When 26-year-old Destiny Mathis began campaigning for Barack Obama in 2008, her life was tough--but she had hope. After graduating at the top of her class in 2005, the Hobart, Ind. resident was raising two children on her own while working as a surgical technician. She was also helping her mother, who was battling cancer at the time.
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Whoopi Goldberg put Fox Business host Eric Bolling in his place for his comments about President Obama.
Bolling got into hot water for criticizing a visit by an African leader to the White House by saying, "what's with all the hoods in the hizzouse?" He apologized for his comments on Monday night, but that didn't stop Goldberg from laying into him on Tuesday's "The View."
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She was born in a mud hut in an isolated hamlet in Africa with no electricity or running water, a 10-minute hike to the nearest road. Unschooled, she was married off to a distant cousin as a teenager, had a daughter and was soon widowed.
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Republican state representatives in North Carolina voted to override Democratic Gov. Bev Perdue's veto of the state budget Wednesday morning, ensuring that a provision to strip all federal and state money from Planned Parenthood will take effect on July 1. North Carolina is now the third state, after Indiana and Kansas, to defund the family planning provider because it also provides abortions. Planned Parenthood of North Carolina (PPNC), which has nine clinics across the state, provides affordable birth control, preventative health care and family planning services to over 25,000 men and women. Without the $434,000 a year it usually receives in state and federal funds, Planned Parenthood says it will now have to axe its teen pregnancy prevention and adolescent parenting programs and force its low-income patients to pay out of pocket.
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June 16 is an emotional day for me. It was on a sunny June 16 in 1989 that my mother died in my arms while visiting relatives in Plainfield, N.J. Thus, every year around that time, my partner understands why I am a little more quiet and reserved. I pass by her picture in our living room and wonder what she would say about the choices I've made, what she and my daughters would do for fun, what advice she would give me for the daily challenges I wish I could call her about. Sometimes I really miss her voice. There is another voice that I will miss on this upcoming June 16. Tupac Shakur would be -- should be -- turning 40 this upcoming Thursday.
With the election of a black pastor to a senior position this week and a new action plan to increase ethnic diversity in its leadership, the Southern Baptist Convention has taken its most concrete steps yet to overcome a history of racial exclusion and to broaden its appeal in a changing American population. Fred Luter Jr., the widely admired pastor of a largely black church in New Orleans, was elected first vice president of the Convention at its annual conference in Phoenix on Tuesday, the highest position yet held by an African-American. Church leaders said Mr. Luter was the overwhelming favorite to be elected president at the assembly next year.
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If there is one hard lesson we've learned since 9/11, it is the degree to which fear lurking just below the placid surface of everyday existence can poison the social climate. Fear of terrorism, fear of disease, fear of the Other, of the Unknown, is easy to instill and hard to dislodge. Instead of surrendering blindly to paranoia, one way of combating it is to confront the very things that scare us the most. Attending the Human Rights Watch Film Festival, which returns to New York for its annual run, Thursday through June 30 at the Film Society of Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater, is as good a way as any I can think of to quiet those fears. It is one thing to read about the conflicts in the Middle East, Africa and Latin America and quite another to see the faces and hear the voices of people, who, to reiterate a cliché, are really just like us.
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I first profiled this film in March on the old site; at the time, I couldn't find an official synopsis, so wasn't entirely sure what it was about; although I did post a teaser trailer that gave us some idea - a teaser that's since been taking down, but, thankfully, it was replaced with a new one, which I embedded below. As a recap... Shot last summer, but with no distributor yet, and thus no scheduled release date, the film, 'We The Party' (not to be confused with We The Peeples), was previewed at a February screening in Los Angeles, and was apparently well-received.
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