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Prospect of prison looms for ex-congressman Jesse Jackson Jr.
Former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. and his wife have agreed to plead guilty to federal charges in an alleged scheme to spend $750,000 in campaign funds on personal items.
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Pulitzer Prize for history, but not for fiction
The late Manning Marable won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for history, honored for a Malcolm X book. But no Pulitzer Prize was awarded for fiction.
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Israeli Iran attack? What goes around comes around.
Be forewarned, Israel and the US. We are entering a dangerous stage in which Iran feels it must respond in kind to attacks against it. When two nations engage in patterns of attacks and counterattacks, it's much easier for a mistake or misjudgment to lead to disaster.
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Hoekstra Super Bowl ad a slippery slope toward Asian-bashing?
Hoekstra Super Bowl commercial "really, really dumb": Republican Senate hopeful Pete Hoekstra aired a Super Bowl commercial that remind some of Michigan's Asian-bashing history.
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Sing Your Song: movie review
'Sing Your Song' shows the energy and optimism Harry Belafonte gave to civil rights work – around the world.
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15 best nonfiction books of 2011: CSMonitor picks
They'll take you from Mount Hebron to Silicon Valley. These are the 15 nonfiction titles that Monitor book reviewers found to be the most outstanding of 2011.
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Malcolm X: A side rarely seen
A chance interview with Malcolm X showed a leader who had learned to use his anger only when it was needed.
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Former Iran assassin says alleged plot 'makes no sense'
Dawud Salahuddin, an American fugitive in Tehran who carried out 1980 hit near Washington, argues that Iran would not try to kill the Saudi ambassador to the US for fear of provoking war.
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5 non-fiction 2011 National Book Award finalists
The 2011 National Book Award winners will be announced on Nov. 16. Which of these five books will be the winner of the award for non-fiction?
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'God Bless America'? Not in high school math class, US judges rule.
A US appeals court in California says a public high school teacher has no constitutional right to display posters in his math class preaching his 'views on the role of God in our nation's history.'
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Genius of Place
Frederick Law Olmsted – a man of strange and restless talent – dreamed of making a better, greener world accessible to all.
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An interview with 'Bad Teacher' star Lucy Punch
'Bad Teacher' star Lucy Punch talks about getting vomited on by Cameron Diaz in ‘Bad Teacher,’ the inspiration for her outrageous character, shooting a love scene with Justin Timberlake and her new role in the comic book-turned-TV pilot, ‘Powers.'
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Bestselling books the week of 4/28/11, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
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Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
This is the story of Malcolm X – a man who was in turns hustler, criminal, convict, convert, and finally, a martyr for his cause.
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4/21/11 bestselling book list, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
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Bestselling books the week of 4/14/11, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best at independent bookstores across America.
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Can a video game help us adapt to climate change?
A new video game attempts to shock young people out of ecological apathy.
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Nobody Turn Me Around
How infighting almost silenced Dr. King's momentous "I Have a Dream" speech.
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Wyclef Jean: Preacher's son to rap star to presidential contender
Wyclef Jean, president of Haiti? It would cap the Haitian immigrant's trajectory from rebellious preacher's son to millionaire rap star to humanitarian worker.
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Is Michelle Obama packing the White House with socialist literature? No way!
A blogger on a tour jumped to some wrong conclusions about the contents of the White House library.
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Best African American Essays: 2009
A nonfiction collection examines African-American concerns in the Obama era.
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What Obama Means
A cultural survey of the history of race relations in the U.S.
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Al Qaeda No. 2 insults Obama with racial slur in new video
In what terrorism analysts say is an attempt to show that the president-elect may not meet Muslims' expectations for change in the Middle East, Ayman al-Zawahiri called Obama 'dishonorable.'
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'What's a slave, Mommy?'
A little boy learns about racism – and responds with love.
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Penumbra Theatre founder defines American black stage
Lou Bellamy's vision is that everything is performed as if there were only black people in the audience.
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