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Melissa Harris-Perry Ginni Thomas's insistence that Anita Hill apologize is an apt metaphor for the long history of blaming black women for social ills.

Al Sharpton was in Cleveland recently for the ‘Get Out The Vote’ rally. He addresses the community about how important this midterm election is to the black community.

Bakari Kitwana speaks with author and journalist Herb Boyd about his fact-finding mission to Haiti early this month as part of an assessment delegation organized by the 15-year-old Haiti Support Project. Boyd, who also traveled to Haiti immediately after the earthquake and produced the documentary Cri De Coeur (Cry From the Heart) with filmmaker Eddie Harris, talks with NewsOne.com about the potential for the outbreak of cholera, the upcoming November 28th election, the still delayed $1.1 billion in reconstruction aid from the US, and the lack of progress he witness in Port-Au-Prince since his last visit in February.

Gary Younge It's not hard to understand why Americans want to forget all about Afghanistan. But remembering the war would demand a necessary reckoning.

As the 2010 midterm election season winds down, electoral politics experts agree that 18-29 year-old voters have a pivotal role to play on November 2nd. Anxiety among Democrats and Republicans concerning the way the political winds will blow the youth vote is crystallizing around the idea that over the last two years President Barack Obama did not fulfill his campaign commitments to the 14 million plus young voters so crucial to his 2008 victory. Last week, The Houston, Texas local Fox affiliate framed the question like this: “Youth Vote: Obama Boost or Backlash?” or as reporter Greg Googan put it, “Twenty-four recession-racked months later, the question now looms: Is it still ‘change’ young Americans can believe in?” When it comes to young voters, has the Obama Administration gone far enough?