Articles Posted by Dominique DiPrima
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Tax-cut deal clears Senate hurdle in test vote
The Senate overwhelmingly advanced President Obama‘s $858-billion tax-cut package Monday in a vote that heightened pressure on reluctant House Democrats and enhanced the likelihood of congressional approval for the compromise. The Senate could send the package to the House by midweek and then turn to remaining legislative priorities, including a nuclear arms reduction treaty with […]
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President Obama signs child nutrition bill, a priority for first lady
Flanked by Cabinet officials, top Democrats and schoolchildren in green and yellow uniforms, President Obama said that “across the country, too many kids don’t have access to healthy meals.” “We’ve seen the connection between what kids eat and how well they perform in school,” he said, speaking at Harriet Tubman Elementary School in Northwest Washington. […]
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Van Jones (12/13)
Van Jones is a globally recognized, award-winning pioneer in human rights and the clean-energy economy. He is the best-selling author of the definitive book on green jobs: The Green-Collar Economy. He served as the green jobs advisor in the Obama White House in 2009.
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AAFCA Awards (12/13)
Gil L. Robertson IV is one of America’s foremost authorities on African American pop culture. Robertson is a co-founder and president of the African American Film Critics Association (AAFCA), the largest body of the nation’s leading African American film critics.
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Affirmation for Mon. Dec. 13
I am the source of my abundance.—Coach Erich Nall
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Now Playing – Night Catches Us
Film Summary A “blast to the 1970s past comes from “Night Catches Us,” the strong feature debut of Tanya Hamilton. Set in Philadelphia in the summer of 1976, the movie centers on two uneasily reunited former members of the Black Panthers, Marcus (Anthony Mackie), a recently returned wanderer, and Patricia (Kerry Washington), who stayed to […]
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AAFCA Awards (12/13)
About the African-American Film Critics Awards The 50 members of AAFCA are the largest minority film critics’ organization in the United States representing television, radio and online critics and they annual select nominees in 11 categories to recognize excellence in diverse cinematic achievement. Since 2009, the organization has kicked-off Hollywood’s Awards Season with a live […]
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The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems
The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems by Van Jones Harper Collins, 2008, 256 pages, $25.95 Go to your local bookstore or Buy online. The following is an excerpt from the introduction to the book: The “green” in “green-collar” is about preserving and enhancing environmental quality—literally saving the Earth. […]
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Van Jones (12/13)
Our country is in the depths of an economic recession and ecological crisis. We need nine million new jobs in the United States. They must be jobs that can support families and jobs that do no harm to the environment. America needs her best minds generating smart and innovative ideas to create more jobs. Van […]
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Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market
Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market is a chain of grocery stores in the western United States, headquartered in El Segundo, California. It is a subsidiary of retailer Tesco, the world’s third largest retailer. It has plans for rapid growth – the first stores opened in November 2007 and, after a pause in the 2nd quarter […]
