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		<title>Global warming more harmful to low-income minorities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lea Radick, Medill Reports
- Blacks are more likely to be hurt by global warming than other Americans, according to a report issued Thursday.
The report was authored by the Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative, a climate justice advocacy group, and Redefining Progress, a nonprofit policy institute. It detailed various aspects of climate change, such as [...]

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		<title>Blacks in Congress Split Over Menthol Cigarettes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[STEPHANIE SAUL, New York Times
- Free cigarettes are no longer handed out at Congressional Black Caucus functions. And it has been years since anyone referred to Edolphus Towns, Democrat of Brooklyn, as the “Marlboro Man” for his campaign contributions from the tobacco industry.
But the Congressional Black Caucus has not severed its financial ties to big [...]

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		<title>Majority of Americans believe Obama will win election: poll</title>
		<description><![CDATA[AFP
- A majority of Americans believe that Democratic candidate Barack Obama will win the presidential election against Republican hopeful John McCain in November, a Fox News poll showed Thursday.
While 51 percent say Obama, who is vying to become the first African American president, will win the election, only 27 percent are betting on a McCain [...]

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		<title>Racial issue raised over Atlantic City prosecution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WAYNE PARRY, Associated Press
- As one notorious Atlantic City corruption case nears its end, with its former &#8220;Missing Mayor&#8221; due to learn his sentence for scamming the federal government out of increased veterans benefits, another one is heating up.
Former mayor Robert Levy is due to be sentenced Friday morning in U.S. District Court for lying [...]

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		<title>Obama scraps visit to wounded troops</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Associated Press
- Sen. Barack Obama scrapped plans to visit wounded members of the armed forces in Germany as part of his overseas trip, a decision his spokesman said was made because the Democratic presidential candidate thought it would be inappropriate on a campaign-funded journey.
The spokesman, Robert Gibbs, said Thursday that Obama made his decision out [...]

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		<title>Civil Rights Groups Ask Governor Blagojevich to End Consent Searches by Illinois State Police</title>
		<description><![CDATA[- A diverse group of Illinois civil rights organizations today called on Governor Rod Blagojevich to bar the practices of &#8220;consent searches&#8221; during routine traffic stops by the Illinois State Police. The request emerges from a report analyzing data collected by the Illinois Department of Transportation from law enforcement agencies across the State of Illinois [...]

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		<title>Report: Hate crimes hit 5-year high in LA County</title>
		<description><![CDATA[THOMAS WATKINS, Associated Press
- Hate crimes in Los Angeles County soared last year to their highest mark in five years even as overall crime dropped across the region, according to a report obtained by The Associated Press.
The annual report, to be published Thursday by the county&#8217;s human relations commission, shows 763 hate crimes were reported [...]

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		<title>Text of Senator Barack Obama&#8217;s Berlin speech</title>
		<description><![CDATA[- Thank you to the citizens of Berlin and to the people of Germany. Let me thank Chancellor Merkel and Foreign Minister Steinmeier for welcoming me earlier today. Thank you Mayor Wowereit, the Berlin Senate, the police, and most of all thank you for this welcome.
I come to Berlin as so many of my countrymen [...]

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		<title>Australian PM wants blacks recognized</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ROD McGUIRK, Associated Press
- Australia&#8217;s prime minister, who has won applause for apologizing to Aborigines for past wrongs, has revived plans for a constitutional revision to recognize the country&#8217;s indigenous people.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd was visiting a remote Outback Aboriginal community Wednesday when he raised the issue of recognizing Aborigines in Australia&#8217;s 107-year-old constitution.
&#8220;We will [...]

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		<title>A single ‘Black leader’ is non-existent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chicago Defender
- We present this as a public service announcement: Anyone who is seeking to speak to a “Black leader” should immediately cease and desist.
We recognize that politicians, the mainstream media, and sometimes even Black people, go out searching for a “Black leader” to opine on any number of subjects.
They seek out a “Black leader” [...]

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