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Friday, 10 August 2007 |
 Three weeks from today, a 30-year-old African American man on death row
in Texas is scheduled to be executed. Kenneth Foster was sentenced to
death ten years ago for the murder of Michael LaHood, a white man. The
trial judge, the prosecutor, and the jury that sentenced him to die
admit he never killed anyone. Read more at
Democracy Now!
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Thursday, 09 August 2007 |
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A few years earlier, members of the sect threatened to kill [Chauncey Bailey] for running stories they didn't like.... I interviewed Bailey while conducting my own investigation into
the Bey family's history of alleged violence and fraud for the East Bay Express. I soon got a taste of what he was talking about. Read more at VillageVoice.com
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Thursday, 09 August 2007 |
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Whites are now in the minority in nearly one in 10 U.S. counties. And
that increased diversity, fueled by immigration and higher birth rates
among blacks and Hispanics, is straining race relations and sparking a
backlash against immigrants in many communities. Read more at ABCNews.com
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Tuesday, 07 August 2007 |
 A 19-year-old handyman who has confessed to killing Oakland journalist Chauncey
Bailey with a shotgun is not believed to have worked alone, police said on Monday,
raising the possibility that a splinter Black Muslim group conducted the first assassination in memory of a American-born
black journalist on American soil. Read more at Journal-isms
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Tuesday, 07 August 2007 |
 Three years ago, when Charles Steele Jr. became president of the
Southern Christian Leadership Conference, he worked out of a cramped
headquarters without power or light. The embattled civil rights group's
funds were scant, and so, too, was it's sense of mission. Read more at latimes.com
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