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From Reuters.com: (Reuters) – Black farmers are worried that a landmark deal to compensate them for discrimination faced over decades could slip through their fingers as a deadline looms without funding approved by lawmakers.

While CNN’s recently conducted a poll found that, for the first time, a majority of Americans disapprove of the job President Obama is doing, a NewsOne/Blackplanet poll revealed that those results doesn’t reflect the feelings of the Black community.

From The New York Times: Playground controversies usually involve bickering parents, unruly dogs or bullies. One exception is at the Tompkins Houses, a city housing project in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, where an orange jungle gym adorned with the word “Jail,” a cell door and prison bars has, six years after its installation, set off outrage in […]

From Yahoo News: WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is asking Congress for $2.8 billion in aid for earthquake-wracked Haiti, jump-starting a global push to raise billions of dollars for the country’s reconstruction.

WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans learned early Thursday that they will be able to kill language in a measure altering President Barack Obama’s newly enacted health care overhaul, meaning the bill will have to return to the House for final congressional approval.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Anything but jubilant, President Barack Obama awkwardly kept a promise Wednesday he made to assure passage of historic health care legislation, pledging his administration would not allow the use of federal funds to pay for elective abortions covered by private insurance.

One of the main problems you face when you speak a language that your own ancestors didn’t create is that you’re subject to be manipulated by it.

From Color Of Change Tell the GOP: Stop inciting and supporting hate This weekend, anti health care protesters shouted racist and homophobic slurs at Black and gay members of Congress. It’s not the first time we’ve seen such hatred. For over a year, the Republican Party has done little to stop the violent rhetoric, racially […]

I recently watched a television show about standards of beauty around the world. I sat in awe as little Chinese girls went ga-ga for White Barbie, and their mothers and sisters stood in a drive-thru line to have a surgeon slice away the fat from their eyelids to make them more Euro-chic.

From the NY Daily News: Get ready to walk like an Egyptian – King Tut is on his way back to the Big Apple.