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Today I am outraged.
Why? Because I just read Net Neutrality For the Win: How Entertainment and the Science of Influence Can Save Your Internet. Published by the Harmony Institute and paid for by Free Press and the Pacific Foundation, this report explains how to trick, mislead, and manipulate rural, poor, Southern women and African-Americans into supporting their agenda for the Internet.


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(NNPA) - How can your home's energy bill take a toll on your health this summer? When you choose not to turn on fans or the AC because you're worried you can't pay the bill, you may face serious health conditions, such as heat stroke or aggravation of other chronic conditions.


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However, a bipartisan provision contained in H.R. 4173, the Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010, will provide a new level of checks and balances on corporations doing business in Africa


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President Obama rarely goes into stern/scold mode, and many think he should do it more often. In this case, he showed unemployed people the support they needed during these hard times.


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If you're going to attack someone, at least get the facts straight. And that's exactly what NAACP President Benjamin Jealous failed to do before unfairly criticizing Shirley Sherrod.


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By the president's signature, the jobless were given a little relief to their lack of financial resources in a critically depressing economic period many refer to as the Great Recession.


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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Right when President Barack Obama should have been making political hay over big-deal legislative triumphs, race once again blew in with a storm of distraction.


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(NNPA) - Among several e-mails I received in response to my column, "Why President Obama Will Not Seek Re-Election" was one from an Atlanta (GA) Voice reader. He wrote scornfully, that the organization, World Can't Wait (WCW), has an ad that "attempts to challenge particularly progressive people (like yourself) to end their complicity of silence when it comes to President Obama


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Congress is debating the very real future of our federal estate tax, a tax on inherited wealth designed in part to prevent one player from owning most of the board before the game even begins.


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The announcement that YMCA (Young Men's Christian Association) now will be known as 'the Y' raises the question of confusion about the public identity of YWCA (Young Women's Christian Association), also known as 'the Y.'


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The Skanner Foundation's 38th Annual MLK Breakfast