speculation.


Baltimore Sun: Justice for Haiti. U.S. has opportunity to reverse policies that have thwarted the nation's progress. Rep. Barbara Lee, chairwoman of the CBC, introduced a resolution on Haiti last week recommending debt forgiveness.


All Africa: Liberia's President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Declares Candicacy for Second Term in 2011.


East African Standard: CIA chief in secret visit to Kenya.


Russia Today: Swine flu is under scrutiny once again as pharmaceutical companies are being accused of hyping up a “false pandemic”. Claims are that the W.H.O colluded with drug companies & changed the definition of “pandemic” to ensure maximum profits.


MarketWatch: Venezuela rolls out welcome for foreign oil companies. Carabobo region to draw bidders from Western oil giants. Multinationals expected to bid on first oilfield auction since strongman Hugo Chavez took over in 1998.


Daily Nation: How plan to privatise railways became Kenya’s public sector reform nightmare.

Sudan Tribune: African Union urged to review strategies to end Africa’s conflict.


Mail & Guardian: ANC MP and struggle stalwart Winnie Madikizela-Mandela has criticised the possibility of former Vlakplaas head Eugene de Kock receiving a pardon.

Sudan Tribune: JEM rebels want unity with other groups before Darfur peace talks.


Euro News: France sets up enquiry into Rwandan genocide. 16 years after the appalling slaughter France has sent two judges to investigate suspected rebels alledgedly involved in the massacre who live and work in France.


Minnesota Public Radio: Young men escape bloodshed in Somalia, but find violence in Minnesota.


White House: President Obama Signs Legislation Providing Immediate Tax Deductions for Haiti Charitable Contributions.


Danner/NYTimes: To Heal Haiti, Look to History, Not Nature.


San Francisco Bay View: Haiti: Blood, sweat and baseball.


Walters/Ebony & Jet: Haiti: When the cameras leave and the ribbons fade.


France24: Guinean opposition veteran Jean-Marie Dore has been named prime minister of a transition government by the country’s ruling military junta.


Al Jazeera: Moussa Dadis Camara, Guinea's former military leader, has backed a plan to appoint a transitional government, and says he will not seek to reclaim power.


Carib World News: IMF Chief Calls For “Marshall Plan” For Shattered Haiti.


Amsterdam News: Media continues to misrepresent Wyclef Jean’s mission.


Hill: Lawmakers back sustained effort in Haiti despite 'checkered' U.S. history there.


Irish Times: Black gold in Africa holds danger as well as promise.


This Day: Obasanjo: Yar’Adua Should ‘Know the Path of Honour’.

Daily Trust: How Jos crisis began - By man on the spot.


Ethiopian Reporter: Sudan, Ethiopia renew fuel supply deal. Sudan has been supplying 80% of Ethiopia’s benzene consumption, the balance being imported from the Middle East & other destinations abroad via the port of Djibouti.

Jamaica Gleaner: Begging for Haiti - Jamaica goes hunting for money to care for 'refugees'.


Daily Nation: Kenya deports Jamaican cleric, again.


Mail & Guardian: The African Union's top diplomat will present Madagascar's bickering power-brokers with a fresh political compromise aimed at ending a year-long crisis.


New York Daily News: In Haiti, it's dreamers to the rescue.

Journal-isms: Writers Rush to Fill in Blanks on Haiti's History.


Tatchell: No, We Can't: The Impossibility of a Black British Head of State.

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