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One night after President Barack Obama's first second-term State of the Union address, Detroit Mayor Dave Bing has something to say to his residents. Bing's fourth State of the City address since taking office focused on the positives while still calling for immediate action to handle the city's most pressing concerns. Speaking...

<div class="cnn_share_links">Editor’s note: Watch “Mozambique or Bust” on CNN International: Friday, February 15 at 1630 GMT, Saturday Feb. 16 at 1400 GMT and 2130 GMT, and repeats Sunday until Wednesday.Denver, Colorado (CNN) – Tashina was trafficked for sex when she was 15-years-old. Ofelia, when she was 12.Tashina finds it helpful to talk...

Valentine's Day is tomorrow and you are looking for new ideas to celebrate the day of love and impress your date. Dinner and movie is unimaginative, and with movie prices being $10 a pop $12-$13 for 3D films, it's expensive. So we have compiled a list of fun ideas to do around Detroit. 1. Ice skating at Campus Martius. Campus...

Page 1 of 9Valentine's Day is tomorrow and that means it's time to celebrate love! Here's a look at ten steamy, sexy and romantic films that celebrate black love. Are your favorites on the list?Carmen Jones ...

It’s only officially winter for three months, but it can feel like forever. It’s barely winter when Christmas happens and you’re dreaming of a white Christmas. After that, it’s just Jack Frost nipping nose at your nose and freezing the locks on your car door. The bitter cold, the lack of sunshine…the snow, can make it very hard to stay bubbly until...

It was just one year ago that the music world lost one of it’s most precious gems on the eve of it’s biggest night. Whitney Houston is inarguably one of the larger than life figures to define American culture, and not just its sound. She is part of the pattern that weaves the voice of our time. Many of us will one day look back...

Page 1 of 10 Depression can happen to anyone regardless of their position in life. It is a real condition that people should seek help for, just as an individual suffering from cancer would. Here's a list of ten celebrities who suffer or suffered from depression. Andre Waters--Former NFL Player--committed suicide. ...

The Pinellas County Democratic Party headquarters on Nov. 6, 2012 in St. Petersburg, Fla. The leader of a Democratic data-selling group says that Democrats really never intended to sell the party’s deep collection of voter information to for-profit companies. (Edward Linsmier/Getty Images)"While such a sale is certainly a hypothetical possibility,...

(PROPUBLICA) After Hurricane Katrina, a private fair housing group and the federal government used the disparate impact standard to challenge policies in the predominantly white St. Bernard's Parish, La., that prohibited residents from renting to anyone who was not a "blood relative." (File photo, Mario Tama/Getty Images)UPDATE: The U.S....

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