LIL KIM, DAVID ALAN GRIER GO ‘DANCING’
Lawrence Taylor also among cast of new hoofers for ABC’s competition series
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News Brief 8-2
President Obama Announces More Key White House Staff Names Three More Members of Intergovernmental Affairs Staff
Barack Obama’s Presidential Inauguration
The Regional Inaugural Balls are an inaugural tradition that President-elect Obama continued, inviting guests from the Midwest, the West, the East, the South, and the Mid-Atlantic regions to their own celebrations. It is one of the 10 balls that the president and Michelle attended. Photo by Barbara Roberts Mason
JUSTICE: Post-Katrina, White Vigilantes Shot African-Americans With Impunity
In the days after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans fractured along racial fault lines as its government collapsed. Read about it in our next edition. White vigilante gunmen nearly killed Donnell Herrington.
Photo by Chandra McCormick & Keith Calhoun
The way Donnell Herrington tells it, there was no warning. One second he was trudging through the heat. The next he was lying prostrate on the pavement, his life spilling out of a hole in his throat, his body racked with pain, his vision blurred and distorted.
FIRST LADY NOT HAPPY WITH SASHA/MALIA DOLLS
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First Lady Michelle Obama has spoken out about two newly-released dolls that share the same names as her young daughters,
News Brief 8-1
The Ingham Change Initiative is tackling the challenges facing local young men of color with a new undertaking announced Jan. 19.
The Initiative, already a year in the planning stage, launched its implementation phase at 10 a.m. in the Governor’s Room at the Lansing Center.
Green Collar Jobs=Eco-Friendly Economy
Green collar jobs signal employment shift toward eco-friendly economy