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Jackie Robinson Movie Impacts Obamas

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Darlene Superville - Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) - Michelle Obama said Tuesday that a new movie chronicling Jackie Robinson's rise through Major League Baseball, including the racial discrimination he endured while breaking the sport's color barrier in the 1940s, left her and the president "visibly, physically moved" after they saw it over the weekend.

The film, "42," also left the couple wondering; "how on Earth, did (the Robinsons) live through that? How did they do it? How did they endure the taunts and the bigotry for all of that time?" she said.

Immigrant Work Visa Requests Exceed Available Jobs

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Alicia A. Caldwell - Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Homeland Security Department expects applications for high-skilled immigration visas to exceed the available jobs in a matter of days, one of the fastest runs on the much-sought-after work permits in years and a sign of continued economic recovery amid new hiring by U.S. technology companies.

The urgent race for such visas - highly desired by Microsoft, Apple, Google, and other leading technology companies - coincides with congressional plans to increase the number available to tech-savvy foreigners.

Jewish Refuge A Virginia Landmark

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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A farm purchased by a Richmond department store owner during World War II to shelter Jews escaping Nazi Germany has been added to the Virginia Landmarks Register.

Hyde Park in Nottoway County is among 13 additions to the register by the state Department of Historic Resources. Others include historic districts, a New Deal-era elementary school in northern Virginia, and houses and homesteads dating back centuries.

Issue Of The Week LII: Do You Think Urban Apartheid Exists In America?

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Editor’s Note: The disparities between minorities in urban neighborhoods and whites in suburban neighborhoods are highlighted time, and time again; for decades in one report or the other, by one politician or the other, numerous community activists, and human and civil rights leaders. The most recent attention is the article about “urban apartheid” conditions in New Haven, Connecticut as reported below by the Associated Press.

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