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  • Fired ref on list of camp replacements (AP)

    A referee who was previously fired by the NBA is among the group of replacements who have agreed to participate in training camp next week. Michael Henderson is one of 44 who was sent an e-mail from the NBA's referees operations department on Friday. The Associated Press obtained a copy of the e-mail, which provides the replacements with details about the meetings, scheduled to begin Thursday…

  • *VIDEO* The Most Offensive Ad Ever

    Posted by: Illmatic

    Warning: this video could make you vomit. Earlier in the week I saw the award-winning (if you can believe that) print version of this ad concept by a Brazilian ad agency for the World Wildlife Fund @ The Daily What. It takes a turn even farther towards hell with this video. I can only imagine what it would be like for the victim’s families to see such a tragedy trivialized for shock value. The WWF has issued this statement condemning the ad:

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  • Obama Wants Control of Health Debate

    President Barack Obama will deliver a major prime-time health care address to Congress next week, opening an urgent autumn push to gain control of the debate that has been slipping from his grasp under withering Republican-led attacks.

  • MED Week Attendees Connect With Bonding, Lending Sources

    As most small business owners who attended the Minority Business Development Agency’s MED Week knows, in the end, it’s all about the money—access to contracting dollars and the capital required to perform. To conclude last week’s conference, entrepreneurs were given one-on-one and group opportunities to learn about government, traditional and alternative sources of financing.

  • Mayor Pardons ’60s Civil Rights Protesters

    BIRMINGHAM, Ala. ? Birmingham’s mayor offered a blanket pardon this week to thousands of demonstrators charged in this cauldron of the civil rights movement in the 1960s, a mostly symbolic forgiveness he acknowledges few may actually want.

    Many blacks who braved police dogs and fire hoses say they carry their misdemeanor record with them as a badge of honor.

  • Pioneering Civil Rights Lawyer Dies

    ST. LOUIS (AP) ? Pioneering civil rights lawyer Margaret Bush Wilson, a former national chair of the NAACP, died this week. She was 90.

    She died Tuesday of multiple organ failure, her son, Robert E. Wilson III, said.

    Wilson, whose life passion was being a lawyer, had continued practicing law until June. She was the second black woman to pass the Missouri Bar after graduating from the now-defunct Lincoln University School of Law, a “separate but equal” institution that had been created for blacks in Missouri.