'Your papers, please' must never be heard in America
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President Obama's failed job policies are facing bitter criticism from black Americans, whose leaders now say black unemployment has grown worse under his presidency.
A suggestion by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia that a key 1960s-era voting rights law aimed at ending Jim Crow-era voter discrimination against blacks perpetuates "racial entitlement" has drawn outrage from civil rights leaders and others.
Immigration reform activists are calling on Congress to include gay families under the family reunification provisions of the proposed legislation.
NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Jealous said Sunday, perhaps unwittingly, that black Americans "are doing a full worse" than when President Obama first took office.
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Filmmaker Tyler Perry is offering a $100,000 reward for information in the decade-old case of two men who went missing after separate encounters with a sheriff's deputy in southwestern Florida.
Filmmaker Tyler Perry is offering a $100,000 reward for information in the decade-old case of two men who went missing after separate encounters with a sheriff's deputy in southwestern Florida.
When black voters gave President Barack Obama 93 percent support on Election Day in defiance of predictions that they might sit it out this year, black leaders breathed a collective sigh of relief.
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When the politics or the visuals seem a little dicey, President Obama is showing no hesitation in dispatching Vice President Joseph R. Biden or Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. to speak to groups he would rather not address himself.
A North Dakota man is charged with manslaughter after two young brothers from Texas died when authorities say he lost control of his speeding pickup truck and drove over their tent at a campground.
NAACP President Benjamin Jealous said Monday he hopes the group's resolution supporting same-sex marriage will encourage blacks to support it as a civil right if the question is put to voters on the ballot in Maryland or other states.
Saying it won't let recently enacted voter ID laws suppress turnout, the NAACP on Wednesday launched a nationwide drive to register thousands of mostly minority, student and elderly voters before the Nov. 6 elections.
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"The country's back to pretty much where it was when this president started," Mr. Jealous said on "Meet the Press" Jan. 27.
"The country's back to pretty much where it was when this president started," Mr. Jealous told MSNBC host David Gregory on "Meet the Press." "White people in this country are doing a bit better. Black people are doing a full point worse."
