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(HUFFINGTON POST) WASHINGTON –-Congressional leaders unveiled their final budget deal early Tuesday, a $1.049trillion spending plan that axes billions of dollars for some of the mostvulnerable populations while preserving a handful of priorities for bothparties.

The budget, which will keep thegovernment funded through the end of September, includes an across-the-boardcut of 0.25 percent to every domestic agency.

Key highlights include:

$600 million in cuts to communit...

DetroitSWAT Team Assaults African American Mom Who Refused to Medicate Her Daughterwith Antipsychotic Drugs Friday, 15 April 2011 07:58

 (NaturalNews) The medical policestate is alive and well in Detroit today, where Child Protective Services (CPS)called in the police to aid in their kidnapping of a 13-year-old daughter froman African American mother who refused to medicate her with dangerouspsychiatric drugs. As this case is...

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These letters are from prisoners who are locked up in the U.S. prison system. They share their thoughts and Ideas of how life on the inside has changed their outlook on society.

To my fellow community members, my peers, and Counselors, I would like to bring a brief illustration of the history of our ancestors. Our forefathers and mothers were once enslaved physically and mentally. Our mentals were extorted so that we...

(HistoryCentral.com)-The early history of Cote d'Ivoire is virtually unknown, although it is thought that a Neolithic culture existed. France made its initial contact with Cote d'Ivoire in 1637, when missionaries landed at Assignee near the Gold Coast (now Ghana) border. Early contacts were limited to a few missionaries because of the inhospitable coastline and settlers' fear of the inhabitants.

In the 18th century, the country was invaded from presen...

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CBS News Investigates Serious Questions about the Legitimacy of Some Ethopian Adoptions 

(CBS)  Videotapes showing poor orphans from third world countries melt the hearts of prospective parents every day in this country.

Three children, sisters from Ethiopia are shown in a video - ages, you are told, 7, 4 and 6. Th...

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(New York Times Magazine)-Maude McLeod, 95, is the oldest member of New York's black Hebrew community. During the High Holy Days season, she spoke with David Isay about her faith and the skepticism it engenders.

 I grew up on the island of Monserrat, and my parents were supposed to be Christian. But in the years that I was home I always wondered why my peop...

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The African Union, which was formed to succeed the Organization of African Unity on July 9, 2002 and is loosely based on the European Union, aims to to promote cooperation and integration among the independent nations of Africa. It consists of 53 African nations and its headquarters are in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

It works to promote African unity on issues involving the continent, and de...

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(Reuters) So far, media coverage of China’s involvement in Africa has mostly been about investment. Stories of Chinese engineers in hard hats standing by roads up mountains in Ethiopia. Stories of Chinese farmers moving to Zambia. But, in a push to extent its economic reach, China is now making a very real effort to export its culture to the world’s p...