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Just after releasing his latest album alongside his group Dirty Money — which moved more than 101,000 units during it's first week in stores and peaked at No. 7 on the Billboard 200 chart — Diddy app ...
Posted Wednesday, January 19th 2011 at 3:22PM
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NAPERVILLE, Ill.--Filmmaker Spike Lee told an audience at North Central College that he wasn’t too surprised to hear that Italian-American groups were protesting his appearance at the Naperville campus Tuesday night.
He did find some irony in the ...
Posted Wednesday, January 19th 2011 at 3:01PM
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Astronomer Parke Kunkle caused quite a stir recently among believers in astrology when he pointed out that a wobble in Earth’s rotation meant that the stars were in a different position above us two millennia ago, when the Zodiac was created.
Astr ...
Posted Tuesday, January 18th 2011 at 5:08PM
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One-year payroll tax holiday key to toppling seniors' safety net, Sanders warns
Social Security may be on the White House chopping block, a US Senator recently told Raw Story, expressing deep uneasiness about President Barack Obama's noncommittal ...
Posted Tuesday, January 18th 2011 at 5:00PM
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NEW ORLEANS -- A day after honoring Martin Luther King, New Orleans also remembers a controversial speech given by a controversial former mayor.
"It's time for us to rebuild a New Orleans, the one that should be a chocolate New Orleans," said ...
Posted Tuesday, January 18th 2011 at 2:34PM
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NORTH CAROLINA--The head of the state NAACP says local school leaders are "out of control."
The Rev. William J. Barber III blasted the Burke County Board of Education while speaking to nearly 200 people at the Morganton Community House during the ...
Posted Tuesday, January 18th 2011 at 2:20PM
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Today is not only Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, but it's also Michelle Obama Day. In a way. The first lady turned 47 on Monday, and she and her family marked the occasion by paying tribute to MLK with a painting project at a school on Capitol Hill.
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Posted Monday, January 17th 2011 at 2:04PM
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This January 17th in the United States and everywhere we should all honor Martin Luther King Jr for not just his words, but they were great, but for his actions, including his stand against the Vietnam War and so much else of US Government policy in ...
Posted Monday, January 17th 2011 at 2:02PM
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From Newsweek.com
January 16, 2010
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is promising to unleash a cache of secret documents from the hard drive of a U.S. megabank executive. In 2009, he told Computer World that the bank was Bank of America (BofA). In ...
Posted Monday, January 17th 2011 at 1:58PM
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MY NEIGHBOR'S HOUSE
Going to a party at my neighbor's house today
The people that I meet inside I know what they'll say
"Welcome to the future, the past is memories"
Come on to a party at my neighbors house with me.
And when we get insi ...
Posted Saturday, January 15th 2011 at 5:12PM
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(Reuters) - A tribal court ruling that the Cherokee Nation must allow descendants of former slaves owned by Indians to be tribal members, has again raised the painful history of the forcible removal of the Indians to Oklahoma in the nineteenth centur ...
Posted Saturday, January 15th 2011 at 4:37PM
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Why do we (Muslims) read Quran, even if we can't understand a single Arabic word????
This is a beautiful story.
An old American Muslim lived on a farm in the mountains of eastern Kentucky with his young grandson. Each morning Grandpa was up e ...
Posted Friday, January 14th 2011 at 4:10PM
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The new cast of Donald Trump’s “Celebrity Apprentice” features some big names this go ‘round, as LaToya Jackson, Lil’ Jon, NeNe Leakes, Star Jones, and Dionne Warwick will all compete on the show.
Since Trump likes breaking down the teams along ge ...
Posted Friday, January 14th 2011 at 4:02PM
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ARIZONA--A local Republican Party official in Arizona resigned his position this week after the attempted assassination of Democratic congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, citing the threat of violence from Tea Party members in his area.
Anthony Mille ...
Posted Friday, January 14th 2011 at 3:46PM
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CHICAGO (FinalCall.com) - Cholera, a deadly but preventable disease, has killed some 2,500 people in Haiti and another 150,000 are estimated to have been infected with the disease.
The water-borne malady causes dehydration, diarrhea and too often ...
Posted Thursday, January 13th 2011 at 4:22PM
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From Newsweek.com
January 11, 2010
There exists currently in the United States an unhealthy obsession with guns, —a form of idolatry of the gun as a useful tool to settle differences between individuals. Increasingly, it seems, when someone feels ...
Posted Wednesday, January 12th 2011 at 6:11PM
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Madison, WI--Charlayne Hunter-Gault didn't plan on becoming a civil rights hero. She just wanted to go to school. But her own personal courage and determination to exercise her right to a public educational facility 50 years ago this week made her ju ...
Posted Wednesday, January 12th 2011 at 6:05PM
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The Concerned Coalition to Protect Prisoner Rights held a press conference on Jan. 6, 2011, to discuss the physical assaults perpetrated on inmates by prison staff. The attacks took place in the wake of fact finding visits by the coalition to Mac ...
Posted Tuesday, January 11th 2011 at 1:51PM
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