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Bryan Cox, WACH
- South Carolina’s chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is downplaying the discovery of racial graffiti on Columbia City Hall Wednesday morning as an isolated incident.
State NAACP President Lonnie Randolph tells WACH FOX News that while he thinks racism still plays a role in many aspects of South [...]
Charlene Muhammad, Final Call
- Barack Obama taking charge as the president of the United States was seen as the most significant development for Black America in 2009, according to analysts interviewed by The Final Call, but despite that historical change—serious challenges remain.
Blacks still live in greater poverty (24.7 percent) than non-Hispanic Whites (8.6 percent), Asians [...]
Democratic Party leaders are trying again to shorten the presidential primary process, which lasted 11 months last year.
An advisory commission recommended Wednesday that 2012’s earliest voting, such as the Democratic Iowa caucus and the New Hampshire primary, not occur before Feb. 1. All but a handful of party primaries would take place after the second [...]
President Barack Obama on Tuesday ordered the federal government to rethink how it protects the nation’s secrets, in a move that was expected to declassify more than 400 million pages of Cold War-era documents and curb the number of government records hidden from the public.
Among the changes is a requirement that every record is released [...]
Hamil R. Harris, Washington Post
- The Rev. Jesse Jackson joined more than 100 African American community leaders Tuesday to plot strategy against the wave of foreclosures that has affected homes and houses of worship across the country.
After being bailed out by the government, many banks have repaid the Treasury Department and continue to conduct business [...]
