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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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    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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    National Coalition of 100 Black Women Salutes Seven Bay Area Leaders

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

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    By Post Staff Seven Bay Area women have been recognized for their leadership by the San Francisco chapter of the National Coalition of 100 Black Women. The women received the awards March 3 at the seventh annual “Golden Girls Hat and Gloves Tea” held during the 100 Black Women’s “Bridging the Generations” Weekend at...

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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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    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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    81-Year-Old Black Woman Wins Powerball’s $336 Million Prize By: Claudio E. Cabrera

    by  • March 7, 2012 • Bay Area, Berkeley, General Articles, Marin County News, News Articles, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles

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    An 81-year-old Rhode Island woman is the sole winner of the $336 million Powerball prize, according to ABC News. Louise White, who is African American and of Newport, became the winner of the third-largest Powerball prize ever. “I want to say that I’m very happy and I’m very proud. This will make my family...

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    Obama Harvard Video Released, Shows Young Obama At 1991 Protest For Derrick Bell, Diversity

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

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    Before Andrew Breitbart’s unexpected death, the conservative blogger and journalist had promised to release video footage of President Barack Obama that he said would change the election. Now, BuzzFeed has unearthed the video it believes Breitbart was referring to, according to the site’s editor-in-chief, Ben Smith. If this is indeed the footage in question,...

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    Report Finds Systemic Foreclosure Irregularities

    by  • March 4, 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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    By Tanya Dennis San Francisco County officials recently turned over an audit report to Attorney General Kamala Harris and the San Francisco District Attorney last week regularities in 99 percent of foreclosed homes that were audited. The study, commissioned by Assessor-Recorder Phil Ting, and compiled by Aequitas Compliance Solutions, a mortgage regulatory compliance firm,...

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    City Leaders Host African American Commissioners

    by  • March 4, 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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    By Carla Thomas Mayor Ed Lee and Supervisor Malia Cohen hosted a private reception this week honoring San Francisco’s current African American commissioners. “This is like a family meeting to stress the importance of our collective responsibilities to move our community forward,” said Supervisor Cohen at the reception on Monday evening, Feb. 27 at...

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    Masons Gear Up for Election 2012

    by  • March 4, 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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    By Mister Phillips, Esq. The California political director of President Obama’s reelection campaign spoke recently at the homecoming dinner of Monarch Lodge #73 to build support for the campaign. Peggy Moore, state director of Organizing for America, spoke at the Feb. 17 dinner about Obama’s accomplishments. including historic health care reform and encouraged the...

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    Godfather Jerrold Hatchett Holds Birthday Fundraiser

    by  • March 4, 2012 • Berkeley, General Articles, Marin County News, News Articles, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County

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    By Kia Croom Jerrold Hatchett, known and loved throughout the Richmond community as “the Godfather,” celebrated his 60th birthday with a benefit for the Juneteenth Family Day, Parade & Festival that will take place this summer. The birthday celebration, attended by more than more 600 of Hatchett’s co-workers, relatives and friends, was held Feb....

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    Speaker Addresses “The Attack on Women”

    by  • March 4, 2012 • Berkeley, General Articles, Marin County News, News Articles, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Vallejo News

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    Dr. Carole Joffe of UC San Francisco’s Bixby Center for Reproductive Health will speak 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 28 on the “The Attack on Women” – birth control, choice and other women’s issues arising from the race for the White House. Dr. Joffe will be the speaker at the monthly meeting of the Berkeley-East...

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    Hancock Introduces “Homeowner Bill of Rights”

    by  • March 4, 2012 • Berkeley, General Articles, Marin County News, News Articles, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County

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    Senator Loni Hancock (D-Oakland) announced this week she is introducing two bills to protect homeowners and tenants from unfair and unethical practices by banks and mortgage companies. The Hancock legislation is part of the six-bill package known as the “California Homeowner Bill of Rights,” unveiled Wednesday by Attorney General Kamala Harris and legislative leaders...

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    Chevron Celebrates Black History Scholarship Winners

    by  • March 4, 2012 • Berkeley, General Articles, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles

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    Chevron’s Black History Awareness Celebration on Feb. 22 highlighted the 2012 recipients of the William King Scholarship awards. Four awards were given to seniors from local high schools: Arianna Bell and Sydney Taylor from Salesian High, Darren Sims from Hercules High and Jael Agbabiaka from Middle College High in San Pablo. Latressa Alford from...

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    Multi-Ethnic Hall of Fame Hosts John Carlos

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

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    The Multi-Ethnic Sports Hall of Fame and Everett & Jones hosted about 100 people at reception and book signing Feb. 16 for 1968 Olympian John Carlos at Everett & Jones in Oakland. Carlos signed his book, “The John Carlos Story,” which is in its second printing. The event was held as an Olympian Reunion...

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    Freedman’s Bank Still Connecting Families

    by  • February 25, 2012 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Featured, February 24 2012, Oakland News Articles, Post News Feature Story, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Vallejo News

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    Editor’s note: In partnership with the Deseret News, we bring you this story about how the Mormon church digitized the Freedman’s Bank Records as a resource to unite African American families.   Part I By Trent Toone, Deseret News The cousins from New Jersey can still vividly recall a day two years ago when...

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    WWII Airmen Fought for Equal Rights

    by  • February 7, 2012 • Berkeley, February 24 2012, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, South County

    By Michael K. Martin, Legal Editor With the observance of the birth anniversary of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the release of the historical film “Red Tails,” thoughts turn to the Freeman Field Mutiny of 1945.  The Freeman Field Mutiny was a rebellion by Black members of the U.S, Army Air Corps,...

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    NAACP Goes to UN to Defend Voting Rights

    by  • January 3, 2012 • Berkeley, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County

    The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is petitioning the UN over what it sees as a concerted effort to disenfranchise Black and Latino voters ahead of next year’s presidential election.T he NAACP recently presented  evidence to the UN high commissioner on human rights of what it contends is a conscious...

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