Category: National Written by Robert N. Taylor

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Week of October 22-28

October 22

1906—Three thousand Blacks demonstrated and rioted in Philadelphia to protest a theatrical production of Thomas Dixon’s racist play—“The Clansman.” The play essentially praised the Ku Klux Klan while demeaning Blacks.

1936—Black Panther Party co-founder Bobby Seale is born in Dallas, Texas.

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by Suzanne Gamboa
Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP)—Now that the National Football League has a record number of head coaches who are Black and Hispanic, can Fortune 500 companies borrow from the league’s diversity playbook and see similar results among corporate executives?

Robert L. Johnson, founder of Black Entertainment Television, thinks so. He is urging corporate America to adopt a version of the NFL's Rooney Rule, which requires teams to interview at least one minority candidate when filling head coach and general manager positions.

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by Dorothy Bracy Alston
For New Pittsburgh Courier

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (Real Times News Service)—Could it happen again, an African-American man as a presidential nominee of a major political party?

With the trail-blazing Barack Obama seeking a second term from the Democratic Party side, is it possible the Republican Party could tap its first African-American as a presidential nominee?

GOP HOPEFULS—Republican presidential candidates from left facing camera, former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman; Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn.; Texas Gov. Rick Perry; businessman Herman Cain; former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney; Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas; former House Speaker Newt Gingrich; and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum participate in a presidential debate at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H., Oct. 11. (AP Photo/Daniel Acker, Pool)

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Category: National Written by Associated Press

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by Justin Juozapavicius

TAHLEQUAH, Okla. (AP)—Charlene White didn’t learn the whole story about her grandfather’s secret number until she was 12.

Prior to that time, she knew only that he had scrawled the mysterious digits—3489—on a crumpled piece of paper and hidden it in a drawer

FIGHTING TO BE EMBRACED—Rena Logan, a member of a Cherokee Freedmen family, shows her identification card as a member of the Cherokee tribe at her home in Muskogee, Okla., Oct. 6. (AP Photo/Dave Crenshaw)

The number was assigned to him as a boy to indicate that members of his family had once been slaves to the Cherokee Nation. It seemed to be a piece of personal history best left in the past.

“I feel like he felt it was shameful being known as a slave, especially a slave of the Indians,” White said. “It was an embarrassment.”

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