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Reid Channels Rodney King On Senate Floor

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 12.22.2009 | Politics

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The Senate moved another plodding step closer to final passage of health care reform early Tuesday morning -- for this vote, at least the sun was up. ...

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The Pride of Precious Jones

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 11.13.2009 | New York

Read More: Whites, Harlem, Poverty, Gabourey Sidibe, Real Estate, Race, Hollywood, Barack Obama, New York, Rodney King, South Africa, Unemployed, Precious, Oprah Winfrey, Lenny Kravitz, Blacks, Paula Patton, Lee Daniels, Michael Mccollom, Brooklyn, Sapphire, Push, Mo'Nique, Armand White, A. O. Scott, Divas, The Color Purple, New York Press, Mariah Carey, New York Times, New York News
Michael Henry Adams

Almost every African-American knows, is related to, or is acquainted with a Precious Jones or her mother, Mary.

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Rodney King To Fight Former Police Officer In "Celebrity Boxing Match" (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 11.10.2009 | Home

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This is one of the stranger interviews we've seen in awhile: a Fox affiliate interviewing Rodney King, of Los Angeles riots fame, and former police of...

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While Rome Burns...

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 10.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Business Life, Los Angeles Fires, Los Angeles, California Wildfires, September 11th, Rodney King, Business News
<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

I'm in LA today. I'm having a little trouble breathing, and my eyes are smarting. But sometimes you have to suck it up to get the job done.

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Glenn Beck's Attack On Van Jones: Fantasies and Falsehoods

Eva Paterson | Posted 09.28.2009 | Home

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Eva Paterson

Van Jones draws a distinction between "cheap patriotism" and "deep patriotism." I highly recommend that chapter to Glenn Beck.

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The Gates Affair: Why We Care

Daniel Bruno Sanz | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Troy Davis, Ruben Blades, Al Sharpton, Capital Punishment, Iowa Primaries, James Baldwin, D.C. Statehood, Gitmo, Pablo Escobar, Police Brutality, Liberation Theology, James Crowley, L.A. Riots, Botero, Mount Pleasant STreet Riot, Elijah Mohammed, Civil Rights, Rodney King, Sharon Pratt Dixon, Criminal Just Us System, War on Crime, Vietnam War, Illegal Immigrants, 4th Amendment, Malcolm X, Abu-Ghraib, Pennymac, Louis Farrakhan, The Greaseman, Gentrification, Langston Hughes, Blogosphere, Pedro Navaja, Bill Clinton, Einstein, Colin Powell, Inverse Surveillance, Colombia Road, Adams Morgan, Condoleeza Rice, Jesse Jackson, Driving While Black, Racial Profiling, Barack Obama, Mayor Bradley, Jim Crow, Marion Barry, 2nd Amendment, Martin Luther King, Park Road, Vicente Fernandez, Cambridge Police Department, Skip Gates, Lapd, War on Drugs, Pancho Villa, LosTigres Del Norte, Wpfw, Mariachis, Politics News
Daniel Bruno Sanz

Inheritance is White, poor credit scores, Black. A missing woman is White and a fugitive on the loose is Black.

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Gates and Crowley Share a White House Beer - President Obama Declares an End to Racism

Andy Ostroy | Posted 08.31.2009 | Politics

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Andy Ostroy

With the four men seated at a round table with their frosty mugs of beers, and with Biden and Obama with uprolled sleeves, the picture could not have looked more fake and insincere.

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Beer Summit

Giles Slade | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics

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Giles Slade

Nobody has the right to obstruct anyone else's pursuit of happiness. Have a brewski, and chill. For God's sake! Let's get the wheels back on the wagon.

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Tom Morello: One Man Revolution

Tom Matlack | Posted 08.28.2009 | Entertainment

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Tom Matlack

In retrospect, Morello sees their success as the juxtaposition of real world events like Rodney King and massive feigned rebellion in the music world. Rage's rebellion was for real.

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Rodney King Detective Kills Herself At Sheriff's Station

AP | SUE MANNING | Posted 08.07.2009 | Home

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LOS ANGELES — A veteran Los Angeles police detective who testified at the trial of four officers accused of beating Rodney King killed herself a...

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Deadly Consequences of Being Black?

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 06.29.2009 | Politics

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Michael Henry Adams

If New York's police force includes so many deadly marksmen, couldn't uncharged suspects merely be stopped without being killed? For pointing out an...

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A Latino Rodney King?

Daniel Cubias | Posted 06.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Latinos, Shenandoah, Hate Crimes, Luis Ramirez, Criminal Justice System, Race Relations, H1N1 Influenza, Immigration, Hispanics, Right-Wing Extremism, Mexican-American-Legal-Defense-Education-Fund, Rodney King, Politics News
Daniel Cubias

The verdict would actually make more sense if the teens had been acquitted of all charges. In that case, the implication is that the boys had nothing to do with the fight or Luis Ramirez's death.

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Police Brutality: Deal With It

Norm Stamper | Posted 04.10.2009 | Politics

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Norm Stamper

As a rookie cop, why did I abuse the very people I'd been hired to serve? Law enforcement, for the most part, doesn't pick bad apples. It makes them, and not through academy training.

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Riots Racism and Police Brutality: A Never Ending Cycle

Casey Gane-McCalla | Posted 02.11.2009 | Politics

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Casey Gane-McCalla

The 1992 riots sparked by the acquittal of four officers in the videotaped beating of Rodney King. left 53 people dead and caused more the one billion dollars worth of damage.

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Street Racing Kills -- Help Me Stop It

Steve Parker | Posted 07.29.2008 | Living

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Steve Parker

San Diego counts so many bodies and seriously injured people from street racing they say it is at "epidemic" levels and is a public health problem.

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Celebrity Rehab: Rodney King Checks In

AP | Posted 06.18.2008 | Entertainment

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LOS ANGELES — Rodney King will appear in the next installment of VH1's "Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew." The show features famous people dealing...

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