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    NBCI Supports Drive to Register a Million Voters on Easter Sunday

    by  • April 8, 2012 • Berkeley, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Post News Feature Story, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Vallejo News

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    Photo of: Rev. Jamal Bryant The National Black Church Initiative (NBCI), a coalition of 34,000 churches, announced its support for Pastor Jamal Bryant’s Empowerment Temple’s movement to register 1 million voters on Easter Sunday. Reverend Anthony Evans, President of NBCI says: “Pastor Bryant should be commended on this great effort and we intend to...

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    Charles Ramsey to Receive Judge George Carroll Community Service Award

    by  • April 8, 2012 • Berkeley, Marin County News, News Articles, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Vallejo News

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    Photo of: Charles Ramsey/Photo by: Don Gosney Story by: Kia Croom Charles Ramsey, president of Board of Education of West Contra Costa County Unified School District (WCCUSD), is among five individuals selected to receive the Fifth Annual Judge George Carroll Community Service Awards established by the Black American Political Action Committee (BAPAC). Ramsey grew...

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    Yee Introduces Social Media Privacy Act

    by  • April 8, 2012 • Berkeley, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles, Vallejo News

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      Senator Leland Yee (D-San Francisco/San Mateo) introduced legislation this week to stop employers from formally requesting or demanding employees or job applicants provide their social media usernames and passwords. He is also expanding the bill, SB 1349, to prohibit the practice at public and private colleges and universities as well. The bill comes...

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    Supreme Court Rules Detainees Can Be Strip-Searched Without Cause

    by  • April 8, 2012 • Berkeley, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles, Vallejo News

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      It was a high-profile New Jersey case brought by man who claimed he had been degraded and haunted by the “horrible” experience of being strip-searched twice by Burlington and Essex County jail officials in 2005. On Monday, in an opinion with sweeping implications for the thousands of noncriminal offenders arrested across the country...

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    First Lady Commissions Coast Guard Cutter In Alameda

    by  • April 8, 2012 • Berkeley, Marin County News, Michelle Obama, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles, Vallejo News

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    First Lady Michelle Obama (center) with Copngresswoman Barbara Lee (left) and Oakland Mayor Jean Quan. First lady Michelle Obama was at Coast Guard Island in Alameda Saturday morning at what was a wet and windy ceremony to formally commission the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Stratton into active duty. Along with Coast Guard officials, the...

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    Harris Joins Opposition to Arizona Immigration Law

    by  • April 8, 2012 • Berkeley, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Post News Feature Story, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Vallejo News

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    Photo of: Kamala D. Harris Attorney General Kamala D. Harris has filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the U.S. Supreme Court arguing against Arizona’s illegal immigration legislation. The brief argues that decisions about whom to remove from the United States and when to remove them are exclusively the prerogative of the federal government. States may...

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    National Women of Power Summit

    by  • April 8, 2012 • Berkeley, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles, Vallejo News

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    Photo of: Melanie L. Campbell The slayings of Trayvon Martin and other innocent teens were foremost on the hearts and minds of nearly 400 Black women from across the country that assembled recently in Washington, D.C. for the Black Women’s Roundtable (BWR) inaugural National Women of Power Summit, three days of down-to-earth discussions “Amplifying...

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    The Exodus of The Mixed Multitudes

    by  • April 8, 2012 • Berkeley, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Post News Feature Story, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Vallejo News

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    By Rebecca Kaplan As the City of Oakland struggles with how to overcome oppression, violence, and dissension, the ancient words of liberation can bring new support for our work today. During this week of the Passover holidays we can reflect on the lessons Talmud, the ancient Jewish religious text, which states that, “In every...

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    Head Start to Receive $1.2 Million Federal Grant

    by  • April 8, 2012 • Berkeley, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles, Vallejo News

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      Photo of: Barbara Lee Oakland will receive a $1.1 million grant from the federal Department of Health and Human Services to support the city’s Head Start Program – a comprehensive child development program that fosters social skills and school readiness for low-income children between the ages of three and five. The Oakland Head...

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    Supreme Court Rules Detainees Can Be Strip-Searched Without Cause

    by  • April 7, 2012 • Berkeley, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County

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    It was a high-profile New Jersey case brought by man who claimed he had been degraded and haunted by the “horrible” experience of being strip-searched twice by Burlington and Essex County jail officials in 2005. On Monday, in an opinion with sweeping implications for the thousands of noncriminal offenders arrested across the country each...

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    USC Football Team to build houses in Haiti

    by  • April 4, 2012 • Berkeley, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles, Vallejo News

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    USC quarterback Matt Barkley is going to Haiti this summer on a volunteer mission to help build houses, and he’s bringing 14 other USC Trojans with him. Barkley, an experienced foreign volunteer with trips to Nigeria and South Africa under his belt in the last few years, said his parents have been planning the...

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    Magic Johnson Enterprises Announces a Strategic Alliance and Investment in Simply Healthcare Plans

    by  • April 3, 2012 • Berkeley, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Vallejo News

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    Launch of Clear Health Alliance, a Medicaid Specialty Plan for Individuals Living with HIV/AIDS   Magic Johnson Enterprises announced this week an investment and strategic alliance with Simply Healthcare Plans, a minority owned and operated managed care plan based in Florida, to work together to develop healthcare programs in underserved urban communities throughout the...

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    Support Grows to Save School Garden and Cooking Programs

    by  • April 2, 2012 • Berkeley, Health, Special Interests Articles

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    By Tony Wilkinson A community meeting was held in the library of Malcolm X Elementary School this week to mobilize support and organize fundraising to save garden and cooking programs in Berkeley schools. Attending the Monday evening meeting were parents, grandparents, teachers and neighbors from Malcolm X, Washington, Rosa Parks Elementary schools, Spiral Gardens,...

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    Noah Stewart becomes first black musician to top classical album chart

    by  • April 1, 2012 • Berkeley, Marin County News, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles, Vallejo News

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    Singer from Harlem, New York, goes straight to top of UK chart with his debut album. Noah Stewart’s debut album, Noah, is top of the classical album chart. Photograph: Katherine Rose for the Observer A tenor singer from Harlem, New York, who used to be a receptionist at the city’s famous Carnegie Hall, has...

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    Female Condom Giveaway Is Expensive, but Still Cost-Effective, Report Says

    by  • March 26, 2012 • Berkeley, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Post News Feature Story, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Vallejo News

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    Drew Angerer/Associated Press A 2010 advertisement on a city bus promoted Washington’s female condom giveaway program. By Donald G. McNeil Jr. An experiment in giving away free female condoms in the nation’s capital is a “highly productive use of public health investment,” according to a new study by scientists at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg...

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    South Side church leads charge against AIDS

    by  • March 26, 2012 • Berkeley, News Articles, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles

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    By Manya A. Brachear, Chicago Tribune It’s been three decades since HIV and AIDS invaded Chicago’s South Side and surrounded Bray Temple Christian Methodist Episcopal Church in Greater Grand Crossing in Chicago. But it’s been less than three years since the little church at 73rd Street and Greenwood Avenue did anything to address the...

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    Miami Heat Protest Trayvon Martin Case, Beat Detroit Pistons 88-73

    by  • March 25, 2012 • Berkeley, Marin County News, News Articles, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, trayvon, Vallejo News

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    By NOAH TRISTER AUBURN HILLS, Mich. — LeBron James had 17 points and 10 assists to lead the Miami Heat to their fourth straight victory, 88-73 over the Detroit Pistons on Friday night. Dwyane Wade added 24 points for the Heat, who posed for a photo earlier in the day wearing team-logo hoodies. Players...

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    After Trayvon Martin, hoodie goes from fashion statement to socio-political one

    by  • March 25, 2012 • Berkeley, Marin County News, News Articles, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, trayvon, Vallejo News

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    BY AUDRA D.S. BURCH The Trayvon Martin case forces a reckoning of what it means to be young and black and male — and to wear a certain garment. From the wreckage of the Trayvon Martin killing, the hoodie has emerged as an unlikely symbol, a silent way of expressing solidarity and anger over...

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    Family Of Ramarley Graham, Unarmed Black Teen Killed By NYPD, Rallies For Justice In The Bronx

    by  • March 25, 2012 • Berkeley, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Post News Feature Story, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Vallejo News

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    The family of Ramarley Graham, the unarmed Bronx 18-year-old shot and killed by an NYPD officer in February, says they will hold rallies and marches every Thursday for 18 weeks to demand justice, CBS reports. “We’re not waiting patiently. We will be here this Thursday, next Thursday and Thursdays beyond that until we see...

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    Sgt. Bales Charged With 17 Counts Of Murder; Could Get Death Penalty

    by  • March 24, 2012 • Berkeley, Marin County News, News Articles, Oakland News Articles, San Francisco, South County, Vallejo News

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    by Eyder Peralta Mar 23, 2012 — The 38-year-old soldier allegedly killed 17 Afghan men, women and children in cold blood on March 11. He also faces six counts each of assault and attempted murder. Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales has been officially been charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder for the March...

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    Senator Loni Hancock and Supervisor Keith Carson Honored by National Women’s Political Caucus

    by  • March 24, 2012 • Berkeley

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    State Senator Loni Hancock received the “Woman of the Year” award and Alameda County Supervisor Keith Carson was honored with a “Good Guy” award at the annual Susan B. Anthony event, a fundraiser for the National Women’s Political Caucus-Alameda North (NWPC-AN) Sunday, March 18, 2012 at the Greek Cathedral in Oakland. Senator Hancock was...

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    High School Students Learn About Green Careers

    by  • March 23, 2012 • Berkeley, Headine Display

    Former El Cerrito Mayor Ann Cheng, now program director with the advocacy group Transform, discusses green careers in the nonprofit sector with local high-school students at the EBGC Green Career Fair. (Roibín Ó hÉochaidh photo)

    Hundreds of ecology-minded high-school students attended a recent Green Education and Career Exploration Fair at UC Berkeley to explore college and career opportunities in the clean-tech economy of tomorrow The East Bay Green Corridor’s third annual fair, held March 16, offered students a chance to learn more about the ever-growing educational and professional options...

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    Astronaut Rex Welheim Visits East Oakland Community Library

    by  • March 16, 2012 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Vallejo News

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    Rarely do people have a chance to meet an astronaut. Last week, Barbara Lee accompanied NASA astronaut Rex Welheim to meet parents and children at the East Oakland Community Library, 1021 81st Ave. Both Lee and Welheim encouraged students to study science and math and to learn more about the International Space Station, which can teach...

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    Obama’s Religion Still A Campaign Issue: Some Alabama, Mississippi GOP Voters Believe President Is Muslim

    by  • March 14, 2012 • Berkeley, General Articles, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles, Vallejo News

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    By Chris Gentilviso US President Barack Obama speaks during a campaign event at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas, on March 9, 2012. (JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images) Ask President Barack Obama about his religious affiliation, and he’s a Christian. Ask Mississippi or Alabama voters, and you might find a different answer. In the midst of...

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    Blacks, Latinos Lose Major Ground In Home Ownership: Study

    by  • March 13, 2012 • Berkeley, General Articles, Marin County News, News Articles, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, Vallejo News

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    By Gene Demby According to a new report by the Bipartisan Policy Center, a Washington think tank, the housing crisis has eliminated large gains in home ownership among blacks and Latinos. For blacks, the current level of homeownership actually sits lower than 1990 levels. “Between 2004–2006 and 2010, however, homeownership rates dropped sharply, and...

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    The Big Easy meets Africa: Charles Neville and Youssoupha Sidibe take fusion to the ‘Fox

    by  • March 13, 2012 • Berkeley, General Articles, Marin County News, News Articles, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Vallejo News

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    By Myles Cochrane Grammy Award-winner and soul-master Charles “Horn Man” Neville of the Neville Brothers has teamed up with famed West African harpist and vocalist Youssoupha Sidibe to front a high-energy New Orleans-meets-Africa band. Exhibiting a sound like no other, The Mystic Rhythms will back the dynamic duo with their reggae-tinged drum and bass...

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    My chat with world music icon Rocky Dawuni

    by  • March 13, 2012 • Berkeley, General Articles, Oakland News Articles, Post News Feature Story, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Vallejo News

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    One of CNN’s top 10 best African musicians: Rocky Dawuni, Ghana’s greatest reggae sensation with world wide recognition owing to his hit song ‘in Ghana’ and world acclaimed album ‘Hymns for the rebel soul’, started his elementary schooling at Services Preparatory in the Michel Camp army barracks located near Tema, one of Africa’s premier...

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    Interracial Marriage: Many Deep South Republican Voters Believe Interracial Marriage Should Be Illegal

    by  • March 13, 2012 • Berkeley, General Articles, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles, Vallejo News

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    Despite the fact that the number of interracial marriages in the U.S. reached an all-time high this year, there are many who still believe that mixed-race marriage is unacceptable and should be made illegal, according to a new report. On Monday, polling firm Public Policy Polling (PPP) revealed that 29 percent of likely GOP...

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    ‘It gives me gooseflesh’: Remarkable find in South Side attic, Greener’s Blacker: Greener Blazed the trail for W.E.B.Dubois, Derrick Bell and  Barack Obama

    by  • March 13, 2012 • Berkeley, General Articles, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles, Vallejo News

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    BY KIM JANSSEN Richard Theodore Greener (1844-1922), Harvard Class of 1870 RICHARD THEODORE GREENER’S ACHIEVEMENTS • First African American to graduate from Harvard, in 1870. • Appointed professor of Philosophy, University of South Carolina, in 1873. • Admitted to practice law before Supreme Court of South Carolina, in 1876. • Made dean of Howard...

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    Black Clergy Aims To Register One Million Voters On Easter Sunday

    by  • March 13, 2012 • Berkeley, General Articles, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles

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    The battle over voter I.D. laws — which critics say disenfranchise the poor, elderly and citizens of color — has been fought in state houses, court rooms and op-ed columns. And now that fight is headed for the pews. Leaders of several prominent black churches have stated an ambitious goal: to register one million...

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    HIV Among Black Women 5 Times Higher Than Previously Thought: Study

    by  • March 13, 2012 • Berkeley, General Articles, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles, Vallejo News

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    As the health community geared up to recognize National Women and Girls HIV Awareness Day today, startling new research revealed that the disease is five times more prevalent among African-American women than previously thought. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 1 in 32 African-American women will be diagnosed with HIV...

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    Harlem Churches See A Boom Of Tourists Seeking Gospel Music, But Congregants Bristle At Rudeness

    by  • March 13, 2012 • Berkeley, General Articles, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles, Vallejo News

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    By MEGHAN BARR   NEW YORK — The stern warning issued from the pulpit was directed at the tourists – most of whom had arrived late – a sea of white faces with guidebooks in hand. They outnumbered the congregation itself: a handful of elderly black men and women wearing suits and dresses and...

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    Marchers Remember Bloody Sunday on Edmund Pettus Bridge

    by  • March 12, 2012 • Berkeley, General Articles, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County

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      Singing old civil rights songs and led by veteran and younger civil rights activists, several thousand protesters marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 4, beginning a trek that will take them to Montgomery, Alabama. Forty-Seven years ago, on March 7, 1965, marchers crossed the same bridge on the way to Montgomery...

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    Barbara Lee Salutes Women’s History Month

    by  • March 12, 2012 • Berkeley, Featured Highlighted Slides, General Articles, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, South County, Special Interests Articles, Vallejo News

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    The celebration of Women’s History Month has grown from an idea initiated in Sonoma, Calif., in the 1970s by the Education Task Force, to a week established in 1978, to a month-long celebration of the impact of women throughout history. Formally established in 1987, Women’s History Month honors the enormous strides and accomplishments of...

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    Children “Sample” Black History Stars

    by  • March 12, 2012 • Berkeley, General Articles

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    By Stephen Brooks, Sr. “Hi dee, hi dee, hi dee ho,” sang five-year- old Empire Hall, impersonating famed jazz musician and bandleader Cab Calloway. Empire’s version of Calloway’s singing and gliding back step dance move, known as “The Buzz,” brought gales of laughter and screams of delight from the enthusiastic audience. Empire and other...

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    Princess Beatrice giggles in her crazy royal wedding hat

    by  • March 12, 2012 • Berkeley, Featured, General Articles, Hattitude Counts, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco

    Princess Beatrice giggles in her crazy royal wedding hat April 29th, 2011 by Celebrity Photo Girl Both fabulous and freaky, Princess Eugenie (blue hat) and Princess Beatrice (beige hat) show off their hats (or fascinators, as they are called) as they arrive to Westminster Abbey for the royal wedding. Beatrice wore a Valentino Haute...

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    University Of Rochester Creates Rap Video To Recruit Students – Huffington Post 3/6/12

    by  • March 12, 2012 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Education, General Articles, Marin County News, News Articles, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County

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    University Of Rochester Creates Rap Video To Recruit Students (VIDEO) Colleges have ramped up their recruiting efforts in recent years, employing everything from ski weekends to reality TV shows to draw new students in. The latest stunt — a hip hop video — comes from the University of Rochester’s Admissions Office and features a...

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    Melissa Harris-Perry Defends President Obama Hugging Professor Derrick Bell

    by  • March 11, 2012 • Bay Area, Berkeley, General Articles, Marin County News, News Articles, Oakland News Articles, Politics and Government, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Vallejo News

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    MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry took some time on her Saturday show to discuss what she called a “manufactured controversy” that erupted around President Barack Obama and former Harvard Law professor, Derrick Bell. Harris-Perry, who referred to Bell as an extraordinary legal scholar, issued a bold defense in favor of Obama. Earlier this week, a...

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    NAACP takes U.S. to U.N. Human Rights Council over voting laws

    by  • March 11, 2012 • Bay Area, Berkeley, General Articles, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Post News Feature Story, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Vallejo News

    By Joshua Keating Next week, the NAACP is taking the unusual step of bringing a complaint to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva over voter identification laws, passed in several states, which they say constitute voting rights violations. As William Douglas reports, this isn’t a new tactic for the group:  The Geneva appearance...

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    Michelle Obama Repeats Tracy Reese Dress For President’s Dinner Contest 2012 (PHOTOS)

    by  • March 11, 2012 • Berkeley, General Articles, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles, Vallejo News

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    By Michelle Manetti/The Huffington Post One thing we love about Michelle Obama is her confidence to wear her favorite dresses twice. And that’s exactly what she did last night while congratulating the winners of the President’s Dinner contest. The first lady looked flawless in her black-and-white Tracy Reese frock with a zigzag print as...

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    ‘Glee’: Whitney Houston Tribute Episode In The Works

    by  • March 10, 2012 • Berkeley, General Articles, Marin County News, News Articles, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles, Vallejo News

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    Just days after Fox’s “American Idol” made headlines for their tribute to the late Whitney Houston, the torch is being handed over to another series on the network. “Glee” is at work on a special tribute episode devoted to Houston. According to E! Online, the Fox hit is filming an episode of Season 3...

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    Ku Klux Kontraction: How did the KKK lose nearly one-third of its chapters in one year?

    by  • March 10, 2012 • Bay Area, Berkeley, General Articles, Marin County News, News Articles, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County

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    By Brian Palmer| Members of the Fraternal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan participate in the 11th Annual Nathan Bedford Forrest Birthday march July 11, 2009 in Pulaski, Tenn. Spencer Platt/Getty Images The number of hate groups in the United States is on the rise, but the Ku Klux Klan is losing chapters,...

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    Princess Beatrice giggles in her crazy royal wedding hat

    by  • March 10, 2012 • Berkeley, General Articles, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Post News Feature Story, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Vallejo News

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    Both fabulous and freaky, Princess Eugenie (blue hat) and Princess Beatrice (beige hat) show off their hats (or fascinators, as they are called) as they arrive to Westminster Abbey for the royal wedding. Beatrice wore a Valentino Haute Couture dress, while  Eugenie wore a blue Vivienne Westwood dress Both fabulous and freaky, Princess Eugenie...

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    It’s Time to Stop Calling Obama a Wuss

    by  • March 7, 2012 • Bay Area, Berkeley, General Articles, Marin County News, News Articles, Oakland News Articles, Politics and Government, Richmond News, San Francisco

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    The president has waged war from Day 1. It’s pathetic that critics still claim he’s weak on defense. By: David Swerdlick Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would be mistaken, of course, if he went home this week with the impression that all along, he’s been dealing with some sort of peace freak in the...

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