Sitting in a leaky, flyblown hut, a few dozen Ethiopian villagers are anxiously waiting to be transported to another world.... with what is probably the last wave of Ethiopian immigrants to Israel....

Arts Gumbo 2008 opens at the Rainier Valley Cultural Center at 6 p.m.  Wednesday, Aug. 27 with a Free World Music Festival at Columbia Park. Entertainers include Red Eagle Soaring... International Capoeira Angola Foundation; Abr"ce; Adefua Cultural Education Workshop ... and Global Heat....

Parents, educators and childcare providers should mark their calendars for an upcoming series of early literacy programs at The Seattle Public Library.... free and open to the public...

The Girls Rock! Program, now accepting signups for fall, combines self-esteem building with mountaineering, mentoring and performing arts, right in urban Seattle....

Rising fuel prices and an economic downturn have caused a record number of suburban residents to use Metro buses....

In order to bring peace to the community and stop youth violence, the Freedom Church, Village of Hope and the People's Institute Northwest are gathering before sunrise on Saturday for the pre-dawn Maafa Commemoration...

Ohio's first Black Congressional Representative is reportedly in critical condition after suffering a brain hemorrhage on Wednesday ... According to news reports, she has very limited brain function....

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DENVER (AP) Democrat Barack Obama got what he may need most when he chose Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware as his running mate â€' a vice presidential candidate with encyclopedic foreign policy know-how and a political brawler ready to take on Republican John McCain's frontal assault on his opponent's newness on the national stage.
Through the month of August - in the days leading up to the national party conventions - McCain whittled away at Obama's slight lead in the polls with relentless attacks designed to paint the first-term Illinois senator as an inexperienced celebrity-seeking elitist not ready for the White House.
While the 47-year-old Obama fought back blow-for-blow and even adopted some negative tactics himself, his campaign has not adopted the kind of visceral sharpness he is facing from McCain's operation.
It will be hard to imagine Biden, who is 65, being as low-key as was Obama after McCain charged his opponent this summer with being ready to lose the Iraq war for the sake of winning the presidential election. Obama has sought, as he can, to moderate his responses - some say to avoid looking like an angry black man in an election contest that could put the first African American in the U.S. presidency. ...

WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Despite record numbers of voters who turned out during the presidential primaries last spring, eight million African-Americans are still not registered to vote.
This according to Rick Wade, African-American vote director for the Obama for America presidential campaign.
"Our principle focus has been a 50-state voter registration initiative. I think we all appreciate that if we increase the number of African-American registered voters and then increase turnout and get people to the polls on Nov. 4, then Sen. Obama will be the next president of the United States," Wade says.
Wade explains that the eight million unregistered Black voters accounts for 32 percent of eligible Black voting population nationwide....