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Volume LXXXII, No. 34

On Mother's Day, It's Often 'Grandma' often deserves highest honors

By Tisha Y. Lewis and Hazel Trice Edney, NNPA

Hair tactics: Why I cut my dreadlocks

By Robert E. Pierre, Contributing Writer

Independent candidate denies GOP a sin -- Democrat Don Cazayoux Elected to Congress in 6th

By Christopher Tidmore and David Huguenel, Contributing Writers

Remember Malcolm

By Edmund W. Lewis, Editor

U.S. Supreme Court Decision Sanctions "Modern Day Poll Tax"

By Marc Morial, President/CEO, National Urban League

Media Gives McCain's pass on his 'Minister' problem

By George E Curry, NNPA Columnist

My motive for Wright breakfast

By Dr. Barbara Reynolds, NNPA Religion Columnist

It's Over!

By Ron Walters, NNPA Columnist

We must end child hunger now

By Marian Wright Edelman, NNPA Columnist

Could the Global Food Crisis Impact America?

By Saeed Shabazz, Contributing Writer

Olympia Brass Band's tuba player, Edgar Smith is dead at age 56

By Geraldine Wyckoff

A lively Presbyteral Assembly

By Fr. Jerome LeDoux, Contributing Columnist

HARD TRUTH: Absent Moms on Mother's Day

By Min. J. Kojo Livingston, Contributing Columnist

Three St. Aug grads sign with NFL teams

Clinton, Obama promise unity against GOP

By Cash Michaels, Contributing Writer

The Civil Rights battle moves from the streets to the Internet

By Heather Faison, NNPA Special Correspondent

U.S. 'drug war' unjust to African Americans, two studies find

New York festival to honor N.O.'s Edward 'Kidd' Jordan

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