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Former Kansas senator Bob Dole was honored at the Hubert H. Humphrey Civil and Human Rights Award ( civilrights.org ) dinner Wednesday night. Senator Bob Dole, awarded for his role in civil and human rights.  Photo CD Brown. Dole is also known for championing the rights of the disadvantaged and the disabled.  He spent thirty-five years in Congress beginning in 1960 and was chairman of the Republican National Committee from 1971 to 1972. Dole, 92, holds the record as the nation's longest serving Republican leader.  He is also known for his role and accomplishments in health care, foreign affairs and deficit reduction. Also honored was former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. Holder was the 82nd, and first African American attorney general serving under the first African American U.S. president Barack Obama, since 2009.  Holder came under fire for his stance on  Benghazi , the  Ferguson investigation  and as of late, the so-called  war on...

President Obama, in an effort to extend his initiative to assist young men of color with opportunities, announces his My Brother's Keeper Alliance.  The Alliance  is a new nonprofit organization of private sector organizations and companies that have committed themselves to  opening doors for young people. Using his familiar 'no matter who, where, what, how' mantra, the president reiterated to a group of your men of color that, " if you work hard, if you take responsibility, America is the place where you can make something of your lives", said the president. Adding, "We do strive to guarantee an equal shot for everybody who's willing to work for it." The Alliance announcement comes on the heels of recent riots in Baltimore after a young, unarmed Freddie Gray, 25, died at the hands of cops who shackled him like an animal and put him in a police van, unrestrained. Gray sustained a spinal injury, paralyzing him from the neck down.  He later die...