Prince’s ex-fiancée, Sheila Escovedo, is determined to find out the cause of the legendary singer’s death. The star reportedly suffered with the flu several weeks before his death, but Shelia E., as she is better known, doesn’t think that’s how he di ...
Posted Monday, April 25th 2016 at 7:02PM
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The younger generation of royals, Prince William, his wife Kate and his brother Prince Harry, hosted President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle for dinner Friday at Kensington Palace in London.
The Obamas arrived at Kensington Palace in rainy ...
Posted Saturday, April 23rd 2016 at 9:09AM
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What a gift it is to have a friend who can make you laugh and smile.
Trying to stay in a great mood takes hard work. Thank goodness for
"Sense of humor", thank goodness for "Comedy.
During these difficult times surround each other with Smiles
and ...
Posted Saturday, April 23rd 2016 at 7:34AM
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Harriet Tubman and President Andrew Jackson lived on opposite sides of the American experience.
Tubman, a black woman, escaped slavery to become a conductor on the Underground Railroad, risking her life to lead slaves to freedom. Jackson, the son ...
Posted Thursday, April 21st 2016 at 2:22PM
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Photo: Cameraman and Morehouse Man Alfeo Dixon ’90 sets up a shot during filming of “The Yard.”
By ADD SEYMOUR JR. — Over recent weeks, Morehouse has been the site of a NASA building in 1960s Virginia and a fictional, contemporary public historica ...
Posted Thursday, April 21st 2016 at 10:12AM
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Posted Tuesday, April 19th 2016 at 10:29AM
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This is one of the most amazing things that I have ever participated in in my life. The photo is somewhat self explanatory. It is a photo of julius caesar in africa...Via Cleveland Ohio. This was done at the Karamu House which is america's oldest ...
Posted Sunday, April 10th 2016 at 10:33PM
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www.sistajoy.com Mary McLeod Bethune was a woman of deep faith in God and deep faith in Self. She believed in taking action by using what she had! With only $1.50, she went forth in faith to build a school that now stands as Bethune Cookman Unive ...
Posted Sunday, April 10th 2016 at 12:08AM
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On the evening of Wednesday, August 11, 1965, 21-year-old Marquette Frye, an African American man behind the wheel of his mother's 1955 Buick, was pulled over for reckless driving by white California Highway Patrol motorcycle officer Lee Minikus. Aft ...
Posted Tuesday, April 5th 2016 at 11:37PM
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A few hundred South Dallas residents, mostly black, flooded Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard to oppose a planned demonstration by a mostly white group that routinely protests outside mosques.
Both sides were armed.
Dallas police stood guard on ...
Posted Sunday, April 3rd 2016 at 8:53PM
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Join Steve Harvey, nationally acclaimed star of television, radio and film, who will host a news conference at Alabama State University on Saturday (April 2), at 6 p.m.at the ASU Stadium on its football field.
Harvey will be joined by ASU Presiden ...
Posted Thursday, March 31st 2016 at 12:16PM
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DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN, NY — The recent arrest of an on-duty U.S. Postal Service (USPS) employee in Crown Heights was unjustified, racially motivated and “could have been another Eric Garner situation," Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams said at a ...
Posted Tuesday, March 29th 2016 at 10:48AM
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Many wishes of joy I'd like to send your way.
Did you have a great week?
My week is still going well.
What was the highlight of it?
My highlight was all of the dreams I created
while sleeping. From Weddings, to Dates,
to Bears, and Angels. ...
Posted Friday, March 25th 2016 at 10:57AM
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On Saturday, a 25-year-old Virginia woman named India M. Beaty was shot and killed by local police officers in a parking lot, where cops were staking out an unrelated investigation. At 1:20 a.m., police witnessed an altercation between India and an u ...
Posted Thursday, March 24th 2016 at 7:00PM
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Motivational speaker Eric Thomas’s speech to Vashon High School students in St. Louis last month has gone viral over his reaction to a group of students who kept interrupting him.
Thomas begins by telling the crowd his story.
He dropped out ...
Posted Friday, March 18th 2016 at 11:42AM
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“Empire” star Taraji P. Henson will play mathematics genius Katherine Johnson in “Hidden Figures” for Fox 2000.
The studio has been developing the adaptation of the Margot Lee Shetterly book “Hidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women ...
Posted Wednesday, March 16th 2016 at 9:15PM
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Decades before Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton, there was Shirley Chisholm. As the first black woman to run for president for a major political party she was years ahead of her time. So why don't more people know about her?
Forty-four years ago th ...
Posted Wednesday, March 16th 2016 at 9:01PM
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The trials of six Baltimore police officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray are set to resume in May, nearly a year after the 25-year-old died from injuries sustained while in police custody, according to The Baltimore Sun.
One of the office ...
Posted Wednesday, March 16th 2016 at 8:53PM
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NOLA.com--Nearly 5,000 homes in Louisiana have been damaged by flooding after heavy rains swept across the state, according to initial figures released Sunday (March 13) by the Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness. Offici ...
Posted Sunday, March 13th 2016 at 9:28PM
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JACKSON, MS (Mississippi News Now) - The City of Jackson and the Mississippi State Health Department have issued a warning for residents, especially pregnant women and children, over lead found in water.
Officials at the MSDH say that after consu ...
Posted Sunday, March 13th 2016 at 9:00PM
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In January, Sarah Reed was found dead in her cell at Holloway prison. She had been the victim of a notorious police brutality case in 2012 and suffered mental health issues known to prison officers, doctors, social workers, lawyers and police. So why ...
Posted Friday, March 11th 2016 at 6:21PM
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CHICAGO—In an exclusive Final Call interview, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam responded to false reports that he has supported Donald Trump, the leading candidate for the presidential nomination of the Republican Party.
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Posted Thursday, March 10th 2016 at 9:45AM
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MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA--Relatives, friends and former classmates crowded a funeral service Saturday for a 58-year-old black man who authorities say was shot and killed by a white Montgomery police officer.
The mourners paid homage to Gregory Gunn, wh ...
Posted Thursday, March 10th 2016 at 9:35AM
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If the walls could talk, imagine what they’d say.
They’d reminisce about family meals, holidays, celebrations and romance, take sides in arguments, and watch children grow. If those walls could talk, they’d tell of triumph, disappointment, begin ...
Posted Thursday, March 10th 2016 at 9:25AM
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