AFGHANISTAN-- A mother and her five children were among 20 civilians killed in two separate airstrikes in the southern Helmand and northwestern Badghis provinces, officials said on Monday.
The first incident took place late on Friday when an Inter ...
Posted Tuesday, May 8th 2012 at 12:47PM
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From Journal Sentinel
May 6, 2012
Raised in a sleepy Georgia town, an 18-year-old African-American named Frank Money enlists in the Army, commits atrocities in Korea, comes home with a broken mind, returns to Georgia to rescue his sister and even ...
Posted Sunday, May 6th 2012 at 4:27PM
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Newsweek.com
May 4, 2012
What a week. On Tuesday the DOW finished the day at 13,279, its highest close since December 2007. In terms of the stock market, we’ve crossed the great divide…December 2007, remember, was pre-financial crisis.
In fact ...
Posted Saturday, May 5th 2012 at 7:32PM
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NOTE: The following article contains edited excerpts of the message delivered by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan to the Little Rock Black Nurses Association in Little Rock, Arkansas on June 12, 1993.
THE HONORABLE MINISTER LOUIS FARRAKHAN: ...
Posted Friday, May 4th 2012 at 12:55PM
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NEW ORLEANS--Gospel superstar Yolanda Adams ministered to a New Orleans Jazz Fest crowd Sunday afternoon, preaching the importance of faith, hope and dance through an energetic set that showcased her mighty vocals.
The Grammy Award-winning musici ...
Posted Tuesday, May 1st 2012 at 12:56PM
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Civil rights leaders and relatives of Trayvon Martin and a slain California teenager joined together at a Los Angeles rally Thursday, urging justice and tolerance and called for action to stop the violence.
A photo of Martin we ...
Posted Monday, April 30th 2012 at 12:59PM
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LOS ANGELES--The Rev. Jesse Jackson addressed hundreds of Pasadena High School students on Wednesday with a message of nonviolent civic activism, encouraging teens to study hard, vote and resolve their issues peacefully.
Jackson is in the area to ...
Posted Sunday, April 29th 2012 at 3:15PM
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RAPID CITY--A 68-year-old, blind South Dakota man says after a two week stay in a Rapid City hospital, he returned home with unusual wounds on his abdomen which his caretakers soon discovered appear to spell out the letters "KKK."
Vernon Traversi ...
Posted Sunday, April 29th 2012 at 2:55PM
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NEW YORK--Robert Galinsky is skeptical about claims by producers of ABC’s “The Bachelor” that they’ve had a hard time finding black singles willing to be on the show.
Back when he was an acting teacher, Galinsky’s students were predominantly white ...
Posted Saturday, April 28th 2012 at 4:29PM
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Cissy Houston reportedly met with publishers about a book she would pen with a ghostwriter about Whitney Houston's life.
Cissy Houston, Whitney Houston's mother, says her book would 'dispel all of those lies.'
Cissy Houston had a meeting with ...
Posted Saturday, April 28th 2012 at 4:26PM
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SIOUX FALLS, SD - Some teenagers have found a new way to get drunk without going to a liquor store; they're turning to hand sanitizer. But the effects can be just as harmful and even lead to death.
It's no longer just a way to get your hands clean ...
Posted Friday, April 27th 2012 at 12:57PM
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Peace,
There is a saying in the Nation Of Islam that goes as such: "A Nation Can Rise No Higher Than Its Woman."
Someone in an NOI sisters group I frequent posed to us the question: "Why do you think this is so?"
ANSWER: For the same reason ...
Posted Friday, April 27th 2012 at 12:39PM
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CHICAGO (AP) — Jennifer Hudson shut her eyes tight Tuesday, holding still on a spectators’ bench, as a police officer at the trial of the man accused of killing three members of the Oscar winner’s family described coming across bloodied bodies at the ...
Posted Wednesday, April 25th 2012 at 12:39PM
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WASHINGTON--Former US President Jimmy Carter warned against a possible war with Iran Monday as he decried his nation’s involvement in unjust conflicts at a summit of Nobel Peace Prize laureates in Chicago.
Carter, a naval veteran who served as De ...
Posted Wednesday, April 25th 2012 at 12:26PM
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By Jennie Rothenberg Gritz
April 23, 2012
David Pilgrim was 12 years old when he bought his first racist object at a flea market: a saltshaker in the shape of a mammy. As a young black boy growing up in Mobile, Alabama, he'd seen similar knick-k ...
Posted Monday, April 23rd 2012 at 12:25PM
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