Whites participating quietly, fruitfully in African-American Baptist body Wednesday, 10 October 2007 Recently, white Texas Baptist pastor Larry Bethune became the president of a mainly African-American Baptist group -- and it didn’t make news, because it was nothing new. Perhaps what is news to many Baptists is that the American Baptist Churches of the South has, since its beginning, included both white and black Baptists in its leadership and gone quietly about its business.  Click to continue at abpnews.com Add Comment (0) Hits: 132   More madness in Kentucky: Black farmer's foreclosed land used for Klan meetings Tuesday, 09 October 2007 Although thousands of white farmers have lost their land in dubious dealings with the federal farm loan agency, tens of thousands of black farmers have also lost their land, in what remains a race-based theft of property—what some civil rights activists call low tech lynchings.  Click to contiune at Indybay.org Add Comment (0) Hits: 102   Medical Records Show D.C. Teen Was Shot From Behind Tuesday, 09 October 2007 A family mourning the loss of a young teen shot by an off-duty police officer is incensed by the differing accounts of the 14-year-old's death. The release of the autopsy report's findings about the fatal bullet's path has only added more fuel to a Washington, D.C. community's outrage.  Click to continue at NewAmericaMedia.org Add Comment (0) Hits: 94   African Burial Ground opens in Manhattan Monday, 08 October 2007 Workers polished the granite and tended to other last-minute details Friday before a dedication ceremony at a memorial at the African Burial Ground, where free blacks and slaves were buried more than two centuries ago.  Click to continue at MSNBC.com Add Comment (0) Hits: 125   The assassination of Chauncey Bailey, tireless advocate for black community Monday, 08 October 2007 Journalist Chauncey Bailey infused black pride into his work for more than three decades, writing hundreds of stories about Oakland's African American community, developing relationships with the city's key players and hosting black cable television news shows.  Click to continue at SFGate.com Add Comment (0) Hits: 108

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