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The Shreveport Sun
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Obama, GOP leadership to meet over Supreme Court impasse
President Barack Obama on Tuesday will meet with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R) and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley amid a deadlock over the Supreme Court vacancy left by the late Justice Antonin Scalia. Ahead of the meeting with Obama, McConnell and Grassley released a joint statement where they indicated they have not changed their positions. File photo by Andrew Harrer/Pool/UPI
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WASHINGTON, March 1 (UPI) -- President Barack Obama on Tuesday is expected to meet with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley amid a deadlock over the Supreme Court vacancy left by the late Justice Antonin Scalia.
Obama says he will name a nominee to the Supreme Court in the... MORE 
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After Tense Weeks, Melissa Harris-Perry's MSNBC Show Is Canceled
Melissa Harris-Perry speaks at the Maya Angelou Forever Stamp Dedication at the Warner Theatre in Washington, D.C., April 7, 2015.
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It was a day before the Iowa caucuses, and despite being in Des Moines, she was not hosting the weekend show on MSNBC that bears her name. That privilege belonged to the network’s legal correspondent, Ari Melber, who quickly introduced her in a split-screen at the... MORE
Melissa Harris-Perry had been the host of a show that focused on issues like racism and diversity since 2012. Credit Heidi Gutman/MSNBC
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State of Black Shreveport Symposium
This year's theme is "Bridging the Gap Between the Past and the Future".
"The reason we do the State of Black Shreveport on the economic summit side is a) to say how do you repair your credit to be bank ready, b) how do you put together business plans to go to the bank and ask for money, and c) how do you get the technical skills like beyond the numbers. Some accounting firms are going to be with us to systematically run a business."
IF YOU GO:
Shreveport Convention Center
Saturday, February 27, 2016
9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Free Admission
"The reason we do the State of Black Shreveport on the economic summit side is a) to say how do you repair your credit to be bank ready, b) how do you put together business plans to go to the bank and ask for money, and c) how do you get the technical skills like beyond the numbers. Some accounting firms are going to be with us to systematically run a business."
IF YOU GO:
Shreveport Convention Center
Saturday, February 27, 2016
9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Free Admission
Rubio Ruthless in Attack on Trump
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Republican presidential candidate, Marco Rubio, flung daggers at candidate Trump on live television.
He levied charges of Trump's being a "con artist", and a poor speller. Rubio failed to catch his own error, even while scolding Trump about his. MORE |
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Guion S. “Guy” Bluford, Jr., Ph.D.
“The sad thing about a shuttle mission is when you hit the point in your checklist when it says 'bring vehicle home. '" -- Guion S. Bluford, Jr. |
The Man and the Moon: Guion S. “Guy” Bluford, Jr., Ph.D.
First African-American Man in Space by Marcinho Savant, Staff Writer “The sad thing about a shuttle mission is when you hit the point in your checklist when it says 'bring vehicle home. '" -- Guion S. Bluford, Jr. Imagine a black boy, born in wartime-1942, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Much of his choices would have followed that standard list of possibilities available to a black youth of his time. By the time he graduated high school, in 1960, the world may have had, much the same look, but changes were coming. The idyllic neighborhoods of “Philly”, the 47th St. at Woodland Avenue streetcar (called a “Trolly” in Philadelpia). Hanging out with friends, studying hard, and dreaming. But who’d have thought that Guion was dreaming of outer space? It is very unlikely that he did, one imagines. Then the riots came in 1964. That would likely have occupied his thoughts most... continue |
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