Group pressures Jindal to commute 13-year sentence of man convicted of having two joints
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By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA News Wire Columnist In the aftermath of the Paris massacre and, later, the San Bernardino massacre, I have found myself wondering about the responses that we are ... Leaders provide vision, not division
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By Marc H. Morial President and CEO, National Urban League The 2016 Presidential election still is more than 10 months off, but already it promises to serve as a referendum on ...
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