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One year people around my age woke up and discovered that the “holiday season” of Christmas and New Year’s Dah became a trio, with the addition of something called Kwanzaa. Oh sure, there were rumblings of a new holiday. This new “holiday” raises the question, why is a day invented in 1966 by a rapist who ran a Black separatist group considered by some as a holiday on par with Christmas or New Year’s. Kwanza begins the day after Christmas, December 26th, and ends on January 1st. Part of the tradition of the 1sti observed by many Americans is drinking...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Rep. Harold Ford on Friday threw his name into the mix of Democrats vying to succeed House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt in the wake of the party's election losses. "I recognize that I am an underdog because I'm starting out late," said Ford. But the Tennessee Democrat also said "there's a real yearning and a real appetite for change in the party." Ford made the announcement in an interview Friday morning on the nationally syndicated Don Imus morning radio show. Two other House veterans, Reps. Nancy Pelosi and Martin Frost, had jumped into the race Thursday and...