latimes.com - 11/5/2008
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Baines is the world's oldest person of African descent, according to the Gerontology Research Group, which validates claims of extreme old age. She is the third-oldest person in the world, and the second-oldest in the United States after Edna Parker of Indiana, who is 115. When Baines was born, ...
mypetjawa.mu.nu - 11/7/2008
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mypetjawa.mu.nu —
President elect Obama's new government website has a
section titled "America Serves" Obama will call on citizens...
of all ages to serve America, by developing a plan to require 50 hours of community service in middle school and high school...
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"America Serves", The New "Slaves"?
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A Change
The Republic of T. —
... I thought of Gertrude Baines, a 114-year-old daughter of former slaves who cast her vote for Barack Obama in this election. I thought of Ann Nixon Cooper, the 106-year-old daughter of former slaves Obama mentioned in his speech last night, and who also cast her vote for him. I thought of all they’d seen — all under the same unchanged sky I gazed upon last night — and how they’d seen the day they likely never thought they would. ...
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... I thought of Gertrude Baines, a 114-year-old daughter of former slaves who cast her vote for Barack Obama in this election. I thought of ...
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