Black News from TheGrio - 3/24/10

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  Republicans in final drive to stall health reconciliation

  By theGrio

  6:47 PM on 03/24/2010

  VIDEO - Voting was expected to start late Wednesday on a full list of GOP amendments to a "sidecar" bill making changes Democrats agreed to in the main legislation already signed by Obama...

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  Three arrested as NC school board reverses busing plan

  By theGrio

  6:03 PM on 03/24/2010

  VIDEO - The school board in North Carolina's capital city narrowly agreed Tuesday to roll back a policy that buses students to achieve diversity...

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  House passes bill to fund infrastructure, tax cuts

  By theGrio

  5:40 PM on 03/24/2010

  WASHINGTON (AP) - Local governments would receive billions of dollars for construction projects and welfare programs in the latest in a series of election-year jobs bills Democrats are pushing in Congress...

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  Rev. Jackson: Health reform a boon for blacks

  By theGrio

  4:44 PM on 03/24/2010

  VIDEO - Jesse Jackson reacts to the National Urban League's the State of Black America report that was released today...

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  Fight over black trustee spills onto SC gridiron

  By theGrio

  4:08 PM on 03/24/2010

  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Black lawmakers are urging black football recruits to reconsider playing for the University of South Carolina because the school could lose its lone black trustee...

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  Banks on verge of losing student lending business

  By theGrio

  4:05 PM on 03/24/2010

  WASHINGTON (AP) - Industry lobbyists have watched helplessly as Democrats and the Obama administration this week appear on the verge of shifting student lending from private banks to the federal government....

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