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Special Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Invite From NYC Parks Service’s Larry Scott Blackman (Update)

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Dear Friends,

The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service is a part of United We Serve, the President’s national call to service initiative. It calls for Americans from all walks of life to work together to provide solutions to our most pressing national problems. Continue reading

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Supreme Court Got It Wrong?

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After our The Danny Tisdale Show last week where we discussed the (not to) Supreme Courts decision to open the flood gates for money spent directly from their general funds to influence campaigns, with Dr. Linda Rock regarding her Gloria Browne-Marshall Read-In event at St. Philips, then we saw this article:

Much has been made of late about the hyper-partisan political environment in America. On Tuesday, Sen. Evan Bayh explained his surprising recent decision to leave the Senate by lamenting a “dysfunctional” political system riddled with “brain-dead partisanship.”  Continue reading

Are Harlemites Less Religious?

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By RACHEL ZOLL, AP Religion Writer

A wide-ranging study on American religious life found that the Roman Catholic population has been shifting out o of the Northeast to the Southwest, the percentage of Christians in the nation has declined and more people say they have no religion at all.

Fifteen percent of respondents said they had no religion, an increase from 14.2 percent in 2001 and 8.2 percent in 1990, according to the American Religious Identification Survey.

Northern New England surpassed the Pacific Northwest as the least religious region, with Vermont reporting the highest share of those claiming no religion, at 34 percent. Still, the study found that the numbers of Americans with no religion rose in every state.

Survey results:
http://www.americanreligionsurvey-aris.org/

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