DailyMail.com--A United Airlines flight from Nashville to Houston was forced to turn around on Sunday after a 43-year-old woman threatened another passenger who asked her to turn her cell phone off.
Lashonda Lee Williams, 43, is alleged to have to ...
Posted Sunday, June 8th 2014 at 6:19PM
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LAS VEGAS--At least three people have been killed in a mass shooting inside Walmart at North Nellis and Stewart in Las Vegas, Local media reported.
According to KTNV, two police officers were said to have been shot at a local CiCi’s pizza in the s ...
Posted Sunday, June 8th 2014 at 6:10PM
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From SocialistWorker.org
June 6, 2014
When will James Earl Rivera Jr. get justice?
Just one day before his 17th birthday, on July 22, 2010, James Earl Rivera Jr. died in a hail of 48 rounds fired by three Stockton, Calif., police officers afte ...
Posted Friday, June 6th 2014 at 11:53AM
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WASHINGTON--Seating will be limited for Maya Angelou’s private memorial service at the campus of Wake Forest University on Saturday, officials said. But in another sense, the entire world has been invited — the proceedings will be live-streamed, the ...
Posted Thursday, June 5th 2014 at 12:10PM
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June 2, 2014
As-Salaam Alaikum.
(Peace Be Unto You)
To the Family, Friends, and all those who have been touched by the marvelous life of Dr. Maya Angelou:
When I heard the news of her passing, I was in the hospital having an MRI. When I g ...
Posted Wednesday, June 4th 2014 at 9:00AM
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Want to get paid to give talks – even if you’re not famous yet?
Want to change peoples’ lives with your message and have a lot of fun doing it?
If so, you’re invited to a free telephone seminar this Thursday (June 5th) and have six su ...
Posted Monday, June 2nd 2014 at 5:22PM
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We have a page we built with over 300 free ebooks http://wwwtheblogking.blogspot.com/, scholarship debates, downloads of our master teacher; they lived and died to give us a better platform to speak about our oppression (our Holocaust) as well as our ...
Posted Monday, June 2nd 2014 at 5:12AM
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TOPEKA, Kansas - The highly-controversial Westboro Baptist Church is planning to picket Maya Angelou’s funeral.
According to WGHP, the group asked its Twitter followers for information about Angelou’s services as well as tweeted several hateful me ...
Posted Sunday, June 1st 2014 at 4:11PM
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AS YOU SHOULD KNOW BY NOW ''AMUN RA BLACK SCHOLARSHIP DEBATE TEAM'' IS IN THE DEBATE CIRCUIT AND DOING RESEARCH FOR THE ELDERS ,,WE HAVE COME UP W THIS QUESTION AS TO HOW GOOD IS ISLAM FOR THE BLACK RACE WHEN MUHAMMAD TRADING 2 BLACK SLAVES FOR 1 MUS ...
Posted Sunday, June 1st 2014 at 5:29AM
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SPRING HILL, Florida — A new fast food franchise’s contentious plan to construct a restaurant to serve only white customers has found a legal loophole and as a result was granted unanimous approval at a meeting of the Hernando County Bureau of Busine ...
Posted Saturday, May 31st 2014 at 7:55PM
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by Alex Isaacs
Los Angeles - ICYMI: The June cover of Time magazine has set social media on fire because it features actress Laverne Cox, who is transgendered.
The raven-locked beauty from America forms part of a piece in the mag entitled The ...
Posted Friday, May 30th 2014 at 4:55PM
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Taste and see the goodness in me.
I am your beacon, your guide.
Let us embark on a strip of red,
green, yellow, and oh yea white to
a destination you will never want
to end.
Our red footprints will lead us to
dance like no ones watching, an ...
Posted Friday, May 30th 2014 at 4:30PM
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CAIRO – Making history for the second time, an American Muslim woman is running for the Congress, aiming to advocate women's rights and underserved people by picking a seat at the 11th congressional district of California.
“The diverse 11th Congre ...
Posted Thursday, May 29th 2014 at 2:47PM
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By ROGER SIMON | 5/28/14 5:01 AM EDT
CHICAGO — The lion in winter walks into the room. His sideburns and mustache have gone gray. There is a little excess baggage beneath his chin. But Jesse Jackson’s stride is still firm and his handshake firmer. ...
Posted Thursday, May 29th 2014 at 12:31PM
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FAREWELL TO MAYA ANGELOU
By Sister Siebra Muhammad
On the pulse of a May morning
a brave and startling truth
who knew why the caged bird sings left us
The rock cries out to us
for a phenomenal woman
who taught us to take time out
and lea ...
Posted Thursday, May 29th 2014 at 12:02PM
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WINSTON-SALEM, NC - Award-winning author, renowned poet and civil rights activist Dr. Maya Angelou has died.
She was 86.
Winston-Salem Mayor Allen Joines confirmed Angelou was found by her caretaker Wednesday morning.
According to WGHP, Ange ...
Posted Wednesday, May 28th 2014 at 9:41AM
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Olive oil is a pantry must-have, but did you know the cooking staple has tons of other uses too? Check out 20 other ways to use olive oil at home and in the garden.
1. Clean grease off your hands. Rub a little bit of olive oil and salt in your han ...
Posted Tuesday, May 27th 2014 at 12:21PM
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One of the most popular healthy plants around, garlic is now commonly used in our cooking and for medicinal benefits. But how many of you actually know what health benefits garlic has?
1. Garlic for Allergies
The antiviral properties in garlic h ...
Posted Tuesday, May 27th 2014 at 12:08PM
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'Family'...From the Perspective of Children
BY THE HONORABLE MINISTER LOUIS FARRAKHAN | LAST UPDATED: MAY 27, 2014
In The Name of Allah, The Beneficent, The Merciful.
Allah (God) says in the Qur’an that each creature is created in need. There ...
Posted Tuesday, May 27th 2014 at 12:01PM
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HIGHLAND HILLS, Ohio – Sarah Collins Rudolph showed today that she is more powerful than the bomb that took her right eye in 1963 and killed four girls, including her sister Addie Mae.
All five were the victims of white supremacists who blew up th ...
Posted Monday, May 26th 2014 at 6:20PM
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by Jeffrey L. Boney
Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward-Times
Back in 2007, an article entitled “Police brutality cases on rise since 9/11″ appeared in USA Today, showing that federal prosecutors started “targeting a rising number ...
Posted Monday, May 26th 2014 at 5:51PM
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