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SUPREME COURT REJECTS CIVIL RIGHTS ERA CASE: Murder leaves questions regarding statute of limitations.
*The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to review the 2007 conviction of a former Ku Klux Klan member in the 1964 kidnapping and murder of two black teenagers, reports UPI. Read Full Story

THE FORT HOOD KILLER: Troubling portrait emerges of suspect.
*His name appears on radical Internet postings. A fellow officer says he fought his deployment to Iraq and argued with soldiers who supported U.S. wars. He required counseling as a medical student because of problems with patients. Read Full Story

THE HUTCHINSON REPORT: Make No Mistake Tuesday's GOP Surge Was about Obama.
*The dumbest thing that progressives, liberal Democrats and much of the media did following Obama's election a year ago was to gloat and smugly declare the GOP dead. Read Full Story

ECONOMY APPEARS TO BE IMPROVING; But When Will Black America Start to Benefit?
*The Commerce Department reported last week that the U.S. economy grew during the third quarter (July, August and September) signaling a possible end to the recession which has gripped the nation since December 2007. Read Full Story

ATLANTA MAYORAL RACE NOT DECIDED YET: Norwood and Reed in runoff Dec. 1
*Atlanta has one more month and one more election to go before it chooses the city's next mayor: Councilwoman Mary Norwood and former state Sen. Kasim Reed will face each other in a runoff Dec. 1. Read Full Story

URBAN THOUGHT COLLECTION.COM: 'Things Fall Apart' (book review)
By Raneeka J. Claxton
*From summer to fall, and having moved from the Midwest to the South and back, I’m here with you again. And reading. I hope you have been, too. Read Full Story

BLACK WOMAN IS HIGHEST PAID COLLEGE PREZ: Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute tops nationwide list.
*As our eurthisNthat.com blog said yesterday, an African American woman is currently the highest paid college president in the nation. Read Full Story

THE HUTCHINSON REPORT: Bernice King Should Publicly Renounce Her Anti-Gay Bigotry
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson / Hutchinsonreport@aol.com
*Bernice King can make history in two ways. She made it first by becoming the first woman in the fifty two year history of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to take the organization's reins. Read Full Story

EUR BOOK LOOK: Barack Like Me: The Chocolate-Covered Truth (by David Alan Grier)
*It's not a good sign when the author of a book is already making apologies in the preface for what you're about to read. Read Full Story

DR. REGINA BENJAMIN CONFIRMED AS SURGEON GENERAL: Senate offers unanimous approval after voice vote Thursday.
*Dr. Regina Benjamin is now officially the third African American to hold the position of the nation's top doctor - Surgeon General of the United States. Read Full Story

HERE WE GO AGAIN: Limbaugh dogs Obama; calls him 'immature, inexperienced.' (Video)
*From his home and on a friendly network, Rush Limbaugh lobbed pot shots across the airwaves Sunday at President Barack Obama — "immature, inexperienced, in over his head," offering the country "radical leadership" and laying siege to the economy. Read Full Story

SUSPECT IN CRACKER BARREL BEATING FREE ON BAIL: Ga. man accused of assaulting black mother under house arrest until trial.
*A Georgia man accused of barking racial slurs while beating an African-American female Army reservist outside a restaurant was released from jail on bail Wednesday, Clayton County, Georgia, authorities said. Read Full Story

TWO CHARGED IN MURDER OF TV HOST'S PARENTS: Ruby and Milton McClendon found dead following a robbery. (Video)
*The two teens accused of slaying the parents of a Chicago-area TV host have were charged with murder on Thursday. Read Full Story

THE HUTCHINSON POLITICAL REPORT: Obama's White House is for Sale Just like All the Others.
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson / Hutchinsonreport@aol.com
*In June 2007 presidential candidate Barack Obama told a New York crowd that much of the big money influence peddling in Washington is illegal and that he'd crack down on it once in office. Five months later in an Iowa speech he was even blunter. Read Full Story

JASMYNE CANNICK: Real Talk From L.A.'s Outgoing Top Cop on Race Relations, the LAPD, and Black Los Angeles (Video)
*I have to admit that I am sad to see L.A.’s top cop leave. While my opinion may not be in the majority as it relates to Blacks here in Los Angeles, Police Chief William Bratton has definitely been my favorite police chief. His tell it like it is attitude won me over a long time ago. Read Full Story

ATLANTA MAYORAL RACE TIGHTENS: Can Mary Norwood win big enough to avoid runoff?
*The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is reporting today that the Atlanta mayoral race has come down to two questions. Read Full Story

EUR BOOK LOOK: 'Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud' (A Memoir by Cornel West - with David Ritz)
By Kam Williams
*Everybody knows Cornel West, the public intellectual, the popular Princeton University Professor and best-selling author who has remained dedicated to the plight of the poor and underprivileged over the course of his illustrious career. Read Full Story

THE HUTCHINSON POLITICAL REPORT: Obama Should Tear Up Matthew Hoh's Afghan War Resignation Letter.
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson / Hutchinsonreport@aol.com
*President Obama should tear up former Marine Matthew Hoh's resignation letter. Hoh is an American hero. Hoh is the first US official to resign in disgust over the Administration's wrong headed course in fighting the Afghan war. Read Full Story

ODE TO CALEB: CNN'S T.J. HOLMES (Pt.2): News Anchor discusses his personal life, being a living example to others and his responsibility to the Black community.
By Tibberly G. Ríchard
*CNN Anchor T.J. Holmes has the type of personality that keeps you tuned in to the weekend edition of the CNN Newsroom, a weekend news program that he anchors with colleague and good friend Betty Nguyen. Read Full Story

THE HUTCHINSON POLITICAL REPORT: The Public Option is dead as a Doornail
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson
*President Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and a parade of House and Senate Democrats should get academy awards for their play act on the public heath care option. Read Full Story

HOLD YOUR HORSES EARL OFARI HUTCHINSON: Senate boss Harry Reid says his healthcare bill includes public option.
*In today's EUR, syndicated columnist Earl Ofari Hutchinson makes his case that the public option in the hotly contested healthcare bill is already dead deal. Read Full Story