Category: National Written by NNPA News Service

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by Eric Mayes
For New Pittsburgh Courier

PHILADELPHIA (NNPA)—Jobless, facing a mountain of bills and the possibility of losing his house, Michael Timpson of West Philadelphia has begun to doubt the American Dream.

“American dream? What American dream?” the 53-year-old asks quietly.

KEEPING HIS HEAD ABOVE WATER—Michael Timpson, 53, of West Philadelphia, lost his job as a welder six months ago. He’s been unable to find work since, and now faces the loss of his home complicated by a family health crisis that makes keeping his head above water that much more difficult. (Philadelphia Tribune Photo/Abdul R. Sulayman/Chief Photographer)

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by David Bauder
AP Television Writer

PASADENA, Calif. (AP)—After 16 years playing a police lieutenant on “Law & Order,” actress S. Epatha Merkerson is turning to some real-life crime stories.

SERIES NARRATOR—Actress S. Epatha Merkerson poses for a portrait in New York. (AP Photo/Jeff Christensen, File)

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Category: National Written by Robert N. Taylor

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Week of January 21- 27

January 21

1773—Poet Phyllis Wheatley, born in 1753, was freed on this day in 1773. Kidnapped in Africa and sold as a slave when she was only seven years old, Wheatley would become Black America’s first poet. She grew up in a prosperous Boston family, which allowed her to learn to read. She not only mastered English but also excelled in Greek and Latin. Her first book of poetry received rave reviews in the United States and Europe.

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by Martha Waggoner
Associated Press Writer

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP)— It’s a question that has not been answered before and doesn't have an easy solution: How do you repay people for taking away their ability to have children?

North Carolina’s Eugenics Compensation Task Force is the first in the nation to tackle that question and is set to recommend how much to pay victims of forced sterilization, along with whether the victims' descendants are eligible for the money.

MOTHER WAS STERILIZED—Delores Marks poses for photograph in her home in Durham, N.C. Marks' mother, Margaret Helen Cheek, had been sterilized during North Carolina's eugenics program at Cherry Hospital in Goldsboro, N.C., where she was a patient for more than 10 years. (AP Photo/Jim R. Bounds)

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