A former professor at the University of Central Florida recently filed a lawsuit against the school, claiming she was fired for refusing to use a textbook that contained offensive racial stereotypes.
According to The Orlando Sentinel, the suit, fi ...
Posted Saturday, November 27th 2010 at 3:04PM
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Detroit Grand Rapids has a statue honoring Rosa Parks. So do Dallas and Eugene, Ore.
But efforts to build a monument for the civil rights icon in the nation's capital are taking longer than most expected, frustrating supporters as the 55th anni ...
Posted Friday, November 26th 2010 at 6:05PM
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"Some Who Feel No Reason For Thanksgiving"
To this day, I can hardly bear to think of that quintessentially American holidayThanksgiving.
When I do, however, I do not dwell on Pilgrims with wide black hats sitting to sup with red men, thei ...
Posted Friday, November 26th 2010 at 5:56PM
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The final Saturday in November is the date and the Louisiana Superdome is the place for this annual gridiron clash of two powerhouse Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) rival football teams. It's a full weekend of fun, excitement and action as th ...
Posted Thursday, November 25th 2010 at 3:05PM
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WASHINGTONCalifornia, New York and New Jersey continue to lead other states in hate crime statistics. According to figures from the annual FBI report released Monday, hate crimes have declined nationally, decreasing by 13 percent in 2009, but these ...
Posted Thursday, November 25th 2010 at 12:57PM
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From The Huffington Post
November 25, 2010
Many of our urban schools have a problem. The problem is one of cultural competency. Many of our teachers within urban communities lack the cultural awareness component as classroom managers and delivere ...
Posted Thursday, November 25th 2010 at 12:49PM
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Beyonce's spirited younger sister Solange Knowles has come out as a vocal critic of former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, after reading that Palin called Michelle Obama a racist.
The controversial Tea Party proponent is currently peddli ...
Posted Wednesday, November 24th 2010 at 3:19PM
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The following article contains excerpts of a message delivered by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan on November 7, 2010 live from Mosque Maryam in Chicago, Illinois.
THE HONORABLE MINISTER LOUIS FARRAKHAN:
In our Lessons that Master Fard ...
Posted Tuesday, November 23rd 2010 at 1:41PM
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This video was sent to me through BlackPlanet.com, and it blew me away. I advise everyone reading this to please do not fast forward the video, view it in its entirety and may it serve as a divine reminder that we must never forget the light side of ...
Posted Tuesday, November 23rd 2010 at 1:30PM
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NEBRASKA--A new study determined that African Americans who smoke cigarettes have a higher risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis (RA). RA risk is more pronounced among individuals positive for the HLA-DRB1 shared epitope, a genetic risk factor for ...
Posted Tuesday, November 23rd 2010 at 1:14PM
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Friday Civil Rights activist Cornel West told Democracy Now!s Juan Gonzalez that, like President Bush before him, President Obamas policies discriminate against African-Americans. West said the Presidents neglect of the poor and of poverty program ...
Posted Monday, November 22nd 2010 at 4:48PM
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"The Simpsons" took its latest dig at Fox News on Sunday's episode, inventing a new logo for the channel: "Not Racist, But #1 With Racists."
Granted, it's hardly the first time the cartoon has jabbed at its sister channel ("The Simpsons" is, o ...
Posted Monday, November 22nd 2010 at 4:38PM
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VIRGINIA--While working on "The 100 Best AfricanAmerican Poems" (Sourcebooks MediaFusion 2010; $22.99), award-winning poet Nikki Giovanni decided to cheat.
"Including just one hundred would only get me to the 1970s," says Giovanni, a University D ...
Posted Sunday, November 21st 2010 at 3:09PM
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ROCKFORD, Ill. (FinalCall.com) - The opulent and historic Coronado Theater in downtown Rockford was the venue for a nearly two-hour message delivered by The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan titled, The Joy of Freedom is Justice.
It was the sec ...
Posted Sunday, November 21st 2010 at 3:06PM
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HEALTH.com--While one of the singular achievements of American medicine in recent years has been to reduce the largely preventable incidence of cervical cancer, 13,000 women nevertheless will come down with it this year mainly because they have not h ...
Posted Saturday, November 20th 2010 at 4:21PM
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The following is a follow-up to a previous blog "SIGN THE PETITION TO STOP SEXUALLY INVASIVE AIRPORT BODY SCANS" published here on November 18, 2010.
SAN DIEGO--At the San Diego International Airport on Saturday, about one-fifth of the travelers ...
Posted Saturday, November 20th 2010 at 3:59PM
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From BlackWeb 2.0
November 17, 2010
This is a question that Ifve tried to answer at several several times during my career and countless other media brands and entrepreneurs have as well. As the Internet becomes a part of the everyday lives of m ...
Posted Friday, November 19th 2010 at 1:30PM
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9-0-# on your telephone
I dialed '0' to check this out, and the operator confirmed that this was correct, so please pass it on.. (l also checked out snopes.com and truthorfiction.com This is true, and also applies to cell phones!)
I received a ...
Posted Thursday, November 18th 2010 at 7:10PM
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Peace To All:
Yesterday morning I was at a school board meeting and one of the staff members mentioned something that caused me to think on the lessons we teach our children, both directly and indirectly.
Perhaps we can share some of the valua ...
Posted Thursday, November 18th 2010 at 5:48PM
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SYNDEY--A policeman accused of trying to pull off a Muslim woman's headdress has told a Sydney court he isn't a racist.
Senior Constable Paul Fogarty pulled over Carnita Matthews, 45, on June 8 this year at Woodbine in Sydney's southwest.
She l ...
Posted Thursday, November 18th 2010 at 2:04PM
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LAS VEGAS (AP) O.J. Simpsons lawyers are asking a three-judge Nevada Supreme Court panel to reconsider whether the former football star should get a new trial following his armed robbery and kidnapping conviction in Las Vegas.
Simpson attorney ...
Posted Wednesday, November 17th 2010 at 3:26PM
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From WorldSocialist.com
November 17, 2010
Some 15 percent of US households, 17.4 million families or about 50 million people, were too poor to buy adequate food last year, according to a new report from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). Mo ...
Posted Wednesday, November 17th 2010 at 3:01PM
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