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African-American - News July 27, 2011 See African-American Weather NAACP President Jealous Calls Out Racist Voting Bills at Convention (The Afro American Newspaper) NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous evoked biblical characters and said faith is what the nation's oldest civil rights organization has to have in order to follow through on the mission it started 102 years ago. Venable, Belmont Fastest Growing Neighborhoods in Charlottesville (WCAV) Charlottesville neighborhoods have grown and the population has become more diverse in the past decade, according to a report by demographers at the University of Virginia's Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service. Early birth link to stress disorder (BBC News) Post traumatic stress disorder is a risk factor for premature birth, research suggests. Black student sues over valedictorian flap (MSNBC) PINE BLUFF, Ark. - A black teenager is suing an Arkansas school district, contending her high school discriminated against her by refusing to let her be sole valedictorian even though she had the highest grade-point average. Being a White Female Rapper Does Not Give You Permission to use the N Word (womanist-musings) All right, I am sure some of you have been following the mess that Kreayshawn and her crew, White Girl Mobs have created since their first single. There are many reasons why I find these women distasteful (note that's me being nice) and chief amongst their justification of their continual usage of the N word. Little Miss Gucci Gucci had no problem say the word nigga on twitter. Yeah, heaven save us from White folks and their lived experience when it comes to race. Yes, growing up poor in a classist society is a form of oppression but in no way does that give one the right to utilize racist language, because no matter how much you feel like you have been in trenches right next to Black folks, you have not. What galls me about this is that this woman absolutely knows that what she is saying is offensive and yet she has found a twisted way to justify this. NAACP Discusses Same Sex Marriage (NBC Los Angeles) Gay rights are an awkward topic for the NAACP. And an appearance by Comic Wanda Sykes may have made some attendees squirm at a panel discussion in Downtown L.A. "I didn't have to 'come out' Black," offers Comic Wanda Sykes. Recession Study Finds Hispanics Hit the Hardest (HendersonvilleNews) Hispanic families accounted for the largest single decline in wealth of any ethnic and racial group in the country during the recession, according to a study published Tuesday by the Pew Foundation.