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Goldberg: A message to Obama, served cold
In an earlier era, Dr. Benjamin Carson's speech before the National Prayer Breakfast last week would have been a really big deal rather than mere fodder for a brief squall on Twitter and cable news. Born in crushing poverty to an illiterate single...
Tags: Mark Twain, Health Care Reform (2009), Africa, Barack Obama, Poverty
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Mervyn Dymally dies at 86; former lieutenant governor, congressman and legislator
Mervyn M. Dymally, the Trinidad-born former teacher whose ground-breaking if sometimes-controversial political career spanned more than four decades and included a stint as California's only black lieutenant governor, has died. He was 86. Dymally, who...
Tags: Political Corruption, Primaries, Government, Trinidad and Tobago, Democratic Party
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Marston House: Right at home in this San Diego charmer
This 16-room Arts and Crafts masterpiece on the edge of San Diego's Balboa Park was the home of George and Anna Marston and their five children. Marston, a philanthropist, civic leader and owner of the city's premier department store, commissioned...
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Goldberg: Courting Joe the Puppeteer
Earlier this month, the left-wing magazine the Nation highlighted Joe Therrien as a symbol of the Occupy Wall Street movement. A New York City public school drama teacher, Therrien was frustrated with the shortcomings of the school system. So he quit...Tags: Nancy Pelosi, Business, Health Care Reform (2009), Arts and Culture, Parties and Movements
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Tyler Perry to Spike Lee: You can go straight to hell!
The Big PictureSpike Lee has really been taking it on the chin this week. First off, his beloved New York Knicks have lost two straight games to the Boston Celtics, blowing big leads both times, seeing a lot of awful defense from...... -
What President Obama is telling high school graduates this year: 'Being president is a great job'
Top of the TicketDemocrat Obama tells Memphis' Booker T. Washington grads he's proud of them.... -
Weekly remarks: GOP's Hutchison decries domestic energy delays; Obama says school reforms can't wait
Top of the TicketRepublican Senator Hutchison says Democrats' domestic energy delays hurt jobs; Obama hails one Memphis high school.... -
Avery Clayton dies at 62; carried on mother's work through African American library-museum
Avery Clayton, who carried on the work of his mother, Mayme Clayton, by establishing a library and museum in Culver City for her major collection of African American artifacts, died Thanksgiving Day. He was 62.
Clayton, a retired art teacher, died...Tags: African Americans, Arts and Culture, Photography, Social Issues, National or Ethnic Minorities
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Spike Lee discusses 'Miracle at St. Anna' (and Obama)
Special to The Times"NEWS flash," says director Spike Lee, grabbing the digital voice recorder that's on the table before him, placing it to his lips. "Spike Lee does not assume that every white person is racist. I do not feel that way. And I have not felt that way in the...Tags: John Wayne, Martin Luther King Jr., Barack Obama, Laz Alonso, Wesley Snipes
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Is Obama the new 'black'?
GREGORY RODRIGUEZ is an Irvine senior fellow at the New America Foundation. grodriguez@latimescolumnists.comWE KNOW this: Barack Obama is a rising star. He's a powerful speaker and a gifted writer. He is the only African American serving in the U.S. Senate. But is he black? That's what New York Daily News columnist Stanley Crouch asked last month, and his...Tags: Minority Groups, Racism, Jesse Jackson, Barack Obama, Social Issues
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Presidents -- the good and the bad
We tend to lionize or demonize our presidents. It would be tough to find many Abraham Lincoln detractors -- or, for that matter, many Warren G. Harding fans. But even our greatest heroes occasionally failed, and the worst presidents could boast of some...Tags: Winston Churchill, Brownsville, Armed Forces, African Americans, Government
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