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by Tony Romm
FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn on Tuesday said she believed her colleagues should hold public hearings on the proposed NBC-Comcast mega-merger.
At an event hosted by Free Press, Clyburn described field hearings as the only way for the "commission to interact and see up close how Americans feel" about the deal, which the FCC still must approve.
The Argonaut has received a commendation from the California Newspaper Publishers Association (CNPA) for an entry into the 2009 CNPA Better Newspapers Contest.
by Page Ivey
Graduates of a historically black college in Columbia, S.C., will need to use the same perseverance that got them through school to find a job in the sluggish economy, U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Los Angeles, told them Saturday.
by Roberta Rampton
Representative Barney Frank introduced legislation on Friday to extend the National Flood Insurance Program through September, which would give Congress more time to fix the troubled program.
by Robert J. Lopez
U.S. Rep Maxine Waters (D-Los Angeles) said Thursday that she has asked the Department of Justice to investigate the disappearance of a woman who was released in September from the Malibu/Lost Hills Sheriff's Station.
By Ira Teinowitz
Forty-six congressmen -- many from the Congressional Black Caucus and from the Congressional Hispanic Caucus – Thursday night called on the Federal Communications Commission to hold off approving Comcast's deal for NBC Universal until a series of public hearings can be scheduled.
George Vashon broke many barriers as a black man in the 1800s. He was the first black to graduate from Oberlin College, the first black lawyer in New York state and the first professor at Howard University. But there was one barrier he could not break — obtaining a law license in his home state of Pennsylvania, where his application was twice rejected because of his skin color.