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Blacks urge more efforts to improve census count
WASHINGTON - Black groups on Wednesday urged the government to improve the count of African-Americans in next year's high-stakes census, saying they won't be satisfied with a tally that has historically overlooked millions in their community.
People:Al Sharpton Jesse Jackson Gary Locke Source:(AP)
2009-12-16
Chicago schools president's death ruled suicide
CHICAGO - An investigation into the death of Chicago's school board president will continue even though an autopsy concluded that the longtime civic leader shot himself in the head on a Chicago River embankment, police said.
Nations:U.S. People:Jesse Jackson Barack Obama Source:(AP)
2009-11-17
Motown turns 50, but the party's far from over
DETROIT - On Jan. 12, 1959, Elvis Presley was in the Army. The Beatles were a little-known group called The Quarrymen casting about for gigs in Liverpool. The nascent rock 'n' roll world was a few weeks away from "the day the music died" -- when a single-engine plane crash claimed the lives of Buddy Holly, J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson and Ritchie Valens.
Nations:U.S. Russia People:Michael Jackson Smokey Robinson Stevie Wonder Bill Clinton Dolly Parton Kanye West
2009-09-08
Obama moves to dampen uproar over comment on race
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama concedes his words -- that a white police officer "acted stupidly" when he arrested a black university scholar in his own home -- were ill-chosen. But, while he invited both men to visit him at the White House, Obama stopped short of publicly apologizing for his remark.
Nations:U.S. People:Deval Patrick Al Sharpton Jesse Jackson Barack Obama Source:(AP)
2009-07-25
Obama rushes to quell racial uproar he helped fire
WASHINGTON - Knocked off stride by a racial uproar he helped stoke, President Barack Obama hastened Friday to tamp down the controversy. Obama, who had said Cambridge, Mass., police "acted stupidly" in arresting black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr., declared the white arresting officer was a good man and invited him and the professor to the White House for a beer.
Nations:U.S. People:Deval Patrick Al Sharpton Jesse Jackson Barack Obama Activities:Obama Admin. Source:(AP)
2009-07-24
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