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King estate: Memorial group can’t use MLK’s name
March 27, 2013 · 1 Comment
The family of Martin Luther King Jr. has refused to allow the organization that led the effort to build his monument on the National Mall to continue using his name. The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Foundation is now called The Memorial Foundation after paying $2.7 million to King’s children to use his likeness and quotes for the sculpture. Tricia Harris, former manager of the organization that ran the Martin Luther King Jr. estate, tells the Atlanta Journal-Constitution the terms of the relationship between the... [Read the full story]
Party Politics
West challenges GOP to ‘be bold’ in its appeal to minorities
May 18, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Former Florida congressman Allen West charged Georgia Republicans convening in Athens on Friday to embrace their message of conservative values and economic independence and to take that message to the inner cities of America. For too long, West said, Republicans have ceded such territory to Democrats. Republicans need to tell African Americans about the value of school choice as a means to educate themselves into a better life and reach out to Hispanics on the benefits of small business ownership, West said. Until they... [Read the full story]
Government
Obama talks jobs, says politics misplace focus
May 18, 2013 · Leave a Comment
President Barack Obama is calling attention to his economic proposals and efforts to expand the middle class. In his weekly radio and Internet address, Obama says the U.S. should focus on attracting good jobs, educating workers and ensuring workers get paid a decent living. Obama has been pushing those priorities in recent visits to Baltimore and Austin, Texas. Obama says he’ll make the case in more U.S. cities soon. Obama says politics in Washington often aren’t focused on what Americans care about. He’s... [Read the full story]
Media
Zoe Saldana brushes off criticism of Simone role
May 15, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Zoe Saldana has played an alien and a future space traveler — but taking on the role of an actual famous person proved even harder. The 34-year-old star of “Avatar” and “Star Trek” plays pianist, singer and activist Nina Simone in the forthcoming biopic “Nina.” Her casting drew criticism from some, who argued that Saldana bears little resemblance to the singer, who died in 2003 aged 70. Musician India.Arie said “they should have chosen someone who looks like Nina Simone,”... [Read the full story]
International
Eviction fears haunt Haiti camps after attacks
May 15, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Attorney Reynold Georges showed up with a judge and a police officer on a recent afternoon at Camp Acra, a cluster of tents and plywood shelters scattered across rocky hills dotted with trees in the heart of the Haitian capital. The lawyer told the camp of some 30,000 people that they were squatting on his land and had to leave, witnesses said. If they didn’t vacate, he said he’d have the place burned down and leveled by bulldozers. Camp leader Elie Joseph Jean-Louis said other angry residents, who had lost their... [Read the full story]
State/Local
Voting ‘black,’ a matter of pride over prejudice?
April 17, 2013 · Leave a Comment
The 2nd Congressional District race this spring had the regular fare of issues — gun violence, socio-economic development and the new airport at Peotone. But one issue that made a fleeting appearance was race. Robin Kelly won the special election last Tuesday, after besting her Democratic Primary opponent, Debbie Halvorson, in February. Halvorson, however, expressed disappointed that some African-American leaders were telling people to re-elect an African-American to represent the district. Ernest B. Fenton, a losing candidate... [Read the full story]
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