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From HipHopWired.com: Rush Limbaugh is never one to bite his tongue especially when it comes to anything and everything related to President Obama and his healthcare reform bill.

I just returned from the “Measuring the Movement” forum, hosted by The Rev. Al Sharpton and the National Action Network.  The event was off the chain, with an amazing crowd and an outstanding panel of guests.  We were joined by Rev. Al Sharpton, Ben Jealous, Marc Morial, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rep. Charles Rangel, Democratic Whip James […]

From InsideOut.ChicagoPublicRadio.org: There are many more black and brown young people in our jails and prisons than you’d predict, if you just look at their percentages in the population at large.

From CNN: New York — New York state legislator Adam Clayton Powell IV on Monday announced his candidacy in this year’s Democratic primary against 20-term U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel, who has spent the past year battling an ethics investigation.

From CNN: Haiti’s top prosecutor on Friday denied reports that charges have been dropped against nine of the 10 American missionaries accused of kidnapping children after a devastating earthquake hit the nation in January.

WASHINGTON – America’s “Great Compromiser” Henry Clay called government “the great trust,” but most Americans today have little faith in Washington’s ability to deal with the nation’s problems.

There were 784,764 U.S. residents who described their race as white and black in the last census. But that number didn’t include Laura Martin, whose father is black and mother is white.

DALY CITY, Calif. – Medical marijuana users near San Francisco lit up Saturday at the opening of the two-day International Cannabis and Hemp Expo, where vendors displayed bongs, vaporizers, hash brownies and other marijuana-related products.

WASHINGTON – Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner (GYT’-nur) says the economy is growing faster than the Obama administration expected.

WASHINGTON – The government on Friday accused Wall Street’s most powerful firm of fraud, saying Goldman Sachs & Co. sold mortgage investments without telling the buyers that the securities were crafted with input from a client who was betting on them to fail.