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Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Sen. Emanuel Jones, chairman of the Georgia Legislative Black Caucus, is proposing changes to the HOPE scholarship that would make the wealthiest Georgia families ineligible for it.


Jackson/Washington Post: Roland Martin, CNN, GLAAD and the silence of Black leaders.

Hood/Chicago Tribune: Chicago Teachers Union accuses CPS of discriminating against African-American teachers.


Hood/Chicago Tribune: Chicago Teachers Union, community members ask court to stop school closings and turnarounds.


Los Angeles Times: In L.A., California Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris calls settlement 'tremendous victory'.

Scheer/TruthDig: Elections Are for Suckers.


Bolton/Hill: Senate Dems grow optimistic about Obama chances in 2012.


Morial & Murguia/Politic365: Urban League, La Raza Praise $25 Billion Mortgage Settlement.

Garland/Loop 21: Twitter Comes to the Support of Roland Martin in CNN Suspension.


Redding News Review: Roland Martin gets support from Blacks.

AP: Alabama immigration law opponents want state's carmakers to help fight for repeal.


Zuylen-Wood/The New Republic: Why Did Liberal African-Americans in Rhode Island Help Pass a Voter ID Law?


Jackson/Chicago Sun-Times: Many are like Romney — ‘not concerned’ about very poor.


Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: The city of Pittsburgh would pay $75,000 and Jordan Miles would drop parts of his federal police brutality lawsuit under a partial settlement to be put before city council Tuesday.


Paybarah/Capital New York: Sharpton says he's 'very concerned' about the NYPD and Muslims‎.


Tom Ridge & James Woolsey/NY Daily News: Kelly a ‘Ray-cist’? What a smear. Attacks on the police commissioner for anti-Muslim bias are wrong.


Burke/Politic365: Unity9PAC, a political action committee aimed towards electing and encouraging members of the “Divine 9″ sororities and fraternities to run for elective office is about to formally launch.


Forward: Muslim Fears Forgotten But Israel Anxieties Remain on Obama.

Forward: Jews Shift Toward GOP, Survey Claims. Pew Poll: Jews Move to Republican Column Since 2008.


Sharpton/Black Voices: Silence Is Not an Option.


Lee/Huffington Post: 'African Americans For Obama' Launched By President's Campaign To Rally Black Voters.


Fulwood/The Grio: Why Jan Brewer will motivate Black voters for Obama.


Watkins/News One: Are Black People the New Political Orphans of America?


Ryan/ABC News: Attorney General Eric Holder Disgusted by Personal Attacks at Fast and Furious Hearing.


Clauss/Chicago News Cooperative: Black Political Clout Still Strong Despite Population Decline.


The Grio: Rev. Al Sharpton in heated exchange with Gingrich supporter, Rick Tyler; checks him over Racism (Video).


Barnette/Politic365: “Gainful Employment” Rule Threatens Black, Hispanic Matriculation.


Burke/Crew of 42: House GOP Moves to Repeal Part of Health Care Reform.


Lyons/Salon: Obama’s “post-partisan” strategy. His rhetoric about consensus politics has sent the GOP off the deep end. Maybe that was the point.

Tri-State Defender: Transportation awaits those seeking government-issued photo IDs to vote. Now that the calendar has flipped to 2012, Tennessee’s new voter photo ID is in full effect & those who want to cast ballots must have govt-issued photo ID.


Harkinson/Mother Jones: Occupy Oakland's Black Panther Roots.


Hill: Rep. Darrell Issa threatened to hold Attorney Gen. Holder in contempt of Congress if the nation’s top cop doesn’t hand over Justice Dept documents relating to the "Operation Fast & Furious" gun-trafficking case within nine days.


St. Louis Post-Dispatch: With threat of primary looming possibly against Russ Carnahan, Rep. Lacy Clay posts best fundraising quarter of the year.


CBS DC: In rally, Black leaders say Va GOP voter bills evoke Jim Crow, poll taxes.


Fayetteville Observer: Marcus Robinson's lawyer argues statistics show Blacks kept off juries in Racial Justice Act hearing.


Prince/Journal-isms: 5 More Latino Journalists Flown to Israel. Jewish Group Sees Chance to Influence Hispanics.


Jacobson/Legal Insurrection: Rep. Allen West being redistricted out of existence in effort led by Romney Florida spokesman.


Hancock/Kansas City Star: Missouri Black caucus vows to fight worker discrimination bill. Legislation in Missouri would make it harder to prove cases against former employers. (Sen. Shalonn “Kiki” Curls, pictured, President of Black Caucus).


Jackson/Chicago Sun-Times: Challenge campaign of insults, slurs vs. Obama.

Stewart/Black America Web: Florida's Black Voters Go Unnoticed for Now.


Gordy/The Root: Can a Web App Help Voters Get Photo ID?


Oakland Tribune: Almost 400 arrested in Oakland Occupy protests.

Lessig/Nation: After the Battle Against SOPA—What's Next? The fight against SOPA awakened a giant. But do Internet activists know how much power they have and what they need to do now?


Ali/Roll Call: Muslims Struggle to Find Suitable Candidate.


Williams/The Hill: '12 racial code words obscure real issues.


Persaud/Amsterdam News: Much ado about nothing. With the presidential elections now less than 10 months away, a lot was made recently of the Obama administration's proposed change to the process for certain waivers for the undocumented.

Amsterdam News: NY Prisoners Counted Differently, But Still Not Voting. Now that they'll be counted in their hometowns rather than where they're incarcerated, state inmates could shift district lines.


Mathis/BAW: Threatened Now, Jan? Just Wait 'til November.


Slack/Politico: Jan Brewer tarmac tiff touches nerve in Black community.


Gambacorta/Philadelphia Daily News: Mayor Nutter to thugs: $20,000 bounty on your head. Initiatives make it clear that city leaders seek to escape being forever known as "Killadelphia."


Chicago Tribune: Church groups with millions of dollars in contracts from his administration, back Mayor Rahm Emanuel's agenda.


Forward: Romney, Maybe. Gingrich, No Thanks. In Florida, GOP Jews Ready To Stick With Mainstream Pick.


Simmonds/LA Sentinel: Rep. Waters, right for the House Financial Services Committee.


Jefferson/BET News: Blacks Aren’t Marching on Washington Because Obama’s Black? A remark by the chairman of the CBC is insulting to politicized African-Americans everywhere.


KTAR: Obama downplays Brewer confrontation. "This is not a big deal," the president said in an interview with ABC's Diane Sawyer.


Gordy/The Root: Meet New Black Recruits for Congress.


Sharpton/Huffington Post: Fairness and Equality Will Save Our Union.


Arizona Republic: Gov. Jan Brewer and President Obama exchange tense words over book, immigration at airport.


Star Ledger: Black leaders: Gov. Christie needs history lesson after linking civil rights to gay marriage vote.


Samuel/CNN: Perception or reality: Why GOP still can't persuade enough Blacks to join the party.


PolitickerNY: Councilman Jumaane Williams is calling for the removal of NYPD Deputy Commissioner for Public Information Paul Browne for his role in evolving scandal over an Islamophobic propaganda film.


PolitickerNY: The Islamic Circle of North America called on police commissioner Ray Kelly to resign today, after more revelations about an anti-Islamic film screened for NYPD officers came out.


Gothamist: NYPD Caught Lying About Ray Kelly's Role In Anti-Islam Propaganda Film.

Hill: Rep. Cummings plays foil to Darrell Issa.

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


NYTimes: Obama Speech Makes Pitch for Economic Fairness in State of The Union Speech.


Perry Bacon Jr/The Grio: State of the Union: President Obama turns populist.


The Grio: Black leaders react to President Obama's third State of the Union speech.

Stephens/Wall St. Journal: The GOP Deserves to Lose That's what happens when you run with losers.


Jackson/Chicago Sun-Times: The toxic message that drove Newt Gingrich to victory in South Carolina will drive our nation apart rather than bring it together. And it will spell defeat for him — and for Republicans if they choose to go that way.


Times-Picayune: Eugene Green ditches his bid for New Orleans City Council at-large seat to prevent the Black vote from being divided.


Zornick/The Nation: Obama Is on the Brink of a Settlement With the Big Banks—and Progressives Are Furious.


Wickham/USA Today: Historian Newt Gingrich should see 'Red Tails'. The former House speaker's remaking of America might require time travel.

EURweb: President Obama’s ‘Let’s Stay Together’ Now a Ringtone.


Washington Post: President Obama will use his State of the Union address on Tuesday to deliver an election-year message focused on economic fairness for the middle class and what he calls “a return to American values.”


Cottman/Black America Web: Obama Targeting Black Glitterati.


Samuels/Newsweek: Black Hollywood Weighs Whether to Support Obama a Second Time. Will the African-American elite open its wallet for Obama a second time?


Boston Globe: Black community aims to block 3-strikes bill, they say will exacerbate inmate overcrowding, increase prison costs, and disproportionately affect minorities.


Huffington Post/AP: Nikki Haley Excoriated By Black Leaders Over South Carolina Voter ID Law, reminding the governor that she is a minority, too.


Independent UK: With the turmoil in Syria, Nicolas Karout, a gold seller in Damascus, says he is seeing a roaring trade in gold sovereigns. "In the past 10 months I have sold more gold coins than my father and grandfather sold in their whole lives."


Parent & Hogan/Reuters: Iran paying for grain with gold, oil - traders.


Guardian UK: Nat Rothschild loses libel action against Daily Mail. Banker had sued Associated Newspapers over what he claimed were sustained and unjustified attacks in a May 2010 story.


Taibbi/Rolling Stone: Why Wall Street Should Stop Whining. Bankers have failed so spectacularly at that job in the last fifteen years that they’re lucky that God himself didn’t come down to earth and boot their asses out of their new condos.


Farrell/MarketWatch: Doomsday Capitalists’ winning strategy. How you can profit from the end of civilization.


Campbell/Businessweek: MF Global's Collapse Has Ranchers Steamed. They complain that CME's $100 million fund won't protect them when the next commodities broker collapses.


Lewis/Forbes: What Is The Best Kind Of Gold Standard System?


Spruell/MSN Your Money: Three Essence readers -- a teacher, an accountant and an entrepreneur -- give up the goods on how to afford the things you love.


Ellis/CNN Money: States seek currencies made of silver and gold.


Martens/Counterpunch: (How 60 Minutes Blew the Story) Wall Street’s Secret Spy Center, Run for the 1% by NYPD.


Morgenson/NYTimes: One of the largest companies that provided home foreclosure services to lenders, DocX, has been indicted on forgery charges by a Missouri grand jury — one of the few criminal actions taken up for improprieties against homeowners.


NYTimes: Homeless Families, Cloaked in Normality.


Washington Post: For some Black women, economy and willingness to aid family strains finances.


Zumbrun/Bloomberg: Bernanke Says He Won’t Tolerate Inflation to Boost Employment Gains.


Schaefer/Forbes: Retail Investors May Get A Small Slice Of Facebook's IPO Pie.


Wyatt/NYTimes: S.E.C. Is Avoiding Tough Sanctions for Large Banks.


Shreveport Times: Even after a court settlement ordering the U.S. Department of Agriculture to pay Black farmers for past discrimination and to offer more loans, Black farmers said Thursday that they still can't borrow money. (Rep. Roy Burrell, pictured).


Cox/CNBC: Fed's Low Rates Killing Credit, Slowing Recovery says Bill Gross of Pimco.

Reuters: Jobless claims fall, jobs market slowly healing.


Crudele/NYPost: Another shoddy job on employment numbers. More people are unemployed or underemployed than are being reported. And the figures jump around in very random fashion.


Hulbert/MarketWatch: Should gold bugs in February bet on shares of bullion over the shares of gold mining companies?


Arends/MarketWatch: Getting back to the gold standard. Jim Grant says gold, not paper currency, is the future.


NYTimes: From Founders to a Decorator, Facebook Will Enrich Many.


Velde/CNBC: S&P Warns of Cuts; Another US Downgrade Coming?

Johns/Forbes: Is Now The Time For A Young Person To Buy A Home?


Andrews/Black Enterprise: Will Marriage Help or Hurt LeBron James’ Brand? Weighing the pros and cons of marriage and a prenup on a NBA star's tainted brand.


Ross/Black Voices: Foreclosure Crisis Erases Hard-Won Wealth, Dreams Even In Center Of Black Affluence.

World Of Wallstreet: Gold Reserves Now A National Security Issue For The World's Governments.


USA Today: Black segregation from other racial groups has hit its lowest point in more than a century — declining in all 85 of the nation's largest metropolitan areas — but social and income inequality persist.


Warner/Telegraph UK: Is the West finished? Perhaps not quite.

Reuters: Gold back in vogue, posts biggest gain since August.


Emmott/Financial Post: Jobless Europe: Unemployment highest since birth of euro. Economists worry about social unrest as jobless rate hits 20% in Greece, 23% in Spain and 10.4% across the eurozone.

Bersin/Forbes: The End of a Job as We Know It.


Cendrowski/Fortune: Ethanol's food-fuel dilemma. Demand for corn ethanol is raising food prices. What's needed is a policy change.


Brantley/Grio: To tithe or not to tithe? Black churches vulnerable in economic downturn.


Davidson/USA Today Money: U.S. cattle herd smallest since '52. Consumers face higher beef prices this year due to smaller U.S. cattle supply.


Klein/BusinessWeek: One-Percenters Want to Buy the Corner Bakery. Smarting from poor returns in the markets, ultrawealthy individuals plan to increase their investments in small businesses.


Godt/MarketWatch: India’s gold-tariff hike may fail to boost rupee.


Eavis/NYTimes: U.S. Banks Tally Their Exposure to Europe’s Debt Maelstrom.


Chang/Forbes: Why Are the Chinese Buying Record Quantities of Gold?


Lenzner/Forbes: Gold Is The Hottest Currency In The World.


Sullivan/NYTimes: When Safe Bonds Don’t Yield Enough to Retire On.

Lewis/Forbes: Does A Commodity Basket Standard Measure Up To Gold?


Oprita/CNBC: Europe needs "massive monetary easing" to get out of its debt crisis, otherwise Greece will likely abandon the euro in a year and a half, famous economist Nouriel Roubini said.


Malpass/Wall St. Journal: Ron Paul, the Fed and the Need for a Stable Dollar. The central bank should take note when a popular presidential contender calls for limits on its power.


Gandel/Time: Is the Fed Undermining the Recovery?

NYTimes: So Who’s a Lobbyist? Newt Gingrich is one of thousands of people in Washington’s influence industry who skirt the definition of lobbying by taking advantage of legal loopholes.


Bloomberg: MF Global Clients May Lose in $700 Million Bankruptcy Fight.


Miami Herald/AP: Obama courts Latino vote on economic tour.


Robinson/Washington Post: Greed is good? The GOP seems to be okay with that.


Waggoner/USA Today Money: Investing: A good fund for your kids? Maybe a madcap.


Henderson/The Grio: Black Americans losing homes over property taxes: It doesn't have to happen.

Bloomberg: Gold Proves Safest as Goldman Sachs Forecasts Record: Riskless Return.


Journal-isms: FCC Says No to Bob Johnson on New Network. The cable channel TV One told the FCC that the method that Johnson would use could force cable systems to drop TV One.


MarketWatch: Gold prices climbed to levels unseen since early December on Thursday, extending a rally triggered the previous day after the U.S. Federal Reserve pledged to hold interest rates near zero until the end of 2014.


Reuters: The Federal Reserve has moved closer to embarking on a new round of its controversial money-pumping after the central bank and its chairman Ben Bernanke highlighted a grim outlook for the U.S. economy.


Star Ledger: Dramatic restructuring of N.J.'s university system would create 3 research campuses.


Lynn/MarketWatch: Forget Greece; it’s Portugal that’ll destroy euro.


Reuters: The Federal Reserve looks set to keep monetary policy on hold on Weds, even as it releases forecasts expected to show interest rates will be near zero for at least two more years.

Wilcox/NYTimes: A Way to Make People Buy Homes Again.


Sacramento Bee/AP: Horizon Organic to boost payments to farmers.

La Monica/CNN Money: The new new gold rush.


NY Daily News: Sean (Diddy) Combs wants to launch cable network called 'Revolt'.


Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: Employment of Black men drops drastically. UWM study of 2010 census data finds record low in Milwaukee.


Washington Times: U.S. leaders praised the European Union’s embargo on Iranian oil Monday, even though it triggered a jump of more than $1 per barrel in global oil prices and signaled the potential for a rise in U.S. gasoline prices in the weeks ahead.


Ebeling/Forbes: The Backdoor Roth IRA, Advanced Version.


CNN Money: Meet the new Federal Reserve members.


Washington Post: Growing number of Black pastors express support for Occupy movement.


Coy & Phillips/BusinessWeek: A Greek Default: It's a-Comin'. Talks are under way, but settlement options look a lot like—a default.

Brimelow/MarketWatch: Gold’s happy new year. Experts say the gold shares’ weakness may be deceptive.


Journal-isms/Prince: Black Gossip Sites Lose, News Numbers Rise. MediaTakeOut Slides, BET.com Rises in Latest Rankings.


Ozanian/Forbes: LeBron James Scoring With Liverpool Investment.


AP/USA Today: Consumers who send money abroad will soon be entitled to disclosures that spell out fees and the exchange rates of their transfers.


USA Today/Chronicle-Telegram: If you want great milk, you need happy and healthy cows. At Conrad's Dairy Farm, that means pampering their milk producers with waterbeds.


Wilson/Washington Post: History of Black hospitals examined. Today, Howard University Hospital in the District remains the only Black-owned and -operated hospital in the country.


Detroit Free Press: Scared Detroiters wage quiet war against neighborhood drug dealer -- and win.


Black Enterprise: Alicia Keys Takes Broadway By Storm. With the Broadway hit Stick Fly, the singer/songwriter carves out a new lane for herself and others on stage.


Parker/The Insider: Mo & Kita Break Their Silence About Terrell Owens.


Russell Simmons/Global Grind: They Got It All Wrong About Hov.


The Grio/AP: 50 Cent visits famine victims in Somalia, Kenya.


All Hip Hop: Nate Dogg’s Estate Sued For Hundreds Of Thousands In Medical Bills.


Sheridan/Philadelphia Inquirer: Sixers show they're a good team, no matter the opponent.


Koehn/Nanaimo Daily News: Black pioneers helped shape Nanaimo's history.


Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Recalling Jonny Gammage: Play about a Black man's death at police hands is wrenching.


Black Voices: Nick Cannon: 'I Used To Be A Fast-Food Junkie,' Now Completely Healthy.


Akintunde/The Root: That's the Funny Thing About Race. Key and Peele belong to a new breed of Black comics who use universal humor to tackle the topic.


Charlotte Post: The South’s Oldest Historically Black College campus bounces back from tornado. Repairs made, Shaw University is recovering.


AJC/AP: 'They use you up': Hall of Famer Tony Dorsett suing NFL over concussions.


Winnipeg Free Press: Pam Grier blames marginalized audiences for lack of African American film roles.

Letters of Note: To My Old Master by Jourdan Anderson. (A letter from a former slave in 1865 to his former master which, according to newspapers at the time, he dictated).


CBS News: Don Cornelius' son Tony says dad called him before death.


Jamaica Observer: Will Ne-Yo's move help Caribbean acts?


Jamaica Gleaner: Prince Harry To Visit Usain Bolt At Racers Camp.


TMZ: Don Cornelius died with 2 life insurance policies worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, and the ex-wife he hated will get all the money.


Scott/No Warning Shots Fired: Key and Peele: Coonin' Ain't Comedy.

Time: Pacquiao vs. Mayweather: The Fight of the Century Ain't Gonna Happen Again.


NY Daily News: Rapper Ja Rule, serving two years for gun possession, finds new posse behind bars. Jail pals include disgraced politician Alan Hevesi and former Tyco CEO Dennis Kozlowski.


Fox News: Vanity Fair takes heat for placement of African American actresses on 'Young Hollywood' cover.

Long/Afro-American: Red Tails and Black Justice: Thurgood Marshall’s Battle against Tuskegee.


Washington Post/AP: Maya Angelou hosts radio special, hoping for time when Black History Month no longer needed.


Cosby/BAW: Fewer Internet Options for Blacks in Mississippi.


Witherspoon/The Grio: Denzel Washington: 'Safe House' star discusses struggles of Blacks in Hollywood.


TMZ: Don Cornelius -- who famously created "Soul Train" was found dead in his Sherman Oaks, CA home this morning, he was 75. He died from a gunshot wound to the head and officials believe the wound was self-inflicted.

PGA: Son of African-American golf pioneer shares insight on growing game‎.


Suggs/Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Males a distinct minority at HBCUs.

Suggs/Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Recruiting, retaining Black men in the University System of Georgia.


Sherwin/Independent UK: Black British actors told to head for Hollywood if they want big roles.


Jones/BAW: Twelve-Year-Old on Mission to See Slave Honored.


Health Day: Nurturing Moms May Help Their Child's Brain Develop. Study found toddlers with loving mothers had more growth in key brain area.

Martin/NPR: Native Americans As Slaves, Slave Owners In North.

Williams/Washington Post: Baratunde Thurston can teach you ‘How to Be Black'.


Wreksono/SoJones: ‘American Idol’ Producer Wants Al Green, Obama Duet.


Final Call: Hype, half-truths and prophecy: Is the year 2012 End of the World? Are any of the predictions true or important for our survival?

News One: Gayle King: Oprah Is Not Blue Ivy’s Godmother.


Victorian/Madame Noire: Morgan Freeman and E'Dena Hines: Is this relationship odd, questionable or dead wrong?


Charleston Post & Courier: Rejoicing 175 years: Local Black Catholics marking historic anniversary of St. Patrick’s.


Millner/MyBrownBaby: Birthing While Black: This African American Mom’s Experience Was Anything But VIP.


McWhorter/The Root: Segregation Is Down. Great News, Right? But was it ever really a bad thing that Black people lived together?


Curtis/Washington Post: SAG Awards: From Hattie McDaniel to Viola Davis, still winning for playing ‘The Help’.


Washington Post: After ‘The Wire’ ended, actress Sonja Sohn couldn’t leave Baltimore’s troubled streets behind.


Afro-American: Black Clergy Igniting Support for HBCU Equality Lawsuit.


Turner-Trice/Chicago Tribune: Little Black Pearl art center is a jewel for North Kenwood neighborhood.

ThyBlackMan: Being a Maid, Black Hollywood…


Bowean/Chicago Tribune: New year, new hair: Chicago woman advocates for return to natural hairstyles, with a big chop first. For some, the close-cropped haircut is liberating.


Chicago Tribune: Black teen says 3 boys committed racist attack. Police charge suspects who allegedly put noose around victim's neck, held knife to his throat.


LA Times: SAG Awards: Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer on acting, injustice and awards-season frenzy.


LA Times: Classic Hollywood: Pioneering Black actors helped pave the way. Ethel Waters ('Pinky'), James Baskett ('Song of the South') and James Edwards ('Home of the Brave') were among the first.

Baltimore Sun: Addressing negative stereotypes of Black men, yearlong program reaches end. But organizers hope Baltimore-based Black Male Identity Project extends to other cities.

WLOX Mississippi: The $23 million question is whether or not a former high school for African Americans is a historic building. The 33rd Avenue School in Gulfport which now houses Job Corps was once an all Black school during the years of segregation.


Newton/The Root: The Man Who Bailed Out MLK. This Unsung Hero was a bail bondsman for civil rights activists as well as a radio pioneer.


Bossip: Rutgers University Has A Course Called 'Politicizing Beyonce'?!?!?


Sharp/Detroit Free Press: Tigers' Mike Ilitch pulling out all the stops to win a World Series with acquisition of Prince Fielder.

Westside Gazette/UPI: Black physicians outperform their white colleagues in using positive non-verbal communication in interactions with patients, U.S. researchers say.


Vibe: Mike Epps on New 'Friday' Movie: 'I Think It's Going Down In The Spring'.


Creekmur/All Hip Hop: The Hip-Hop Response To President Obama’s 2012 State Of The Union Address.


Hopkinson/The Root: In Defense of Hip-Hop Diplomacy. Black artists have often served as global ambassadors for the U.S. What's wrong with that?


MTO: Beyonce & Jay-Z Reportedly Choose Oprah As Blue Ivy's Godmother.

Miami Herald: Dade, Broward Counties top nation for Black, Hispanic student scores on AP exams.


Comedy Central: New Comedy Series Premieres Tonight, "Russell Simmons: The Ruckus" 10pm EST.

Ogunsola/Loop21: Autism in the Black Community. Early diagnosis and awareness can help turn the tide against this disorder.


The Grio/AP: New exhibit at The Smithsonian explores Thomas Jefferson's slave ownership.


News One: Will Dave Chappelle Tour With Chris Rock?


GCobb: Michael Vick To Marry Longtime Fiancee In June.


Hass/GQ: Terrell Owens: Love Me, Hate Me, Just Don't Ignore Me. His financial advisers (recommended by Rosenhaus) put him in a series of risky, highly leveraged ventures that he didn't discover until 2010, when he finally demanded a full accounting.


Freeman/CBS Sports: Minority NFL assistants question if 'Rooney Rule' is being followed.

Boxing Scene: Pacquiao-Cotto Held Up By Weight, Mayweather is Not.


Dr. Nsenga Burton/The Root: 'Love and Hip Hop': Where Is the Love?


USA Today/AP: Rev. Al Sharpton will eulogize the late legend Etta James at a private funeral to be held on Saturday.

Times-Picayune: African-American cemeteries plowed over for spillway now recognized as historic.


Washington Post: African American women see their own challenges mirrored in Michelle Obama’s.


The Source: Behind The Machine: Mona Scott Young.


LA Times: John Levy, first prominent African-American jazz music manager, dies at 99.


Vibe: Kevin Hart Talks Career Moves, Becoming a Businessman, and More with The Breakfast Club.


Annette John-Hall/Philadelphia Inquirer: "Red Tails" is worthwhile but misses opportunities to teach viewers about the Tuskegee Airmen.


LA Times: Sundance 2012: Spike Lee made 'Red Hook Summer' because Hollywood wouldn't. “My wife told me when I left this morning ‘You’re defeating the purpose. Just talk about the movie.’”


Wiltz/America's Wire: Educators Alarmed: Black, Latino High School Students Perform at Levels of 30 Years Ago.

Goldstein/LA Times: Hollywood on Black culture: Should it be looking forward not back?


Miami Herald: An international jazz festival in Haiti hopes to attract fans & artists with support of local embassies in the earthquake-ravaged country. The festival is more than a marketing tool, say organizers. (Saxophonist, Thurgot Théodat, pictured).


Xinhua: President Evo Morales on Thursday accused the U.S. of spying on his & other Latin American countries. The Bolivian president said the spying is done under the cover of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) & other NGOs.


Al Jazeera: UN delegation arrives amid Maldives unrest. Former president Mohamed Nasheed awaits arrest as top UN envoy appeals to "all actors" to avoid violence.

Hirondelle News: Aisha Gaddafi Requests Full Investigation On Her Father's Death. The United Nations' commission of inquiry on Libya is expected to release its second report in May 2012.


Antigua Observer: St. Lucia Prime Minister Kenny Anthony says his cabinet will engage in discussions to decide the merit of joining the Hugo Chavez led Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of America (ALBA).

El Universal: Venezuelan Oil exports to China in 2015 are to match current oil shipments to the US.


Sudan Tribune: South Sudan in talks with Texas Company on oil pipeline. They're to explore options which would serve as an alternative to the one passing through the territories of Sudan.

Akosile/This Day Live: A new World Bank report has disclosed that African countries are losing out on billions of dollars in potential trade earnings every year because of high trade barriers with neighbouring countries.


Francis/This Day Live: MEND Attack: Amnesty Office Ready for Probe, Says Kuku. (MEND leader, Henry Oka, pictured).

Mail & Guardian: One more time: Nationalisation isn't policy, says Zuma.


Molele/Mail & Guardian: ANC Youth League president: It is Juju or no one. As its NEC lekgotla kicks off, the ANC Youth League remains determined that Julius Malema will not be replaced, even if his suspension takes effect.


The Citizen: Tanzania mobile phone subscriptions climb by 10 percent.


Naidoo/Mail & Guardian: Shabangu hammers final nail in coffin of nationalization.

Sudan Tribune: Qatar loans Sudan $2 billion amid slipping currency.


Nimmo/Infowars: Arab League Report Provides Evidence CIA, MI6, Mossad Behind Violence in Syria.

NYTimes: U.S. Sending Commander to Repair Ties With Pakistan.


Democracy Now: U.S. Accused of Using Drones to Target Rescue Workers and Funerals in Pakistan.


NYTimes: Democracy groups financed by America have long been viewed with suspicion, but never has a government gone as far as Egypt’s.


Mail & Guardian: State of the Nation: Zuma adopts Chinese model. A new focus on infrastructure, similar to the Chinese model of state capitalism, will be the centrepiece.


Press TV: Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says Iran will stand by and support any nation or group that chooses to stand up to Israel.


Boston Globe/AP: Lawyers for former Pres. Charles Taylor have asked a U.N. war crimes court for permission to reopen their case, saying a recently published Security Council report could clear him of charges he committed atrocities in Sierra Leone.


Liberian Observer: Plantain sellers at the main Red Light market in Paynesville City, outside Monrovia, say they are sustaining losses than gaining profit from the locally produced commodity.


Dominican Today: Despite their economic limitations Venezuela and Dominican Republic are the nations which have most contributed to Haiti’s reconstruction, the ambassador from Caracas affirmed Thursday.


Dominican Today: Immigration registers 380,000 Haitians, eyes solution to “stateless”.


Nyathi/Africa Review: Zimbabwe Pres. Mugabe’s Zanu-PF party has attributed the typhoid outbreak that has affected 1,500 people in the capital Harare to biological warfare and Western sanctions.


Cham/Africa Review: UK Appoints Envoy to Somalia. Matt Baugh named ambassador as William Hague becomes the first British Foreign Secretary to visit Mogadishu in 20 years.


Barasa/Daily Nation: UK Foreign Secretary Hague to visit Kenya in horn of Africa tour. Mr Hague is the first high ranking British official to visit Kenya since the Kibaki-led coalition govt took office following the 2007 post-election violence.


Bauer/Mail & Guardian: The ANC Youth League says there's no point in promoting nationalisation at the Mining Indaba because it will be non-negotiable once it becomes policy.


Sudan Tribune: The United Nations on Wednesday disclosed that it asked the head of the Darfur Peacekeeping mission (UNAMID) Ibrahim Gambari to avoid repeating unnecessary encounters with the Sudanese president Omer Hassan al-Bashir.


All Africa: Senegal: U.S. Legal Firm Helps Wade Fight for Third Term.


NYTimes: Russia Stands in Way of U.N. Call for Assad to Step Down.


Prensa Latina: US Actor Sean Penn Named Ambassador At Large For Haiti.


All Africa: AU Calls for African Free Trade Area By 2017.


East African: Rwanda is investing $852,100 to revamp the operations of local industries as it seeks to boost its domestic production and competitiveness in the export market.


Pittsburgh Post-Gazette/AP: The Hershey Company says it will invest $10 million in Ivory Coast to reduce child labor and improve the cocoa supply in the West African nation.


Zimbabwe Herald: Let's stand up to West. President Mugabe has warned that recolonisation of Africa might take place if leaders fail to handle issues as the continent's founding fathers used to do.


Daily Nation/AFP: The African Union on Tuesday extended the mandate of its top official Jean Ping after an election, in which he was challenged by South Africa's Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, deadlocked.


Korea JoongAng Daily: The Black community in Dallas has been protesting a gas station run by a Korean-born U.S. citizen in a Black neighborhood, taking issue with what they claim were racial remarks by the station’s owner against a Black customer.


Guardian UK: Clinton and Hague back Syria plan at UN. Resolution calling for Assad to quit wins support of 10 security council members needed to force vote.


Martin: The Hypocrisy Of America’s Cuba Policy.


Miami Herald/AP: UN says Duvalier must be tried for Haiti abuses.


Tanzanian Citizen: Britain wants the Tanzanian government to act on land conflicts pitting villagers against British farmers in Babati District, Manyara Region. (British High Commissioner to Tanzania, Ms. Diane Corner, pictured).


Miami Herald: Haiti president now says no pardon for Duvalier.


NYTimes: Use of Drones to Protect U.S. Embassy Stirs Iraqi Outrage.


Bloomberg: Sarkozy Should Not Attempt to Legislate Turkey’s History.


Gismatullin/Bloomberg: The world’s next great oil finds may be buried under a layer of salt more than two miles beneath the seabed off Africa’s Atlantic coast.

LaGrone/Oakland Local: A critical look at Occupy Oakland (Community Voices).


Page/Chicago Tribune: Where did Haiti's aid go?

Al Jazeera: UN Security Council to debate draft resolution supporting Arab League plan, which calls for President Assad to relinquish power.


All Africa/Southern Africa Report: The government of Andry Rajoelina in Madagascar is colluding with France to prevent the return of ousted president Ravalomanana to the island, undermining the SADC Road Map agreed upon last year.


Mail & Guardian: Leaked email gives Julius Malema ammunition. The ANC Youth League claims it has hard evidence of a political vendetta being waged against its leaders through a leaked email.


Punch Nigeria: It’s difficult to get Boko Haram for talks –President Goodluck Jonathan …says Islamist sect must show its face, make demands.


Were/East African: The rising cost of funds is the biggest risk facing Kenyan banks in 2012, analysts say, as banks pay high interest rates to access deposits to lend out to customers.


Daily Nation/AFP: AU heads for first post-Gaddafi summit as it elects new leader.


GhanaWeb: The African Union High Rep for Somalia Jerry Rawlings visited Mogadishu Weds where he held meetings with various stakeholders as part of the AU’s continued efforts to resolve the current political standoff in the Transitional Federal Parliament.


Rodgers/Jamaican Observer: Jamaican middle & upper classes don't have the entrepreneurial spirit said Professor Arnoldo Ventura in a presentation to the Jamaica Stock Exchange's regional conference on investment & capital markets.


Jamaica Observer: Former Finance Minister Audley Shaw yesterday blasted his successor Dr Peter Phillips for implying that relations had soured between the previous Government and multilateral lending institutions.


Australian: Prime Minister Julia Gillard dragged away from Aboriginal rights protest as she gets trapped in restaurant.


Zimbabwe Herald: Government yesterday offered civil servants salary increments of US$84 for the highest-paid worker and US$52 for the least-paid, which the unions rejected and vowed to continue with their strike.


Zimbabwe Herald: Zambian President Michael Sata has branded MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai a "stooge" saying he will not stop President Mugabe from holding elections this year.


New Dawn Liberia: The Boston Globe, a New York Times Company newspaper, has admitted that its report quoting US Defense officials as confirming that ex-President Charles Taylor worked as a hired US spy agent lacks evidence.


Kansas City Star: Missouri’s Black homicide rate again worst in nation.


Al Jazeera: Egyptians mass in Tahrir to honour uprising. Protesters in iconic Cairo square demand transition to civilian rule on one-year anniversary of revolution.


Uganda Daily Monitor: Obama looks to Asia for new US envoy to Uganda. The President has appointed his country’s envoy to Nepal, Mr Scott H. DeLisi, to replace Ambassador Jerry Lanier.

Rwanda New Times: Rwanda, Uganda keen to eliminate trade barriers.


This Day Live: The United States has said it will partner Nigeria in the fight against terrorism, a phenomenon it described as similar to that being faced by Americans.


Guardian UK: Turkey has warned Sarkozy that he will compound France's mistakes & face retaliatory action if he signs a law making it a crime to deny that the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks nearly a century ago constitutes genocide.

Daily Nation/AFP: South Africa's fiery youth leader Julius Malema on Monday asked the ruling African National Congress to set aside his five-year suspension, in a bellwether for President Jacob Zuma's reelection bid.


Sudan Tribune: AU urges Sudan & South Sudan to reverse unilateral actions over oil.

Final Call: Jamaica PM declares farewell to the British queen.


Bermuda Royal Gazette: A probe resulting from David Bolden’s corruption claims against former Premier Ewart Brown continues, according to the Police Commissioner, with an overseas law enforcement agency making inquiries in the United States.


Stabroek News: The University of Guyana (UG) Council has fired lecturer and political activist Freddie Kissoon, who is weighing legal options since he believes that there was political interference & that he is being targeted.


Reuters: Former Gaddafi stronghold revolts against Tripoli and National Transitional Council. (NTC head, Mustafa Abdel Jalil, pictured).


Mail & Guardian: Silence reigns as ANC reconsiders Malema's future. A handful of ANC Youth League supporters marched outside Luthuli House, as Julius Malema's appeal against his suspension from the ANC started.


Guardian UK: European Union agrees to Iranian oil embargo. Foreign ministers' deal in Brussels could lead to soaring fuel prices and Iran closing the strait of Hormuz.


Reuters: The deputy head of Libya's ruling National Transitional Council (NTC) said on Sunday he was resigning after a series of protests against the new government which the country's leader warned could drag Libya into a "bottomless pit."


Miami Herald: Honduras named murder capital of the world.


Powell/Jamaica Gleaner: The Coming Collision - Popular Expectations Versus IMF Conditions in Jamaica.

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