At least 40 people were shot over the weekend across Chicago, with eight of them slain, according to police logs.
The toll covers a period from 8:43 p.m. Friday--after violent storms hit the city--to 6:39 this morning.
On Sunday, Chicago Police ...
Posted Monday, June 21st 2010 at 5:12PM
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With 12 Democrats joining a unanimous Republican bloc, the US Senate voted Wednesday to defeat a proposed extension of unemployment benefits for workers who have been jobless for nearly two years. The bill would have extended unemployment benefits fo ...
Posted Sunday, June 20th 2010 at 3:26PM
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BP has been telling cleanup workers that they don't need to wear respirators or other protective gear.
As Jerrold Nadler, the New York congressman whose district includes the World Trade Center, said today:
We're repeating the same catastrophe ...
Posted Sunday, June 20th 2010 at 3:20PM
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From the Final Call Newspaper
June 19, 2009
As-Salaam Alaikum (Peace Be Unto You):
Think about the son or the daughter that you brought into this world that you have not even communicated with in years. Write your children if they are away f ...
Posted Saturday, June 19th 2010 at 5:39PM
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Happy Fathers Day
By Sister Siebra Muhammad
This is a day that other than you say its the day to honor you.
Father means first and further
You Blackman have proven to be the Father of all
By taking such a willingly and mighty fall,
You are the first and the last
The head and the tail
Who by nature is destined to prevail
You are the first to make war
You are the first to make peace
You are the first to make right
You are the first to make a wife
You are the O ...
Posted Saturday, June 19th 2010 at 4:36PM
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Every year on June 19th or Juneteenth 36 states in America commemorate one of the most important events in the American history: the announcement of the abolition of slavery. The announcement was made in 1865 in the US State of Texas. At the same tim ...
Posted Saturday, June 19th 2010 at 3:53PM
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NEW ORLEANS — BP has paid less than 12 percent of claims submitted by people and businesses harmed by the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the federal government said Friday, while the new chief of the independent payment office promised to speed th ...
Posted Saturday, June 19th 2010 at 3:46PM
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BATON ROUGE -- The House approved and sent to Gov. Bobby Jindal late Thursday a revived bill that would allow people qualified to carry concealed weapons to tote them to their house of worship.
Lawmakers voted 64-26 for House Bill 1272 by Rep. He ...
Posted Friday, June 18th 2010 at 5:33PM
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Peace To All:
I know my questions may be deep and three of the 8 questions may be a little hesitant on rather or not to reply. Well I think we as Blackmen and Blackwomen are in need of healing before we can truly unite. Perhaps we can get out of o ...
Posted Friday, June 18th 2010 at 3:03PM
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State education officials throughout the Gulf Coast, worried about economic fallout for already-strained K-12 coffers from the massive BP oil spill, are weighing whether to seek reimbursement from BP to make up for it.
Meanwhile, at least one top ...
Posted Friday, June 18th 2010 at 2:06PM
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PHOENIX – Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer said Thursday she’s angry over comments by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton that the Obama administration will sue the state over its new immigration law.
In a June 8 media interview in Ecuador that began ...
Posted Friday, June 18th 2010 at 10:50AM
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The author of the biography “Cleopatra: A Life” may be hailing Angelina Jolie as the perfect choice to play the queen, but some folks aren’t so sure.
On African American blogs and message boards, people are speaking out against the casting of Joli ...
Posted Thursday, June 17th 2010 at 12:13PM
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It's tough to be a black boy in Nashville, Tenn.
Nine middle schools there have suspended half of their black male students at some point, more often than any other group.
One school suspended 58 percent of its black male students, but just 10 ...
Posted Thursday, June 17th 2010 at 11:47AM
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Peace To All:
The following is a six part lecture series by Minister Ava Muhammad, the National Spokesperson for Minister Louis Farrakhan speaking on the love of "self first, then others." Enjoy!
Love 2 Live & Live 2 Love,
Siebra
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Posted Wednesday, June 16th 2010 at 4:06PM
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Bun B, Rick Ross, Too Short, Roscoe Dash, and Pill are among the list of rappers scheduled to perform at the second annual Tupac Shakur Birthday Concert in Georgia on June 16.
The June 16 benefit concert will be hosted at the Tupac Amaru Shakur Ce ...
Posted Tuesday, June 15th 2010 at 1:23PM
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PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) -- President Barack Obama is capping two days in the suffering Gulf of Mexico with a solemn, high-stakes address to the nation that will lay out the enormous effort needed to right the multifaceted damage from the country's worst ...
Posted Tuesday, June 15th 2010 at 1:13PM
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An American construction worker who was arrested with a sword, a pistol and night-vision goggles in northwestern Pakistan told investigators Tuesday that he wanted to kill Osama bin Laden to avenge the 2001 terrorist attacks on the U.S.
Gary Brook ...
Posted Tuesday, June 15th 2010 at 11:03AM
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A cashier's check with the line "Alvin M. Greene for Senate" hand-scrawled at the top started the Army veteran's rise to political victory in South Carolina.
The check for $10,400 went to the state's Democratic Party. It was the fee to enter the p ...
Posted Friday, June 11th 2010 at 4:51PM
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