BET and TV One, the television networks aimed primarily at a black audience, haven't paid much attention to presidential inaugurations before. This time will be different. Both are planning extensive coverage for Jan. 20, when Barack Obama is sworn in as the nation's 44th president. [Read
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Emmy-Winning
Singer Eartha Kitt Dies At 81 of Colon Cancer
Eartha
Kitt, the self-proclaimed "sex kitten" whose
sultry voice and catlike purr attracted fans even as
she neared 80, has died. The singer, dancer and actress
was 81. Family spokesman Andrew Freedman said Kitt,
who was recently treated at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital,
died in Connecticut of colon cancer. [Read
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Ga.
Black Colleges Merger Idea Stirs Resistance
Public
colleges created during segregation to provide
blacks an education denied to them by white
institutions are at the center of a budget battle
brewing in Georgia. Facing a $2 billion shortfall,
a Republican state senator has proposed merging
two of the historically black schools with nearby
predominantly white colleges to save money and,
in the process he says, erase a vestige of Jim
Crow-era segregation. [Read
More]
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BET and TV One, the television networks aimed primarily at a black audience, haven't paid much attention to presidential inaugurations before. This time will be different. Both are planning extensive coverage for Jan. 20, when Barack Obama is sworn in as the nation's 44th president. 
Eartha
Kitt, the self-proclaimed "sex kitten" whose
sultry voice and catlike purr attracted fans even as
she neared 80, has died. The singer, dancer and actress
was 81. Family spokesman Andrew Freedman said Kitt,
who was recently treated at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital,
died in Connecticut of colon cancer. 
Public
colleges created during segregation to provide
blacks an education denied to them by white
institutions are at the center of a budget battle
brewing in Georgia. Facing a $2 billion shortfall,
a Republican state senator has proposed merging
two of the historically black schools with nearby
predominantly white colleges to save money and,
in the process he says, erase a vestige of Jim
Crow-era segregation. 
