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Health Care Tops Obama's Domestic Agenda

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President Obama shares a humorous moment with a group of doctors from around the country in the Oval Office, Oct. 5, 2009, prior to a health insurance reform event at the White House. Members of the Trotter Group offer thoughts on the health care debate and the protests against Obama's domestic program that protesters denounced as big government.
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Trotter Group Remembers John Hope Franklin
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The Obama Era Begins
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The Roland Burris Controversy
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Trotter Members Hear from Obama Team
After Historic Election
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Trotter Group interviews candidates
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in 2007
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Trotter Group remembers John H. Johnson
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“Black Voices in Commentary:
The Trotter Group”
[$15.95, August Press, November 2006, ISBN 0-9635720-9-1]
is 23 black columnists on subjects ranging from politics to Barney Fife.
The diversity of their voices is exhibited in a collection of their columns from the end of 2005 through the first half of 2006.
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About the Trotter Group:
Columnists who 'can and will think black'
By DeWayne Wickham
The idea that a group of black columnists would come together to share our common experience and probe the soft underbelly of our craft is something Les Payne and I kicked around for several years. Whenever an event in the news struck our interest, or pricked our consciences, we'd talk about the need to bring a group of us together.
But given the many daily pressures that come with our jobs, it was painfully easy to let such a grand plan fall by the wayside. It always seemed to lack the immediacy that compels journalists to action.
Two things happened to change that.

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