There are many reasons why African Americans do not have the legacy of success enjoyed by other racial groups and emigrants to America. In celebration of Black History Month here are some financial American History facts from our Did You Know sectio ...
Posted Wednesday, April 13th 2011 at 4:57PM
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pecial to the NNPA from the AFRO-American newspapers –
Morgan State University will receive a landmark $28.5 million portion of a massive $95.8-million, five-year grant from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. The grant, which allows the East Baltim ...
Posted Wednesday, April 13th 2011 at 4:01PM
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NNPA) When the now infamous allegations against Bishop Eddie Long first surfaced, the world – and specifically the African American community – paused for a seemingly endless moment. Attempting to cope with the complexity of the situation, we began q ...
Posted Wednesday, April 13th 2011 at 3:52PM
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The mother of Miami Heat superstar LeBron James was released from police custody, and faces charges of battery and disorderly intoxication after an incident at the Fontainebleau Hotel early Thursday morning. ...
Posted Friday, April 8th 2011 at 1:51AM
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Muhammad Ali always said he was the prettiest thing that ever lived. He has a point. It does take a certain beauty to make 1,300 punching bags, five miles of stainless steel and two miles of aluminum tubing look like a work of art. Of course, it does ...
Posted Saturday, March 5th 2011 at 2:04AM
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Just Terrible: 17-Year-Old Takes His High School Sweetheart To The Woods & Stabs Her 12 Times In The Head When She Told Him She Was Pregnant!
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Posted Thursday, February 10th 2011 at 1:34AM
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Omar Waraich / Islamabad – 32 mins ago
The scene could have been scripted in a Hollywood action thriller: For two hours at the end of last month in Lahore, U.S. diplomat Raymond Davis was closely pursued by two visibly armed men on a motorbike. ...
Posted Thursday, February 10th 2011 at 12:51AM
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama's approval ratings inched up again this month as Americans grew slightly more optimistic about the economy and the future, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Wednesday.
Obama's job approval ...
Posted Thursday, February 10th 2011 at 12:42AM
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Mr. "Take Dat" himself, Sean "Diddy" Combs, is upset with President Barack Obama, and he took his beef where most hip-hop artists do... straight to the Source.
In the January issue of "the hip-hop Bible," the entrepreneur extraordinaire claims tha ...
Posted Sunday, February 6th 2011 at 2:42PM
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Black Folks We'd Like To Remove From Black History
As happy as we are for the nation to get its yearly reminder that black people do exist in the context of American history, there’s a growing list of characters that has us harking back to Zora Neal ...
Posted Sunday, February 6th 2011 at 1:39PM
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(The Root) — CNN announced today that Mark Whitaker will hold the newly created role of executive vice president and managing editor. What does it mean that a black man will be leading the direction of the network’s reporting? Unclear. When Whita ...
Posted Sunday, February 6th 2011 at 1:21PM
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The father of a white girl in rural Alabama is blamed for stirring up racial tensions in the town of Millry for threatening to kill the black players on the local basketball team if they continued to contact his daughter.
Latisha Mitchell, the ste ...
Posted Sunday, February 6th 2011 at 12:58PM
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Saving Our Young Black Men
To save our younger Brothers, we believe that their minds can be rescued with our history, but not the stuff that’s passed out during Black history month. One of the ways to reach the minds of our younger Brothers i ...
Posted Monday, January 17th 2011 at 8:33PM
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Your Dream is attached to many other people dream, it time to move with the dream so everyone can reach their dreams, let the Dream walker arise from their sleep and Walk as you dream, you are connected to someone else as u walk and dream.........The ...
Posted Monday, January 17th 2011 at 5:00PM
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When the 60's began, two main groups, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and Martin Luther King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) had already been hard at work on a variety of desegregation efforts ...
Posted Monday, January 17th 2011 at 3:44PM
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I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proc ...
Posted Saturday, January 15th 2011 at 10:24PM
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