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PORTLAND, Ore. – The Rev. Jerry Kulah has nothing but gratitude for American Methodists. In 1833, they sent their first missionary to his country, Liberia, which was founded for freed American slaves. Melville B. Cox died four months after he arrived in Africa, but the missionary's legacy lives on
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NEW YORK (AP) — Making a direct appeal to black voters, Hillary Clinton said Tuesday she would give African-Americans their next ally in the White House and offered a detailed plan to overcome racial disparities ahead of crucial primaries in South Carolina and the Deep South. Clinton took her presidential campaign
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NEW YORK (AP) — Will Smith says he will not attend the Academy Awards next month, joining his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, and others in protest against two straight years of all-white acting nominees. "My wife's not going. It would be awkward for me to show up with
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(CNSNews.com) – Talk show host and author Tavis Smiley told C-SPAN's "Washington Journal" on Friday that blacks have lost ground in every leading economic category in the last 10 years. "It's depressing. You have to go where the data takes you … and what
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I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as
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The Obama era is nearly over. But Black Americans have not fared well under the administration of America's first Black president. Not only are 10 percent of blacks unemployed, but 27 percent are at or below the poverty rate.
Manhattan Institute
Residential and economic mobility remain a part of life in the U.S., though a new study shows that the opportunities for both are more limited for some than in the past. Economic mobility, or the ability to move beyond the economic circumstances of one's parents, has long
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Ninety-five percent of black voters in 2008 voted for then-Sen. Barack Obama. Surely a "progressive" black president would care about, empathize with and understand black America in a way no other president ever has or could, right? Exit polls from Pew Research show that 63 percent of all
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