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<td>February 10, 2011 <a href="http://colorlines.com/" target="_blank">Colorlines.com</a> Direct | Published by the Applied Research Center</td>
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<p>Akiba Solomon, Colorlines.com&#8217;s new gender blogger, looks at how a new scientific victory could transform women&#8217;s lives.</p>
<p>Also: Ongoing Coverage of <a id="yiv111634020ct2_0" rel="nofollow" href="http://act.colorlines.com/acton/ct/1069/s-0041-1102/Bct/q-0014/l-sf-cl-70140000000T6DHAA0-000f:35cb/ct2_0/1" target="_blank">HIV/AIDS at 30.</a></td>
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<td width="73%" valign="top">Miriam Zoila Pérez says the real anti-abortion battle is happening at the state level. In all cases, women of color lose the most.</td>
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<td height="36">Also: <a id="yiv111634020ct4_0" rel="nofollow" href="http://act.colorlines.com/acton/ct/1069/s-0041-1102/Bct/q-0014/l-sf-cl-70140000000T6DHAA0-000f:35cb/ct4_0/1" target="_blank">Planned Parenthood Hit in ACORN-Style Sting</a></td>
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<td valign="top">Dom Apollon explains what a buzz-making New York Times story left out.</td>
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<td height="63" valign="top"><strong><a id="yiv111634020ct10_0" rel="nofollow" href="http://act.colorlines.com/acton/ct/1069/s-0041-1102/Bct/q-0014/l-sf-cl-70140000000T6DHAA0-000f:35cb/ct10_0/1" target="_blank">Nobody&#8217;s Smiling About the Pepsi MAX &#8220;Angry Black Woman&#8221; Ad </a></strong><a id="yiv111634020ct11_0" rel="nofollow" href="http://act.colorlines.com/acton/ct/1069/s-0041-1102/Bct/q-0014/l-sf-cl-70140000000T6DHAA0-000f:35cb/ct11_0/1" target="_blank"><br />
</a>The Pepsi ad was meant to be funny; the black blogesphere says, &#8220;Not so much.&#8221;<a id="yiv111634020ct12_0" rel="nofollow" href="http://act.colorlines.com/acton/ct/1069/s-0041-1102/Bct/q-0014/l-sf-cl-70140000000T6DHAA0-000f:35cb/ct12_0/1" target="_blank"><strong>Media Declares Race War in Halle Berry&#8217;s Custody Battle<br />
</strong></a>The actress cites the one-drop rule, saying that her toddler daughter is black. The daughter&#8217;s father, who&#8217;s white, disagrees.</p>
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</strong>Activists claim victory in the city&#8217;s move to approve a third fewer beds in new facility.</p>
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Maria Sanchez has a banana-sized tumor in her back. But that didn&#8217;t stop a Texas hospital from giving her the boot because of her legal status.</p>
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