Africa and its people are the most written about and the least understood of all of the world's people. This condition started in the 15th and the 16th centuries with the beginning of the slave trade system. The Europeans not only colonialized most o ...
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NN) -- The recording sounds like something from Jim Crow days: a white supervisor threatening to hang an African-American employee for drinking water from a "white people" fountain.
But it's 2014, in Memphis, Tennessee.
Untonia Harris, who worked a ...
Posted Thursday, August 28th 2014 at 8:29PM
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There has been a divergent view regarding the concept and philosophy of African
Traditional Religion. Some have seen Africans as not having the capacity to reason on the
concept or the philosophy of God. This led them into giving all forms of derogatory names to
African Traditional Religion. This ...
Posted Thursday, August 28th 2014 at 8:21PM
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Thieves have struck the apartment complex where Rosa Parks lived when she made history by refusing to give up her seat to a white person on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama, police said Tuesday.
Detectives are seeking suspects ...
Posted Thursday, August 28th 2014 at 11:45AM
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Clark Atlanta University's edition of Pharrell Williams' "Happy"! So much positivity was spread throughout campus. Thank you to each and every one of you who happily danced to lift our spirits.
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Posted Thursday, August 28th 2014 at 9:57AM
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Celebrating 50 years of the Civil Rights Act
Long Island Black Pride Weekend
SECOND ANNUAL LONG ISLAND AFRICAN AMERICAN-CARIBBEAN PARADE & FESTIVAL SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2014 AT 10:00AM
A DAY TO C ...
Posted Wednesday, August 27th 2014 at 11:20PM
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BATON ROUGE--The ACLU of Louisiana has come to the defense of a Rastafarian boy who has been suspended from school and forbidden to return until he cuts his dreadlocks.
The boy was sent home from South Plaquemines High School when classes resumed ...
Posted Wednesday, August 27th 2014 at 11:58AM
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FEMA is now going door to door in Detroit. The interesting thing about this was that Homeland Security was in Detroit, before the floods happened and were peering into people’s windows. Now they are coming door to door, what are they looking for ...
Posted Wednesday, August 27th 2014 at 11:39AM
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GlobalResearch.com
August 26, 2014
Michael Brown is dead. Eighteen years old, a young man gunned down—not just shot–by police in his neighborhood in Ferguson, Missouri.
Brown’s experience earns international attention not because he is dead, ...
Posted Wednesday, August 27th 2014 at 11:27AM
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We never knew the English prior to being taken captive, the slave masters murdered our men in front of our women, then told them they loved them and that if they didn't want to see the same thing happen to their children that happened to the men, pra ...
Posted Wednesday, August 27th 2014 at 2:26AM
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There is a hatred that will not subside for any reason because President Obama is black and because he is the President of the United States. Nothing that he can or would do will change that hatred and fear of change. ...
Posted Tuesday, August 26th 2014 at 5:16PM
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Add your voice to the indiscriminate killing of black men in America. Join the campaign #BlackLifeMatters
https://twitter.com/vimforchange/status/502565789200052224?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=fb&utm_campaign=vimforchange&utm_content=50256578920005222 ...
Posted Tuesday, August 26th 2014 at 5:14PM
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see pics on website
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/25/mike-brown-shooting-jim-crow-lynchings-in-common?view=mobile#opt-in-message
Not terribly long ago in a country that many people misremember, if they knew it at all, a black ...
Posted Tuesday, August 26th 2014 at 2:24PM
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Harry Watley,,has lost his mind if he thinks anyone in the whole world will believe in his religion and follow him ,,can we all agree ?? ...
Posted Tuesday, August 26th 2014 at 2:01PM
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Leeds School of Business
MBA Admissions Events
Tuesday, September 16th
Thursday, September 18th
Join Leeds School of Business MBA Admissions Representatives for two Information Sessions in Atlanta, GA. Learn the details of what makes the Leeds MBA program distinctive, the ins-and-outs of the ...
Posted Tuesday, August 26th 2014 at 11:36AM
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The origins of the Ice Bucket Challenge...........this was a means disciplining black prisoners at one point see pic and also Here's where the money goes!!!! Smh
http://healthimpactnews.com/2014/als-ice-bucket-challenge-do-you-know-what-you-are-supp ...
Posted Monday, August 25th 2014 at 11:07PM
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Althea Gibson
Tennis player
Althea Gibson was an American tennis player and professional golfer, and the first black athlete to cross the color line of international tennis. In 1956 she became the first person of color to win a Grand Slam title. Wi ...
Posted Monday, August 25th 2014 at 12:23PM
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