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Jackson: AIDS Drug Poses Major Risks to Africans
By Mike Colias, AP

In a "crime against humanity," Rev. Jesse Jackson is accusing U.S. health officials of distributing an AIDS drug in Africa that doesn't meet U.S. standards. Find Out More

By Amy Alexander
AFRICANA.COM

It hasn’t taken long for the bloom to fall from the "moral values" rose that reportedly returned Republican President George W. Bush to the White House. According to a recent front page story in The New York Times, ratings of network television programs depicting violence and sex are higher than ever.

By William Jelani Cobb
AFRICANA.COM

Almost since its inception, in the waning days of Booker T. Washington’s Tuskegee Machine, the post of NAACP president has arguably been the most visible civil rights position in the country. With the noted asterisk of Martin Luther King’s SCLC, the lineage of NAACP heads have wielded more institutional authority and political weight than their peers in the trenches of the civil rights struggle. That said, the recent and publicly unexpected resignation of Kweisi Mfume as president of the organization leaves the NAACP with real decisions to make regarding their future direction.

By Tracy L. Scott
BET.COM

Clarence Thomas was criticized by incoming Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) who, during an appearance on “Meet the Press” Sunday, referred to the Supreme Court justice as “an embarrassment.”

By Tracy L. Scott
BET.COM

Sen. John Kerry “betrayed the trust of voters” when he conceded to President Bush before all the votes were counted in Ohio, the Rev. Jesse Jackson said Sunday in calling for a “full and thorough investigation” into election results in the state.

By Lakiesha McGhee
BLACKAMERICAWEB.COM

When North Carolina Central University – a historically black school – received $1 million in November from a former faculty member who died last year, it added further clout to a recent study that says charitable giving is on the rise among blacks and other people of color.

By Deborah Mathis
BLACKAMERICAWEB.COM

Actors Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee are among the six honorees of this year’s Kennedy Center Honors. [The others are composer John Williams, soprano Joan Sutherland, actor-director Warren Beatty and singer-composer Elton John.]