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Congressional Leaders Invited To W.H. On Spending Cuts Deadline Day

Source: Dana Bash / CNN Congressional leaders have been invited to the White House on Friday–the day forced spending cuts are scheduled to start taking effect, two sources said Wednesday. A GOP aide told CNN that Republicans do not anticipate the meeting to be anything more than optics–an effort, the aide said, by President Barack Obama to [...]

TALK BACK: Should The GOP Embrace Gov. Chris Christie? (VIDEO)

Roland Martin, John Avlon, Ron Christie and Carol Costello discuss if the GOP should embrace Gov. Chris Christie.

Wealth Inequality Between Blacks And Whites Worsens

Source: Tami Luhby / CNN Money The wealth gap between blacks and whites has nearly tripled over the past 25 years, due largely to inequality in home ownership, income, education and inheritances, according to a new study by Brandeis University. That type of inequality can be a drag on economic growth for everyone, said Thomas [...]

Voting Rights Law Gets Supreme Court Challenge

Source: Mark Sherman / The Huffington Post WASHINGTON — The most potent weapon in fighting discrimination at the ballot box was before the Supreme Court on Wednesday in a case that weighs the nation’s enormous progress in civil rights against the need to continue to protect minority voters. The justices were hearing arguments in a [...]

WATCH: President Obama Helps Unveil Rosa Parks Statue

President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner unveiled a statue of Rosa Parks in a ceremony at the Capitol. Parks becomes the first black woman to be honored with a full-length statue in the Capitol’s Statuary Hall. (Feb. 27)

Rosa Parks Statue Set To Be Unveiled At Capitol

Source: Suzanne Gamboa / ABC News Rosa Parks is famous for her 1955 refusal to give up her seat on a city bus in Alabama to a white man, but there’s plenty about the rest of her experiences that she deliberately withheld from her family. While Parks and her husband, Raymond, were childless, her brother, the [...]

‘Negro’ Will No Longer Be Used On US Census Surveys

Source: AP / theGrio Census Bureau is dropping its use of the word “Negro” to describe black Americans in surveys. Instead of the term that came into use during the Jim Crow era of racial segregation, census forms will use the more modern labels “black” or “African-American”. The change will take effect next year when [...]

Gov. Chris Christie Not On CPAC’s Guest List

Source: Jim Acosta / CNN It’s considered a key speaking engagement for any Republican considering a bid for president, but one potential 2016 candidate didn’t get an invitation to this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference. Someone close to CPAC said Monday that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie wasn’t asked to attend by organizers of the [...]

Dennis Rodman Worms His Way Into North Korea

Source: AP / USA Today PYONGYANG, North Korea — Former NBA star Dennis Rodman brought his basketball skills and flamboyant style — tattoos, nose studs and all — on Tuesday to a country with possibly the world’s strictest dress code: North Korea. Arriving in Pyongyang, the American athlete and showman known as “The Worm” became [...]

LIVE VIDEO: President Obama Speaks On Sequester Impacts On Jobs And Middle Class Families

JOIN THE LIVE CHAT VISIT WHITEHOUSE.GOV President Obama Speaks on Sequester Impacts on Jobs and Middle Class Families