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Obama’s Fair Sentencing Act: A landmark for judicial reform
Gregg Reese  |   OW Staff Writer
Sep 9 2010

Crack closer to powder

“More than two decades ago, based on assumptions about crack which are now known to be false—for example, that crack offenders were more likely to be violent, or that crack was significantly more dangerous and addictive than powder—heightened penalties for crack cocaine offenses were adopted. Those penalties required 100 times as much powder cocaine as crack cocaine to invoke equal mandatory minimum sentences. The impact of the disparity fell disproportionately on African-Americans.”

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America’s anti-Muslim movement
Brittney M. Walker  |   OW Staff Writer
Sep 9 2010

The devil wears a veil

America is going crazy. Well, perhaps. As the ninth anniversary of that dreaded tragedy that still has people wondering what really happened, approaches, it appears as if Americans have turned against each other and have forgotten the true meaning of freedom. Maybe many have never known it, but that is not the point here. What is happening is, people, particularly anti-Islamic, anti-Muslim Americans who are bent on fear have been conspiring against, condemn, and instill a sense of fear in the hearts of Americans who identify with Islam, who call themselves Muslim.

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Black News Across Black America
Sep 9 2010

Here’s a look at African American issues and people making headlines throughout the country

District of Columbia

After reading an article in Clubhouse Jr. Magazine, second-grader Justice Flora decided to respond to the publication’s summer challenge to collect shoes for those displaced in Haiti. Flora established a goal of 500 pairs of shoes collected by Aug. 15 and with a little help from his parents Justice began sending personalized letters to friends and family members in early July asking for their donations. Through the Flora family-concentrated effort, Justice’s goal was reached quickly. By the time his cutoff date arrived, his summer labor had translated into 1,120 pairs of donated shoes. The youngster’s contribution was substantial enough to place as the largest donation by a single family to the Shoes 2 Share Ministry, the nonprofit organization that sponsored the challenge.

Indiana

A 10-year-old girl was killed recently while playing in her Indiana home. The girl was accidentally shot after her mother’s boyfriend was acting carelessly with the gun and it went off, hitting the girl in the torso. The young girl was rushed to a hospital where she died. The boyfriend, 27-year-old Steven Bixler was arrested on preliminary charges of reckless homicide, but has since been released on bond.

Minnesota

Tensions have been rising in Minneapolis as Africans Americans and Whites have had numerous disagreements regarding the building of a new dog park. More that 15 percent of the dog owners in the city are African American, and they are all for a new dog park in the area, the controversy is regarding location. It has been suggested that the dog park be built on the already existing Martin Luther King Jr. Park. Most African American looked at even the suggestion of putting a dog park on the same property as a slap in the face to Dr. King, but most Whites were supportive of the idea. Blacks suggested that the $30,000 that would be spent to incorporate a dog park in the property would be better used to build an information trail in the park where at each stop you could read something new about the significant things that Dr. King did and sa

 Here’s a look at African American issues and people making headlines throughout the country
 
Alabama

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On Bryant Gumbel
Gail Choice  |   OW Contributor
Sep 2 2010

Hollywood by Choice

Bryant Gumbel is one of the most outstanding journalists in news and sports reporting in America. That’s a broad statement I know, but his work speaks for itself. And, apparently I’m not the only one who thinks so.

The word is out that Barbara Walters and Bill Geddie, who created ABC’s hit women’s talk show, “The View,” and serve as its executive producers, are quietly developing a “unisex” spin-off that will attempt to inject a male perspective into the topics of the day. 

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Practical Politics
David L. Horne, Ph.D.  |   OW Contributing Columnist
Sep 2 2010

Black August and a look at the future of African Americans

This week marks the end of Black August 2010. That appellation is not for economic largesse or an announcement that Black un- and underemployment have significantly declined.

Black August is the annual designation of a month of Black significant historical events and personalities that have helped to define what it is to be Black in America and what is possible in changing that status.

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Across Black America

Here’s a look at African American people and issues making headlines throughout the country.

California
San Diego college students and volunteers will carry out their sixth home restoration project on Wednesday, July 10 through Sunday, July 14. as part of the “Healing our Heroes’ Homes” (H3) program created by the nonprofit Embrace. The five-day effort will take place at the home of medically retired Marine Corps Capt. Sarah Bettencourt. Bettencourt served with many different units across the country during the Global War on Terrorism and developed a rare neurological disorder in 2008. With a focus to restore the homes of disabled veteran homeowners, H3 falls in line with Embrace’s mission to mobilize college-student volunteers and community members to serve less fortunate members of civilian and veteran communities. The project for the Bettencourts’ home includes kitchen and bathroom remodeling, building ADA-compliant disability ramps, widening their driveway to ADA standards, widening doorways and landscaping.
 
District of Columbia
The 2013 Smithsonian Folklife Festival will showcase its five-year community research project on African American identity with the program “The Will to Adorn: African American Diversity, Style, and Identity.” This multicity collaboration examines the history and culture of the aesthetics of African Americans. The festival will be held June 26-30 and July 3-7, outdoors on the National Mall between Seventh and 14th streets. “Whether we realize it or not, we are all dress artists. The way we compose our look is a creative expression of our ideas about who we are and who we aspire to be,” said Diana N’Diaye, program curator. “This program explores the diversity of African American traditions of style, but also teaches young people the importance of documenting their own culture and saving that information for themselves and future generations.”

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