Whites recover, but the black recession lingers

07/09/11 Unemployment among African Americans has stayed high since recession's end - that and other economic data show decline of the black middle class

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S.F. weighs protecting ex-cons seeking homes, jobs

07/13/11 Ex-convicts may soon become a "protected class" in San Francisco - joining African Americans, Latinos, gays, transgender people, pregnant women and the disabled. A proposal being circulated at City Hall would make it...

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African American Civil War Museum gets new home

07/18/11 WASHINGTON (AFP) - With a fife and drum band playing Yankee Doodle and civil war re-enactors sweltering in the summer sun, a museum honoring the contribution of African Americans in the US Civil War moved into its new home in Washington Monday.

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