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More Families Are Becoming Homeless
Louis Gill doesn't like to turn anyone away. The director of the Bakersfield Homeless Center in California has taken to laying out cots and mattresses between the shelter's 174 registered beds to cope with the rush of homeless families brought to his doors by the financial crisis.
(By Alexi Mostrous, The Washington Post)

100 Years Old, NAACP Debates Its Current Role
NEW YORK -- In the beginning, the purpose of the nation's oldest civil rights organization was well defined: to achieve equal justice under the law for black Americans.
(By Krissah Thompson, The Washington Post)

Obama's Message: 'Africa's Future Is Up to Africans'
ACCRA, Ghana, July 11 -- President Obama, making his first visit to sub-Saharan Africa since taking office, called on people of the oft-troubled continent Saturday to seize control of their future by building strong, democratic institutions and eliminating corruption.
(By Michael A. Fletcher and Karin Brulliard, The Washington Post)