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Martin Luther King Memorial Dedication Receives a New Date - On Monday it was announced that Oct. 16 is the new date for the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Dedication. The dedication will now take place on the anniversary of the Million Man March. (Photo: AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

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America More Accepting of Interracial Marriages - On Monday, a new Gallup poll reported that 86% of Americans approve of Black-white unions, in comparison to only four percent in 1958. When Gallup first questioned Black and white marriages in 1958, only four percent of Americans overall approved. It wasn’t until 1997 that approval exceeded the majority level.(Photo: Contra Costa Times/MCT /Landov)

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Video Released of Deadly NYPD Labor Day Shooting - On Monday, the New York Police Department released a video of a shooting in Brooklyn on Labor Day in which 56-year-old Denise Gay was accidentally killed in a flurry of gunfire between two men and police officers. That weekend, 67 people were shot in New York City, killing more than a dozen.(Photo: Lucas Jackson / Reuters)

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Americans’ Income Is Decreasing - On Tuesday, the U.S. Census Bureau announced that, in 2010, not only did the median household income decline, but the poverty rate and the percentage of those without health insurance increased, as well.  The ranks of the nation's poor have swelled to a record 46.2 million — nearly 1 in 6 Americans — up from 43.6 million in 2009.(Photo: REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson)

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Angolan Beauty Crowned Miss Universe - Former Miss Angola, Leila Lopes, was crowned Miss Universe in Tuesday’s competition held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, beating out finalists from Ukraine, Philippines, China and Brazil.(Photo: AP/Andre Penner)

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Cherokees Still Refuse to Restore Benefits to Blacks - On Tuesday, the Cherokee Nation said it stands by its decision to revoke benefits and voting rights to some 2,800 descendants of slaves, despite the federal government's threats to refuse recognition of an upcoming tribal election if benefits are not restored.(Photo: Joe Crittenden)

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Study: Government Assistance Can Lead to Divorce - On Wednesday, a recent study from the University of Missouri made its way across the web claiming that government assistance such as food stamps, Medicaid or welfare can lead to a divorce. The study said that of the 7.2 per 1,000 men and 7.5 per 1,000 women who get divorced, couples receiving assistance are more likely to split.(Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

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First Black Ivy League President to Step Down - On Wednesday, Ruth J. Simmons, 66, announced that she will be leaving her position as president of Brown University at the end of this academic year. Simmons said that her time at the school, which was founded in 1764, was “deeply satisfying,” but now it is the right time for new leadership.(Photo: Scott Gries/PictureGroup)

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Philadelphia to Host 16th Anniversary of The Million Man March - On Thursday, it was announced that the 16th anniversary of the Million Man March will be held in Philadelphia on the weekend of Oct. 7-9. Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan will commemorate the occasion by giving a keynote address.(Photo: Mike Theiler / Reuters)

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Baltimore Medical Institute Sued for Knowingly Exposing Black Children to Lead Poisoning - In a class action suit filed on Sept. 15, Kennedy Krieger Institute, a prominent medical institute in Baltimore, was accused of knowingly exposing Black children to lead poisoning in the 1990s as part of a study on the dangers of lead paint. The lawsuit claims the children were enticed to live in lead-tainted housing and subjected to research.(Photo:  Mario Tama/Getty Images)

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U.S. Supreme Court Halts Execution of Duane Buck - The U.S. Supreme court moved to spare the life of a Texas man sentenced to die Thursday night. Buck, 48, was convicted of murdering his former girlfriend and her friend in 1995. Buck’s lawyers argued that his sentence was unfair because of a question asked about race during his trial.(Photo: AP)

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Ron Artest Is Now Officially Metta World Peace - On Friday, a court commissioner granted Ron Artest’s name change to “Metta World Peace.” Artest, 31, is a forward for the L.A. Lakers basketball team and he said that his new name, which means “loving and kindness toward all”, in the Buddhist language, is meant to inspire youth.(Photo: AP/Mark J. Terrill, File)

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Black Man Identified as “Rogue” UBS Trader - On Friday, 31-year-old Kweku Adoboli, a UBS trader, was charged in London with fraud by abuse of position and false accounting in connection with his involvement with unauthorized trades that caused $2 billion in losses for the financial giant, UBS.(Photo: AP/Matt Dunham)

Photo By AP/Matt Dunham

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Violent Crime Fell Six Percent in 2010 - The number of violent crimes committed in the United States fell six percent in 2010, making it the fourth year-on-year decline, the FBI said Sept. 19. The report was compiled from data submitted to the FBI by more than 18,000 city, county, university and college, state and federal law enforcement agencies from around the nation.(Photo: REUTERS/Kyle Carter)

Photo By REUTERS/Kyle Carter

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Appeals Court Gets Arkansas Schools Desegregation Case - The federal Court of Appeals heard the decade-old fight over school integration in Arkansas on Monday, Sept.19. The dispute between the state and three school districts argues whether taxpayers should still have to fund desegregation efforts that have cost the state more than $1 billion.(Photo: REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson)

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Troy Davis Denied Clemency - Tuesday, the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles denied clemency for death row inmate Troy Davis, who was convicted in 1991 of murder in the shooting death of a Georgia police officer, Mark MacPhail. Davis will be executed Sept. 21 at 7pm EST. (Photo: AP/Georgia Department of Corrections File)