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AP IMPACT: After 60 years, black officers rare
WASHINGTON - Sixty years after President Truman desegregated the military, senior black officers are still rare, particularly among the highest ranks.
Nations:Afghanistan Iraq People:Colin Powell Source:(AP)
2008-07-23
Jailed Black Panther demands retrial
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Black Panther-turned human rights campaigner Mumia Abu-Jamal has requested a retrial on his conviction of murdering a police officer, after his death sentence was overturned in March, his lawyer said Sunday.
Nations:U.S. Source:(AFP)
2008-07-21
France's 'white' film industry resists change
PARIS (AFP) - Where are the French Denzel Washingtons, Forest Whitakers, Wesley Snipes or Halle Berrys? France's silver screen is still overwhelmingly and despairingly white, say advocates of diversity in French film who are at a loss to explain the industry's resistance to offer star roles to black actors.
Nations:France People:Wesley Snipes Will Smith Source:(AFP)
2008-07-18
Fox: Jackson used N-word in crude off-air remarks
CHICAGO - For decades the Rev. Jesse Jackson has rallied against the use of the N-word -- an ethnic slur he has repeatedly told the American public is hateful and degrading. But the longtime civil rights activist used the term in what Jackson thought was a private conversation during a break from a TV interview.
Nations:Spain People:Barack Obama Michelle Obama Michael Richards Al Sharpton Jesse Jackson Source:(AP)
2008-07-16
Obama tells NAACP blacks must take responsibility
CINCINNATI - Democrat Barack Obama insisted Monday that blacks must show greater responsibility for their actions.
People:Jesse Jackson Barack Obama John McCain Activities:US Election 2008 Source:(AP)
2008-07-14
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- AP IMPACT: After 60 years, black officers rare 2008-07-23
- Jailed Black Panther demands retrial 2008-07-21
- France's 'white' film industry resists change 2008-07-18
- Fox: Jackson used N-word in crude off-air remarks 2008-07-16
- Obama tells NAACP blacks must take responsibility 2008-07-14
- Mandela at 90: fading away but still revered 2008-07-13
- Jury: Black neighborhood was denied water service 2008-07-11
- Jesse Jackson says Obama "talking down" to blacks 2008-07-09
- U.S. cancer death rate drop tied to education levels 2008-07-08
- Black Americans on long road to political equality 2008-06-30
- Reopening black farmers' suits could cost billions 2008-06-28
- Obama's success fuels affirmative action's foes 2008-06-28
- U.S. students improve in math and reading, report finds 2008-06-26
- CDC: About 8 percent of Americans have diabetes 2008-06-24
- 1st black La. Supreme Court justice dies at 84 2008-06-22
- Diversity: Don't Innovate Without It 2008-06-19
- Maryland elects 1st black woman to Congress 2008-06-18
- Obama tells black fathers to engage their children 2008-06-15
- In California, a segregation bastion falls 2008-06-14
- US life expectancy tops 78 as top diseases decline 2008-06-11
- Were African-Americans at Iwo Jima? 2008-06-10
- Young voters: Obama's race as an asset, non-issue 2008-06-06
- US is 'the world's leading jailer:' HRW 2008-06-06
- Less sex, drugs and booze for high school kids 2008-06-05
- Hispanic teens try drugs, suicide at higher rates 2008-06-05
- AP engages pastors, parishoners about racism in US 2008-05-24
- Many blacks miss therapy for rectal cancer 2008-05-13
- Obama rises from political obscurity to verge of history 2008-05-10
- Hundreds brawl at LA high school, broken up by police 2008-05-10
- Mildred Loving, matriarch of interracial marriage, dies 2008-05-05
- Obama's appeal to working-class whites faltering, polls show 2008-05-04
- Powdered cocaine not just for white yuppies any more 2008-05-02
- Critic accuses Hollywood of vilifying Arabs 2008-05-01
- U.S. Hispanic population hits 45.5 million: agency 2008-05-01
- Obama pastor re-ignites US debate on race 2008-04-29
- Wright says criticism is attack on black church 2008-04-28
- More limb amputations among blacks in Chicago: study 2008-04-28
- Sludge fertilizer program spurs concerns 2008-04-13
- Economy, debt weighing on middle class 2008-04-09
- Polls: Race helps Clinton with whites 2008-04-08
- Report Claims Clinical Trials Miss Many Populations 2008-04-02
- Older Americans wealthier, living longer 2008-03-29
- Poll: Voters split over Obama speech 2008-03-26
- White House contest puts race into sharp focus 2008-03-21
- Obama confronts racial division 2008-03-18
- Obama rebukes preacher, urges race healing 2008-03-18
- Analysis: Obama grabs race issue 2008-03-18
- Clinton apologizes to black voters 2008-03-12
- New race row rocks Democrats as Mississippi votes 2008-03-11
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