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Trayvon Martin Case – President Obama Weighs In: ‘If I Had a Son, He’d Look Like Trayvon’  

Updated: December 3, 2012 George Zimmerman defense releases bloody face photo Photo from night of Trayvon Martin shooting shows Zimmerman’s face bloodied. By Jeff Weiner, Orlando Sentinel George Zimmerman’s defense team on Monday released a higher-quality, color version of a bloody photo of Zimmerman’s face taken the night he shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. The photo […]

  March 20, 2012 Once-burgeoning Latino population growth rate dips in many U.S. cities The downturn is ‘pervasive’ and could hurt future growth, but major metropolitan gateway areas are less affected, analysis of Census data shows. By Don Lee and Rebecca Trounson Los Angeles Times  Reporting from Washington and Los Angeles — For years, America’s […]

Obama’s high-dollar donations lagging Picking up the pace, President Barack Obama raised $45 million for his re-election bid in February, bringing his total to about $300 million for this election cycle, his campaign said Monday. In February and the average donation was about $59 for the entire election cycle. Nearly 98 percent of the donations […]

February 2012 unemployment rate for white men decreased while increasing for African American men White male unemployment lowered to 6.8% African American male unemployment rose to 14.3% White female unemployment remained 6.8% while African American female unemployment decreased to 12.4% Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics African American unemployment African American unemployment for February 2012 increased to 14.1% (Seasonally adjusted) African […]

Barack Obama in a 1990s video at Harvard protests in favor of the cause of Professor Derek Bell and the hiring of more minority faculty members.      

A Conversation with First Ladies Barbara & Laura Bush   Barbara Bush discusses the current Republican party at 37mins and 30secs into the video.   The Bush Center  March 6, 2012  

L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to chair Democratic convention In his new role, Villaraigosa will wield the gavel at the Democratic National Convention and raise money to help pay for the gathering in Charlotte, N.C., giving him contact with donors who could play a role in a future run for office.   By Mark Z. Barabak […]

Video: Newt Gingrich language comment: “language of the ghetto”  In 2007, Former House speaker and current GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich  described bilingual education as teaching “the language of living in a ghetto”.   If Newt Gingrich was not speaking about Spanish then why did he give clarification in Spanish and not French, German or […]

Is Mitt Romney’s tax situation all that bad? Some Democrats and Republicans might not think so when they remember John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign.         By: Dilemma X   Just 8 years ago Massachusetts US Senator John Forbes Kerry won the right to represent the Democrats as their presidential nominee against President […]