Civil Rights leader Dr. Benjamin Hooks has died today in his Nashville,Tennessee home,at the age of 85, after battling a long illness. Dr. Hooks served a 15-year tenure atop the NAACP,which was 1 million dollars in debt and its membership was down to 200,000 – less than half its total from a decade earlier,when he took […]
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Civil Rights Hero,Pioneer,And Much-Loved Leader,Dr. Benjamin Hooks,85, Dies
April 15, 2010
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President Obama Accepts Nobel Peace Prize Today
December 10, 2009President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama were in Oslo today to accept his Nobel Peace Prize award. President Obama stated that he is humbled by the award and receives it with an ‘acute sense’ of the cost of war. [picapp align=”left” wrap=”true” link=”term=*nobel+peace+prize&iid=7354351″ src=”5/f/6/4/Demonstrators_Protest_President_1154.jpg?adImageId=8207127&imageId=7354351″ width=”234″ height=”150″ /]In doing so, he also delivered a speech and […]
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