Black Students Say Duke Study Signals Deeper Race Issues

Affirmative action foes cite study in Supreme Court bid

2012-01-22

By MARTHA WAGGONER of The Associated Press

 An unpublished study by Duke University researchers that says black students are more likely to switch to less difficult majors has upset some students, who say the research is emblematic of more entrenched racial problems.
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Black Farmers Take Action in Memphis and Durham

2012-01-22

The Skanner staff from wire reports

On the King holiday, Black Farmers take Action in Tennessee and South Caroline joining the Occupy Memphis movement and filing claims in Durham. Read the complete article

GOP Debates: A Political Tip Sheet

Millionaires, taxes, oil and race in the debates

2012-01-22

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE of The Associated Press

GOP Candidates: A political tip sheet for the rest of us outside the Washington Beltway  Read the complete article

Hazing or Hate Crime? FAMU Parents Want Investigation

Petition seeks answers in death of Robert Champion Jr.

2012-01-21

Special to the NNPA from the Afro American

The parents of Robert Champion Jr. want answers. Was his death a hazing or a hate crime because he was gay? Read the complete article

GOP Race Card Rhetoric Raises Hackles

The shameful history of political racebaiting

2012-01-21

By JESSE J. HOLLAND of the Associated Press

GOP presidential contenders are offending Blacks across the country with racial rhetoric and biased stereotypes. It's nothing new.  Political racebaiting has a long history. Read the complete article

Muslims Targeted, Authority for NYPD-CIA Collaboration Questioned

With the CIA's help, the NYPD developed spying programs and built databases on where innocent Muslims eat, shop, work and pray

2012-01-20

Adam Goldman and Matt Apuzzo The Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The CIA's top lawyer never approved sending a veteran agency officer to New York, where he helped set up police spying programs, The Associated Press has learned. Such approval would have been required under the presidential order that Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said authorized the unusual assignment. Read the complete article

Iowa GOP Won't Declare a Winner of State Caucuses

Iowa Republican Chairman Matt Strawn had announced hours after the Jan. 3 caucuses concluded that Romney had won by eight votes

2012-01-20

David Pace The Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) -- It took Iowa Republicans 16 days to decide they couldn't tell for sure who won the Iowa caucuses, despite their earlier announcement that Mitt Romney had narrowly won. The non-conclusion highlights the potential pitfalls with party-run presidential nominating events. Read the complete article

GOP Primaries: Romney Says He'll ‘Post Up Well’ Against Obama

Romney, appearing on Fox News Channel, called Gingrich 'a feisty competitor' but argued the former House speaker was not the best man

2012-01-20

Thomas Beaumont The Associated Press

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- Mitt Romney entered the final full day of campaigning in South Carolina's GOP primary contest Friday scrambling to fend off challenges from more conservative rivals Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum and insisting he's the one that Republicans can trust to "post up well" against President Barack Obama in the fall. Read the complete article

VIDEO: Woman Who Brought Gun Aboard Plane is Released from Custody

Airport officials said that Kenney would be charged with carrying a gun into a place where weapons are prohibited, a third-degree felony in Texas

2012-01-19

David Koenig AP Airlines Writer

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) -- A 65-year-old lawyer was arrested Wednesday for carrying a loaded handgun aboard an American Airlines jet at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. Read the complete article

High Fat, Sugar Recipe Queen Paula Deen Under Fire After Diabetes Announcement

Deen added Novo Nordisk to other endorsement deals that include Philadelphia Cream Cheese and Smithfield hams

2012-01-19

Leanne Italie The Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) -- Celebrity chef Paula Deen on Wednesday pledged a portion of her earnings from a lucrative endorsement deal with a diabetes drugmaker to the nonprofit American Diabetes Association. Read the complete article