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1. Hillary Clinton wins a landslide victory by almost thirty percentage points in the West Virginia primary, keeping her campaign alive. The New York Times reports the victory was marred by racial undercurrents.
2. The New York Times goes on to examine various reactions, noting that Obama might lose 15 to 20 percent of the vote in crucial swing states just because of his color.
3. One of the stories quoted in that piece is from the Washington Post, detailing racist incidents directed at the Obama campaign by some voters, incidents that the mainstream press had previously not focused on.
4. The Black superdelegates who’ve committed to supporting Clinton are standing firm, says Black America Web, in spite of repeated efforts to get them to switch their votes to Barack Obama.
5. The Seattle Times reports, however, that Obama has made up the deficit in superdelegates that was troubling his campaign. Most superdelegates, though, are yet to make up their mind.
6. In an interview, Barack Obama repeats “commitment” to the state of Israel, and regretted any “divisions” between Jews and African-Americans, according to the Associated Press. On Jewish history, he said that he felt empathy “because it speaks to my history of being uprooted, it speaks to the African-American story of exodus.”
7. A new bill restricting flavored tobacco products leaves menthol cigarettes out, claiming that menthol is not a flavor. The Los Angeles Times says that the real reason is that big tobacco companies are concerned that it would cut into sales to African-Americans.
8. South African Nobel Prize laureate Desmond Tutu tells the Chicago Tribune that Americans cannot talk honestly about race, and until they do, any notion of equality will always be an “illusion”.
9. New Orleans’ cultural recovery continues, as the Times-Picayune discusses a new exhibition of portraiture by two well-known photographers of life and art in the city.
10. Choreographer Reggie Wilson’s latest work, a collaboration with a Congolese dancer, is reviewed by the New York Times.The review says that his work, as always, seems to “enlarge the meanings of the term African-American.”