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Updated Monday, September 17, 2012 05:43:23 PM -0400
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BET cutbacks rekindle concerns over Black media independence

WASHINGTON�Black Entertainment Television (BET), once the powerful Black-owned media enterprise of founder and current CEO Robert L. Johnson, now owned by white corporate media giant Viacom, abruptly slashed a third of its current workforce between its New York and Washington, D.C., bases and fired its award-winning talk show host Tavis Smiley of BET Tonight.


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Hired guns fuel Africa's crisis
PARIS, France (PANA)�A UN report has denounced the violation of human rights posed by mercenaries employed to work in Africa�s hot spots like in the mineral-rich Democratic Republic of Congo, where former President Laurent Kabila was assassinated. A leading daily French newspaper, Liberation, in its March 23 edition ran a report titled, �Africa�Land of Mercenaries,� cited the UN as denouncing the increasing role of mercenaries on the continent. more


Black doctors say:

'Stop health care racial profiling'

WASHINGTON�There is a grave health-care crisis facing Blacks in America that is caused by a pernicious practice of �health care racial profiling� which results in at least 90,000 needless deaths each year, according to an exhaustive set of reports issued recently by the National Medical Association (NMA), the nation�s largest group of Black doctors.
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Sean 'Puffy' Combs:
A changed man

On March 16, after a two-month trial and three days of deliberation
in New York State Supreme Court, hip hop music mogul Sean
�Puffy� Combs of Bad Boy Entertainment was acquitted of any
criminal involvement in a 1999 nightclub shooting that left three
people wounded and resulted in the conviction of a musical prot�g�e.
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US fires rare double-barreled
shot of criticism at Israel
-BBC News

Jiang Zemin: US should apologize -China Daily

US 'regret' fails to move China -BBC News

Museveni Sends Team to Kinshasa
-Uganda, New Vision

U.S. students arrive in Cuba for free medical training -CNN


U.S. seeks to sabotage
reparations

As the August 30 opening of the UN World Conference against Racism rapidly approaches, U.S. attempts to derail the growing movement for reparations are escalating.  The United Nations� World Conference against Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance will be the first UN World Conference of the 21st century.

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