Bring That Week Back, Jan. 25
The president speaks, the Internet blacks out, plus more.
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Legendary Vocalist Etta James Dies - Blues singer Etta James (“At Last” and “Tell Mama”) died in Los Angeles on Friday morning. She was 73. The blues entertainer suffered from dementia, kidney failure and chronic leukemia, which her live-in doctor declared incurable just weeks prior to her death.(Photo: REUTERS/Fred Prouser)
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Martin Luther King III Resigns as King Center President - A day after what would have been his father’s 83rd birthday, Martin Luther King III announced last Tuesday that he would step down as president of the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, an Atlanta-based center devoted to the legacy of his father.(Photo: REUTERS/Tami Chappell /Landov)
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NYPD Accused of Hiring Discrimination in Intelligence Division - Last week the New York Civil Liberties Union filed a federal complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against the New York City Police Dept. alleging that Black officers are not promoted in the department’s intelligence division and that a “secret list” keeps the officers from climbing the ranks.(Photo: Astrid Riecken/The Washington Times)
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Internet Sites Black Out - In the first strike of its kind, thousands of popular sites — including Wikipedia, Boing Boing, Reddit and others — shut down for up to 24 hours on Wednesday in an online grass-roots protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA).(Photos: Courtesy of Wikipedia.com/Google.com/Reddit.com)
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Report: Black Unemployment Remained Steady in 2011 - According to a study released last week by UC Berkeley, the unemployment rate for African-Americans has stayed almost exactly the same over the last year. Overall in 2011, Americans saw unemployment drop from 9.1 percent to 8.5 percent. For African-Americans, however, in January 2011, the unemployment rate stood at 15.7 percent and in December it was 15.8 percent.(Photo: Jason Reed/Landov)
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