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• Much ado about the first lady's do

  Michelle Obama's hairstyle will help shape her image in the White House. Hours before she made her Election Night appearance at Grant Park, Michelle Obama was sitting under a hair dryer at her favorite beauty salon. Fresh from casting her ballot with Read More... Posted Friday, November 28, 2008 5:36 AM by publisher | 0 Comments Filed under: black news, black americans, AFRICAN AMERICAN NEWS, blackamericans.com, MICHELLE OBAMA'S HAIR STYLE

• Black caucus says no special relationship to Obama

  Black leaders in Congress don't expect to have an especially close relationship with President-elect Barack Obama. That attitude reflects in part Obama's nontraditional path to the presidency: He didn't pass through the crucible of civil rights and form Read More... Posted Saturday, November 22, 2008 6:57 AM by publisher | 0 Comments Filed under: black news, black americans, blackamericans.com, BLACK CAUCUS

• Michael Jackson Becomes a Muslim

  Michael Jackson has become a Muslim. The singer changed his name to Mikaeel in a ceremony at a friend's Los Angeles home just days before he is due in court. Jackson, 50, is facing allegations of borrowing £4.7 million from Arab sheikh Abdulla Al-Khalifa Read More... Posted Saturday, November 22, 2008 1:00 AM by publisher | 0 Comments Filed under: black americans, MICHAEL JACKSON, MICHAEL JACKSON BECOMES A MUSLIN, MUSLIMS

• Family of Sean Bell Meets with Federal Prosecutors1

  Family members of Sean Bell had their first ever meeting with federal prosecutors Tuesday. The meeting came almost two years after Bell died in a hail of 50 bullets outside the Queens nightclub Kalua, when undercover cops fired at Bell and his group, Read More... Posted Thursday, November 20, 2008 5:54 AM by publisher | 0 Comments Filed under: black americans, blackamericans, blacknews, blackamericans.com, Sean Bell

• Black leaders to meet in New Orleans to discuss change

  To Marc Lamont Hill, the election of Barack Obama proves black America can reach a goal once considered unattainable, but it doesn’t end the fight on such issues as education reform, job creation and fair wages _ a focus of a State of the Black World Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 19, 2008 3:33 AM by publisher | 0 Comments Filed under: black news, black americans, AFRICAN AMERICAN NEWS, OBAMA AND CHANGE, NEW ORLEANS

• The Unending Tragedy of Jonestown...Thirty years later the sadness lingers, and we're still unable to grasp what happened.

  I am the person I am because of something that happened 30 years ago today in Guyana, a tiny equatorial country thousands of miles away from my home. In the years since, every time Nov. 18 arrives, I am visited by an existential unease that falls across Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 19, 2008 3:25 AM by publisher | 0 Comments Filed under: black news, black americans, AFRICAN AMERICAN.COM, JONESTOWN GUYANA

• Obama, Biden appoint advisers

  A longtime friend of Barack and Michelle Obama's has been appointed as a senior adviser to the incoming president. Valerie Jarrett was a senior adviser to President-elect Barack Obama's presidential campaign. var CNN_ArticleChanger = new CNN_imageChanger('cnnImgChngr','/2008/POLITICS/11/15/transition.appointments/imgChng/p1-0.init.exclude.html',1,1); Read More... Posted Sunday, November 16, 2008 6:42 AM by publisher | 0 Comments Filed under: black americans, blackamericans, african americans, VALERIE JARRETT, OBAMA ADVISORS

• Jeremiah Wright: 'Powerful election'

  Last night, at Northwestern University, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, former pastor of President-elect Barack Obama, spoke of the historic struggles of African-Americans, the new president and the challenges that remain. "I come here today, three days after Read More... Posted Saturday, November 08, 2008 11:20 AM by publisher | 1 Comments Filed under: black news, black americans, AFRICAN AMERICAN NEWS, blackamericans.com, JEREMIAH WRIGHT

• Obama election shows deep racial divide in churchs

  The barrier-crossing election of Barack Obama did little to bridge the deep racial divide in American churches. In fact, some clergy say it has only served to underscore their differences. While nonwhite Christians voted overwhelmingly for Obama, most Read More... Posted Saturday, November 08, 2008 7:08 AM by publisher | 0 Comments Filed under: black news, black americans, AFRICAN AMERICAN NEWS, blackamericans.com, Integrated Churches

• OJ Simpson Loses Bid for New Trial

  A Las Vegas judge on Friday rejected O.J. Simpson's request for a new trial in his armed robbery and kidnapping case. The Hall of Fame football star was convicted Oct. 3 of robbing two sports memorabilia collectors. His lawyers had argued he was denied Read More... Posted Saturday, November 08, 2008 6:21 AM by publisher | 0 Comments Filed under: black news, black americans, AFRICAN AMERICAN NEWS, blackamericans.com, O J Simpson, O J Simpson appeal

• 106 year old honored by Obama 'ain't got time to die'

  Ann Nixon Cooper was born in 1902, a time when women and black people were denied the right to vote. Ann Nixon Cooper sits back in her dining room chair, her eyes closed tight and her lips clenched, when asked if she will attend Barack Obama's inauguration Read More... Posted Friday, November 07, 2008 10:41 AM by publisher | 0 Comments Filed under: black news, black americans, AFRICAN AMERICAN NEWS, blackamericans.com, african american, Ann Nixon

• For Pollsters, the Racial Effect That Wasn’t

  Tom Bradley President Elect Barack Obama All the ominous predictions, all the fretting about hidden votes and closeted racists frustrating a victory for the nation’s first African-American president came down to this: the so-called Bradley effect did Read More... Posted Friday, November 07, 2008 5:36 AM by publisher | 0 Comments Filed under: Obama, black news, black americans, AFRICAN AMERICAN NEWS, blackamericans.com, africanamerican, Bradley Effect, African-Americans.com

• Young voters not essential to Obama triumph...Analysis shatters exit-polling myths, shows no single group can take credit

  Supporters of Barack Obama react as they watch election projections Tuesday night in Grant Park, Chicago. If as the saying goes, “victory has a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan,” among the “fathers” claiming credit for Barack Obama’s triumph are Read More... Posted Friday, November 07, 2008 5:19 AM by publisher | 0 Comments Filed under: Obama, black news, black americans, BlackAmericansmericans.com, African, young voters, Americanmerican news, Michelle Obama

• Black Power Brokers Ready to Rise In Tandem With New President

  Jeh Johnson, a black partner at a prominent Manhattan law firm, strolled down the hall from his corner office to chat with a fellow partner: Theodore Sorensen, President Kennedy's former speechwriter. It was late 2006, and another of Mr. Johnson's allies, Read More... Posted Thursday, November 06, 2008 10:49 AM by publisher | 0 Comments Filed under: black news, black americans, AFRICAN AMERICAN NEWS, black american news, blackamericans.com, Black Power Brokers

• Obama Offers Rahm Emanuel Job of White House Chief of Staff

  ABC News has learned that President-elect Obama has offered the White House chief of staff job to Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill. Emanuel, a knowledgeable source tells ABC News, has not yet given his answer. The sharp-tongued, sharp-elbowed, keenly intelligent Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 05, 2008 9:40 AM by publisher | 0 Comments Filed under: black news, black americans, blackamericans, AFRICAN AMERICAN NEWS, RAHM EMANUEL