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Volume 7
Issue 3
3/31/10 - 4/6/10
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Lee travels to Haiti with congressional delegation
Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA) traveled to Haiti with a congressional delegation last week to examine recovery efforts following the devastating earthquake on Jan. 12. The trip came just a week before the Haiti Donors Conference, where the international community will gather to pledge their long-term commitments toward the reconstruction of Haiti. “Now, more than ever, the people of Haiti require the coordinated and sustained commitment of the Untied States,” said Lee before the trip. “As Congress prepares to consider the Haiti supplemental appropriations bill, this trip will give us an opportunity to survey ongoing recovery efforts and to determine what resources are still needed, both in terms of short-term relief in advance of the rainy season as well as long-term rebuilding. |
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Oakland/Alameda County Into the hurt zone, looking to heal
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The first black American newspaper was founded in 1827 by Samuel Cornish and John B. Russwam the very year that slaves were set free in the state of New York. It came to life in a small office in downtown New York City. The name of the paper was Freedom’s Journal. Its purpose was to serve as a medium of expression for black and white abolitionists 34 years before the first shot was fired in the Civil War and 36 years before President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. Freedom’s Journal initiated a new phenomena in America: the use of the pen as a bold weapon in support of the fight for the emancipation of African slaves, a weapon for liberation and rights, a public campaign to inspire racial pride and to inform those who could read about events affecting the African-American community. It was a tool to fight ignorance and to separate fact from fiction. It was an audacious undertaking — it was a dangerous undertaking! It was an undertaking with little financial support and few resources to sustain its growth. Four short years later, in 1830, Freedom’s Journal stopped printing. But, its legacy lived and newspapers sprang up across the country, boldly establishing stakes in the ground before the Civil War began. Continue to the 2010 Black History Edition - |
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