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Imagine having an African-American president who talks openly and bluntly about race in America and the experience of being black -- a president who explains what it's like to get on an elevator with a white woman or concedes the ease with which he could be shot dead in another life just because of the color of his skin. 

That's something a lot of us have been waiting to see. We've wanted to see Barack Obama address the raw realities of race in personal terms -- not deliver one of his finely crafted speeches on the topic, as did during the 2008 campaign.

Financial markets, now heavily dependent on technology, need to be safeguarded against cyberattacks, natural disasters and the more prosaic scourge of human error that can cause massive disruptions, according to experts and a federal panel.

Employers don't want to look at the resumes of unemployed people. In fact, they don't even want those resumes sent to them.

Some employers will actually do whatever it takes — without doing anything illegal — to prevent the unemployed from applying for positions at their company.

Low-wage workers employed under federal concession and lease agreements went on strike at Union Station on Thursday, calling on President Obama to guarantee them a living wage and a voice on the job.

Re “The Decline of North Carolina” (editorial, July 10):

The attack on voting rights in North Carolina is a shameful attempt by the state’s politicians to curtail access to the ballot, in ways devised particularly to discourage voting by African-Americans.

In 1971, Alaskan Senator Mike Gravel assisted Daniel Ellsberg by including the Pentagon Papers in the public record, putting himself at risk of indictment. In the subsequent case Gravel_v._United_States, the Supreme Court held that Article I, Section 6 of the Constitution protected the senator from prosecution.

Without a doubt, the big banks should be broken up; the need is even more urgent than it was in 2007 or 2008. The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas – hardly an Occupy Wall Street affiliate – titled its 2011 Annual Report "Choosing the Road to Prosperity: Why We Must End Too Big to Fail – Now." 

The following is a published Letter to the Editor to the New York Times in response to their editorial "The Decline of North Carolina."

The attack on voting rights in North Carolina is a shameful attempt by the state’s politicians to curtail access to the ballot, in ways devised particularly to discourage voting by African-Americans.