From GlobalResearch.com
September 03, 2012
It’s impossible to exaggerate the national importance of the teachers’ struggle in Chicago. If the Chicago teachers’ union — 26,000 members strong — goes on strike, many critical yet ignored political i ...
Posted Thursday, September 6th 2012 at 11:48AM
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CHICAGO--President Barack Obama or even the late the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. could not stop shootings plaguing the city, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright told some members Sunday at a West Side Church.
The community would have to come together to sto ...
Posted Wednesday, September 5th 2012 at 11:09AM
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Peace Family,
I am fine back in my New Orleans home recovering from the Tropical Storm Isaac aftermath. I was without cable and internet service for a week due to the power outages and other than the loss of a few plants in my garden, everything i ...
Posted Tuesday, September 4th 2012 at 11:19AM
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From Los Angeles Times
August 21, 2012
Are hip-hop artists such as Flavor Flav and Lil Wayne the new generation of black minstrels -- the African American jesters who used to entertain audiences with cartoonish, racially stereotypical shtick befo ...
Posted Sunday, August 26th 2012 at 4:13PM
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PORT-AU-PRINCE -- The death toll in Haiti continued to rise Sunday, as authorities struggled to recover form the damage left behind by Tropical Storm Isaac.
Haiti's Office of Civil Protection said at least seven people had been killed, including ...
Posted Sunday, August 26th 2012 at 3:19PM
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Michelle Obama is making a house call on "The Dr. Oz Show."
The show's producers say the first lady will tape an appearance Wednesday to discuss new provisions of her "Let's Move!" campaign and the Presidential Youth Fitness Program.
Producers ...
Posted Saturday, August 25th 2012 at 5:29PM
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Los Angeles (CNN) -- Rodney King's death in June was the result of accidental drowning, although alcohol, cocaine, marijuana and PCP found in his system were contributing factors, authorities said Thursday.
King, whose beating by Los Angeles polic ...
Posted Friday, August 24th 2012 at 11:24AM
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LOUISIANA--Many Isadore Newman students exhaled as the first day of the new school year came to an end Thursday, August 16. But that day was far from over for teen jewelry designer, Bridgeja’ Baker.
Later that evening, Baker, 14, owner of Creative ...
Posted Friday, August 24th 2012 at 10:43AM
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LL Cool J Takes Down Home Intruder
From Billboard
August 23, 2012
LL Cool J plays a special agent on TV's "NCIS: Los Angeles," and now he's caught an actual bad guy. The 44-year-old rapper struggled with and subdued a suspected burglar early Wed ...
Posted Thursday, August 23rd 2012 at 11:07AM
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Union City, GA-- On "Random Act of Kindness Day," A local Kroger manager brutally assaults 72-year-old "Good Samaritan" in store parking lot following produce give-away.
John Young, under the auspices of "God's Goodness, Inc." has for years colle ...
Posted Thursday, August 23rd 2012 at 10:45AM
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DETROIT -- First, it was cheese. And many pizza makers across the country absorbed sharply rising prices of the staple ingredient as long as they could before passing along some of the expense.
Now, they're dealing with the surging price of wheat ...
Posted Tuesday, August 21st 2012 at 12:29PM
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Director Spike Lee was surprised to learn how "self-motivated" the late Michael Jackson was.
Spike has put together a commemorative documentary on the King of Pop entitled Bad 25 in celebration of the 25th anniversary of Michael's 1987 hit record ...
Posted Tuesday, August 21st 2012 at 12:21PM
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(AP) RICHMOND, Va. - A former Marine involuntarily detained for psychiatric evaluation for posting strident anti-government messages on Facebook has received an outpouring of support from people who say authorities are trampling on his First Amendmen ...
Posted Tuesday, August 21st 2012 at 12:02PM
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PressTv.om--The father of Jason Smith, a 14-year old African American boy who was lynched by white supremacists in Louisiana on June 6, 2011, speaks out about how his son was beaten and killed.
"He was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan," Bruce Smith t ...
Posted Monday, August 20th 2012 at 2:17PM
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The following text is the second installment of edits from the Historic Saviours’ Day address given by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan on October 9, 1993 at The Los Angeles Sports Arena.
THE HONORABLE MINISTER LOUIS FARRAKHAN:
“Healing” ...
Posted Sunday, August 19th 2012 at 5:42PM
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Ebony spoke to Ludacris about his latest (and probably most wholesome) project -- a team effort with his 10-year-old daughter, Karma, to create karmasworld.com, an interactive, educational website complete with games and music. The site was introduce ...
Posted Saturday, August 18th 2012 at 7:35PM
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Examiner.com--In a video posted at Breitbart.com on Tuesday, a New Black Panther Leader identified by The Blaze as possibly being King Samir Shabazz, said that blacks will have to kill white babies “seconds” after they’re born, while suggesting bombi ...
Posted Thursday, August 16th 2012 at 12:19PM
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Gulfnews.com--Among his many dubious claims to fame, singer Bobby Brown is the man widely credited with introducing his former wife, Whitney Houston, to hard drugs.
But it seems even Whitney’s death in February, which was related to her cocaine u ...
Posted Wednesday, August 15th 2012 at 12:35PM
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DELAWARE--Members of the state and local NAACP chapters, Black Clergy Consortium, and Interfaith Coalition Building Blocks of Wilmington are holding a rally today near New Castle to address the fatal shooting last week of James L. Green by a local po ...
Posted Tuesday, August 14th 2012 at 2:03PM
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Just hours after making Olympic history Usain Bolt proved he was unstoppable both on and off the track as hit the London party scene.
The triple gold winning sprinter took clubbers by complete surprise when he turned up at the Puma Yard in Brick L ...
Posted Sunday, August 12th 2012 at 3:43PM
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