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Today in Black America - January 5

POSTED: January 05, 2010, 12:00 am

The New York Times

Health Spending Rises in 2008, but at Slower Rate

New Air Security Checks From 14 Nations to U.S. Draw Criticism

Third Uninvited Guest at State Dinner

Divergent Views on Signs of Life in the Economy

Paterson Seeks Overhaul to Combat Corruption

An Uneasy Feeling

This Year’s Housing Crisis

Baltimore Sun

Dixon jurors said to still chat on Facebook

Atlanta Journal Constitution

Reed sworn in as Atlanta's new mayor

Detroit Free Press

Pay cut tops new council agenda

Granholm: Let Bobb fix academics in Detroit Public Schools

The Christian Science Monitor

Las Vegas courthouse shooting highlights rising threat

New US plan sees Palestinian state in 2012 but Israel wary

Los Angeles Times

Swing states may be on the move

South African President Jacob Zuma marries wife No. 5

Chicago Tribune

Vocational education upgrade: Chicago schools roll out 7-year makeover

School lunches: Push for healthier foods faces barriers

Washington Post

Va. suspects in Pakistan say mission was jihad not terrorism

Attack shows risk of infiltration in Afghanistan

D.C. Council seeks to make attorney general an elected job

Secret Service confirms third crasher at White House state dinner

Star-Ledger

N.J. lawmakers hear bills aimed at improving urban education

Newark Mayor Cory Booker says crime down over past 3 years

Related References

books
- Handbook of U.S. Labor Statistics 2008
  Employment, Earnings, Prices, Productivity, and Other Labor Data
media
- 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
- White House Seeks to Muzzle Foreign Press
  Bush White House seeks to silence foreign press over criticism of Iraq War
organizations
- African Development Institute Inc.
  Lee Cassanelli: Director
- Afro American Historical & Genealogical Society
  P. O. Box 73067 Washington, DC 20056-3067
- African Environmental Research Consulting Group (AERCG)
  Dr. Peter A. Sam, Chairman/CEO
documents
- HIV/AIDS Today, Issue 11
  Opportunistic Infections
- Black Elected Officials, 2000
  One of the foremost Black think tanks looks at the status of Black elected officials in 2000
- U.S. Senate Directory, 110th Congress
  A directory of U.S. Senators in the 110th Congress
- Poverty in the United States, 1969
- Injustice Against African Americans, 2007
  The nation's oldest civil rights organization monitors acts of injustice against Black Americans in 2007

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