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• Debate on Sessions Nomination explodes over Coretta Scott King letter

  18-02-2017 19:15 via columbuspost.com
  Coretta Scott KingBy Lauren Victoria Burke
  NNPA Newswire ContributorThe United States Senate debate over Attorney General nominee Sen. Jeff Sessions (D-Ala.) boiled over into confusion and accusations on Tuesday, February 7, as Senate Democrats carried their opposition into an all-night long protest.
  But at 7:15 p.m. on Tuesday, February 7, as Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) recited the words of a letter authored by Coretta Scott King, the late widow of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., that’s
  
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• Baldwin Documentary “I Am Not Your Negro” Receives Oscar Nod

  18-02-2017 17:53 via columbuspost.com
  Last week the National Museum of African American History and Culture premiered the Oscar-nominated documentary “I Am Not Your Negro,” which features commentary by James Baldwin. The film is a tribute to the staggering contribution of one of America’s greatest men of letters. Director Raoul Peck spent ten years completing the film. The documentary was inspired by one of Baldwin’s unfinished manuscripts regarding his friendships and views on three of his friends: Medgar Ev
  
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• Emmett Till’s accuser admits it was all a lie

  18-02-2017 17:33 via columbuspost.com
  By Stacy Brown
  The Washington Informer
  More than six decades after the horrific, racially-motivated murder of Emmett Till, the White woman who accused the Chicago teenager of verbally and physically accosting her in Money, Miss., in 1955, has admitted she lied, according to a new book.
  Till had allegedly whistled at and groped Carolyn Bryant, a 21-year-old White woman, while at a country store in the small town.
  After the encounter, Roy Bryant, Carolyn’s husband, and J.W. Milam tracked you
  
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• The Audacity of Hype

  18-02-2017 15:47 via columbuspost.com
  By Jim Drinkard and
  Calvin Woodward
  Wire Service Correspondents
  WASHINGTON (AP) — In the Washington week that wasn’t, President Donald Trump’s new administration whirred like a “fine-tuned machine,” piling on big-league accomplishments at a pace never before seen.
  Immigration agents newly empowered by Trump’s call to secure borders sent hordes of bad foreigners back home, validating a president who won the most lopsided Electoral College victory since Ronald R
  
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