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Do blacks, whites agree on MLK's dream?
Posted 5 months ago on CNN
More than two-thirds of African-Americans believe Martin Luther King Jr.'s vision for race relations has been fulfilled, a CNN poll found -- a figure up sharply from a survey in early 2008.
More Americans Joining Military as Jobs Dwindle
Posted 5 months ago on New York Times
The last fiscal year was a banner one for the military, with forces meeting or exceeding their recruitment goals for the first time since 2004.
Teacher wants to expel Huck Finn
Posted 5 months ago on Los Angeles Times
An African American is about to be inaugurated as president. That leaves John Foley to wonder whether students should still read books that depict black men as ignorant, inarticulate and uneducated. …
Monumental expectations for Obama's speech
Posted 5 months ago on CNN
President-elect Barack Obama's inaugural address is one of the most anticipated speeches in decades, with many expecting his words to be chiseled into marble some day.
Developing: HBO says they aren't to blame for not including Gene Robinson in concert special
Posted 5 months ago on AfterElton.com blogs
Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson (AFP/Robyn Beck) Sunday afternoon, HBO televised the Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial — a concert planned by the Presidential Inauguration Committee — to kick off the festivities sur…
Phil Bronstein: Happy now? Is Obama optimism here to stay?
Posted 5 months ago on The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
There's too much harmonic convergence going on. Watching Fox is not helping stem the tide of giddiness welling up in me, with the "We...
Christina Bellantoni: U2 serenades Obama, gives Biden shout-out
Posted 5 months ago on The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
First published at WashingtonTimes.com The Inaugural Concert at the Lincoln Memorial is getting rave reviews. One estimate was that 600,000 attended to see the star-studded...
Scare reported on previous Flight 1549
Posted 5 months ago on CNN
Two days before US Airways Flight 1549 crashed into the Hudson River, passengers on the same route and same aircraft say they heard a series of loud bangs and the flight crew told them they could have to make an emergency landing, CNN has lea…
Bush Commutes Sentences for Two Former Border Patrol Agents
Posted 5 months ago on Fox
President Bush commutes the sentences of Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean, convicted of shooting a Mexican drug runner in 2005.
Bill Ayers Refused Entry To Canada
Posted 5 months ago on The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
An American education professor, one of the founders of a radical 1960s group known as the Weather Underground, which was responsible for a number of bombings in the United States in the early 1970s, was turned back at the Canadian b…
The People's Inaugural Ball: Earl Stafford Invites The Disadvantaged
Posted 5 months ago on The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
They are victims of hurricanes and women who suffered in abusive relationships; they are disabled adults and children scarred by poverty. Some suffer from terminal illness. They arrived in Washington by plane, train and automobile from as far…
Celebrity-Packed Pledge For Obama (VIDEO)
Posted 5 months ago on The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
Hollywood heavyweights made their pledges to Barack Obama in the video below. Directed and edited by Demi Moore, it features celebrity pledges by Cameron Diaz, Hayden Panetierre, Laura Linney, Dakota Fanning, Jaime Pressley, Ashlee Simpson, …
Obama visits injured soldiers, helps volunteers
Posted 5 months ago on CNN
Barack Obama spent his last full day as president-elect visiting wounded soldiers and exhorting Americans to spend more time in the service of others.
Op-Ed Columnist: The Next War President
Posted 5 months ago on New York Times
Like President Bush before him, Barack Obama knows he, too, will be a war president and that the decisions he makes as commander in chief will be his most consequential.
Bush commutes ex-border agents' sentences
Posted 5 months ago on CNN
On his final full day in office, President Bush issued commutations for two former U.S. Border Patrol agents convicted in 2006 of shooting and wounding an unarmed illegal immigrant -- suspected of drug smuggling at the time -- and then coveri…
