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Obama at NAACP: 'Next 100 years'
The Swampby Mark Silva One hundred years ago, black boys and girls attended school separately from white boys and girls, by law, in many parts of the United States, home of the free. One hundred years ago, black men and women......Tags: Schools, Health, Thurgood Marshall, Elementary Schools, Labor Legislation
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Ugly Tea Party echoes bad old days
Page's PageOn President Obama’s election night, I wondered whether the Rev. Jesse Jackson was weeping tears of joy or crying because he was out of a job?” Who’s crying now? This YouTube video catches the Country Preacher in a happier moment,...... -
Washington closed, White House open
The Swampby Mark Silva and James Oliphant The answers may be blowing in the wind, but the snow certainly was -- though this couldn't stop Bob Dylan, Morgan Freeman and a cast of all-stars from acknowledging the struggles of the Civil......Tags: David Axelrod, PBS (tv network), Ken Salazar, Julian Bond, Patrick Leahy
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House healthcare passage on track
The Swampby Noam N. Levey and Michael Muskal and updated In a visit that felt more like a victory celebration than a political huddle, President Barack Obama met with congressional Democrats today at the Capitol to rally them in their final......Tags: Health, Social Issues, Health Insurance, Parliament, Government Health Care
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Healthcare, TEA Parties, racism, rancor
The Swampby Mark Silva and updated Sunday morning There was quite a scene outside the Capitol today, where the House was embroiled in debate over passage of a healthcare bill that President Barack Obama is demanding. Protesters amassed, and some of......Tags: YouTube, Health, Social Issues, Hospitals and Clinics, Politics
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Will going negative on healthcare doom Republicans in 2010? Catering to tea party activists could backfire
Top of the TicketNow it gets ugly. Not that it wasn't before. During 14 months of partisan smearing, the main Republican strategy was to demonize President Obama and his healthcare reform. Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin accused Obama of wanting to convene death...... -
Healthcare approved: House votes
The Swampby Mark Silva and Janet Hook first at 9:30 am EDT and updated. Delivering a hard-fought victory in President Barack Obama's year-long pursuit of a national healthcare overhaul, a divided House tonight narrowly approved legislation which both supporters...Tags: John Larson, Health, Government Health Care, Paul Ryan, Insurance
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The Tea Party and race
Orlando Opinionators» Orlando Sentinel – Orlando OpinionatorsDarryl Owens wrote a column Saturday about the tea party and race. It has, predictably, generated a few responses. A lot of responses. I just heard Darryl on the phone a couple of hours ago, challenging a caller who said Darryl was sounding “... -
Big moment but 'small step'
Tribune correspondentSometimes, history comes full circle. On Tuesday, Hannah Jane Hurdle-Toomey, one of the last living children of an African-American slave, will be watching intently on TV as an African-American family takes up residence in the White House, a national...Tags: Children, Kansas, U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Military, George W. Bush
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Carefully crafting the Barack Obama 'brand'
Washington BureauOne evening in February 2005, in a four-hour meeting stoked by pepperoni pizza and grand ambition, Sen. Barack Obama and his senior advisers crafted a strategy to fit the Obama "brand." The charismatic celebrity-politician had rocketed from the...Tags: Bankruptcy, Kansas, Indiana, Michelle Obama, Nuclear Power
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Clinton, Obama sound populist themes in Midwest
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersThe nation's economic anxieties took center stage in the increasingly rancorous Democratic presidential race Thursday as Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama tilted their campaigns toward blue-collar voters in the upcoming Wisconsin and Ohio primaries....Tags: Illinois, Columbus, New York, Nuclear Power, Madison (Dane, Wisconsin)
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'Breach of Peace' fills in the blanks on the 'Freedom Riders'
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterJuly 6, 2008 The story was already written: Vividly rendered on those young faces -- excited, angry, naive, fearful, idealistic. But it was only the first leg of their journey. That's what first struck Eric Etheridge when he first laid eyes on a trove of...Tags: New York, Crimes, Jackson (Hinds, Mississippi), Politics, Ku Klux Klan
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