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The NAACP has named a woman as its interim President. Lorraine C. Miller will fill the role as the organization continues its search for a successor for Benjamin Jealous. Jealous will step down at the end of the year to spend more time with his family.

A Ku Klux Klan chapter in Florida is protesting a community effort to change that name of Nathan Bedford Forrest High School in Jacksonville. Forrest was a Confederate general who helped found the hate group.

For now, the government shutdown is over. President Obama signed a bill ending the 16 day partial shutdown of the country’s government. The bill also temporarily raises the debt ceiling.

The Supreme Court is currently evaluating the University of Michigan’s current ban on affirmative action, and most of the justices appear to agree that it should be upheld. Several of them expressed doubts that the constitutional amendment violates minorities’ equal protection rights.

Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst is at the head of a group of GOP leaders meeting to impeach President Obama. The U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya and the national healthcare law are some of the issues Dewhurst is bringing to the forefront of the impeachment talks.

Parents at a Pittsburgh high school were upset at an approved school theme in honor of Trayvon Martin. The Carrick High School homecoming committee and school voted to allow the theme as part of the school’s spirit week.

The family of Olympic track and field legend Jesse Owens is one step closer in their fight to once again rename a Chicago school after him. The building had been named after Owens since 1980, and the family called the change “disrespectful.”

President Barack Obama has invited congressional leaders to the White House to discuss reopening the government. The country is currently in its second day of a government shutdown as a result of a stalemate over a spending measure that funds the government and provisions in Obamacare.

Congress failed to come to a resolution on whether or not to raise the nation’s debt-ceiling and as a result, we are now in day 1 of the government shutdown. Both legislative bodies claimed to be standing up for the rights of the people as they staunchly defended their political agendas. The shutdown means that 800,000 Americans will not get paid. The measure could cost the U.S. economy about $1 billion a week.

Congress has until Monday to pass new debt-ceiling limits. If the legislative bodies do not reach an agreement, the federal government will partially shut down. Republicans are stalling on the debt ceiling vote to force a one-year delay in the implementation of Obamacare.

Parents of the Coatesville Area School District are demanding that two top administrators be fired after racist texts have surfaced. In a series of texts messages, Superintendent Richard Como and high school athletic director Jim Donato referred to students and faculty with the n-word. The two officials also used demeaning language to describe Jewish people, women and other minorities in the exchange of more than a dozen messages.

The U.S. House of Representatives approved a Republican proposed plan to cut food stamps by $39 billion.
The cuts will take place over the next decade and will affect close to 48 million Americans.