Rapper Ludacris: Our Communities Need Fixing

At a luncheon at the National Press Club Friday afternoon, multi-platinum selling artist and actor Christopher ‘Ludacris' Bridges speaks about the importance of community members taking an active role in public policy issues. (0:40)
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ACORN Is Cleaning House Says CEO

Bertha Lewis, CEO of ACORN defends the community outreach organization, Tuesday at a the National Press Club. Lewis says ACORN has internally restructured to prevent future discrepancies. ACORN has recently been abandoned by several political supporters after allegations of financial mismanagement and fraud. (0:35)

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Film Makers Broke The Law, Says ACORN CEO

Bertha Lewis, CEO of ACORN, defends the community outreach organization, Tuesday at a the National Press club. Lewis says film makers defrauded ACORN to make the embarrassing widely circulated videotape that showed workers at ACORN offering advice to two activists posing as a pimp and a prostitute. (0:28)

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ACORN CEO: Denial Of Funds Unconstitutional

Bertha Lewis, CEO of the community outreach organization ACORN, responds to the vote from Congress to deny funding from the organization, calling the move unconstitutional. (0:23)
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"Open to being Vice President," Reverend Wright says

At the National Press Club Breakfast, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, in response to a question about things that he has said, he says he means that as a Christian, he understands forgiveness, and politicians says what they say and do what they do, based on electability and soundbites. Preachers say what they say because they are pastors, and he has to be accountable to God, and “I am not running for office, but I am open to being Vice President.” (0:52)


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As for HIV, our government is capable of anything, Rev. Wright says

At the National Press Club Breakfast, in response to a question on whether or not he really believes that HIV was deliberately created, Reverend Jeremiah Wright says based on what has happened to African Americans in this country, he believes our government is capable of anything. We sold Hussein biological weapons, and anytime you can do that, yes, I believe we are capable. (0:38)


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I'm not unpatriotic, says Reverend Wright

At the National Press Club Breakfast, Reverend Jeremiah Wright says that he is the pastor of Senator Barack Obama, not his “spiritual mentor.” It’s about policy, not the American people, and that it is Biblical that God condemns, or damns, certain things. This does not make me unpatriotic. (0:52)


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