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Politico – She asks the reverend to reconsider plans. View full post on Yahoo! News: Politics News Related Reading: Hardball : How Politics Is Played Told By One Who Knows The Game How politics is played by one who knows the game... Chris Matthews has spent a quarter century on the playing field of American politics... 

AP – President Barack Obama strongly defended his opposition to extending Bush-era tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans on Wednesday and delivered a searing attack on Republicans and their House leader for advocating “the same philosophy that led to this mess in the first place.” View full post on Yahoo!... 

The Upshot – An Arizona man is in trouble with his homeowners’ association over flying the Gadsden flag, which features a coiled rattlesnake and the words “Don’t Tread on Me.” The flag has been adopted by members of the tea party movement for its association with the American Revolution, but Andy... 

Filed under: Baseball TheGrio.com is reporting that there is a group of black women in Philadelphia who’ve taken it upon themselves to get their sons involved in baseball. In 1974, 27 percent of the players in Major League Baseball were African American. Today, that number is only nine percent. These women are hoping... 

Filed under: News, Politics, Race and Civil Rights I recently wrote about how the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) is now seeking to hire Ebonics translators to help them to apprehend drug dealers. The group seems to believe that by learning the underpinnings of urban language, it can find a way to bring down “Pookie nem”... 

Filed under: News, Politics, Race and Civil Rights I wrote recently about how the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) is now seeking to hire Ebonics translators to help them to apprehend drug dealers. The group seems to believe that by learning the underpinnings of urban language, it can find a way to bring down “Pookie nem”... 

AFP – The top US Marine on Tuesday said most Marines would prefer not to share a room with gay comrades, despite plans by President Barack Obama to lift a ban on gays serving openly in the military. View full post on Yahoo! News: Politics News Related Reading: God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left... 

Filed under: News To all of those who believe that this is a post-race society, please explain this. How is it that a black woman in 2010 cannot order a pizza without getting called the N-word? The Consumerist blog reports (via Gawker TV): A woman in Apex, NC, had just taken delivery of two Domino’s pizzas when her 10-year-old... 

AP – Retired slugger Sammy Sosa is upset with the Chicago Cubs for not retiring his No. 21 jersey, telling a magazine that the organization doesn’t care about him. View full post on Yahoo! News: Sports News Related Reading: Converse® One Star® Women's Sport Shirt - GreyL Champion Absolute Workout Long Women's... 

Filed under: News In 2006, director Spike Lee created an astonishing record of the cataclysmic effects of Hurricane Katrina on the city of New Orleans with his sweeping documentary ‘When The Levees Broke: A Requiem In Four Acts.’ An intimate glimpse of thousands of lives disrupted and destroyed, the documentary...