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Jackson repents for 'locker room, trash talk' about Barack Obama

But, calls perspective 'loving criticism'

By Hazel Trice Edney
NNPA Editor-in-Chief

WASHINGTON (NNPA)-The Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., expressing sorrow for a vulgar remark that he made concerning presidential hopeful Barack Obama, said his only intent was to point out the need to balance campaign talk about self-responsibility and faithbased initiatives in the black community with talk about the crisis that America's black communities...

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Jackson repents for 'locker room, trash talk' about Barack Obama 
 

Brazil offers opportunity for African heritage journey

By Anita Dortch

After a year of planning the trip to Brazil, Pastor Anthony Payton of Come As You Are Ministries, Dorthy Abernathy, Lillie Mabson and I journeyed to Rio de Janeiro and Salvador da Bahia June 16 through June 25. We joined a group of educators from Maryland and Pennsylvania and departed the USA via Brazilian Airlines for a 10-hour...

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Brazil offers opportunity for African heritage journey 
 

Black Republicans conflicted about Obama

By James Wright
Special to the NNPA from the
Afro-American Newspapers

WASHINGTON (NNPA)- With Sen. Barack Obama as the presumptive Democratic Party nominee for president, some black members of the Republican Party face a dilemma: support their white candidate (Sen. John McCain RAriz.) or cross party lines and vote for the first African American with a serious chance to win the White House.

The conflict came to light recently when the National Black Republican Association (NBRA) released plans to...

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New study gives surprising look at Black America  

Special to the NNPA
from the Louisiana Weekly

(NNPA)-According to one of the largest-ever studies of Black America, 70 percent of African Americans already have a plan for their future. The results of the survey was recently released by Radio One Inc.,...

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Libertarian Party says 'Iran should not be the new Iraq'  

WASHINGTON, D.C.-The Libertarian Party is calling for restraint in words and actions when dealing with Iran.

"The charged rhetoric from the Bush administration regarding Iran is very similar to that which was common in the lead up to the war with...

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South Africans believe they are superior, study finds  

(GIN)-Two thirds of South Africans believe they are superior to people in other parts of Africa, finds a new study by FutureFact, a group monitoring South African attitudes for 10 years.

Eight in 10 South Africans worry about the influx of...

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Liberian leader rebukes Mugabe at Mandela lecture  

(GIN)-Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf expressed her solidarity with the people of Zimbabwe in a speech prepared for the sixth annual Nelson Mandela Lecture in Soweto recently.

"All Africans must speak out about injustices in places such as Zimbabwe," said Madam Pres...

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Reporters call for news blackout after police assault  

(GIN)-Senegal journalists and unions planned to honor a "news blackout" day July 21 to protest the police beating of two reporters at a recent soccer game.

The protest was to stop all transmission of TV and radio broadcasts, and halt publication...

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Community Bulletin  

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