NEW YORK--Writer and director Michael Holman, 55, arrived in New York City in the late '70s and immersed himself in the early years of rap music, documenting hip-hop parties with a Super-8 camera.
"I was in the game in 1979, and I would go uptown ...
Posted Sunday, November 7th 2010 at 3:39PM
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By Joel S. Hirschhorn
November 6, 2010
It is now inconceivable that our world could function without the 5 billion cell phones used globally. The new book by Devra Davis “Disconnect” deserves your attention. Indeed, if you use a cell phone a lo ...
Posted Sunday, November 7th 2010 at 3:30PM
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Racial profiling and why you should read Charles Ogletree's "the Presumption of Guilt"
by Bill Fletcher Jr.
November 04, 2010
In 1981 a good friend of mine and I drove from Boston to Detroit for a labor conference. At the tail end of the con ...
Posted Friday, November 5th 2010 at 12:48PM
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WASHINGTON--White House chief of Staff Andrew Card famously said - in explaining why the Bush administration waited until September to make its case for war in Iraq:
From a marketing point of view, you don't introduce new products in August.
Ev ...
Posted Friday, November 5th 2010 at 12:37PM
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Music World/Columbia Records have announced the upcoming release of Beyonce‘s I Am…World Tour, a full-length concert film DVD covering the R&B superstar’s most recent international tour.
In support of Beyonce’s multi-platinum, Grammy Award winnin ...
Posted Wednesday, November 3rd 2010 at 4:22PM
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NEW ORLEANS--Children in Orleans Parish will soon be able to enjoy a wide variety of safe, enriching afterschool programs thanks to a groundbreaking partnership between one of the city’s premier athletes and one of its largest banks.
The CP3 After ...
Posted Tuesday, November 2nd 2010 at 2:21PM
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The following article is derived from an October 3, 2010 address by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, which is the third installment of a series titled “Who Are The Real Children of Israel?” delivered live from Mosque Maryam in Chicago, Illinoi ...
Posted Monday, November 1st 2010 at 6:01PM
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WASHINGTON--Question: What is the difference between a full-blown Depression and an excruciatingly "slow recovery"?
Answer--Inventories and a bit of fiscal stimulus.
On Friday, The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) reported that 3rd Quarter GDP ...
Posted Monday, November 1st 2010 at 5:16PM
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Jacksonville. Fla--A woman pled guilty to second-degree murder this week after she shook her three month old son for interrupting her while she was playing the Facebook game FarmVille, resulting in his death.
Twenty-two year-old Alexandra Tobias ...
Posted Sunday, October 31st 2010 at 5:12PM
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BATON ROUGE--Ten special-needs students have filed a lawsuit in federal court alleging that the Louisiana Department Of Education is discriminating against them because of their disabilities.
In July, the plaintiffs, who are represented by attorn ...
Posted Sunday, October 31st 2010 at 4:45PM
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There are a number of things the public "knows" as we head into the election that are just false. If people elect leaders based on false information, the things those leaders do in office will not be what the public expects or needs.
Here are eigh ...
Posted Saturday, October 30th 2010 at 6:35PM
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From Newsweek.com
October 29, 2010
China may be as heavily in debt as we are. It just has a different way of keeping its books -- which makes a high-profile political ad sponsored by Citizens Against Government Waste, a fiscally conservative thi ...
Posted Saturday, October 30th 2010 at 6:22PM
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WASHINGTON--The U.S. Department of Justice severely watered down an internal report on the conduct of its lawyers responsible for authorizing torture and has failed to comply with the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), depriving the public of necessa ...
Posted Friday, October 29th 2010 at 2:05PM
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FinalCall.com - Recent news from Haiti hasn't been good: Rains brought floods and landslides that killed 12 people and left others missing in October in Port-au-Prince and residents said other unreported floods had also cost lives.
A cholera epid ...
Posted Thursday, October 28th 2010 at 2:55PM
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