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The administration looks to reach more than one million African-Americans and hold 100 events in Black communities across the country throughout the rest of 2011

The Obama administration will reach out to African-Americans in coming months in a campaign to tell Blacks about what Obama is doing for them


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Only seven percent of African-American women seek treatment for depression, while 92 percent of African-American men do not seek any help for depression

The recent tragic death of a woman who drove herself and her children into the Hudson River in Newburgh, N.Y., still has people asking, "How could she?


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Louisiana is disenfranchising minority and low-income voters

New Orleans, LA –The NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Inc., Project Vote, and New Orleans attorney Ronald Wilson filed a complaint in federal court on behalf of the state conference of the NAACP and several private individuals, alleging that Louisiana is disenfranchising minority and low-income voters by failing to offer them the opportunity to register to vote as required by federal law


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Even weather forecasters had to hunker down

Those who escaped the twisters that killed nearly 300 across six states hid in bathrooms, cramped closets, under porches and even in a car entombed by a collapsing basement garage. Many tell tales of having just minutes or mere seconds to make life-and-death decisions


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Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor said he would not exclude the expert testimony and declared he prosecution was not trying to sandbag' the defense

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Lawyers for Michael Jackson's doctor told a judge Friday they may need a delay in his upcoming trial because prosecutors have disclosed new witnesses with surprising scientific theories the defense did not anticipate


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President Barack Obama came to devastated Alabama to console victims whose emergency services are so badly strained that at least one town was begging for body bags

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) -- Survivors of the deadliest tornado outbreak since the Great Depression struggled to begin rebuilding their lives in the wind-wrecked landscape Friday


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The findings were based on telephone surveys of more than 4,100 people newly diagnosed with lung and colon cancer

ATLANTA (AP) -- Blacks and other minorities with cancer are more likely than whites to say they would spend everything they have on aggressive treatments that might prolong their lives, a study found


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President Barack Obama also will attend with his wife and two daughters - the first time in NASA history that a sitting president and his family will have witnessed a launch

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- Just a few hours from liftoff, NASA fueled space shuttle Endeavour for one last ride into orbit Friday as hundreds of thousands of visitors converged on the coast for prime viewing spots


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The military is preparing to allow gays to openly serve, ending a 17-year-old policy commonly known as 'don't ask, don't tell'

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- If a Marine spots two men in his battalion kissing off-duty at a shopping mall, he should react as if he were seeing a man and woman


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Women began to exceed men in college enrollment in the early 1980s

WASHINGTON (AP) -- For the first time, American women have passed men in gaining advanced college degrees as well as bachelor's degrees, part of a trend that is helping redefine who goes off to work and who stays home with the kids


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