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Net Neutrality Survives Senate, But Advocates Push for Stronger Reforms – COLORLINES
Low income and people of color are among those hardest hit by the slow moves toward expansion. A 2010 report from the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies found that while 79 percent of whites report regularly using the Internet, only 69 percent of blacks and 59 percent of Latinos report regularly using the Internet. While price is often a prohibitive factor in people of color adopting broadband at home, a 2010 study by the Social Science Research Council found that other factors, such as availability and user proficiency, also play a role.
The FCC’s own broadband availability map shows entire swaths of the country, usually rural and Midwestern areas, that have limited to no broadband availability.
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Gay Activist David Kato: His Murderer Gets 30 Years
…a Ugandan court has sentenced Sidney Nsubuga Enoch, 22 — who admitted that he bludgeoned gay activist David Kato to death with a hammer in January — to 30 years in prison. Kato’s slaying came only months after his picture was published in an anti-gay newspaper next to the words “Hang Them.”
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Montford Point Marines: Congressional Gold Medal Is Well-Deserved
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Local Activists Give Occupy Atlanta Thumbs Up
…leaders of the Southern Leadership Christian Conference, founded by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., have agreed to mentor, coach and consult with demonstrators in hopes of quelling all the rising contentiousness.
Since the demonstrations began just over a month ago, nearly 200 area protestors have been arrested on varying charges, including roughly 50 who were forcibly taken into custody during a single raid late last month, when police swept in riding horseback and donning riot gear. Just last week, Mayor Kasim Reed revoked an order he had previously granted permitting protestors to camp out overnight on their off-and-on downtown Woodruff Park encampment ground.
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NYPD Falsely Charges Black Man
New York City Police officer Michael Daragjati was casually bragging to a friend about falsely charging a black man with resisting arrest, when, unbeknownst to him, he was recorded saying “I fried another ni–er.” He’s now been charged with a federal civil rights violation and reignited a conversation about the NYPD’s controversial (that’s being gentle — some would say totally racist) stop-and-frisk program: …
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Tech Crunch Founder Stories: Forgotten Black Friends
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Nigerian Traditional Ruler: Women Protest His Murder
Kaduna state police Chief Bala Nasarawa told the Associated Press that the traditional ruler and his wife were killed Friday morning in the town of Kafanchan despite the recent deployment of troops to the area. …
The region of Nigeria has seen repeated riots over the last few days. The protest is the second in two days in the area over insecurity. Last week the killing of two women in a church of a nearby town also sparked riots.
The violence has been attributed to the ongoing conflict between Nigeria’s predominantly Christian south and Muslim north.
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African Americans have made significant contributions to the technology field, despite the amnesia of today’s pundits.
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Penn State Scandal: Mother Of Victim Speaks About Sexual Abuse By Jerry Sandusky (VIDEO)
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James O’Keefe laughed out of journalism school | The Raw Story
Right-wing media darling James O’Keefe, whose deceptive pranks have caused serious harm to organizations such as ACORN and National Public Radio, found himself on the other side of the stick this week during a visit to Columbia University’s school of journalism.
O’Keefe was ostensibly pursuing his latest project: trying to catch journalists doing … things.
His most recent hits included a video of a journalism professor revealing that Huffington Post reporter Sam Stein sometimes has conversations in bars…
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Daily Kos: Berkeley P.D. & Cal. officials try to redefine violence as “resistance to police orders”
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Daily Kos: NEWS UPDATE: An Occupy Wall Street Fact Sheet in Case You Get Hit Up by the Media
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Daily Kos: Who do the GOP voters want for their nominee? NOBODY, by a wide margin.
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Daily Kos: Insurance Company Denies 10K Claim For “Too Early” Heart Attack
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Daily Kos: Banks should worry: Now mortgage brokers are moving money
Far from being angry with me for ditching the commercial banks, she was grateful to me for pointing her in the direction of credit unions. She’s now working with her boss to sign her agency up with the credit union association, and once that’s done, she’ll have much better loan products to offer all her customers. And I can get the best of all worlds: I can do business with a credit union, get the best rates available, and work with a broker I trust, all at the same time. I win, big banks lose.
Big banks should be very worried at the prospect of mortgage brokers working with credit unions. Brokers will almost certainly be able to get better rates through a credit union for most of their customers. And loans are how banks actually make money, through the fees and interest. So while folks moving checking and savings accounts out of commercial banks deprive them of capital, taking the loans away deprives them of profit.
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Consumers May Have Won This Round, But The Bank Fee War Is Far From Over
Here are some items to look out for the next time you receive a bank statement or other communication from your bank (you should read everything your bank sends you):…
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Bank of America may have ditched its controversial debit-card fees for voluntary customers, but people on unemployment benefits who are forced to use the bank because it has to contract to administer their payments, there are plenty of fees in store. But hey, they can afford it — a $264 unemployment check has lots of stretch in it, right?
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Daily Kos: Berkeley Beatings Police Captain: Linking Arms is Violence – 11 Nov 2011
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