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July 1st, 2013
Written by Julie Pace - AP... in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) - Challenging African youth to seize a "moment of great promise," President Barack Obama declared Sunday that the future of the young and growing continent still rests in ailing South African leader Nelson Mandela's vision for equality and opportunity. Seeking to carve out his own piece of that legacy, Obama unveiled an ambitious initiative to double electricity...
June 29th, 2013
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JOHANNESBURG (AP) - Inspired by Nelson Mandela's struggles in South Africa, a young Barack Obama joined campus protests in the U.S. against the racist rule that kept Mandela locked away in prison for nearly three decades.
Now a historic, barrier-breaking figure himself, President Obama arrived in South Africa Friday to find a country drastically transformed by Mandela's influence - and grappling...
June 28th, 2013
Written by Suzanne Gamboa ... in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
WASHINGTON (AP) - Take a glance at the anniversary calendar this year and it's clear that in America, racial progress comes in fits and starts.
The Emancipation Proclamation declared the freedom of slaves 150 years ago. Within a decade, a trio of amendments to the Constitution made them citizens. Over the next century, the Supreme Court and Jim Crow segregation in the South snatched those rights...
June 26th, 2013
Written by D. A. Barber in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
President Obama left Wednesday, June 26, on a three-country tour of Africa, first stopping in Senegal before traveling to South Africa where there is a chance that the first black American President will meet South Africa’s first black president, Nelson Mandela.
Today marks two-weeks in the hospital for the 94-year-old Mandela for a recurrent lung infection. On June 25, Mandela’s family held a...
June 25th, 2013
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"The fight against hunger must have no color, no religion, no political affiliation,” said Director-General José Graziano da Silva of the UN's Food and Agricultural Organization onthe same daythe House rejected a farm bill that would cut $2 billion annually from food stamps because the cuts weren't large enough for many Republicans.
Graziano da Silva, speaking on June 20, during the of FAO's 38th...