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Mission Haiti - Fear, Misinformation Hinder Aid
Washington Informer, News Feature, Shantella Sherman, Feb 05, 2010
Evangelist Mondrea D. Jacobs’ description of what she saw during her 9-day mission to Port-au- Prince, in Haiti, is unimaginable. One would have to see the devastation in order to believe how fragile life has become for thousands of Haitians.
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Bay Area Activists Organize for Haiti
New America Media, Video , Jr Valrey & Lawrence Fowler, Jan 27, 2010
In the wake of the Haiti's 7.0 earthquake, Bay Area-based Haiti Action Committe mobilized community members to ban together in solidarity and support of Haiti.
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Homes Designed for Extended Families Collapsed in Haitian Quake
New America Media, Commentary, Adolphe Saint-Louis, Jan 18, 2010
In Haiti, when you want to add to your home, you build on top of the roof, which is concrete held up by pillars or strong walls on the floor below, writes a Delmas resident. But this practice could not withstand the earthquake.
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Haitian Americans Pledge Relief After Killer Quake
New America Media, Interview,  , Odette Keeley, Jan 14, 2010
Amadi Ajamu, a reporter for Black Star News in New York, says the earthquake in Haiti is “the worst thing that could happen to a nation that is the epitome of black independence and struggle.”
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Reid Spoke the Awful Truth about Obama’s Racial Exceptionalism
New America Media, Commentary, Earl Ofari Hutchinson, Jan 11, 2010
Senate Majority leader Harry Reid apologized profusely for his unguarded quip that Obama’s light skin and non-Negro dialect put him in good standing with him and by implication with other whites. NAM's Earl Ofari Hutchinson argues Reid spoke the awful truth that millions did give Obama a racial pass.
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Thank You Mark Ingram
YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia, Commentary, Pendarvis Harshaw, Jan 09, 2010
Alabama running back and Heisman Trophy winner Mark Ingram spoke to the media after leading his team to a national title in the Bowl Championship Series game this week. One commentator felt he was speaking to him.
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Manny Pacquiao: I Had a Talk with God
Inquirer.net, News Feature, Edwin Fernandez, Inquirer Mindanao, Jan 07, 2010
For the first time, the Philippines’ most famous athlete and the world’s pound-for-pound boxing king has revealed the secret of his success: he had a conversation with God who promised him “strength and power.”
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Legalize it, or Not?
New America Media,  , JR Valrey and Lawrence Fowler, Jan 02, 2010
Politicians, activist and street hustlers ponder whether or not Cannibus should be legal in California.
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