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President Barack Obama gestures as he speaks during the Morehouse College 129th Commencement ceremony, Sunday, May 19, 2013, in Atlanta.
President Barack Obama gestures as he speaks during the Morehouse College 129th Commencement ceremony, Sunday, May 19, 2013, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Obama Exhorts Good Deeds by Morehouse Graduates
Originally published May 19, 2013

ATLANTA (AP) President Barack Obama, in a soaring commencement address on work, sacrifice and opportunity, on Sunday told graduates of historically Black Morehouse College to seize the power of their example as Black men graduating from college and use it to improve people's lives.more More Arrow
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by Associated Press
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Dr. Kermit Gosnell is escorted to a waiting police van upon leaving the Criminal Justice Center in Philadelphia, Monday, May 13, 2013, after being convicted of first-degree murder in the deaths of three babies who were delivered alive and then killed with scissors at his clinic. Photo/Philadelphia Daily News, Yong Kim
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Detroit Mayor Dave Bing speaks during a news conference in Detroit, Tuesday, May 14, 2013. Bing announced he won't seek a second term as leader of the financially troubled city, which recently became the largest in the country placed under state oversight.
Dave Bing Won't Seek Re-election as Detroit Mayor
by Corey Williams
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First lady Michelle Obama arrives at an event in honor of military mothers in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, May 9, 2013.
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by Associated Press
May 09, 2013 - WASHINGTON— Michelle Obama and military mothers had high tea like the British on May 9.more More Arrow

Social Security Changes Could Hurt Blacks Most
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The White House, Washington, D.C.
White House Correspondents’ Dinner
by AFRO Staff
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In this Sept. 4, 2012 file photo, Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx addresses the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. President Barack Obama on Monday will nominate Foxx as his new transportation secretary, a White House official said Sunday, April 28, 2013.
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In this photo taken April 23, 2013, Lauren Howie, 27, poses outside the School of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. America's blacks voted at a higher rate than other minority groups in 2012 and by most measures surpassed the white turnout for the first time, reflecting a deeply polarized presidential election in which blacks strongly supported Barack Obama while many whites stayed home. In Ohio, a battleground state where the share of eligible black voters is more than triple that of other minorities, Howie of Cleveland didn’t start out thrilled with Obama in 2012. She felt he didn't deliver on promises to help students reduce college debt, promote women's rights and address climate change, she said. But she became determined to support Obama as she compared him with Romney.
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