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Cedric Muhammad: Envy And Jealousy: Black Leadership's Worst Enemy? (January 11, 2001).


Bob Shrum/The Week: What Obama should do now.


Love/Grio: 5 years after Katrina, does Barack Obama care about Black people?


Hill: Lawyers for Waters want ethics to halt probe for evidence.


AP: Rep. Rangel affirms support for Obama at NY debate.


NAN: Rev. Al Sharpton & National Action Network, along with civil rights leaders, clergy and progressive activist are to hold the "Reclaim the Dream Rally" and March on August 28, 2010.

Newsweek: The Racial Politics of Glenn Beck's March on Washington.


Burnett: What's in a name? Your faith, apparently. Elijah Williams hadn't really wondered until recently, when the veteran Broward County judge was alerted to anonymous blog posts that concluded his first name is secret evidence that he is Muslim.


Austin Chronicle: Grim History. Author traces Texas prison system from its roots in plantation slavery.


Curry: Open Letter to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The march being led by Al Sharpton is the only one with any legitimacy.


Large/Seattle Times: Social inequality in prisons. For most of the 20th century the U.S. imprisonment rate stayed about the same from year to year, but it began to soar in the early 1980s with tough-on-crime policies and especially the war on drugs.


Times-Picayune: State Rep. Cedric Richmond of New Orleans is leading rivals in cash race for 2nd Congressional District seat. The Dem survivor will face GOP U.S. Rep. Anh "Joseph" Cao, who ousted Dem William Jefferson, a nine-term incumbent, in 2008.


San Francisco Chronicle: BART spent $6 million in response to Grant shooting and aftermath.


Cleveland Plain Dealer: The Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles, questioning the worth of Puerto Rican IDs, is no longer accepting most Puerto Rican birth certificates as proof of anything.


Miami Herald: Split in Haitian vote lifted Wilson to win. State Sen. Frederica Wilson comfortably won a primary to follow in Kendrick Meek's footsteps to Washington.


Seattle Medium: Five African Americans Among New Leadership Appointments In Seattle Public Schools.


Joe Davidson/Washington Post: Interior Department still has a way to go on the diversity front.

Afro American: Black Leaders Claim Beck March Tarnishes King’s Legacy.


Martin Luther King III/Washington Post: Still striving for MLK's dream in the 21st century.


Rep Waxman/Jewish Journal of Greater L.A.: Obama and Israel: The Truth.


Mother Jones: "Ground Zero Mosque" Foes Bankrolled By Feds.


AJC: Judge rejects Troy Davis' innocence claim. He now has one final appeal before his death sentence can be carried out.


Miami Herald: Kendrick Meek's primary win against real estate mogul Jeff Greene, sets up 3-Way Senate race in Florida.


EURweb: White House Black Media Liason Quits.


Milloy: Adrian Fenty's snubs of Black women make a win at the polls unlikely.


Cedric Muhammad: Remembering Jude Wanniski, With Gratitude.

Nation: Alberto Gonzales to GOP Leaders: Don't Trash the Constitution.


Kristol/Weekly Standard: He's No Muslim, He's a Progressive.


Robinson: The right-wing, blinded by its own hysteria.


NYTimes: At a tense and sometimes fiery candidates’ forum Monday night, Mr. Rangel shot back that it was not his dignity the president should be worried about.


Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Sherrod to meet with USDA; still undecided on return.


Michael Eric Dyson Show: Listen to the gripping Interview with The Hon. Min. Louis Farrakhan as he discusses The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews Volume 2: How Jews Gained Control of The Black American Economy.


Ed Koch: Blacks and Jews: Somehow They Always Go Together. It is not too late for Obama to make a trip to Israel & to personally reassure the Israelis & their supporters that he means it when he says that Israel's security will never be breached.


Blow/NYTimes: Oy Vey, Obama. Is President Obama good for the Jews? For more and more Jewish-Americans, the answer is no.


New Yorker: The billionaire Koch brothers’ war against Obama. David H. Koch & his brother Charles have funded campaigns against so many Obama Administration policies that their ideological network is known as the Kochtopus.


NYTimes: Gov. David Paterson took a stand for electoral fairness this month when he signed legislation that bans prison-based gerrymandering — the cynical practice of counting prison inmates as “residents,” to pad the size of legislative districts.


San Francisco Bay View: The trials of Rep. Maxine Waters: Ethics or payback?


Min. Paul Scott: March Madness: Glenn Beck and the Death of Civil Rights.

Miami Herald: McCollum, Meek surge ahead of rivals Scott, Greene in new poll.


Daily Beast: Black Republicans say that Sarah Palin's tweet in defense of Dr. Laura was ridiculous and indefensible—and that she may be "no longer fit to lead."


Forward: Florida’s Jews Face Stark Choice In Senate Race.


News & Observer: Farmers who say the U.S. Dept of Agriculture discriminated against them and their families joined Sen. Kay Hagan on Friday in urging federal lawmakers to make good on the promise to pay aggrieved farmers for their mistreatment.


News 14: Black farmers meet with Sen. Hagan in support of bill.

Des Moines Register: Iowa has first Black female judge. Romonda Belcher-Ford, 42, was selected to fill the opening created by the retirement of Polk County District Associate Judge Joe Smith.


Baltimore Sun: Race for top prosecutor has racial backdrop. Below the surface the discussion is infused with race, as is often the case in Baltimore, where six in 10 residents are Black & the city's jail is packed with young Black men.


Washington Post: Mayor Adrian Fenty, late in tough reelection campaign, tries to make amends.


Hill: Waters dismisses evidence in ethics case as 'staff chatter'.

Robinson: President Obama's winning streak. He still hasn't walked on water, though. What's wrong with the man?


Kristine Wright: White Supremacy from Bacon to Obama: Are We Finally at the Moment of Reckoning?


Joy -Ann Reid/Grio: Why Florida Senate race may rehash Clinton-Obama divide.


Saginaw News: Bridgeport Township woman's reign as leader of national Black women's organization to end. Dr. Marie Wright Tolliver is retiring from the National Organization of Colored Women.


Boston Herald: Stakes high for Obama as he backs Deval Patrick.


Martha's Vineyard Gazette: Republicans, Religion and Racial Profiling.

Politico: The most powerful Republican in politics.


Carolina Peacemaker: Greensboro City Manger Rashad Young, last week, vehemently refuted the claim of a “subculture of corruption” within the Greensboro Police Department.

CQ Politics: Race An Undeniable Aspect of Democrats’ Ethics Troubles.


Dunn/American Thinker: Race War A'Comin'? I was stunned a few weeks ago when a Black professional colleague told me there were all-Black cruises that featured speakers such as Louis Farrakhan.


Final Call: Muslims victorious in 'the Cotton Capital'. Jewish influence repelled in battle for proposed meeting place.


Final Call: Right wing's efforts to claim Dr. King's legacy condemned. Beck rally has nothing to do with Dr. King, civil rights, justice or equality, say Blacks.


LA Wave; Political Experts Weigh in on Waters, Rangel Scandal. As a comgresswoman proclaims her innocence, observers question timing & don't rule out race as a factor in cases against Congressional Black Caucus members.


National Action Network: Housing Vouchers, Despair & Reclaiming the Dream.

CQ Politics: Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) has some advice for liberal activists upset at the votes of the party’s conservative members: defeat them in primaries — but only in safe Democratic districts.


Hill: Obama sharpens campaign rhetoric as approval ratings fall.


Roll Call: Black Caucus’ Institute Acts to Steer Clear of Ethics Snags.


Jackson: Back off Obama and solve some problems.


Chicago Sun-Times: Jurors: No 'smoking gun' in the Blagojevich trial. Prosecution vows to try again after former gov is convicted only of lying to FBI, with jury hung on 23 other counts.


Gov. of MD: Gov. O'Malley Swears in the Honorable Michele D. Hotten to Court of Special Appeals. Judge Hotten is the First African American woman to sit on Court of Special Appeals.


Washington Post: New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg endorsed Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D) in his reelection Tuesday, saying the District is "more accountable, more transparent, more effective" under the young mayor.


Cedric Muhammad: (Feb 9, 2009) In Defense of OneUnited Bank…and Rep. Barney Frank.

Wickham: Democrats in damage-control mode after Gibbs' rant.


Annette John-Hall: What does ground zero mosque flap say about tolerance?


NY Daily News: Taking aim at Democrats' all-white ticket, Charles Barron founds Freedom Party to challenge them.

NY Daily News: Charles Barron: "Racism Permeates Every Institution In This State".


NY Daily News: Councilman Lew Fidler: If Andrew Cuomo Won't Challenge Charles Barron's Petitions, I'll Find A Way.


Hill: Reid breaks with Obama, comes out against Ground Zero mosque.


Armey & Kibbe/WSJ: A Tea Party Manifesto. The movement is not seeking a junior partnership with the Republican Party. It is aiming for a hostile takeover.


Miami Herald: 9 seek rare House seat replacing Kendrick Meek. The Winner of the Aug. 24th Primary is Likely to Succeed Meek.

Courier Post: The mother of three Black children is suing several Gloucester Township schools after she claims her children suffered years of race-based discrimination from students & teachers.


Detroit News: Ex-mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's aide receives 14 months for bribery.


Times-Picayune: A federal judge ruled Monday in Washington, D.C., that the Louisiana Road Home program's method of calculating grants discriminates against Black homeowners.


USA Today: Objectives of charter schools with Turkish ties questioned. The success of the schools at times has been clouded by nagging questions about what ties the schools may have to a reclusive Muslim leader in his late 60s living in exile in rural Pa.

Washington Post: Rep. Maxine Waters blasts ethics panel and media, defends links to OneUnited Bank.


Jackson: Allegations and racism. Many American minorities can't help feeling there's a dual standard for public officials.


USA Today: NYC mosque will be election issue, Republican predicts.

Politico: Dr. W. Franklyn Richardson, Chairman of the Conference of National Black Churches (CNBC) put out a statement praising the president's Friday night speech on building a mosque near Ground Zero.


NY Daily News: Perhaps a $110K grant kept Rev. Al Sharpton quiet about Mayor Bloomberg changing term limits a few years ago?

Fox News: Meeting Turns Into Battle Over New Black Panthers Case.


CNN: U.S. Civil Rights Commission hearing erupts in shouting over New Black Panther Party case.


Carter: Sen. Jim Webb's newfound positions are catering to the Black vote he will need in 2012 in an effort to persuade those voters to come aboard the attempts to criminalize the migrant worker population in his home state of Va & throughout the nation.


Miami Herald: The November election to fill Michelle Spence-Jones' seat has, thus far, attracted few hopefuls amid the possibility of her return. Spence-Jones held the seat until two criminal cases forced her removal from office.


Washington Post: Republican strategist: Michael Steele has 'obviously been a disaster'.


Hill: ‘Professional left’ not ready to back an Obama primary challenger in '12.


Weathersbee/Black America Web: Black Republicans, Here's Your Wake-Up Call.


ABC News: Rep. Maxine Waters to Face Reporters Friday to Address Ethics Charges. (Rep. Waters & husband Sidney Williams pictured).


Walters/Washington Informer: Institutional Racism in Congress.


Brown/Black Voice News: Maxine Waters' Alleged Ethics Violation is a Charade.

Madison Times: Wisconsin has its first African American Districts Attorney.

Atlantic/Good: Will Black and Hispanic Voters Turn Out for Democrats This Fall?


Capehart: In defense of Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.): part two.


Capehart: In defense of Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.): part one.


Philadelphia Inquirer: Charles W. Bowser, towering political figure in Philadelphia, dies.


Politico: Friends rally round Charlie Rangel.


WPIX: The top Democrats in New York State turned out tonight for embattled, U.S. Congressman, Charles Rangel, showing up at his annual "birthday" fundraiser, held at the Plaza Hotel on Fifth Avenue.


National Action Network: Reclaim the Dream.

Denver Post: Latino leaders hail primary victories for Colo. legislature.

Denver Post: Bennet's primary win also victory for Obama, party.

Dallas Morning News: Rick Perry calls on Bill White to apologize for master-servant remark.


Atlanta Post: 10 African-American Film Producers Fueling The Business of Hollywood. (Rob Hardy and Will Packer, Producers of 'Takers' pictured).


Huffington Post: Nouriel Roubini: Double-Dip Odds Now Greater Than 40%, GDP To Be 'Pathetically Lousy'.

Bloomberg: Economy, New Rules Toughen U.S. Job-Hunt for Foreign Students.


Mohamed A. El-Erian/Washington Post: Why another fiscal stimulus won't do.

Fisher/Forbes: What It Takes To Run A Sound Commercial Bank. Joe DePaolo has a good recipe for building a bank fast: Find great bankers and pay them well.


Meyer/Forbes: The New American Corporate State. Big government, big business and big labor are attempting to run the country to their own advantage.

Rolling Out: McD's Operator Derrick Taylor Revels in Boundless Opportunities of Entrepreneurship. After witnessing his father & brothers "losing their jobs after 30-40 yrs of employment, & walk away with nothing," he developed Plan B.


Newsweek: Clean Slate Time. How about this for a tax plan: cut most people’s taxes by half, eliminate the need to file returns, and provide the Treasury with a better way to reduce the deficit. Sound impossible? It’s not. Here’s how to get it done.


Businessweek: Gold's Evangelist. With gold a fashionable hedge against turbulent times, one billionaire is doing everything he can to get his hands on the actual stuff.


Arnold Schwarzenegger: Public Pensions and Our Fiscal Future. Few Californians in the private sector have $1 million in savings, but that's effectively the retirement account they guarantee to many government employees.


Hill: Bernanke to address economy as fears of double-dip recession rise.


Crudele: Is it time to rig the stock market (again)? If you've been following my column for any length of time you know this: I believe the stock market was rigged at opportune times during the reign of Treasury Sec. Paulson and...

Hill: Obama breaks from vacation to phone his economic advisers Geithner & Summers.


Scheer/Truthdig: They Go or Obama Goes.


Penn: Napoleon Bakery on the Vine to open in jazz district. Chester Thompson, pres. of the Black Economic Union, which owns the building, is pleased. With the recent addition of Danny’s Big Easy, the Black Economic Union is on a roll.


Honolulu Star Advertiser: Pres. Obama's "Winter White House," the beachfront home in Kailua where the Obamas vacationed in Dec 2008 & 2009, has been bought by a Maryland co. managed by a nephew of Hawaii real estate baron Harry Weinberg.


Charlotte Post: Natural care for children's skin. Charlotte company develops, markets chemical-free products.


Stodghill/Charlotte Observer: Economy even scares turnaround specialists.


Washington Post: With housing market retreating, unemployment lingering and Fed officials in open disagreement, markets look to Bernanke for guidance.


Cedric Muhammad: Minister Farrakhan, Spiritual Economist.


Los Angeles Times: Corporate America, it's time to spread the wealth.


MarketWatch: Interest-barely accounts. The rate consumers can expect on their deposit accounts dips below the 1% level for the first time in at least a decade.


Kitco: U.S. Rep. Ron Paul , R-Tex., plans to introduce a new bill next year that will allow for an audit of US gold reserves.


Singletary: For students, don't skip out on Credit Cards 101. Basic lessons on credit cards for students.


Forbes: Financial Illiteracy Is Killing Us. Our kids know next to nothing about money---and we are all paying for it.


NYTimes: Memo to Self: Don’t Take It Personally. Interview with Lisa Price, founder and president of Carol’s Daughter.


Kane: Candidate's tenacity is, uh...interesting. Tim John, Democratic Candidate for Wisconsin Governor, said '"I have no interest in Black men chasing jobs at white-owned companies. They will only be the first ones fired when things go bad."


Miami Herald: Judge won't block Florida-U.S. Sugar land deal. The Miccosukee Tribe was unsuccessful in its attempt to halt the latest version of Gov. Charlie Crist's U.S. Sugar purchase.

Alternet/Dixon: Greedy Telecoms Are Using an African-American Front Group to Fight Net Neutrality.

Black Enterprise: Home Base: A 401(k) Option for the Self-Employed.


MarketWatch/Farrell: WWIII will engulf America in a "New Age of Warfare" with trillions and trillions and trillions of new debt, year after year after year. Yet we're silent, in denial. Nobody's talking about all this new debt ahead.


Wall St. Journal/Melloan: The Fed Can Create Money, Not Confidence. Inflation—or stagflation—remains the more serious danger than deflation.


Forbes: Serena Williams may be the No. 1-ranked player, but she can not match the earnings power of Maria Sharapova.


Root/Bannerjee: Black Economic Growth Is Hard in the Big Easy. Despite their strong influence over the culture & celebratory spirit of New Orleans, Blacks still cling to the lower rungs of the city's narrow, often wobbly economic ladder. Here's why.

Monroe News Star: More than 100 of Louisiana's Black farmers are expected at a rally Tuesday urging the U.S. Senate to approve legislation that would settle a decade-long battle for compensation ordered by federal courts.


St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Jobs crisis leaves 'hole' in Black neighborhoods.


USA Today: Is a bubble brewing in the normally sedate U.S. government bond market?

Krugman: Now That’s Rich. Republicans and conservative Democrats are eager to give hundreds of billions of dollars to the 120,000 richest people in America.


E Online: Kimora Lee Simmons and Baby Phat Parting Ways.


Radio Survivor: Radio One endorses Comcast/NBCU merger.


Businessweek: A Windfall for Investors, a Loss for Chicago. Critics says the Windy City will lose billions over the life of a $1.15 billion contract to run the city's parking meters.


MarketWatch: Bull gets belligerent. New World Investor has faith in the Fed. (Michael Murphy pictured).


Bloomberg: Obama Gets No Respite From U.S. Economic Setbacks During Family Vacation.


NYTimes: Housing Fades as a Means to Build Wealth, Analysts Say.


Washington Post: Hardship 401(k) withdrawals set record in second quarter.


Business Unusual Magazine: The Principle of Flipping Stacks.


LA Times: Professional investors move into flipping foreclosed homes. Squeezing out amateurs, private equity funds and wealthy individuals are buying distressed properties at public auctions, refurbishing them & selling them for quick profits.


MarketWatch: The recent run-up in wheat prices to their highest level in almost two years may offer the good kick-in-the-pants the world needs to realize just how fragile the global grain market really is.


NYTimes: People & businesses seeking a lump-sum settlement from BP’s $20 billion oil spill compensation fund will most likely have to waive their right to sue not only BP, but also all the other major defendants involved with the spill.


Businessweek: In Hard Times, Dreams of Easy Money. Sales of metal detectors and lottery tickets rise as employment & average wages stagnate.

Krugman: Appeasing the Bond Gods. When, if ever, will we get back to the job of rebuilding the economy?


Economist: An apology is due to Barack Obama: his takeover of GM could have gone horribly wrong, but it has not.


Black Enterprise: Inventors Insider: To Patent or Not to Patent, Part 1. Resources and information for inventors and those aspiring to get a business idea to market.


Forbes: Snoop Dogg: From Gangster To Businessman. Over a 20-year career, the rapper has distanced himself from violence to become a savvy pitchman and marketer.


Forbes: Hip-Hop's Unofficial Sommelier. Branson B. has provided rap's royalty with fine champagne. Now he's trying to make his own brand of bubbly pop in a crowded marketplace.


Crudele: Double-dip recession talk will be heating up.


Bloomberg: Goodbye, Government Motors. General Motors filed for what may be the second-largest American IPO ever. It would reduce the U.S. to a minority investor.


Businessweek: The SEC Tries to Pry Open Corporate Boards. It would make it easier for outside groups—hedge funds, labor unions, etc.—to vote directors in. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is fighting back.


Bloomberg: Jobless Claims in U.S. Rose to Highest Since November.


Cleveland Plain Dealer: Anger isn't working for Black Contractors. If the Black Contractors Group is to have any credibility -- any real traction with employers or public officials -- Norm Edwards, the executive director will have to step aside?

Politico: Fox parent's donation causes stir. News Corp.’s $1 million donation to the Republican Governors Association isn’t business as usual – in either size or style.


Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Tyler Perry buys $7.6M estate & to build home in Johns Creek.


Forbes: Hip-Hop Cash Kings. Even in a shaky economy, rap's richest keep finding ways to thrive.


Mercury News: Consumer financial agency must be set up to police mortgage market. A study of 625,000 California foreclosures confirms what many already believed: Latino & African-American homeowners have faced foreclosure at higher rates than others...

The News Journal: Delaware State University gets $400,000 farming grant. Focus will be helping minorities with loans, subsidies, marketing.


WSB Atlanta: A predominantly Black Atlanta church is facing foreclosure and says banks aren't doing enough to keep churches like it open.


EURweb: Papa Joe Appeals Decision over Michael Jackson’s Will.

Star Ledger: Concern over future sparks spike in retirement of N.J. workers.


Detroit Free Press: Mayor Dave Bing’s land use plan has morphed into a multi-faceted strategy intended to attract new residents, stabilize neighborhoods & encourage development, all while reshaping the city’s economic & physical footprint.


Numismaster/Heller: Gold Market is Not Fixed, It's Rigged. Such a consistent manipulative effort would necessarily involve entities with access to large amounts of gold; this implicates central banks...


Clutch Magazine: Targeted African American Advertising Here To Stay.


Cedric Muhammad/All Hip Hop: Brand Alignment: Why Floyd Mayweather Jr. Should Connect With Don King.


Fox2Now: Local Collector Banking On African-American Art.

Journal-isms: Hispanic Journalists' Money Woes Worsen.


Bloomberg/Lynn: Debt Virus Spreads After Make-Believe Recovery.


Trice-Edney: Obama signs Jobs Bill as CBC Chair Calls for Specific Help for Blacks.


WSJ: Barclays agreed to pay $298 million to settle charges by U.S. prosecutors that the bank altered financial records for more than a decade to hide millions of dollars in payments flowing into the U.S. from Cuba, Libya & Iran.


Reuters: Soros favored gold, slashed big U.S. equities.


International Business Times: Interview: Jim Rogers on Chinese Economy, Yuan Policy, and GM.


LA Times: Banker tied to Rep. Waters answers critics. OneUnited CEO Kevin Cohee says his bank hasn't made loans in some poor neighborhoods because it wasn't financially prudent. He also reiterates that past criminal charges against him were dropped.

Businessweek: Betting on Incubators to Create Jobs. The number of programs that nurture startups is at a record level.


Businessweek: The End of Outsourcing (As We Know It).


Black Enterprise: Retiring Rich: Understanding the Roth 401k. How to plan for a financially secure retirement.


Krugman: Attacking Social Security. It’s about ideology & posturing. And underneath it all is ignorance of or indifference to the realities of life for many Americans.


USA Today: Interview with Pimco's El-Erian: 'New Normal' argues for investor caution.


Zuckerman/Wall St. Journal: The End of American Optimism.


NYTimes: China passed Japan as the world’s second-largest economy behind the United States.

LA Times: Deflation or not, gold's fans see reasons to buy.


Boston Globe: One more bailout. That job- bringing Fannie Mae’s & Freddie Mac’s toxic balance sheets onto the government’s ledger-was left out of last month’s financial overhaul.


Black Enterprise: Economista: How to Pay for Grad School. A money guide for 20-somethings.


Grunwald/Time: Why Bernanke Isn't Doing More to Boost the Economy.


Krugman: Ten years ago, a leading economist made a critique of the Bank of Japan, titled “Japanese Monetary Policy: A Case of Self-Induced Paralysis?” With only a few changes in wording, the critique applies to the Fed today.


Hill: Obama says worst of recession is over amid turmoil on Wall St.


Bloomberg: U.S. Jobless Claims Unexpectedly Climb to Five-Month High.


Lenzner: Wall Street Plays Uncle Sam Like A Fiddle In Matters Of Finance.


Wall St. Journal: Desiree Rogers: The Ex-White House Staffer on Her New CEO Job.


USA Today: More African-Americans are using broadband at home.


Chicago Sun-Times: Nation of Islam beginnings. Boxes of documents from movement's earliest days found in attic in Detroit, include rare signature of founder W.D. Fard.


Detroit News: Rare collection of Nation of Islam papers discovered. Dating to the 1930's, reveal beginnings.


Target Market News: Will it take Black audiences to save the NFL on TV this season?


Clutch Magazine: $h!t Out of Luck? Infidelity’s Correlation to Income. Cheating has lost the moral outrage that once came with it. Let’s get it back.


All Hip Hop: Legendary R&B singer Patti LaBelle has joined the cast of the Tony Award-winning broadway musical FELA! The Grammy Award-winning singer will take over the role of Fela's Kuti's mother (Funmilayo Anikulapo-Kuti) starting this September.


The Game/Global Grind: More Important Than My Album Release Date.


Wallace/Tri-State Defender: 10 ways to get more African-Americans in college.


New York Times: Serena Williams’s Foot Injury Needs Explanation.


Page: Swearing off the N-word. Racial epithets, like other insulting words, should be treated the same as obscenities. The best way to neutralize them is to avoid using them.


Le Batard: Many Black athletes repeat errors of absentee dads. NY Jets' Antonio Cromartie on HBO's "Hard Knocks," was using his fingers to count his children & struggled with their names & birth dates. 8 kids by 6 women in 5 states.


Jamaica Gleaner: Jochen Zeitz, the man behind global sports goods manufacturing giants Puma, has described Jamaica's iconic sprinting star Usain Bolt as one of the greatest talents that have been associated with the brand in its 86-year history....


MMA Junkie: Randy Couture says UFC 118 fight no freak show. "I think people have to give James (Toney) credit for the things he's accomplished in boxing."


Jones/Bleacher Report: Does Any Team in the West Really Pose a Threat To the LA Lakers?


Boston Herald: Versatile actor Idris Elba dishes on career, newest role in 'Takers' & 'Thor'.


Detroit Free Press: Kem is getting intimate, and going universal. His intimate exploration of life, love resonates with fans on new Album.


Armstrong: Philly fashions a big show. (Designer Ron Wilch pictured).


Chicago Sun-Times: Pippen to get statue inside United Center. Hall of Famer to join Jordan with honor.


Baltimore Sun: Ne-Yo loses lawsuit filed after he failed to show for Seattle-area gig. Arundel judge orders R&B artist, booking agency to pay promoter more than $156,000 in total damages


Afro American: The Howard Theatre Celebrates 100 Years.


Russell Simmons: The Sacred Ground Of Deep Seated Hate. The debate rages on about the "Ground Zero Mosque".


Multichannel: A Second Act For BET's News Hound. Q&A With Journalist Ed Gordon.


GQ: Donovan McNabb's Exit Interview. The new Redskins QB helps us make sense of his (choose one) wildly successful/oddly disappointing decade in Philadelphia.


Final Call: Silent Killer: Abortions in the Black community.

AJC: Pontchartrain Park is the oldest planned middle-class Black community in New Orleans & one of the oldest in the country. Built during the Jim Crow era, “the Park,” as us natives call it, gave Blacks the benefits of suburbia within the city.


Boston Globe: After swallowing his first “Did Not Play-Coach’s Decision’’ since his rookie year, Rajon Rondo knew he was on the bubble as USA Basketball made its final roster decisions. So he decided to burst the bubble himself.


Imani Perry: Is (Black) Beauty Still a Feminist Issue?


AP: A federal appeals court has upheld a jury's verdict that actor-screenwriter Tyler Perry didn't steal material for his 2005 movie "Diary of a Mad Black Woman."


NYTimes: “The Negro Motorist Green Book". For almost 3 decades beginning in 1936, many Black travelers relied on a booklet to help them decide where they could comfortably eat, sleep, buy gas, find a tailor or beauty parlor.


Rolling Stone: Lauryn Hill Stages Comeback at Rock the Bells Fest.


Virtue Today Magazine: Should we, as Black women, keep our clothes on? Act Like a Lady and Dress Like a Queen.


LA Times: Should chocolate milk be allowed in schools? Without it, strategies to replace the nutrients mean more calories are consumed. On the other hand, if only plain milk is offered, less sugar is consumed to begin with.


Kansas Coach Turner Gill Sees Opportunities Instead of Obstacles.

All Hip Hop: Michel'le Working On New Music After 12-Year Hiatus.


MTV News: Jay-Z To Join U2's 360 Tour In Australia. Five-city outing will be first gig under Live Nation Australia affiliate.


The Smoking Gun: Justice Department Seeks Ebonics Experts. DEA wants “Black English” linguists to decipher bugged calls.


Herbert: Too Long Ignored. The crisis facing Black boys and Men in the U.S. is growing worse, and little is being done about it.

Essence: Nail Salon Charges Extra for Overweight Customer.


Rolling Out: Hip-Hop Star Lupe Fiasco Reacts to the Ground Zero Mosque Controversy.


Washington Post: Five years after Hurricane Katrina, the rebuilding of the Big Easy has created a new community of Latino immigrants in this famously insular city, redrawing racial lines in a town long defined by Black & White.


AP: The FBI, apparently with the approval of then-director J. Edgar Hoover, was secretly keeping an eye on a civil rights lawsuit filed by Blacks against legendary Crimson Tide coach "Bear" Bryant. (U.W. Clemon pictured).

Kitwana/News One: What African-Americans Can Learn From Pat Tillman.


CBS News: Harold Dow Broke Barriers, Landed Exclusives. Passes unexpectedly at 62.


NYTimes: African Art World Nestled in Tenafly.


Tucker/Philadelphia Tribune: U.S. school calendars are years out of date.

Washington Times: African-American civil war museum moving temporarily.


U.S. News & World Report: Pesticide Exposure in the Womb Increases ADHD Risk.


Dallas Morning News: Plano, Texas scrutinizing African American Museum's finances.


Roberts/The Tennessean: Black gospel music has strong roots in Nashville.


Myokei Caine-Barrett/CNN: Finding refuge in Buddhism.


LA Times: A new collection of James Baldwin's writings.


The Tennessean: More and more, African-Americans resettling in the South. Jobs, family have strong appeal.


NY Daily News: Spike Lee channels anger in 'If God Is Willing'. "It's all about greed," says Lee, who links Hurricane Katrina to the devastating oil spill.


Washington Post: Why Obama keeps religion quiet. President Obama has made a choice to keep public expressions of his religious faith to a minimum.


Gutierrez/Miami Herald: Hatred toward Miami Heat's LeBron James doesn't fit supposed crime.


NY Daily News: Tony Dungy returned Rex Ryan's call, and the two spoke "man to man," according to the Jets coach, about Dungy's criticism of his language on HBO's "Hard Knocks." Dungy accepted Ryan's offer to attend an upcoming practice.


Comic Book Movie: Wesley Snipes chats about his interest in playing T'Challa in a live-action Black Panther movie!


NYTimes: Motor City’s Woodward Dream Cruise Remains a Suburban Affair. Because of this, some Black car enthusiasts skip it altogether, choosing to show off their classic rides elsewhere.


Fox Sports: Is there a racial double-standard for Favre?


Clem Richardson: Calypso king The Mighty Sparrow still flying high. Rumors that the 75-year-old "Calypso King of the World" - and Jamaica, Queens, resident had died, were false.


NY Daily News: 'Last Stop for Hip-Hop' store Fat Beats to shutter due to poor vinyl sales.


Davey D: DJ Kuttin Kandi: Why Fat Beats Matter to Hip Hop.


Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Public education is failing Black and Latino males.


All Hip Hop: Ice Cube Wants Chris Tucker For New 'Friday'; Says Dre Is MIA.


Billboard: Eminem Recovers No. 1 on Billboard 200. Album goes Double Platinum.

Los Angles Sentinel: What’s In a Name? An Entire Culture.


Bay State Banner: The Next Richard Pryor: Marlon Wayans is on the comedy circuit here in Boston as he prepares for his upcoming role as one of America’s funniest comedians.

Bay State Banner: A Boston community activist in dire need. Despite nearly 20 years of treatment for high blood pressure, regular exercise & attention to his weight, George Dixon, 50, needs a kidney transplant or else he likely will not survive.


Grand Rapid Press: Historic Idlewild worth preserving. The resort was a one-time haven for Blacks such as B.B. King & W.E.B. DuBois. As segregation laws fell, it's reason for being-as a refuge for Blacks barred from white society-became less urgent.


LA Times: Johnny Mathis' Jewish covers strike chord for Idelsohn Society. His renditions of spirituals appear on 'Black Sabbath: The Secret Musical History of Black-Jewish Relations,' which features Black singers covering Jewish songs.


Dallas Morning News: Badu pays $500 fine, gets probation for nudity at Kennedy assassination site.


Richmond Times Dispatch: African-American Preaching: Prophetic Tradition.


Curtis/Politics Daily: For Black Catholic Women, Gathering Is 'Like CPR for the Spirit'.

U.S. News & World Report: Best Colleges 2011. National Universities Rankings.


News One: 2011 U.S. News College Rankings Released; Spelman Named Top HBCU.


Albany Herald: Black head coaches on rise in FBS schools. There are now a dozen African American coaches in the Division I.


News14: Lorillard Tobacco accused of targeting Black children. Lorillard manufactures Newport-the number one selling menthol cigarette in the U.S.


Pitts/Miami Herald: Dr. Laura's ignorance on display.


Washington Post: Study: NJ and Newark lead nation in Black male graduation rates.

Sun Sentinel: Report faults South Florida schools on educating Black males.


Global Grind: Russell Simmons Has Words For The Muslim Haters. America In The Twilight Zone.


The Root: Alicia Keys vs. Fantasia Barrino Both singers allegedly stepped out with a married man. All similarity ends there. Guess which one gets a pass & which one gets labeled with a scarlet letter -- and why.


Miami Herald: Attorney says Udonis Haslem will be vindicated. His lawyer said his client `has not broken any laws or committed any crimes,' & the marijuana that was found in his car & led to his arrest belonged to a passenger.


Boston Globe: A new tune. With Hootie & the Blowfish on the back burner, singer Darius Rucker gets second wind as a country superstar.

Discover: Native American ancestry in African Americans.


Lil Wayne Hq: Lil Wayne’s Fifth Letter From Rikers Island.


All Hip Hop: Terrence J Recounts Trip to Haiti, Returns Inspired.


AP: Clothing, mementoes & handwritten lyrics belonging to Jimi Hendrix are going on display at his former London home to mark the 40th anniversary of his death.


USA Today: Gabourey Sidibe's 'Big C' stands for confidence.


News & Observer: The voice of Black college sports. Donal Ware broadcasts his nationally syndicated show about sports at historically Black colleges from his studio at home near Fuquay-Varina.


NPR: Many Black Social Movements Began In The Pulpit.


LA Times: Abbey Lincoln dies at 80; jazz singer, actress, civil rights advocate.


Monsters & Critics: Kanye West confirms split from Amber Rose & tells what he learned their relationship.


Dallas Morning News: A new, commissioned work inspired by the life of legendary singer Nina Simone is one of the highlights of the 2010-11 season of Dallas Black Dance Theatre announced by the company.


Root: Watts in Retrospect. Forty-five years later, an eyewitness looks back at the uprising that ignited South Los Angeles. The more things change, the more they stay the same.


King/Grio: Urban Prep provides blueprint for Blacks seeking higher ed.


Aleshinloye/News One: Writer Publishes Racist Article About Black Twitter Users.

Manjoo/Slate: How Black People Use Twitter. The latest research on race and microblogging.


NY Magazine: Halle Berry Is the First Black Woman to Appear on Vogue’s September Issue Since 1989.


Jackson/Chicago Sun-Times: Team man deserves his Fame. Pippen far more than Jordan's 'Robin'.


Press Association: Michael Jai White has revealed he's already started work on Black Dynamite 2.


NYTimes: Baseball’s Praised Diversity Is Stranded at First Base.


Shapiro: As Woods suffers, ratings dip.

Digital Journal: Rapper Jay-Z to release memoir in November. The 40-year-old hiphop star will mix autobiography with interviews of family & friends in the book, called Decoded.


Charlottesville Daily Progress: Couples that pray together have happier relationships, and religion appears to significantly improve Black Americans’ relationships, according to a report co-authored by a Univ. of Virginia researcher released Tues.


Washington Times: Metro brawl spurs curfew debate in D.C.


Milloy: As bad as the Metro melee was, it could've been much worse.

BlackElectorate.Com News Updates Will Return Monday, September 13th. Please enjoy the the latest Cedric Muhammad articles during the extended break!


China Daily: The growing shortage of farmland and water resources may prevent China from achieving its ambitious grain output targets in the next decade, warned both officials and experts.


Malema: 'When you say that there will be no change in SA's economic pattern, you are saying that it will remain the same as during the colonial regime.' 'How do you explain to the people that 80% of the population controls less than 5% of the economy?'


Mutahi & Wanja: Witnessing a new Kenya born.


UN News: Security Council condemns mass rape in DR Congo.


Daily Nation: Sudan's President Bashir surprise guest in Kenya at celebrations for new Constitution. Kenya Foreign affairs minister Moses Wetang’ula said that Kenya had no intentions of arresting Mr al-Bashir. 'He is a state guest.'


Daily Nation: Kenyans in the diaspora who had abandoned their citizenship have regained their citizenship following the coming into force of the country's new Constitution.


France 24: The UN's racism & discrimination watchdog has criticised France's controversial deportation of Roma migrants, urging the French govt to integrate members of ethnic minorities rather than expel them.

Mail & Guardian: Strike tearing alliance apart. The strike by state employees marks the lowest point in relations between the ANC & Cosatu since Pres. Zuma took leadership of the party.


Today's Zaman: Sarkozy says France, Turkey involved in Mideast peace efforts.


Russia Today: The situation with 400 immigrant workers’ children to be deported from Israel by the government to preserve what they call “the Jewish character of the state” has many people questioning what it means to be Israeli.


Sunday Times: Mandela home was 'bugged' in 2007 political battle.


Business Day: Zuma courts China to back South Africa's’s Bric hopes. SA is trying to join the developing nation bloc Bric — Brazil, Russia, India and China.


iafrica: Former president FW de Klerk says the glue holding the ANC together has disappeared & that "the ANC is going to split".


Jamaica Observer: Prime Minister Bruce Golding will be having meetings across the island to explain Government's role in the controversial Manatt, Phelps and Phillips issue.


Reuters Africa: South Sudan plans to bring home 1.5 million displaced southerners from the north in time to vote in an independence referendum in January, according to government documents.


Washington Post: Poor nation investing in D.C. lobbyists. Over the past five years, the authoritarian regime of the Congo Republic has leaned on Washington lobbyists to help with an image problem.


Guardian UK: Brazil's census offers recognition at last to descendants of runaway slaves. Interviewers plan to reach 190m people, including the long-ignored Kalunga, by motorbike, plane, canoe and donkey.

LA Times: Southern California heat wave spawns wild weather. As temperatures & surf remain high, lightning storms spark several brush fires inland.


LA Times: Refugees find the American dream down on the farm. They come from such places as Bhutan, Myanmar & Somalia, all fleeing some form of strife & all looking for a way to fit in. A rural Oregon dairy in need of workers offers an opportunity.


Christian Science Monitor: Wyclef Jean & all the other presidential hopefuls from the diaspora were disqualified from running in the Haiti election. Many see it as a politically motivated decision & it signals Haiti diaspora not welcome in politics.


Al Jazeera: Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, has dispatched a senior aide to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) following reports of mass rapes during a four-day rebel siege of an eastern township.


Reuters: A top U.S. business group on Tuesday urged the House of Representatives to quickly approve a bill that chips away at the U.S. embargo on Cuba by ending decades of restrictions on travel to the island.


Next: UN agency under fire for exonerating Shell.


Business Day: Cosatu warns of economic shutdown as strikers dig in.


Mail & Guardian: South Africa's week-long public-service strike has strained President Jacob Zuma's ties with leftist allies who helped propel him to power.


Citizen: US envoy hopes for fair polls in Tanzania General Election. (Alfonso E. Lenhardt, U.S. Ambassador to Tanzania pictured).


AFP: France may not be a big hit in President Omar al-Bashir's Sudan, but a French firm is in pole position to scoop what industry sources say is the "underexplored" gold resources of Africa's largest country.


AFP: Sudan gold miners vie for desert riches.


Herald: Zimbabwe does not want handouts from the international community and only needs the illegal economic sanctions the West imposed to be lifted to achieve self-reliance, Foreign Affairs Minister Mumbengegwi has said.


Daily Nation: African bishops say Anglicans in West strayed from God.


Tribune: The government of Burkina Faso told Sudan that it is prepared to receive the Darfur leader of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) Khalil Ibrahim.

Tribune: The finance minister for the semi-autonomous region of Southern Sudan said on Monday that the government there is running short in foreign currency because of Khartoum remitting the South’s share of oil revenue in local currency.


Mail & Guardian: A claim that the South African government was committing genocide against Afrikaner Boer farmers was "ludicrous", government spokesperson Themba Maseko said on Tuesday.


Africa News: South African President Jacob Zuma has called for greater investment in his country from China, as South Africa seeks to narrow its trade deficit with Beijing and bring growth to its slow-moving economy.


NY Daily News: Wyclef Jean, hip-hop singer, says Haiti election council used 'trickery' regarding bid for president.

Walters/Ebony-Jet: What You’re Not Being Told About Liberia and Charles Taylor. It’s about More than Diamonds.


Guardian UK: U.N. exonerates Shell over oil pollution in Niger delta. Local outrage after investigation says only 10% of oil pollution was caused by company negligence.


The East African: Zimbabwe land case tops SADC agenda.

Africa News: Sudan to build nuclear reactor 2020.


Sudan Tribune: A delegation of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is due to visit Sudan this week to advise on the country’s plan to import a “peaceful nuclear reactor”.


IRNA: Bushehr power plant, outcome of Iranians’ resistance.


Press TV: A top Iranian lawmaker has once again emphasized the country's right to go ahead with enriching uranium to a level of 20 percent for peaceful applications.

Tehran Times: Iran is ready to hold a meeting with economy ministers of Syria, Iraq, and Turkey to discuss setting up an economic bloc in the region.

Granma Internacional: Reflections of Fidel. Am I possibly exaggerating? It leaves one cold on seeing to what point education can be deformed & prostituted in a country that has the most powerful war arsenal in the world.


RT: “The world is changing, the US is not"- says Nicaraguan pres Daniel Ortega. U.S. has an expansionary policy in which Latin America is simply a backyard for US military bases. It's time these countries unite against a policy of aggression.


Miami Herald: Presidential candidates focusing on Haiti's youth. Now that the electoral body has removed hip-hop star Wyclef Jean's name as a contender, "Wyclef can potentially go from being king to kingmaker."


Filkins/NYTimes: Pakistani officials say they set out to capture Abdul Ghani Baradar because they wanted to shut down secret peace talks he had been conducting with the Afghan government.


Capital: In hopes of shedding some light on the wider Muslim world’s general view of the “Ground Zero Mosque” situation, former Pakistani ambassador to the UK Akbar S. Ahmed shared his perception of the international response.


Salon/Greenwald: Jeffrey Goldberg's fabrication on NPR. A caller asked Goldberg about the glaring contradiction between what he wrote in 2002 & his current Iran article regarding the efficacy of the 1981 Israeli air strike on Iraq.


Nigeria Punch: Not having capital is enough motivation to succeed. They are twin sisters who have set out to a difference in the hair business. Evangel & Nora Otunkpo are from Akwa Ibom State.

Kagame/Financial Times: Rwanda's democracy is still the model for Africa. To break from the cycle of underdevelopment we must seek innovative, home-grown solutions.


Statesman: Ghana spends $450 million on rice importation annually. Mr. Yaw Effah-Baafi, Min. of Food & Agriculture, said per capita consumption of rice had increased drastically. It has become a major food security crop & important Ghanaian dish.


BBC Africa: Guinea-Bissau's President Malam Bacai Sanha has said his citizens are ashamed of being thought incapable of solving the coup-ridden nation's problems.

VOA: Nigeria's electoral commission says delays in enacting new electoral laws could push back presidential elections scheduled for January.


Standard: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed a Kenyan, Mr Zachary Muburi-Muita, to head the recently created United Nations Office to the African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.


Next: A group of lawmakers in Benin wants President Boni Yayi impeached over his suspected involvement in a Ponzi scheme that has swindled thousands of people of their savings in the impoverished West African nation.


Mail & Guardian: Zuma fears 'plot' at ANC indaba. President Jacob Zuma is so alarmed by rumours that some ANC leaders are planning a revolt against him that he has embarked on a tour of the provinces.


News 24: Government will take special security measures against striking public sector workers in South Africa who seek to disrupt basic service delivery, State Security Minister Siyabonga Cwele says.


Miami Herald: After meeting with Haitian President René Préval, hip-hop star Wyclef Jean said he feels "we are going to be OK" when a final list for presidential contenders comes out Friday. But there were signs that Jean might not make the cut.


UK Independent/Fisk: US troops say goodbye to Iraq. Torture. Corruption. Civil war. America has certainly left its mark.


NYTimes: U.S. Strategy in Pakistan Is Upended by Floods.

Bloomberg: South Africa Says State Workers Strike Will Have `Huge' Impact on Economy.

Robert Baer: Can an Assassination Campaign Turn the Tide in Afghanistan?


Mail & Guardian: Zim's MDC 'reasonably pleased' after SADC summit. Tsvangirai's party has applauded calls by regional leaders for partners in Zimbabwe's unity government to iron out differences within a month.

Washington Post: Poll shows more Americans think Obama is a Muslim.


ABC News: President Obama: 'No Regrets' On Jumping Into Debate Over New York City Islamic Center.


Time: Does America Have a Muslim Problem?


Daily Monitor: Oil: Museveni takes over. President Museveni has ordered Energy Minister Hilary Onek to stop endorsing deals between oil & gas mining companies on behalf of the government.


East African: The whole world may hate Kagame, but he is the choice of Rwandans.


Mail & Guardian: The South Africa govt said on Thursday said it would have 'no choice' but to unilaterally implement its final offer of a 7% wage increase for public servants.


George Will: Skip the lecture. Israelis don't need patronizing lessons on the risks and benefits of peace.

IRIN: Senegal: No mangoes, no money.


Ali/Wall St. Journal: How to Win the Clash of Civilizations. The key advantage of Huntington's famous model is that it describes the world as it is—not as we wish it to be.


Royal Gazette: Premier to host luncheon for Bermudian students in the Washington, DC area. Dr. Brown says he wants to try to encourage them to use their talents and newly-acquired skills on the Island.


Fox News: U.S. Considering Changing Cuba Policy? "What we've done doesn't work, and it's clear that it doesn't work, so we need to try something new," said U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo.


Mail & Guardian: South African Business organisations have called for the speedy resolution of a national public-service strike that started on Wednesday, as unionists declared that the stayaway would escalate.


Mail & Guardian: Cosatu has condemned what it terms "elitist" Black Economic Empowerment deals in the steel industry.


Sudan Radio Service: SPLA Renegade Athor Threatens To Disrupt Referendum.


Africa News: A United States federal judge in Virginia has thrown out piracy charges against six Somalis accused of attacking a US Navy ship last spring off the coast of Africa.


Otas: Black Britain Makes Political Gains in an Economic Crisis. Minorities won a record number of seats in Parliament in the last election & two Black women are preparing groundbreaking campaigns. Yet some observers wonder how much there is to celebrate.


Russia Today: Sochi summit seeks to break curse of Afghan heroin.


France24/AP: Haiti’s electoral commission said late Tuesday that it was postponing its ruling on who will be allowed to run for president in November elections, leaving hip hop artist Wyclef Jean’s candidacy in limbo.


Garry Pierre-Pierre: Why rejecting Wyclef's candidacy could spell trouble for Haiti.


Tribune: Botswana says Bashir still vulnerable for arrest on its territory despite AU resolution.

Miami Herald: New education system may rise from Haiti's ruins Some leaders are seeking to use Haiti's catastrophic earthquake as an opportunity to fix a broken school system.


Goldberg/Atlantic: The Point of No Return. Israel Is Getting Ready to Bomb Iran. A preemptive attack on Tehran's nuclear program could be disastrous. How and why it might happen anyway.


Washington Post: China focuses on military might. Nation is quickly modernizing forces, extending influence deep into Pacific and Indian oceans.


Solomon: Let's be clear about what's happening here. Gen. Petraeus, with the evident approval of the White House, has launched a fierce media blitz to cripple the policy option of any significant military withdrawal a year from now.

Vanguard: South East Nigerian leaders endorse Jonathan for President in 2011.


Al Jazeera: The World Bank has agreed to provide a $900 million loan to flood-hit Pakistan, saying the economic impact of the disaster on the country's economy is expected to be "huge."


Next: Welding education can help industrialise Nigeria.


Vanguard: Goodluck Jonathan has charged Christians & Muslims to unite in the fight against retrogressive forces to enable Nigeria move forward and take its rightful place in the comity of nations.


Dawn: India says still pursuing Iran ‘peace pipeline’.


Russia Today: Grassroots approach best way to be involved in Haiti relief - US rapper. (Rapper Immortal Technique pictured).


Washington Post: Karzai wants private security firms out of Afghanistan.


Africa News: South Africa opposition parties to merge against ANC.


Filkins/NYTimes: Petraeus Opposes a Rapid Pullout in Afghanistan.


Mail & Guardian: Blow for Malema in ANCYL Gauteng elections.


Sudan Tribune: Sudan’s referendum body chief threatens to resign.


Mail & Guardian: All eyes on Zimbabwe at SADC summit.

Forward: ADL Continues To Suffer Harsh Criticism for Its Opposition to Mosque Near Ground Zero.


VOA: Rwanda Opposition Leader Calls for ‘Peaceful Resistance’ to Kagame Government.


All Africa/Daily Independent: Nigeria: Survey Reveals Large Scale Diamond Deposit in Katsina.


Tribune: South Sudan referendum at risk over commission standoff says SPLM.

New Sudan Vision: SPLM delegation's legal expert tells southern Sudan diaspora how to vote in the referendum.


Herald: President Jacob Zuma will tell Sadc Heads of State and Government next week that Zimbabwe is "on the correct path".


Vanguard: Nigerian govts accused of not favouring Asians in oil policies.


Times of Nigeria: Nigeria's ruling political party has said that Goodluck Jonathan, the country's president, has the right to contest forthcoming elections despite his candidacy being in breach of informal election rules.


Reuters: Grain price rise may fuel Mideast and Europe unrest.

Times of Nigeria: Nigeria Plans $3.5 bln "supergrid" To End Power Woes.


Tribune: A Libyan human right group headed by the son of Gaddafi has issued a statement calling for prosecuting perpetrators of war crimes in Darfur "irrespective of their positions" in what appears to be a subtle reference to Pres. Bashir.

Financial Gazette: Zuma Envoy Presses Unity Govt in Zimbabwe.


Nawaz: In the wake of devastating floods, America and Pakistan have a chance to build a lasting relationship.


Dyer: Mrs Clinton has laid a trap for Beijing in the South China Sea. If China stands up to US interference in its backyard & presents itself as the regional power, it risks pushing wary neighbours into the US camp.


Will: Netanyahu, the anti-Obama. Arguably the most left-wing administration in American history is trying to knead & soften the most right-wing coalition in Israel's history.

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