MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Former Mayor Willie Herenton tried to stir up his low-key congressional campaign Wednesday by claiming again that his race is a good reason to send him to Washington.
Herenton smiled for the cameras at a news conference, donn ...
Posted Thursday, June 10th 2010 at 4:25PM
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WASHINGTON, D.C.-- NeighborWorks America, the administrator of the Congressionally authorized National Foreclosure Mitigation Counseling (NFMC) program, has stated that of the more than 870,000 homeowners who received foreclosure prevention counselin ...
Posted Wednesday, June 9th 2010 at 4:13PM
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NOTE FROM SIEBRA:
With the attacks and wholesale killings of primarily Black, Red and Brown youth increasing in the United States, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan delivered a message of guidance and instruction to youth in cities across Amer ...
Posted Tuesday, June 8th 2010 at 3:42PM
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Rand Paul, who appeared on the Rush Limbaugh show today, is trying to distance himself from his racist stance on the Civil Rights Act of 1964, by comparing himself to one of its champions, Dr. Martin Luther King and to abolitionist, Frederick Douglas ...
Posted Monday, June 7th 2010 at 5:35PM
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(BlackDoctor.org) -- I recently had a very interesting conversation with several guys about whether they preferred women with long or short hair, and though I was not surprised that the overwhelming response was a preference for long hair, it did sur ...
Posted Sunday, June 6th 2010 at 5:44PM
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Music can tell a story, assuage our sorrows, provide blessing and redemption, and express a soul's sublime and powerful beauty. It inspires us daily, giving voice to the human spirit. For many, including the African-American community, music unites ...
Posted Sunday, June 6th 2010 at 5:10PM
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Several high school students in La Quinta have been disciplined for their involvement in a late-night game of tag called "Beat the Jew " on school grounds last month.
The game, which gathered participants via Facebook, is a complicated contest of ...
Posted Sunday, June 6th 2010 at 2:22PM
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Chartered jets that offer "white glove service," fancy fundraisers in Beverly Hills and beyond, and enough high-priced political consultants to fill an auditorium.
Those are a few of billionaire Meg Whitman's favorite things a ...
Posted Sunday, June 6th 2010 at 2:19PM
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SEATTLE--On the surface, the removal of an 8-year-old African-American girl from her classroom had to do with a hair product and her teacher's physical reaction to it.
But for her parents, the incident that has kept the girl out of Seattle's Thurg ...
Posted Saturday, June 5th 2010 at 4:27PM
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Gary Coleman will not be laid to rest this weekend as originally planned.
With the late actor's ex-wife and estranged parents now warring over custody of his body, Coleman's Utah funeral has been canceled, the Salt Lake Tribune confirms.
Sue ...
Posted Saturday, June 5th 2010 at 4:17PM
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WHITING, Ind. — The Rev. Jesse Jackson says the Gulf Coast oil spill is a result of the federal government's weak enforcement of the nation's environmental laws.
Jackson also said Wednesday that those laws are too weak and that the fines BP has f ...
Posted Thursday, June 3rd 2010 at 5:26PM
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NEW ORLEANS — The best hope for stopping the flow of oil from the blown-out well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico has been compared to hitting a target the size of a dinner plate more than two miles into the earth, and is anything but a sure bet o ...
Posted Monday, May 31st 2010 at 6:23PM
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NOTE FROM SIEBRA:
With the attacks and wholesale killings of primarily Black, Red and Brown youth increasing in the United States, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan delivered a message of guidance and instruction to youth in cities across Amer ...
Posted Monday, May 31st 2010 at 3:11PM
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A well-funded black congressman has a shot at becoming the first African-American to win the Democratic nomination for governor of Alabama, even without the backing of the state's traditional civil rights organizations.
But a vi ...
Posted Sunday, May 30th 2010 at 12:29PM
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Gary Coleman's devastated parents are desperate to know more about the circumstances surrounding the star's death - so they can obtain a sense of "closure" following his tragic passing.
The Diff'rent Strokes star suffered an intracranial haemorrha ...
Posted Sunday, May 30th 2010 at 10:01AM
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WASHINGTON—U.S. President Barack Obama, responding to the failure of BP's latest attempt to plug a mile-deep oil and natural gas leak in the Gulf of Mexico, on Saturday expressed outrage at the duration of the spill and said that a new method the com ...
Posted Saturday, May 29th 2010 at 8:24PM
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From Newsweek.com
May 29, 2010
The deeply flawed plan for immigration reform put forward by Senator Chuck Schumer of New York (and backed by Obama) is not a positive place to begin the discussion.
While the nation's media attention was focuse ...
Posted Saturday, May 29th 2010 at 2:38PM
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From GlobalResearch.com
May 28, 2010
It's been 37 days since BP's offshore oil rig, Deepwater Horizon, exploded in the Gulf of Mexico. Since then, crude oil has been hemorrhaging into ocean waters and wreaking unknown havoc on our ecosystem -- un ...
Posted Saturday, May 29th 2010 at 2:34PM
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