Week In Review

More than 40 years after her family was forced from their home because they were black, Sallie Sanders received the keys to a new house built to settle one of the longest-running cases of housing discrimination in the United States.

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Abandoning the health care overhaul is not an option, the top White House political adviser said last Wednesday, after President Barack Obama’s signature issue took a devastating hit with the Democratic loss of a Massachusetts Senate seat.

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A double standard? Republicans seeking Sen. Harry Reid’s resignation as majority leader over racial remarks he made about Barack Obama say yes — that Reid should be held to the same standard as former GOP Sen. Trent Lott, whose own racial gaffes cost him the Senate leadership in 2002.

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Once upon a time, the people’s faith in the church as an institution was as rock solid and unassailable as their belief in the Divinity. But in recent years, the notion of the infallibility of the church has been shattered as sorted tales of clergy members’ improprieties and sexual misadventures have exploded in the press with disturbing frequency…

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JACKSON, Miss. — Bobby DeLaughter, a former Mississippi prosecutor and judge whose legal conquests became the subject of books and a movie, reported to federal prison Monday for lying to the FBI in a judicial bribery investigation…

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Fashion and business icon Eunice Johnson, widow of Johnson Publishing Company founder John Johnson, died last Sunday. She was 93. “It certainly was surprising news to hear, even though she was up there in years,” said Bryan Monroe, former editor of Ebony magazine. “She was really a passionate, energetic matriarch of the (Johnson Publishing) family.”

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Actress/singer Alaina Reed Hall-Amini has died. She was 63.

At press time, details of her death are still sketchy, but according to the blog Afrobella, the cause is believed to be related to breast cancer.

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