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African-American - News April 24, 2011 See African-American Weather Obama chimp email leads to home protest (The Orange County Register) FULLERTON "The people united could never be divided." Chants of these words Saturday pierced the stillness and quietude of the tree-lined street containing the home of Marilyn Davenport, a governing member of the Orange County GOP's Central Committee. Anti-abortion group defends billboards of Obama (Abc13) A Texas anti-abortion group on Saturday defended its billboard campaign on Chicago's South Side that uses an image of President Barack Obama, while community groups said they hope to encourage residents to talk frankly about women's health in low-income neighborhoods. An African American Earth Day (The Skanner) Earth Day 2011 should be both a day of celebration and rededication to the struggle to free our communities from the devastating toxicity of environmental injustice April 22, 2011 Forty-one years ago Earth Day was established by the global community and now literally hundreds of millions of people throughout the world will celebrate Earth Day on ... A trove of Langston Hughes' work (Philly) Ralph Hunter traces his love affair with Langston Hughes to the fourth grade, when his teacher read the poet's works aloud in class. Video: Vicious McDonald's Beating Video Goes Viral (eurweb) A video of a vicious beating at a Baltimore County McDonald's restaurant went viral Friday, garnering hundreds of thousands of views on websites and prompting the fast-food giant to issue a statement condemning the incident. He Didn't hide His Weed: Antoine Dodson Busted for Marijuana Possession (eurweb) Antoine Dodson apparently didn't hide his weed up where he was and got popped by the Po-Po. Superintendent looks for fix in Kansas City, Mo. (Daily Times) KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- John Covington hesitated before becoming this city's 26th school superintendent in 40 years. More African-American News