"Together with our friends at Google, we're happy to announce the twenty remarkable recipients of this year's Google Fellowship to the Personal Democracy Forum conference happening in New York on June 29-30".
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2009/06/12
2009/05/20
LoneStarPowerPages: Taser Torture and The Police, 05/20/09 (Kyev Tatum,Eddie Griffin, Afrosphere Action Coalition)
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2009/04/28
2009/04/25
2009/04/20
Journalism.org, 4/20/2009 (African American Political Pundit, Dallas South, Francis L. Holland, Jack and Jill Politics, Pam's House Blend)
The Obama Factor. The nomination of the first African American for President was significant for all ethnic media, but especially big for African American outlets. When asked what the “big story” of the year was for the Black Press, Elinor Tatum of the New York Amsterdam News had two words: “Barack Obama.”
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2009/04/19
Chicago Sun Times, 04/19/09 (L.N.Rock, Tasered While Black; Francis L. Holland Blog)
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Like all articles once published at the Chicago Sun Times that are submitted by independent bloggers and not "staff-written", this article will not be archived by the Chicago Sun Times and will therefore "disappear" from that site sometime after its posting date.
Fort Worth Star Telegram, 4/19/09 (Rev. Kyev Tatum)
Use of Tasers by Fort Worth police is again questioned after mentally ill man dies. Kyev Tatum, a Fort Worth pastor who spoke for the family on Saturday, said the parents are asking for an outside investigation as well as someone other than the Tarrant County Medical Examiner's office to perform an autopsy. "The family believes it was a wrongful death," Tatum said. "The mother was making a cry for help, and it has turned into a tazing death. There have been no answers as to why police used a Taser instead of the manpower that was available to them."
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2009/04/06
Washington Post, 4/6/09 (Leutisha Stills, Jack and Jill Politics; Faye Anderson, Anderson at Large; Glenn Ford, Black Agenda Report)
Blacks at Odds Over Scrutiny of President. Jeff Johnson knows how to make his audiences squirm. The young, black radio and TV political commentator waits for the discussion to turn to the topic being talked about ceaselessly, incessantly, ad nauseam: the meaning of the barrier-breaking election of Barack Obama.
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2009/03/26
The New American Dream, 3/26/09 (Brian Kasoro)
BRIAN KASORO — a great young leader, one of the best & the brightest. I never felt like I needed this country, and in turn it gave me the confidence to be myself in it."
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