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Jesse Jackson on Wednesday night criticized Rep. Artur Davis (D-Ala.) for voting against the Democrats' signature healthcare bill. "We even have blacks voting against the healthcare bill," Jackson said at a reception Wednesday night. "You can't vote against...
Tags: Jesse Jackson, Artur Davis, black man, Jackson, Barbara Lee, Ron Sparks, California State Senators, Congressional Black Caucus, Health Medical Pharma, Social Issues, Labor
which ran unaltered in the U.S. -- shows three colleagues sitting around a desk, beaming...But when the ad was posted on the Web site of Microsoft's Polish business unit, the black man's head was replaced with a white man's face.
Software giant Microsoft has issued an apology after it emerged that the company's Polish arm had altered a promotional image to change the race of one of the people pictured...The image began circulating online on Tuesday and after being alerted to the...
Tags: Microsoft, black man, white man, giant microsoft, software giant, microsoft apologized, Asian, Poland
Authorities have charged two teenagers and an adult in connection with the beating of a 76-year-old African-American man early Tuesday in Baltimore, Maryland, in an incident police say had a racial connection. Emmanuel Miller, 16, and Zachary Watson,...
Tags: Zachary Watson, South Baltimore, Baltimore County, black fisherman, black man, old black, white supremacist, Calvin E. Lockner, Emmanuel Miller
President Barack Obama said Wednesday that police acted "stupidly" in the arrest of prominent black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. and that despite racial progress blacks and Hispanics are still singled out unfairly for arrest. "This still haunts us,"...
Tags: Barack Obama, Cambridge Police, United States of America, Harvard Scholar Henry Louis, black man, Crowley, press conference, Henry Louis Gates Jr., president obama
Murder charges were dropped at the prosecution's request Thursday in the dragging death of a black man in east Texas, and the two white men who had been accused of killing him were released. The men, Shannon Finley and Charles Crostley, were freed Thursday...
Tags: East Texas, dragging death, Charles Crostley, texas dragging, Shannon Finley, black man, white men, charged dropped, special prosecutor
Texas prosecutors say they still plan to take to trial a racially charged murder case against two white men accused of running down a black man with a pickup truck, even though they have no physical evidence or eyewitnesses linking the suspects to the...
Tags: racially charged, black man, men accused
Calif. — A former transit police officer has been charged with murder for the fatal shooting of an unarmed and allegedly restrained black man in a racially charged case that has outraged residents and community leaders and set off violent protests. Newly...
Tags: Johannes Mehserle, Oakland California, Oscar Grant, Oakland Killing, police office, transit police, office charged, Mr Grant, black man, Napa County Sheriff
The videotaped killing of an unarmed black man by a transit police officer here has inflamed long-running tensions between police and many African-American residents. Public outrage at the New Year's Day slaying of 22-year-old Oscar Grant intensified...
Tags: oakland, peaceful, Fruitvale Oakland, Oscar Grant, old oscar, black man, BART, police shooting, unarmed black
Tonight the black man come out to party Tonight the black man come out to jam, jam, jam Tonight the black man feeling to boogie woogie Have a little fun This could be about Barack Obama on the night of Tuesday, November 4, 2008, when he became President-elect...
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