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Simeon Booker "After spending more than $700,000 to lobby for slot machines in the District of Cohimbia, reserving real estate for casinos, and collecting more than 20,000 signatures to conduct a referendum, Black promoters suddenly discovered that the U.S. Congress would not permit gambling in the nation's capital, the mecca of millions of tourists yearly visiting the historic shrines". Jet. FindArticles.com. 28 Dec, 2009. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1355/is_5_106/ai_n6153721/

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• Mandela pleads for AIDS funds in Africa
• Oprah Winfrey
• Hope springs eternal
• Beauty of the week
  by Guy Cardarelli
• Denzel Washington: 'The Manchurian Candidate': stars in remake of psychological thriller
  by Aldore D. Collier
• Standing in protest
• Straight from the heart
• Ebony Fashion Fair Grand Prize Drawing
• Having fun
• Actress Isabel Sanford, 86, starred as 'Weezie' on TV's 'The Jeffersons,' dies
• Mel Watt
  by Simeon Booker
• Bank of America named No. 1 lender to minority businesses
• When love calls
• Baby on the way
• Top 20 albums
• After spending more than $700,000 to lobby for slot machines in the District of Cohimbia, reserving real estate for casinos, and collecting more than 20,000 signatures to conduct a referendum, Black promoters suddenly discovered that the U.S. Congress wou
  by Simeon Booker
• First Black honoree
• Spike Lee explores sex, greed and politics in film 'She Hate Me'
• Makes me whole
• Look hot and stay cool this summer
• Credit poet Langston Hughes for the campaign slogan of Sen. John Kerry
  by Simeon Booker
• Five decades of bliss
• 'The Lincoln Financial Battle at the Bridges'
• The sex talk: when should you have it with your child?
• L.A.'s Shaq goes coast to coast; agrees to deal with Miami
• Alphonso Jackson
  by Simeon Booker
• New Jersey couple charged with starving adopted sons plead innocence
• Presidential pardon sought for late boxing champ Jack Johnson
• Back-to-school guide for teens
• Since its founding in 1976, the Black Caucus Spouses organization has provided more than $7 million in scholarships for needy students
  by Simeon Booker
• Hazel O'Leary named president of Fisk University
• This week in Black history
• Black living legends honored during 75th All-Star Game celebration
• 5 ways to work flex time into your schedule
• Exhange of ideas
• Establishing $1 and $2 million funds, respectively, for Hispanic and Black advertising on media outlets popular with the various minorities, Sen. John Kerry launched what could be the first such offensive at the neighborhood level
• Kobe stays with the Lakers
• Willie Griggs
• How to dress for fitness success
• Let's party!
• Rev. Charles Williams, President, Indiana Black Expo, dies
• 2004 Ad
• The Calvert Independent newspaper front-paged an article on Deborah Riley and her mom, Vivian W. Jones, finding historical treasures in a trunk at their rural Maryland home
• Cherish now and forever
• Meet my daughter
• Correction