African-American - News April 3, 2011
Malcolm X scholar Manning Marable dies at 60 - AP (Guardian Unlimited)
Manning Marable, an influential historian whose forthcoming Malcolm X biography could revise perceptions of the slain civil rights leader, died Friday, just days before the book described as his life's work was to be released.
Shooting for the stars: Youth Super Day aims to inspire kids for success (Northwest Florida Daily News)
"I just thought I should shoot for the stars," said Leah Lunderman, an eighth-grader at Ruckel Middle School in Niceville, who wants to be a Supreme Court Justice.
However, he said America has not entered "racial nirvana across the land," as some people believe.
Radiation Leaks From Japan Nuclear Plant Into Pacific Ocean (tulsaworld)
Japan's tsunami-stricken nuclear power plant was leaking highly radioactive water into the sea Saturday, nuclear safety officials said. The plant has been spewing radioactivity since March 11, when a magnitude-9.0 earthquake and ensuing tsunami knocked out power, disabling cooling systems and allowing radiation to seep out of the overheating reactors. The water was seeping Saturday from a newly discovered crack in a maintenance pit on the edge of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear site into the Pacific Ocean, Japan Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency spokesman Hidehiko Nishiyama said. By the hand of man the earth will be destroyed.
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