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Hill: Rep. Kendrick Meek (D-Fla.) said some help from the White House would show Florida voters he’s the “real Democrat” in the Senate primary race.


Washington Post: District may get more autonomy from Congress. Legislation could remove Congress from the city's budget process, limiting opportunities for U.S. lawmakers to interfere in local decisions.


Ebony/Jet: Black Caucus Submits Questions for Sup. Court Nominee Elena Kagan

Charlotte Post: Race matters in N.C. death penalty cases. Study finds ethnicity of victim more likely to determine outcome.


Deggans: Shirley Sherrod counsels Black journalists to know their history.


AP/Nola: FEMA trailer formaldehyde claims by Mississippi residents dismissed by federal judge.


Politico: If Jeff Greene’s self-financed campaign is able to vanquish Rep. Kendrick Meek in the Florida Democratic Senate primary, the real winner may be Gov. Charlie Crist.


Marcus: Civil rights groups are picking the wrong fight with President Obama.

Newsweek: What Happens Next for Charlie Rangel? A look at the drawn-out legal process he could face.


Washington Post:Rep. Charlie Rangel charged with 13 ethics violations. N.Y. congressman may face trial in September.


NY Daily News: Bam's coalition is imploding: Women, white men, Jews, even Hispanics are abandoning President Obama.


Hill: Rep. Rangel digs in for a fight ahead of Thursday ethics trial.

LA Times: The Crack vs. Powder Cocaine bill was sponsored in the Senate by Senator Richard Durbin (D-Ill.), who teamed up with colleague Jeff Sessions (R.-Ala.) to pass the legislation unanimously through the Senate in March.


Dallas Morning News: At last, Congress narrows the gap between mandatory crack and powder cocaine sentences.


Fox News: At the annual conference of the National Urban League, which turns 100 this year, the group's president, Marc H. Morial, challenged the notion that the country should be entering a "post-racial" period.


Washington Post: Virginia NAACP head King Salim Khalfani slams Webb for affirmative action column.


BeyondChron: Former EBay CEO Meg Whitman Snubs African Americans and Black Media.


Chicago Tribune: Mayor Richard Daley said Tuesday he wasn't making derogatory comments toward federal agents when he asked last week where the FBI has been while Chicago police have been fighting the scourge of gang violence in the city.


NYTimes: Hoping to avert a public ethics hearing that could damage himself and other Democrats, lawyers for Rep. Charles B. Rangel met with the House ethics committee Tuesday looking to work out a last-minute settlement to the charges against him.

Politico: Second Dem calls for Rangel resignation. Freshman Dem Rep. Walt Minnick of Idaho called on Rep. Charles Rangel to resign along earlier with Ohio Dem Rep. Betty Sutton, who made that request last week.


NY Daily News: New York City settles for $7.15M in Sean Bell police shooting.


CQ Politics: Tennessee Turnaround: Black Caucus Backing White Congressman. "The CBC PAC's mission is to increase the number of African-Americans in the U.S. Congress (and) to support non-Black candidates who champion CBC interests."


Nelson/Huffington Post: Sen. Jim Webb and the Myth of Race vs. Class in America.


Washington Post: Senate GOP to hold hearings on Black Panther tale? What some folks may not remember is that Senate Repubs already quizzed Justice officials on this very case several months ago, in a public hearing. So why do we need more hearings?


Philadelphia Inquirer: Scouring the city for Black Panther victims.


Hill: GOP leadership will hold fire on Rangel. Republicans are employing a don’t-get-in-the-way-of-your-enemies-when-they-are-destroying-themselves strategy, the same game plan Dems employed as Republicans grappled with ethics scandals in 2006.


Memphis Commercial Appeal: Congressional Black Caucus contributes to Cohen campaign. Incumbent 9th District Congressman Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., received a $5,000 contribution yesterday from the Congressional Black Caucus political action committee.


Dowd: You’ll Never Believe What This White House Is Missing. The Obama White House is too white.

Huffington Post: Fox News Audience Just 1.38% Black.


Washington Informer: ColorOfChange.org Answers Black Census Undercount with Cash.


Wickham/USA Today: Obama administration 'a basket case' on issues of race. President lacks an adviser to protect his flank on racial matters.


AP: The leader of the Congressional Black Caucus warned fellow Democrats on Monday against rushing to judgment and pressuring New York Democrat Charles Rangel to admit ethical misdeeds.

National Review: Yes, the Black Panther Case Is Small Potatoes. A reply to Andrew McCarthy by Abigail Thernstrom.


Newsweek: The Reinvention of the Reverend. Why the indefatigable Al Sharpton still has work to do. And what his evolution tells us about race and politics in Obama’s America.


Van Jones/New York Times: Shirley Sherrod and Me. I understand how Shirley Sherrod, the Agriculture Department official who was forced to resign last week, must have felt.


CBS News: Appearing on CBS' "Face the Nation" Sunday, Vice Chair of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Abigail Thernstrom, said, "We have no direct evidence that [the NBP activists] actually intimidated anybody, stopped them from voting."


Politico: President Obama support: Kendrick Meek so far. Rep. Alcee Hastings said that he might not work for Obama's reelection if the president doesn't get into gear for Meek.


Sanford: GOP voters jump at chance to vote against Herenton.


Memphis Commercial Appeal: Polls say touted battle fizzles; Herenton undaunted by Cohen's numbers


Crawley/Philadelphia Tribune: Black is back, report mainstream media.


Riley: Shirley Sherrod, Fox, NAACP, USDA and Obama.


Hill: Black Caucus head: Government ‘held hostage’ by Fox and other media.

AP: Rangel says he's ready to fight ethics charges. "I am pleased that, at long last, sunshine will pierce the cloud of serious allegations that have been raised against me in the media," he said.


Hill: Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) will stand trial on ethics charges after a House panel accused him Thursday of multiple violations.


Wise: Faux-pression: Racism and the Cult of White Victimhood. To hear conservatives tell it, there's a one-sided race war going on in America, and white folks are the targets.


Seattle Times: As he moves toward a confirmation vote by the City Council, John Diaz faces a backlash from some African Americans who say he has failed to fix the strained relations between police & Seattle's Black community.

WRAL: Board member Sutton wants Raleigh police apology.


AP: Protesters and police scuffled Tuesday at a school board meeting in North Carolina over claims that a new busing system would resegregate schools, roiling racial tensions reminiscent of the 1960s. 19 arrests.


Cynthia McKinney: Agriculture Secretary Vilsack Must Keep Black Farmers on their Land.

Atlanta Journal-Constitution: DeKalb spokeswoman calls CEO shooting ‘murder,' angers local police.


Detroit Free Press: Kwame Kilpatrick being moved into general population at Milan prison.


CNN: Statement by the New Black Panther Party, Dr. Malik Zulu Shabazz.


Hon. Min. Louis Farrakhan: An Open Letter To Black Leadership.


Roland Martin: Martin Responds to his role in the media coverage of the Shirley Sherrod saga. 'Was I wrong in assuming that we had the full story of Sherrod at the outset? Yes. Was a snap judgment made based upon that? Yes.'

Time: The Full Shirley Sherrod Speech.


CNN: Agriculture secretary Vilsack to review resignation of USDA official Shirley Sherrod after facts come out. She said the agency's decision to review her case is "bittersweet," & she isn't sure she would accept her job back if it is offered.


San Francisco Chronicle: Andrew Breitbart defamed Shirley Sherrod; Brietbart could be in trouble.


National Action Network: Tea Party Runs Counter to the Civil Rights Movement.


Free Press: Rev. Wendell Anthony, who led a successful campaign to defeat a 2004 ballot initiative giving the Detroit mayor oversight of city schools, has joined a coalition of clergy to place such an initiative on the ballot -so voters can choose.


Chicago Tribune: Blagojevich won't testify. Defense lawyers tell judge the ex-governor won't take stand and they are set to rest case without calling witnesses.


USA Today: NAACP fails to put heat on Obama.

Commercial Appeal: Herenton's campaign war chest far short of Cohen's total.


Fox News: Video Shows USDA Official Saying She Didn't Give 'Full Force' of Help to White Farmer. Shirley Sherrod, the dept's Georgia director of Rural Development has resigned.

Weekly Standard: Paul Ryan Rules Out 2012 Presidential Run, Talks Up Mitch Daniels.


Hill: Sen. Charles Schumer (D), the de facto leader of New York’s Democratic Party, is throwing his support behind embattled Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.).


Washington Post: White House officials have concluded that, over the long term, the Republicans' get-tough message is a major political miscalculation that will ultimately alienate millions of Latinos, the fastest-growing minority group in the nation.


Star Ledger: Atlanta CEO fatally shot in Newark park by Essex sheriff's detective flew in for school reunion.


Final Call: Jewish leaders call on Obama to denounce Farrakhan ... Again!


Fox News: A management consultant on Monday stood by remarks over the weekend in which he compared Black Tea Party activists to Jewish guards in Nazi concentration camps, telling FoxNews.com there are "turncoats" in every group.


NYTimes: California Blacks Split Over Marijuana Measure. How Black voters in California decide on Proposition 19, which would allow anyone 21 and over to possess up to an ounce of marijuana, could be critical to its success or failure.


Washington Post: To Congressional Black Caucus, Rep. Steve Cohen remains an admired outsider.


Birmingham News: The top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Alabama's Sen. Jeff Sessions, today will vote against President Barack Obama's second nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, Elena Kagan.

CNN: Tea Party leader says he's done talking about race controversy after being ousted. NAACP responds.


AP: Fear of 'resegregation' fuels unrest in Raleigh, N.C.


WREG: Cohen: Herenton Took Words Out Of Context. "It's not a black person, white thing...it doesn't give young African-Americans the opportunity to look up to a white elected official who has their interests at heart."

Louis: We're better than this: The rising tide of racial mudslinging will not win over a mature America.


The State: Clyburn hits milestone with no plans to slowdown. He turns 70 this week. And U.S. House Majority Whip James Clyburn fully grasps the biblical significance of July 21, 2010.


Washington Post: Siegel to be first African American to lead a hospital group.


Politico: A conservative dismisses right-wing Black Panther 'fantasies'. Abigail Thernstrom makes a dramatic break from her usual allies.


Miami Herald: Road to Missouri U.S. Senate seat runs through Black pulpits.


NYTimes: As Dellums’s Support Fades, the Black Vote Splits.

Media Matters for America: Fox baselessly links Obama and Holder to New Black Panthers case, but their key witness says otherwise.


Washington Post: Why can't Black Americans have a tea party movement of our own?

Crew of 42: “Hip-Hop” NAACP Slow to Confront Big Stuff.


Financial Times: Allies may fret but Obama understands America’s role.

Fox40 News: New Black Panther Party Accuses FOX News Of Fueling Racial Tensions, Fear.


AJC: Former state Rep. Billy McKinney, who put the fire in the term firebrand, and father of Cynthia Mckinney died Thursday. He was 83.


Sunshine State News: The Black Legislative Caucus is cheering Gov. Charlie Crist appointing two Afican-Americans to the PSC--Rep. Ron Brise, D-North Miami, and Republican City Councilman Art Graham of Jacksonville.


AP: Rangel again calls for military draft.


NY Daily News: Mounting legal bills for Rep. Rangel; FBI subpoenas records from Meeks and State Sen. Malcolm Smith.

San Francisco Chronicle: Oakland Mayor's Race: Black Clergy endorse NO candidate for mayor.


Crew of 42: CBC Chair to Holder: Review Oscar Grant Case.


NY Daily News: Bam turns the key on big change: From public housing to AIDS policy, Obama shows long-range vision.


Greenwald/Salon: Marc Thiessen and the myth of the American Jewish voter.


Taranto/Wall St. Journal: 'A Relevant Factor'. Is "racial profiling" unconstitutional? Not necessarily.


USA Today: 'Tea Party' defenders deny racism charge. Black Republicans defend group accused by NAACP of allowing "racist factions" to persist.


Birmingham News: Terri Sewell, the Birmingham bond lawyer with Selma roots, won the Democratic primary for the 7th Congressional District Tuesday, defeating Jefferson County Commissioner Shelia Smoot.


Irwin: Federal Reserve's James Bullard: Long-term deflation is a possibility.


Bloomberg: IMF Says U.S. Financial System May Need $76 Billion in Capital.


Chicago Tribune: Thousands line up for chance at Ford jobs. State employment office in Harvey runs out of applications, sends some job seekers home.


Counterpunch/Whitney: Zilch for You Know Who. Trillions for Wall Street.


Detroit Free Press: President Barack Obama comes to Detroit today, looking for love in the factories of America's hardest-hit big city.


Ferguson: Sun could set suddenly on superpower as debt bites. But what if the sudden waning of American power that I fear brings to an abrupt end the era of US hegemony in the Asia-Pacific region? Are we ready ...


Hill: Black farmers have received a commitment from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) that the Senate will vote Weds on a $1.15 billion settlement resolving long-standing discrimination claims.


BusinessWeek: Exxon Profit 91 percent to $7.56 billion, Most Since 2003 as Output Climbs.


AP/Forbes: A bill to increase small business lending is in jeopardy in the Senate as lawmakers struggle to reach agreement on a series of Republican amendments.


Black Enterprise: 5 Things to Know Before Seeking Venture Capital. To tap into this financing force, you need a high-growth business and a convincing plan.


Marketplace: The state of the African-American community in the recession & what will help more African-Americans bridge economic gaps.


USA Today: Foreclosures boom among nation's most creditworthy.


Detroit News: Quicken Loans CEO says moving to Detroit will help the entire region. Dan Gilbert, chairman of Quicken Loans Inc. and majority owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers, doesn't do small.


Hill: Obama fights back against anti-business assertions.


Reuters: IMF gives ground on yuan exchange rate debate. Beijing dropped the yuan's 23-month-old peg to the dollar on June 19. he yuan has risen 0.7 percent against the dollar since it was unshackled from the U.S. currency.


Bloomberg: LinkedIn (the professional-networking website) Value Tops $2 Billion After Tiger Global Investment.


Facing South: Why isn't Washington paying what it owes to Black farmers?


WSJ: Brewing Honest Tea. Seth Goldman: 'The founding in 1998 was financed by Barry & me, his parents, my parents, my sister, his roommates from college-basically people who couldn't tell us no.' Talks about having President as fan & partnering with Coke.


Hanke: Money Dominates. Until broad measures of money show some signs of life, the U.S. and Europe can expect a growth recession — at best.


New York Times: Raising Coffee in Ethiopia, With Help From Harlem.


Bob Herbert: Long-Term Economic Pain.


Houston Chronicle: Q&A: Black Chamber Chief, Harry Alford, has advice for government. What small businesses need to ramp up hiring.


Politic365/Outten: Nat'l Black Chamber of Commerce Concerned about Gainful Employment Rules.


Bloomberg: U.S. Small-Business Aid May Create $300 Billion of `Junk' Loans. Pres. Obama is on the verge of creating this much in credit for small businesses as bankers raise doubt about whether there’s demand for new loans & how much will be repaid.


Wolf/Financial Times: The political genius of supply-side economics.


Tamny: Sam's Club Exposes The Bank Bailout Lie. By leaving the economy alone, non-traditional forms of finance grow & traditional banks decline in relevance.


Washington Post: D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee announced that she has fired 241 teachers, including 165 who received poor appraisals under a new evaluation system that holds some educators accountable for students' standardized test scores.


Chicago Tribune/AP: Illinois hair braiders will soon be able to practice their craft without fear of being shut down by state regulators. Gov. Pat Quinn has signed a law that will allow braiders to operate without a cosmetology degree & license.


Miami Herald: U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor, D-Tampa, is signing onto a bill that would lift decades-old travel restrictions to Cuba. Her goal: To secure charter flights from Tampa International Airport and spur activity at the Port of Tampa.


USA Today: Wireless phone group sues San Francisco over radiation law.

WKYC: The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued Area Temps agency for allegedly using code words to provide potential employers with race, color & sex-specific candidates. At last count, the victim list was 11,000 people nationwide.


Afro-American: Ideal Bank Closes. The Black-owned institution, which opened its doors in 1920 and was founded to help Black families purchase homes, was one of the few remaining minority-owned banks in the region.


Forbes: Will Your Children Grow Up To Be Servants And Nannies? Why the labor market of the future will be even more polarized.


Krugman: Addicted to Bush. G.O.P. leaders have come out for a complete return to the Bush agenda, including tax breaks for the rich & financial deregulation. They’ve even resurrected the plan to cut future Social Security benefits.


Newsweek: Do Economic Slumps Produce More Churchgoers?


Houston Chronicle: GOP chief addresses Black business group. Steele urges owners to go after success.


NPR: Sherrod Debacle Frustrates Black Farmers & John Boyd, president of the National Black Farmers Association.


USA Today: Faced with hardships caused by the Great Recession, middle-class Blacks dialed back stock & retirement investments & dipped into savings more than their white counterparts, causing them to "slip even further behind."


Fortune: The United States of...China? Chinese investments in the U.S. are up 360%, but not everybody-namely U.S. steelmakers who urge protectionism-is so welcoming.


Wall St. Journal: Fed Chief Bernanke, in Senate Testimony, Discusses Limited Options To Boost Growth; Describes Outlook as 'Unusually Uncertain'.


Fiderer: How Reporters Provide Cover For Darrell Issa's Lies On The Countrywide "Scandal".


Final Call: A Speech & Book For The New Spiritual Economics (Part 2). The member of the U.S. Jewish Community with whom I have had the most respectful public dialogue regarding Black-Jewish relations is Steven Silbiger, author of “The Jewish Phenomenon.”

Washington Post: Senate votes, 60-40, to advance jobless benefits legislation.


Wall St. Journal: The Treasury Department, under Congressional orders to shrink and end sooner the much-maligned Troubled Asset Relief Program, plans to curtail two programs originally intended to help consumer and small-business lending.


Roll Call: K Street’s biggest firms posted strong performances in the first half of 2010, with four of the top five firms reporting double-digit gains and several midsized lobbying shops continuing to show steady growth.


Hill: Minority groups to oppose FCC reclassification.


SCPR: African-Americans file class-action discrimination lawsuit against Edison.


Los Angeles Wave: A group of Black employees at Southern California Edison filed suit Tuesday against the Rosemead-based utility, alleging a pattern of racial discrimination within the company dating back more than 25 years.


Black Enterprise: How to Remake Your Company Like Johnson Products. The maker of Ultra Sheen is once again minority-owned with a bold strategy to conquer ethnic haircare.


Taibbi: Another Senate Charade on Financial reform. If the public understood better how rigged this game is, and how few issues are actually left to an honest vote, I'm pretty sure the pitchfork factor would be twice even what it is now.


Economist: Profiting from non-profits. Charities are often told they should learn from business. The reverse is also true.


Pesek: Last week, the world’s credit-rating giants got scooped on the biggest rating decision: whether to strip the U.S. of AAA status. Worse, the U.S. was downgraded by a company that few people have ever heard of, and a Chinese one at that.


Times-Picayune: Gov. Bobby Jindal seeks expedited seafood testing to reopen commercial fishing.


Boston Globe: For better or worse. These couples are married and in business together. What the recession has taught them about their relationships.


Bloomberg: Billionaire investor George Soros said U.S. lawmakers should refrain from withdrawing stimulus measures because the economy hasn’t strengthened enough.


USA Today: Will companies dodge financial reform by moving abroad?


Multichannel News: Comcast-owned TV One, long a home for comedians, gospel- music shows and sitcoms aimed at African-Americans, is relying on celebrity profile and where-are-they-now reality shows to build its original programming business.


Oakland Tribune: Blacks struggling in job market, UC Berkeley research says.


Market Oracle: Government Policies Pushing U.S. Economy Towards Depression.

Sorenson/Time: Financial Reform's Passage: What It Leaves Out.


Bloomberg: U.S. Senate approval of the biggest overhaul of Wall Street oversight since the Great Depression will shift the financial industry’s focus to the regulatory agencies charged with writing rules to implement the measure.


Radio & Television Business Report: African-American organization rejects Comcast diversity pledge.


Jamaica Observer: Min. of Tourism Edmund Bartlett to woo African American hotel owners and developers to Jamaica.


Fortune: U.S. should get off its duff on trade. The government needs to take note of how companies like Caterpillar are quitting the sidelines to break down barriers for more U.S. manufacturing jobs.


MarketWatch: Pres. Obama's 3 nominees to the Federal Reserve Board will strengthen Fed chief Bernanke's control over the institution, but don't expect major policy shifts as he's already had his hand firmly on the monetary-policy tiller.


Black Enterprise: Comcast-NBCU Merger Presents Opportunities for CCP. Don Jackson will seek investments from churches to launch faith-based network.


Weil: Stealth Bankers Bomb as Anti-Reform Crusaders.


American Prospect: An Anti-Redlining Law Gets a Makeover. New rules could transform the predatory-lending debate from arguments over anecdotes to conclusions based on hard evidence.


Bloomberg: Americans in 70% Majority See More Jobless as Deficit Widens.


Crew of 42: We learned Tuesday the war supplemental that includes within it the cash for the Black farmers settlement & summer jobs will not be taken up by the Senate until next week.


Business Wire: Number of Minority-Owned Businesses Increases but Economic Parity Remains Elusive.

Washington Post: Businesses owned by minorities, women boomed before recession, census says.


Mobile Press-Register: Community development money goes to Jermaine Burrell's district this year.


Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Census says number of minority-owned businesses up 46%.


Chicago Sun-Times: Black Chicago-based sorority found in contempt of court. Judge faults AKA for failing to send records to court.


National Review/Sowell: Signs of the Times. There is no free lunch — and the biggest price of all is paid by the unemployed.


Reuters: The US trade deficit widened unexpectedly in May, led by a big jump in Chinese imports that helped overpower the best month for US exports since September 2008.


BusinessWeek: Turning Small Business Owners into Lobbyists. Don't be intimidated by government officials, says New Jersey State Assemblywoman Amy H. Handlin, who explains how to establish relationships effectively.


MarketWatch: The double life of Wall Street. Masking debt mars earnings season -- and analysts don't help. Fairy tale season is about to begin.

NYTimes: End of Census, and for Many, End of Job.


NYTimes: Former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson Likes What He Sees in Financial Overhaul.


Barboza/Atlanta Post: The Oprah Effect: The Industry Behind Her Show’s Guest List.


Chicago Sun-Times: Judge orders Black sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha, to open up financial books.


Bloomberg: Bank of America Corp. and Wall Street firms that notched perfect trading records in the first quarter are now depending on an accounting benefit last used in the depths of the credit crisis to prop up their results.


Black Enterprise: NAACP: BP Gives Minorities Worst Clean Up Jobs. Civil rights group demands meeting with oil company.


Crew of 42: The NAACP voiced concerned Sunday that Blacks working on the spill today down in the Gulf Coast region may be ignored regarding higher wage positions during the course of the clean up.


Final Call: A Speech and Book for The New Spiritual Economics Part I. Is one of the ways to measure the spiritual “life” & “death” of a people to study the manner in which they conduct trade & commerce, with themselves, & others?


Cincinnati Enquirer: Star power, self esteem & soft sell are the main ingredients of a wide-ranging Procter & Gamble effort to attract the enormous buying power of African-American women.


NBA Fanhouse: How Jewish Is Amar'e Stoudemire?


Africa News: Sarah Siakie: Africa's rising modeling star.


Jamaica Gleaner: Usain Bolt Eyes 9.4 100meters. "I always say that probably 9.4 is possible," Bolt said. "I hope I can be the one to get there because I work very hard and I want nothing but to be the best."


Madison Capital Times: Racial disparities found throughout organ transplant process.


s2s: How to get LaLa’s wedding day look.


Bleacher Report: Philadelphia Eagles: Eight Players Who Need To Step Up In 2010.


Time: Is Vitaminwater Really a Healthy Drink?


MTV News: Diddy Calls Journalist Martin Bashir's Questions 'Racist'. The 'Nightline' reporter wouldn't have grilled another mogul about gifting his teen son a Maybach, the Bad Boy boss tells Vibe.

Jabril Muhammad: The time of the end judgment.


Grio: Essence Editor-In-Chief Angela Burt-Murray writes that the New White editor of Magazine won't diminish our love of Black women.


South Carolina Aiken Standard: Black Softball Circuit is connecting in Aiken.


Sports Illustrated/AP: Report: Police discover body of former NBA player Lorenzen Wright in woods. Wright, who played 13 seasons for five different teams, was last seen on July 18.


Trice: Darrell Langdon made a mistake more than two decades ago. A Cook County judge believes Langdon deserves a second chance. Until Monday, Chicago Public Schools officials didn't — but, in response to my questions, they're taking a second look.


LA Times: When he spun a dream on skid row using two violin strings, the musician never would have envisioned a command performance at the White House. Yet, here he is.


Cincinnati Enquirer: Charlie Wilson on the upswing.

Inquirer: Smithsonian honors Black Philadelphia hat-maker, Mae Reeves.


Oakland Tribune: Former Raiders star Jack Tatum dies. Known as The Assassin for his hard hits on opposing receivers, Tatum played for the Raiders from 1971-79 & finished his NFL career with the Houston Oilers in '80.


Clutch Magazine: Essence Hires White Fashion Director, Leaves Loyal Readers Asking Why.


Observer: Offering a shoulder for West Charlotte's kids. Ron Leeper, one of Charlotte's most successful builders, says If I were a young man today, I think I'd learn to speak Chinese. China, they're a major player in the U.S. economy & that's not ..."


Sporting News: New Era Opens in Philly. Former Eagles QB: Kolb's accuracy brings different dimension to offense.


Yahoo Sports: Five teams were after Terrell Owens, including the one that signed him, The Cincinnati Bengals.


USA Today: Nursing mothers get a break at work, thanks to health reform.


Cedric Muhammad/All Hip Hop: Movement Music: From Coke Rap To Community Development.

BEC Archives: Hip-Hop Fridays : RapCOINTELPRO Part XV - E-Letter To The Miami Herald, Evelyn McDonnell and Casey Woods Re: "Hip-Hop Discussion Extends A Bridge".


Mack: If You're Always On The Playground You Cannot Build: The Downside of The Hit-It-And-Quit-It Mentality.


Philadelphia Inquirer: After almost 30 years in jail, exonerated Philly convict savors freedom.


Fox News/AP: Culture clash: Flood of oil spill cleanup workers creates tension in some coastal La. towns. A BP official says some culture clash is understandable, though he's occasionally seen outright racial bias at work.


Standard Examiner: Jay-Z orders 88 letter jackets from Ogden company.


DJ Premier Blog: DJ Premier Addresses Guru & giving out support. Slams Media for Not Giving Guru His Due.

Atlanta Post/Watkins: The Evolution of the Sellout in Black America.


Yahoo Sports: Big-name NFL rookie causes stir at camp. Dallas' Dez Bryant refuses to take part in a long-standing rookie tradition after a recent practice.


Boston Bay State Banner: An heir of expectancy. Known as the Judge’s son, Keith Elam would change the hip hop industry as the legendary Guru – but he had to convince his parents first.


Virtue Today Magazine: How to Lose Weight and avoid the Metabolism Myth.


All Hip Hop: Special Panel Investigating Judicial Misconduct In C-Murder Case.


NBC Chicago: Snoop Dogg Brings Youth Football League to Chicago. The rapper said recent violence in the city shows how much Chicago kids need alternatives like his league.


Orlando Sentinel: Lawyers for Orlando-born movie star Wesley Snipes say they received an email from a juror who claims three fellow jurors presumed the actor to be guilty of tax crimes before the trial began two years ago.

Indianapolis Star /Rev. A. Thomas Hill: A change of heart is the solution to turning around youth violence.


Fanion/Atlanta Examiner: The overrepresentation of African American students in special education.


Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: The new leader of the August Wilson Center for African American Culture has lofty vision.


Washington Post: How can the American Latino Museum best answer the call of the Mall? With a commission reporting on the feasibility of this new museum on the Mall, it's worth taking a hard look at the problems of the Indian museum.


AP: A College of William and Mary professor thinks he may have found the nation’s oldest surviving schoolhouse for African-American children, the Williamsburg Bray School (1760) which educated both free & enslaved Blacks.


Washington Post: Burke "Mickey" Syphax, 99, who led Howard University's Department of Surgery for more than a decade during one of its most difficult periods & helped train most of Washington's African American surgeons, died July 19.


Charlotte Observer: Three armed men broke into the south Charlotte home of the Bobcats' Stephen Jackson & held his wife at gunpoint before locking her in a bathroom and stealing valuables.

Jabril Muhammad: Why does envy cause spiritual blindness?


Amsterdam News: The Unkechaug Nation: A brief look at a people’s past, present and future (Part I).


Tri-State Defender: A community ‘well worth the investment’. This is a story of a family’s never-ending love for a community.


Singersroom: Swizz Beatz Hoping for 'Positive' Union With Alicia Keys.


Bleacher Report: Magic, Michael Jordan's Words Prove Kobe Bryant Is Last of a Dying Breed.


Christian Science Monitor: The Big Easy bounces back with its own hip-hop beat. Dance-oriented bounce music, a hip-hop variant unique to New Orleans, is tapped by hitmakers.

Xinhua: Hip-hop finds champion in Uygur dancer.


Pendleton: El DeBarge Returns with New Album, New Attitude.


Loop 21: Driving Blacks to Broadway. Black dollars help pave The Great White Way to diversity.


LA Times: Investing in third world democracy and watching 'Ellen': M.I.A.'s suburban makeover.

Philippine Star: Pacquiao to train in Manila.


Fedor: Bob Arum on Why The World Will Have to Wait Again For Floyd Mayweather Vs. Manny Pacquiao.


Shadow & Act: Halle Berry Will Play A Woman With A Shoe Fetish In “Shoe Addicts Anonymous”.


Curry/Seattle Medium: CDC Report: AIDS Is A Black – And Poor – Disease.


Russell Simmons: Fox News: Your Lies Won’t Stop Black Women Like Shirley Sherrod.


Philadelphia Tribune: Charlie Mack: the man, his faith, his mission.


Black Voices: Snoop Dogg Says Daughter's Battle Against Lupus Made His Family Closer.


New American Media: Arizona’s Other Immigrant Conflict: African Americans vs. Africans.


NPR: Blacks Face Bone Marrow Donor Shortage.


Atlantic Wire: 'Acting White': Did Desegregation Hurt African Americans?


Final Call: Neo-slavery in the American South. Though called by other names, poor Blacks are kept in bondage today in the United States.


Cedric Muhammad/All Hip Hop: What Dance And House Music Can Bring To Rap.


The Sun UK: Black Parents give birth to White baby. Genetics experts say the little girl is NOT an albino.


Sweet Science: Zab Judah Looks Trim And Sharp In Return To 140.


Senegalese Fashion Designer Considering Atlanta as a U.S. Launch Pad for Her Wares.


WNYC: Chlorine and Curls: Why Many Black Women Won't Go Swimming.


NY Daily News: All-Star Derek Jeter is baseball's most marketable player.


Black News: Those Left Behind...Slaves In The 20th & 21st Century. Genealogist and peonage researcher produces documentary entitled "The Untold Story: Slavery In The 20th Century".


The Root: Thierry Henry Comes to America. The French soccer star will be the new Black face of U.S. soccer.


Boston Globe: More Baptist pastors adopt bishop title. Backers say promotion helps value leadership.


Minnesota Public Radio: A mile marker for the African American cycling community.


Daily Telegraph: Archeologists in Guatemala have discovered a Mayan king's tomb packed with a well-preserved hoard of carvings, ceramics and children's bones that cast fresh light on the vanished civilisation.


AP/Miami Herald: A federal appeals court Friday upheld the three-year prison sentence against film star Wesley Snipes, who was convicted two years ago of failing to file income tax returns for three years.


Watkins/News One: Ochocinco Represents All That’s Wrong with Black Men.


Wyoming Tribune: Cheyenne residents recall life of heroic Buffalo Soldier. Vernon Baker recounted how black soldiers fought for a country that didn't appreciate them in his memoir.

Jabril Muhammad: The significance of Minister Farrakhan's message and studying our motives.


Dr. Boyce Watkins: Gates 'teachable moment' one year later: What have we learned?


Orlando Sentinel: Study: Haitians don’t have higher AIDS rates than African-Americans .


Sports Radio Interviews: Jackson Defends his Reaction to Gilbert’s Letter.


All Hip Hop: The War Against Tupac: A Conversation with John Potash. Potash believes the government orchestrated Tupac's assassination.


E Online: The View Responds to Gay Group Protest Over Remarks About Black Men, HIV.


Hollywood Reporter: 'Oprah Winfrey Show' hits all-time ratings low.


Baltimore Sun: Coaches, friends, family could not help John Crowder. Despite their urging, 17-year-old basketball star couldn't stay away from his old neighborhood, where we was fatally shot.


USA Today: Your family 'type' can affect your kids at school.


Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Black colleges must change to survive, thrive.


Boston Herald: Charles Ogletree tackles Henry Louis Gates’ arrest in new book.


Chicago Sun-Times: 13-year-old boy shot again and again in West Pullman. Gunman killed wrong kid, police sources say.


Daily Monitor: Why US funds the war in Somalia.

Herald: President Mugabe’s sister and former Zvi-mba South legislator Cde Sabina Mugabe has died. She was 80.


Observer: Jamaica, US discuss investment and trade issues.


El Universal: Larry Palmer, US ambassador-designate to Venezuela vows to support democracy. "There is room for improved cooperation,” he said, adding that if confirmed he would increase contacts with members of the civil society in both countries...


Washington Post: U.S. adopts tougher strategy as China rises. Moves are part of a policy to acknowledge China's emergence as a world power but to also lay down markers when it is infringing on U.S. interests.


Bloomberg: Zimbabwe May Cut Its Demand For Black Ownership to 15% of Local Operations. Achieving a 51 percent Black-ownership level was proving to be the “major obstacle” to implementing the law, Chief Mining Commissioner Fredson Mabhena said.

Sudan Tribune: African Union moves aggressively to shield Bashir from prosecution.


All Africa: Kenya First: Let The People Decide. Members of the Congressional Black Caucus released the following statement Weds on the upcoming Kenyan constitutional referendum.


New Times: The best is yet to come. Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF), Presidential Candidate, Paul Kagame, has said that his party still has a lot to offer to Rwandans beyond what it has delivered in the past seven years.


Daily Nation: A ninth century kingdom in Malindi is at the heart of a major archaeological excavation that has interested the Chinese, who are trying to establish when their forefathers started interacting with the East African coast.


Forbes/Oxford Analytica: Connecting Africa. Continent-wide mobile broadband rollout intensifies.


CTV Montreal: Joel Debellefeuille he says he was unfairly targeted because he was driving a BMW and his name doesn't match the colour of his skin. Black man with 'Quebecois' name files complaint against Longueuil police.


Dreyfuss/Nation: Obama Maneuvers to Contain China: Is He Using the Pentagon to Assert Declining American Power in Asia?


AFP: Governors of Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta have pledged their backing for President Goodluck Jonathan if he decides to run in next year's presidential election


Africa Review/BBC: Legal action has been launched against the UK for allegedly failing to refer firms trading in "conflict minerals" from DR Congo for UN sanctions.


LA Times: The Defense Dept/Pentagon is unable to properly account for $8.7 billion out of $9.1 billion in Iraqi oil revenue entrusted to it between 2004 and 2007 to rebuild Iraq.

Turkish Daily News: Turkish government to focus on EU after Constitution vote.


Economist: David Cameron's disingenuous defence of Turkey.


Russia Today: Republicans in the US House of Representatives have introduced a resolution that would support Israel in the use of all means necessary, including military force, against Iran.


Telegraph UK: Four White South African students humiliated Black cleaners, court hears.


Uganda Daily Monitor: The African Union summit yesterday bowed to pressure from the United Nations and turned down a request that it support a change in the mandate of its peacekeeping mission in war-torn Somalia.


Mail & Guardian: Gadaffi still dreams of United States of Africa.


Post Chronicle: Russia Elects First Black Politician Jean Sagbo: 'I Am Not Obama'.

Salon: New York Times reporters met with White House before publishing WikiLeaks story. The administration "praised" New York Times reporters for their handling of leaked Afghan war material.


Prison Planet: Pakistan is the new frontier of the Forever War on Manufactured Terror & the sudden appearance of tens of thousands of documents in part pointing a finger at the CIA’s junior partner in crime is highly suspicious to say the least...


Daily Nation: AU Somalia force to launch pre-emptive attacks, following a change in the rules of engagement for the force, the Ugandan military said Tuesday.


Mareeg: The President of Somalia Sharif Sheikh Ahmed & US Assistant Secretary of State Johnnie Carson met on July 26th in the sidelines of the AU Summit in Kampala.


Gleaner: The country should know today if United States President Barack Obama's nominee, Pamela E. Bridgewater, will be given the nod as that country's new ambassador to Jamaica.


Miami Herald: As the Haitian diaspora returns to Haiti to help rebuild their country they must find their place as others view them with skepticism.


BBC News: Former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown says, in his first major speech since leaving office, the global economy is reliant upon growth in Africa.


Africa News: The Prime Minister of Ivory Coast, Guillaume Soro, has resigned from his post as the head of the country's main rebel group to concentrate on organizing the country's long-delayed presidential elections.


Daily Nation: US President Barack Obama on Sunday announced that Washington would seize money stolen by corrupt African leaders & hidden in the America & the West.


Tribune: African Union drops resolution barring arrest of Sudanese president in continent.


Politics Web: COSATU general secretary Vavi says the Boipatong massacre is the worst of many atrocities committed by Apartheid regime.


NYTimes: Somali officials acknowledged on Thursday that members of Somalia’s presidential guard had defected to the Shabab, the radical Islamist insurgent group that claimed responsibility for the recent bombings in Uganda.


AP: Sen. Lugar, key Republican on Foreign Relations Committee, advised legislators to reconsider sending money to Haiti if reforms are not made. This is another slap in what has become a protracted fight between the committee & Haitian Pres. Preval.


Canadian National Post: Wyclef's camp can't say whether music star will run for Haitian presidency. Citing "a source close to the government", Le Droit reported that Mr. Jean is only waiting for paperwork to be finalized by next week's deadline.


London Daily News: Anger after armed cops raid Nation of Islam Mosque in Brixton.


Miami Herald: Hugo Chávez cuts ties with Colombia over FARC. Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez broke diplomatic ties with Colombia in a dispute over guerrilla camps.


El Universal: The Colombian government ruled out on Thursday any deployment of troops on the Venezuelan border as a result of Venezuela's decision to break diplomatic relations.

Tribune: Bashir receives African backing in ICC row, European Union calls on Chad to carry out arrest.


Ghanaian Chronicle: Oil revenue for whom?


VOA: Political observers say a meeting in Zimbabwe Weds of national executives of the unity government's three political parties has raised optimism about the country's political future.


Mail & Guardian: The African force battling al-Qaeda-linked rebels in Mogadishu, Somalia, will be boosted by a battalion from Guinea and could further swell to reach 10 000 troops, the African Union said on Friday.


All Africa: Somalia: Conflict Will Spread Unless International Community Acts says U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Johnnie Carson.


African Business: Guinea’s new dawn. The West African nation could well be on its way to becoming the world’s biggest producer of iron ore.


Times of Nigeria: Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka on Tuesday announced plans to launch a new political party after years of harshly criticising corruption & mismanagement in the oil-rich nation.


Radio France Internationale: Chad reassured Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir that he had nothing to fear as he began a visit to the country Wednesday, despite being wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes against humanity.


CNN International: Brazil enacts racial discrimination law, but some say it's not needed.

iafrica: Former Limpopo ANC Youth League leader Lehlogonolo Masoga said on Weds he was consulting with senior ANC leaders before deciding on his next move.


Business Day: Supporters of expelled ANC Youth League president Julius Malema’s rival, Lehlogonolo Masoga, plan to stage their own elective conference in Limpopo next month in defiance of the league’s decision this week to fire their leader.


Africa News: Guinea's Supreme Court has ruled for a 2nd round in the country's landmark presidential elections. The vote has been hailed as Guinea's first free election since it gained independence in 1958.


Carib World News: Guyana's Former Member of Parliament, Abdul Kadir, on Tuesday insisted he was innocent of an alleged terror plot aimed at blowing up New York's JFK Airport.


Uganda Daily Monitor: AU military chiefs draw Somalia war plan. (Deputy Chairperson of the


Sudan Tribune: The South Sudan Lands Commission is seeking financial assistance to undertake a thorough land use and ownership verification exercise in all ten states of southern Sudan.


Leadership Nigeria: Victims of the 1996 Pfizer meningitis trovan vaccine test which caused over 200 deaths & several others permanent disability have again sued the drugs manufacturing giant for a whopping sum of $384 billion.


Tanzania Citizen: Govt's plea to enterpreneurs.


Nation/Scahill: Corporate Media Discover Private Spies. In Other News, No WMD in Iraq.


Guardian UK: Iraq invasion radicalised Muslims & increased terrorist threat to Britain – ex-MI5 chief. Saddam posed very limited threat to UK says Eliza Manningham-Buller.


Ashine: The African Union has said the International Criminal court’s warrant for the arrest of Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir would paralyse the ongoing efforts by AU and United Nations to bring peace and Justice in Sudan.


The East African: All Amisom’s men and all Obama’s guns can’t put Somalia together again.


Daily Nation/Reuters: US seeks ways to foment rifts in Somalia after Uganda bombing.


Zimbabwe Herald: The European Union will not remove the illegal sanctions it imposed on Zimbabwe despite the progress the inclusive Government has made because it has its own agenda.

Bloomberg/BusinessWeek: African Men Line Up to Lose Their Foreskins to Prevent AIDS.


Miami Herald: After the quake, Haiti and the Dominican Republic have a smoother, but fragile, relationship.


Hurriyet: Israeli PM’s admission on how he deceived US likely to stir new row.


LA Times: Pondering the map of recent California earthquakes. The Mogi doughnut hypothesis, developed by a Japanese seismologist, holds that earthquakes occur in a circular pattern over decades, building up to one very large temblor in the doughnut hole.

Atlantic Wire: What's In The Washington Post Story Terrifying the Intelligence Community?


Washington Post: The top-secret world the government created in response to the attacks of Sept. 11th has become so large, unwieldy & secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, people it employs, or how many programs exist within it.


Mail & Guardian: South Africans mark Mandela's 92nd birthday.


ABC: A Prime Minister Julia Gillard guide to Black pitfalls. After almost 3 years of practical Rudd, who achieved practically nothing, Gillard will find she's facing a cynical Black populace suspicious about Labor's real intentions in Australia.


Gleaner: U.S. Rep. Yvette Clarke has pledged to work closely with the Embassy of Jamaica in engaging the U.S to support Jamaica's inner-city Transformation Plan which seeks to dismantle criminal gangs, while securing the country's security & prosperity.

BBC News: Malaria-proof mosquito engineered.


Guardian UK: Former EU commissioner Chris Patten calls Gaza blockade an immoral failure and says bloc must be more independent. The European Union must shake off US dominance and take a bolder approach...


Ghana Web: Ghana’s Extractive Industry Revenue Distribution: Will Oil Prove Right?


IPS: China: Outsmarting the West in Africa.


Pambazuka News: Forget the ICC: Let Africa revive its traditional justice systems.


Cedric Muhammad: This Week In Africa PreBrief (July 16, 2010). Mr. Muhammad appreciates the praise he received from the African Development Bank for Africa PreBrief, "we... would like to congratulate you on the great work you are doing ..."


Washington Times: Minor earthquake rattles the D.C. area.


Jerusalem Post: 46% say Obama is pro-Palestinian. Only 10% of Israelis think US president is pro-Israel.

Tribune: Darfur JEM welcomes Kiir’s mediation offer.


Mail & Guardian: ANC Youth league smarts over court actions.


This Day: Halliburton: Compel EFCC to Probe Obasanjo, Lawyers Ask Court.


UN News Centre: ICC orders release of Congolese warlord.


Uganda Daily Monitor: Zimbabwe President Mugabe has said his government will strengthen ties with China & ignore Western countries that have insisted on democratic reforms before restoring normal ties with Harare.


Africa News: Zimbabwe gets diamond sales clearance.


How We Made It In Africa: Property and cement set to remain good investments in East Africa.


Sudan Tribune: Obama says no peace in Sudan without justice, urges cooperation with ICC.


Mail & Guardian: The Congress of South African Trade Unions hopes to rope all sectors of society into maintaining the standards set during the Soccer World Cup.


BBC Caribbean: Caricom's low optimism.


CNN: Most countries fail to deliver on Haiti aid pledges.


NPR: Dentist Championed African-American Community In Ghana.

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