Competing rallies have been held in Washington on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s I Have a Dream speech, offering different visions for America's future. Hundreds of thousands of people attended the bigger protest, a conservative rally on

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Writer Dorothy West: Last Living Member of Harlem Renaissance Written by Doreen Baingana (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: I'm Shirley Griffith. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember with the Special English Program, PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Every week, we tell about a person w

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By Lisa Bryant Paris 03 January 2006 The French government has decided to lift a state of emergency imposed two months ago, when riots and arson attacks swept across France. The situation has calmed,

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Former U.S. Senator Jesse Helms, a conservative icon and opponent of U.S. foreign aid, died Friday at the age of 86. A spokesman says the former lawmaker died of natural causes in his home state of North Carolina. VOA's Kent Klein reports from Washi

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By Phuong Tran Dodel, Senegal 18 March 2007 During the final campaign week in Mauritania's second round of the presidential election, two white Arab candidates are trying to court the sizable black vote in a country long divided by color and ethnici

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AS IT IS 2013-07-06 Arab-Israeli Singer Follows Her Passion Hello again and welcome to As It Is! your daily magazine show from VOA Learning English. Im June Simms. The Arab-Israeli singer-songwriter Mira Awad is well known in Europe and the Middle Ea

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By Suzanne Chislett London 22 January 2008 When people are asked to picture Africa, they often speak of famine, war, deserts and jungles. Now a touring stage show in Britain is trying to shake up those ideas and reveal an entirely different side of t

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Killing of Unarmed Black Teenager in Florida Sparks Racial Tensions The U.S. Justice Department is investigating possible hate crime charges in connection to a fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white neighborhood watch leader in the so

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Third Great Migration Might be in Progress In the early 20th Century, more than two million African-Americans left their homes and small farms in the South and moved to northern industrial cities to escape overt racism and search for better work and

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US Fighter Pilot Draws Inspiration From Tuskegee Airmen The exploits of the Tuskegee Airmen, an all black fighter squadron, went largely unnoticed during and after World War II. The information about the pilots in the news was a big secret as far as

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: African-American women are more likely to lose a baby in the first year of life than women of any other race or ethnicity. Doctors and researchers have been trying to understand what makes black infants so vulnerable, and now they

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Millions of people have tried online dating or at least thought about it. Almost one third of Americans who have never been married have gone on dating apps or dating sites, according to the Pew Research Center. And a recent stud

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Tough Love: Kwame Alexander Remembers Tupac play pause stop mute unmute max volume 00:0000:00repeat repeat off Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin. RACHEL MARTI

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: I've got a stack of books here. (SOUNDBITE OF BOOK PAGES FLIPPING) INSKEEP: Stack of books sent to me by librarian Nancy Pearl, who's in Seattle, Wash., joins the program from time to time to suggest books that are under the rada

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State Department officials say they are still skeptical about whether a U.N.-sponsored conference against racism set for April in Geneva can be a constructive exercise. The United States walked out of the initial conference on the subject in South Af

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By Bill Gasperini Moscow 13 April 2006 Russian police have arrested a suspect in the killing of a student from Senegal last week - the latest in a series of attacks against foreigners and dark-skinned

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Africans, like many people around the world, are watching with great interest as the United States prepares to choose its next president. Correspondent Scott Bobb has this sampling of what some on the continent are thinking about the election and wh

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Several dozen members of a hardline Islamic group held a demonstration outside the Dutch embassy in Jakarta to protest a film made by a right-wing Dutch lawmaker that accuses the Koran of inciting violence. 一个强硬派伊斯兰组织的几十名成

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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The new book Genesis Begins Again is about a 13-year-old African-American girl who dreams of having smooth hair and skin many shades closer to her light-skinned mother and grandmother. Genesis says a prayer every night - Lord, turn

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: At least half a dozen Democrats interested in the 2020 presidential nomination are speaking today at events commemorating the Martin Luther King holiday. NPR's Asma Khalid reports that this is really a reminder of how important bl

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