We’ve all heard the story of the “40 acres and a mule” promise to former slaves. It’s a staple of black history lessons, and it’s the name of Spike Lee’s film company. The promise was the first systematic attempt to provide a form of reparations to n ...
Posted Thursday, February 6th 2014 at 12:48AM
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Along with the idea of good and evil, the concept of Heaven and Hell seems to predate Judaism as well. In fact the concept of both Heaven and Hell didn’t even exist in the first two thirds of the Bible. Zoroastrianism is known by religious historians ...
Posted Wednesday, February 5th 2014 at 10:48PM
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James McCune Smith was born April 18, 1813. He was an African American physician and abolitionist.
From New York City, he received his early education at the African Free School. Though his academic credentials were exceptional, Smith was effectiv ...
Posted Wednesday, February 5th 2014 at 7:49PM
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Imagine that an invader broke into a home, robbing and leaving it in ruins. Then the invader kidnapped the children from the home to work as servants within his home. This invader, fearing an eventual retribution from these kidnapped children, may fi ...
Posted Wednesday, February 5th 2014 at 6:08PM
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Trayvon Martin
17 years old
Date of birth: Feb 5, 1995
Date of passing: Feb 26, 2012
http://www.forevermissed.com/trayvon-martin/#about ...
Posted Wednesday, February 5th 2014 at 5:20PM
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VIDEO
Watch this group of little boys perform an Omega Psi Phi hop show.
These little kids are AMAZING! This is a MUST WATCH!
Their hooks are better than some of the Ques you know… ...
Posted Wednesday, February 5th 2014 at 5:02PM
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I am working again with Harlem Hip-Hop Tours LLC on student packages. Please feel free to share this with anyone who may be interested and contact me if ...
Posted Wednesday, February 5th 2014 at 4:56PM
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The Armpit of the Roman Empire
The Judeo-Christian God
You can also put this in the archeology column and perhaps the atheism column. The quick summary is prior to the time of the Book of Ezra archeology has either failed to confirm or fl ...
Posted Wednesday, February 5th 2014 at 1:17AM
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In the Bible, he is called Moses. In the Koran, he is the prophet Musa.
Religious scholars have long questioned whether of the story of a prophet leading God's chosen people in a great exodus out of Egypt and the freedom it brought them afterwards ...
Posted Wednesday, February 5th 2014 at 1:08AM
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Shortly after I started to question my belief in God, I remember talking to my rabbi about Passover and the Exodus from Egypt. My rabbi knew that I was starting to doubt the supernatural and ridiculous aspects of the story. He told me in confidence t ...
Posted Wednesday, February 5th 2014 at 12:38AM
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Archeologists have gradually concluded that much of the early history of the Bible is purely mythical. The Patriarchs are mythical, the Exodus is mythical, and the Conquest is mythical. The main debate nowadays is over how historical the Biblical acc ...
Posted Tuesday, February 4th 2014 at 9:05PM
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Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an African American civil rights activist, whom the U.S. Congress later called “the first lady of civil rights”, and “the mother of the freedom movement”.
On December 1, 1955 in ...
Posted Tuesday, February 4th 2014 at 4:31PM
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Louis Charles Roudanez was born in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, to Louis Roudanez, a French merchant, and Aimee Potens, a free woman of color. Listed as white on his baptismal registry, Roudanez was baptized as Catholic by the president of the Colleg ...
Posted Monday, February 3rd 2014 at 12:28PM
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OUR PRESIDENT HAS SPOKEN see video
Before kickoff of NFL Super Bowl XLVIII, President Obama sat down with Bill O’Reilly. The longtime Fox News host and conservative firebrand focused on his network’s favorite anti-Obama topics, including the b ...
Posted Sunday, February 2nd 2014 at 7:19PM
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This is absurd and ridicules. Here is a United States Congressman making asinine statements calling for the 'impeachment' of the President. However, when pressured to qualify his statements and declaration of impeachment he 'falls apart' and admits h ...
Posted Sunday, February 2nd 2014 at 5:37PM
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Marie VanBrittan Brown, Home Security Inventor
While home security systems today are more advanced than ever, back in 1966 the idea for a home surveillance device seemed almost unthinkable.
That was the year famous African-American inventor Ma ...
Posted Sunday, February 2nd 2014 at 4:27PM
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What they mean to say is President Obama kicked our asses and we are mad. Not only by winning 2 elections but by getting America out of wars; improving the economy; reducing budget deficit; cutting unemployment; high rolling the stock market; improvi ...
Posted Saturday, February 1st 2014 at 11:37PM
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The Woolworth sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests which led to the Woolworth's department store chain reversing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States.
While not the first sit-ins of the African-American Civil Rig ...
Posted Saturday, February 1st 2014 at 4:52PM
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Bill Cosby talks about the influences on black culture ,,how blacks want to be white
I found this to be real interesting ! you might like it ,,there is a man that took all his money and built a store front school to teach the black kids the way he ...
Posted Saturday, February 1st 2014 at 1:42PM
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Anna Gordy Gaye, the former wife of famed singer Marvin Gaye, has died on Friday at age 92.
Gaye was discovered in her home in Los Angeles around 3 a.m.
She died from natural causes, family members told TMZ.
She and Marvin got married in 196 ...
Posted Friday, January 31st 2014 at 2:22PM
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America's first dictator"? Someone needs to tell Glenn Beck that Presidents have issued executive orders 25 times in the past. Plus this action has been upheld by the US Supreme Court.
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/beck-obama-became-americas-first-dict ...
Posted Friday, January 31st 2014 at 2:12PM
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CHICAGO - Excitement is growing with the countdown to the Nation of Islam’s annual Saviours’ Day Convention to be held Feb. 20-23 in the Motor City.
The theme for this year’s keynote address to be delivered by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan ...
Posted Friday, January 31st 2014 at 2:08PM
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