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Different experiences. Different histories. Different roads to living in the United States in 2010. Today, Black, White, and Latino families of the same income have very different levels of wealth. The three groups have different levels of educational attainment, life savings, hourly wages, access to medical care, and different life expectancies.

Rhode Island’s Brown University says hip-hop singer Wyclef Jean (WY’-klef zhahn) has accepted an appointment as a visiting fellow in its Department of Africana Studies for the 2010-11 academic year.

Solar panels and a solar hot water heater will soon be installed at the White House, Energy Secretary Steven Chu said Tuesday.

A Gainesville man shot six people and then killed himself in an east Gainesville shooting spree on Monday. One victim was killed and the other five were in surgery as of Monday night, police said in a press conference. The suspect is Clifford L. Miller Jr., 24, who was found with a self-inflicted gunshot wound […]

Well, it appears that some of the nation’s leading economists have proclaimed that the recession is over. Of course, these were the best and brightest who failed to warn us of the Great Recession in the first place, but I don’t want to sidetrack you with trivialities.

As a coalition of liberal activists gather in Washington, NAACP President Ben Jealous tells CNN that the “One Nation” movement is not “the alternative to the Tea Party, we’re the antidote to the Tea Party.”

A bill to provide medical benefits and compensation for emergency workers who were first on the scene of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks won approval Wednesday from the U.S. House.

A drive-by shooting occurred today at noon on 13th Street NW & U Street NW in D.C. during a funeral for a 21-year-old girl that was killed the previous week. Police report that three people were shot, one man is dead and another is in critical condition. Police are searching for multiple suspects. Read More Here