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Wilmington 10 Portrayed As Political Prisoners Receive Pardons

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Martha Waggoner - Associated Press

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Outgoing North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue issued pardons Monday to the Wilmington 10, a group wrongly convicted 40 years ago in a notorious Civil Rights-era prosecution that led to accusations that the state was holding political prisoners.

Perdue issued pardons of innocence Monday for the nine black men and one white woman who received prison sentences totaling nearly 300 years for the 1971 firebombing of a Wilmington grocery store during three days of violence that included the shooting of a black teenager by police.

Mississippi Governor Discusses 2013 Education & Police Related Racial Profiling

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Governor Phil Bryant
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant said education dominates his 2013 legislative agenda, from merit pay for teachers to charter schools that will receive public funding but be free of some state regulations.

"Ninety percent of our goal this session is to not only talk about education but get something transformational passed," the Republican said in an interview with The Associated Press. The three-month session begins at noon Jan. 8.

American Politics: An All Year - Every Day Job

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Janice S. Ellis Ph.D.

Thanks to the dysfunctional state of the governing process in Washington, politics have become an all year, every day job. Due to the so-called "Fiscal Cliff," Americans could not have a politics-free holiday season.

Every decision our Congressional leaders need to make to ensure the well-being of America and its citizens has become politicized. What is best for the country and for most of its citizens seems to get bogged down in political and partisan bickering.

Black, White, & Native American Voices On The Manhattan Project

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - From living in a top-secret city on a mesa in northern New Mexico to smuggling a suitcase packed with alcohol into a dry federal research lab in Tennessee, some of the lesser-known stories behind the nation's effort to develop the atomic bomb are now available online.

The Atomic Heritage Foundation and the Los Alamos Historical Society say the "Voices of the Manhattan Project" website is aimed at creating a central repository for the oral histories surrounding the tightly guarded World War II-era project.

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