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Today in Black America - December 11

POSTED: December 11, 2009, 12:00 am

The New York Times

Blackwater Guards Tied to Secret Raids by the C.I.A.

House Approves Bill That Would Ease Federal Grip on Washington

High Premiums in Senate Democrats’ Health Plan

Swine Flu Death Toll at 10,000 Since April

Easing Congress’s Heel on the Capital City

The Washington Post

Joblessness plan revamps rules on bank bailouts

Citing 'just war,' Obama accepts peace prize

In Oslo, Obama tries to reconcile early antiwar rhetoric with prevailing realities

Jackson joins call for more attention to recession's impact on black Americans

N.Va. men allegedly tried to join jihadists

Baltimore Sun

Dixon to be sentenced January 21 for embezzlement of gift cards

State school board to review effects of long-term suspensions, expulsions

The Christian Science Monitor

Left and right, pundits applaud Obama Nobel Peace Prize speech

Five Americans arrested in Pakistan don't fit typical profile

US household wealth up in third quarter, debt levels fall

Atlanta Journal Constitution

Tech students victimized by crime this month

7 educators from Atlanta, Fulton banned for up to a year in test cheating scandal

Detroit Free Press

Cox set to be deposed today in Greene suit

Michigan Attorney General Michael Cox talked with the Free Press about the Manoogian Mansion probe and the Tamara Greene case

Chicago Tribune

Todd Stroger a distant 3rd in poll

Los Angeles Times

Few troubled mortgages being modified permanently

Democrats select Perez as next Assembly speaker

Related References

books
- Handbook of U.S. Labor Statistics 2008
  Employment, Earnings, Prices, Productivity, and Other Labor Data
media
- President Bush Addresses the Nation
  A NorthStar Network news report on President Bush's speech on Iraq
- Black Politicians in New Jersey Reach New Low
  NorthStar Network Editorial 2003
- Justice for the Central Park Five
  NorthStar Network Editorial from October 2002
- DC Voting Rights
  A NorthStar Network news report on voting rights in the nation's capital
- Hate American Style
  Violence in Iraq is eerily similar to what Blacks experienced in the era of Jim Crow
organizations
- African Environmental Research Consulting Group (AERCG)
  Dr. Peter A. Sam, Chairman/CEO
- African Development Institute Inc.
  Lee Cassanelli: Director
- Afro American Historical & Genealogical Society
  P. O. Box 73067 Washington, DC 20056-3067
documents
- HIV/AIDS Today, Issue 8
  Women and HIV
- CBC Newsletter, May 1975
  The May 1975 newsletter of the Congressional Black Caucus
- HBCU Recruitment Study
  The association representing public Black colleges examines campus recruitment
- Poverty in the United States, 1996
- Black Opposition to the Iraq War
  A look at why Blacks overwhelmingly opposed the U.S. invasion of Iraq and the resulting war

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