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ReTweets / FB-Likes: Designing Obama iPad App [#Design #Brands #iPad]
ReTweets / FB-Likes : Coudal Partners RT of Obama’s design director, Scott Thomas’ new collaboration of the Obama campaign.
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New York City cab driver stabbed for being Muslim
The taxi workers alliance said Sharif, 43, a practicing Muslim originally from Bangladesh, was slashed across the neck, face, shoulder and hand in the attack.
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Black Leaders Outraged by ‘Religious Right’ Moves to Overturn Roe v Wade
The “Religious Right” billboard campaign claiming African American children are an “endangered species” and Alveda King’s comparison of anti-abortion activists to “Freedom Riders” have sparked outrage in the African American community.
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The first Barack Obama Elementary School opened today in Maryland
The first school in the D.C. area named after the current president opens Monday morning as the school year begins in Prince George’s County.
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The Justice Department is looking for “ebonics” speakers to translate for the DEA
The Justice Department is looking for nine linguists with a knowledge of American street slang to “monitor, translate and transcribe” DEA recordings of drug dealers.
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The Negro Motorist Green Book: Looking back to a time when Blacks had no choice but to support Black business
For almost three decades beginning in 1936, many African-American travelers relied on a booklet to help them decide where they could comfortably eat, sleep, buy gas, find a tailor or beauty parlor, shop on a honeymoon to Niagara Falls, or go out at night.
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Pew report shows African Americans regard high speed internet as an equalizing advantage
In every major category, from job opportunities to acquiring health information, more African-American and Hispanic adults regard lack of broadband access as “a major disadvantage” than whites do.
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Price of African American art work growing dramatically
Thom Pegg predicts that Black Art’s value will increase from an investment standpoint. There’s some history there and a heritage there. It just wasn’t really well known.