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Obama Visits Memphis - On Monday, President Obama visited flood-ravaged Memphis, meeting privately with residents directly affected by the devastation. “We’re there for you, and we’re grateful for your resilience,” he told them during the meeting. Afterwards he delivered the commencement address at Booker T. Washington High school, who, last week, was named winner of the 2011 White House’s Race to the Top Commencement Challenge.(Photo: AP Photo/Mark Humphrey) 

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Michelle Obama Speaks at Spelman College - First lady Michelle Obama delivered an inspiring commencement speech at Atlanta HBCU Spelman College. “Find those folks who have so much potential but so little opportunity and do for them what Spelman has done for you," she said in front of the crowd of 10,000.(Photo: AP Photo/Erik S. Lesser)

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Blues Singer Etta James Hospitalized - Blues singer Etta James, 73, is in a Southern California hospital with a potentially deadly infection. Her son, Sametto James, tells the Riverside Press-Enterprise that his mother was admitted to an undisclosed hospital earlier this week for treatment of sepsis caused by a urinary tract infection.(Photo: AP Photo/Matt Sayles, File)

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Free, Inexpensive Tests=More Black Teens Getting Tested - Black teens offered free or low-cost fast HIV testing are more willing to get tested, according to a study from the Bradley Hasbro Children’s Research Center in Providence, Rhode Island.  The study surveyed 81 youths between 15 and 21 and found that overall, 53 percent of teens accepted the free HIV test, with African-American teens more likely to agree to test compared to Latino youth (75 percent vs. 39 percent).(Photo: Micheal Kleinfeld/ Landov)

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Kwame Kilpatrick Goes Before Parole Board - Disgraced former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who is serving an 18-month, five-year probation-violation sentence, pleaded for his release in front of a parole board Thursday. Kilpatrick, whose troubles began a few years ago when steamy text messages sent to his mistress were made public, could learn of his fate this week.(Photo: Daniel Mears / The Detroit News)

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Former NFL Running Back Ron Springs Dies - Ron Springs, an ex-Dallas Cowboy running back who had been in a coma since he lost consciousness during a 2007 operation, died on Thursday at age 54. The former Grambling University star played for the Cowboys from 1981 to 1985.(Photo: AP Photo/File)

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President Meets With the CBC - On Thursday, members of the Congressional Black Caucus met with President Obama, urging him to focus on creating more jobs in urban communities. Last month the unemployment rate for Blacks surpassed 16 percent, the largest unemployment rate for any race.(Photo: AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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Obama’s Approval Hits Record High - An Associated Press/GfK poll taken after U.S. forces killed Osama bin Laden yielded the highest approval rating President Obama has received in two years. Sixty percent of Americans said in the survey that he deserves to be re-elected and 73 percent said that they feel confident about his ability to handle terrorist threats.(Photo: AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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Bishop Long’s Case May Be Headed to Trial -  It looks like the sexual misconduct lawsuit brought against Bishop Eddie Long by four young men could be headed to trial. On Thursday, the judge handling the case said he’s prepping for a trial in August or September of this year. Long had wanted a settlement to be handled quietly. (AP Photo/Gene Blythe, File)

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Are Menthol Cigarettes Losing Their Cool? - Menthol cigarettes, popular in the Black community, may be losing their appeal according to a new study. The report, released in the American Journal of Public Health, shows that 83 percent of Blacks and the majority of Americans want to ban the addictive cigarettes.(Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

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Ex-Michigan NBA Star Dead - Robert “Tractor” Traylor, former NBA player and Michigan center, was found dead Wednesday. He was 34. The official cause of death is still not known, but the belief is Traylor died of a heart attack while in his San Juan, Puerto Rico, ocean apartment.(Photo: AP Photo/Tom Pidgeon)

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Jenny Craig Is Top Diet Plan - Singer Jennifer Hudson may have had remarkable success with Weight Watchers, but it still comes in third place after the No. 2 ranked Slim-Fast and No. 1 ranked Jenny Craig diet plans, according to Consumer Reports Health. The report stated that in a 332-person, two-year study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, 92 percent of participants stayed with the Jenny Craig plan for two years. (Photo: Michael Loccisano/Getty Images for Jenny Craig)

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Common Performs at the White House - Despite the complaints of critics – some of whom referred to him as a “vile” rapper – Chicago MC Common performed at the White House Wednesday during “An Evening of Poetry” that the Obamas hosted to celebrate American poetry and prose. (Photo: J.D. Pooley/Getty Images)

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Newt Gingrich is Definitely Running for President - On Tuesday, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich announced his plan to run for president. In a two-minute video, he recalled is previous work on Capitol Hill, saying that when he was House Speaker, he worked to control spending, reduce unemployment, cut taxes and balance the federal budget. “We’ve done it before, we can do it again,” said Gingrich, who also announced his intentions via Twitter.(Photo: AP Photo/David Goldman, File)