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 Recent
cases re-focus nation on missing and exploited children
Each year thousands of children simply
vanish, either because they run away from home, are abducted by a
stranger, or taken by a parent. The problem is so great that since 1983,
May 25 has been observed as National Missing Children�s Day to bring
increased attention to disappearances and to promote a national policy
to protect children. While there�s no way to guarantee a child
won�t disappear, experts say families and communities can do things to
help keep children safe.
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Chicago case puts national spotlight on missing and exploited children
 Justice Department to sue over voting
rights abuses
WASHINGTON�The United States Department of
Justice (DOJ) May 21 announced plans to file lawsuits against counties
in Florida, Missouri and Tennessee, accusing officials who monitored the
2000 presidential election of voting-rights violations. The passionately
contested election took weeks of recounting votes, underscored with
hundreds of protests, arrests, then finally, a ruling from the U.S.
Supreme Court that declared Texas Gov. George W. Bush victorious over
Vice President Al Gore.
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Black
Caucus still fighting for 'the vote'
Family, friends shocked at slaying of
F.O.I. in Compton
COMPTON�Nation of Islam members throughout
the Western Region expressed shock and grief with family and friends of
19-year-old Terrell X over his fatal shooting May 23 at a local gas
station. Since the incident, over 200 F.O.I. throughout the region
merged to scour the neighborhood for information and insight leading to
their brother�s killer, and every day since the shooting, they have
convened at the crime scene and Compton streets.
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 Min. Farrakhan returns to historic St.
Cyprian's Episcopal Church
BOSTON��Remembering our past � celebrating
our present and renewing our faith for the future� was the theme of the
grand reunion of church members, neighbors and friends, including the
Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, who share a common history�St.
Cyprian�s.
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Lawsuit loss could be reparations 'victory'
WASHINGTON�The latest shot has been fired in
the battle for reparations payments for the descendants of slaves in the
United States. After three years of litigation, several briefs and two
sets of oral arguments, a federal judge dismissed the first �modern�
reparations lawsuit in late April.
 U.S. role in Sudan peace: Player or
staller?
THE WHITE HOUSE�The path to peace in
civil-war torn Sudan may pass through Nairobi with U.S. assistance,
according to President George W. Bush. The U.S. will continue to urge the
National Islamic Front (NIF) government in Khartoum, as well as Southern
insurgents fighting a 19-year-old rebellion, toward a settlement at
on-going peace talks in Kenya.
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