AP--Aretha Franklin has a lot more than her 70th birthday to celebrate: She's reuniting with one of her musical mentors, Clive Davis, for a new album.
In an interview at her swanky birthday party on Saturday, Franklin said she and Davis, who help ...
Posted Sunday, March 25th 2012 at 5:51PM
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Blaze.com--As federal and local authorities investigate the killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, and whether or not Florida’s “stand your ground” law applied to the shooter, George Zimmerman, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan has been calling ...
Posted Sunday, March 25th 2012 at 5:47PM
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Hey Mr. Taaffee. This is George. Um, first and foremost, I wanted to say I am very sorry for the loss of your son, and, um, I can't imagine what you must be going through. Um, secondly, I wanted to thank you for doing everything you've been doing ...
Posted Saturday, March 24th 2012 at 1:20PM
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A lot has happened since Trayvon Martin’s parents, Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulton, started their petition on Change.org demanding that Trayvon’s confessed killer, George Zimmerman, be arrested. But George Zimmerman still hasn’t been charged with Tra ...
Posted Saturday, March 24th 2012 at 12:02PM
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By Robin Good
March 22, 2012
Whitney Houston’s death involved foul play and this is implied by the Los Angeles County Coroner’s report released today. We learned that according to Coroner Chief Craig Harvey Whitney Houston died from accidental d ...
Posted Friday, March 23rd 2012 at 1:24PM
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Autherine J. Lucy-Foster, the University's first black student, attended her first class on February 3, 1956, and was suspended three days later "for her own safety" in response to threats from a mob consisting of both University students and non-students from the surrounding community.
Lucy-Fos ...
Posted Wednesday, March 21st 2012 at 2:22PM
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1862-1931) Ida B. Wells was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi, months before the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation.
She was the oldest of eight children. When her parents died in 1880 as a result of a yellow fever plague in Holly Springs, ...
Posted Monday, March 19th 2012 at 11:29AM
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From GlobalResearch.com
March 19, 2012
Gas prices continue to rise, which is finally giving Republicans an issue. Mitt Romney is demanding the President open up more domestic drilling; the super PAC behind Rick Santorum just released a new ad in ...
Posted Monday, March 19th 2012 at 11:20AM
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By Torrance Stephens
March 16, 2012
Hypothetically, let us assume there is a young man who has just finished school, and he is attempting to decide where he will move on to for his personal professional development. In this process, he meets with ...
Posted Saturday, March 17th 2012 at 6:54PM
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WorldSocialist.com--As many as 20 million Americans could lose their employer-sponsored coverage in 2019 under the health care legislation signed into law by President Obama in March 2010. This is the worst-case scenario set out by the Congressional ...
Posted Saturday, March 17th 2012 at 3:08PM
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From AmericanBanker.com
March 16, 2012
JPMorgan Chase & Co. took procedural shortcuts and used faulty account records in suing tens of thousands of delinquent credit card borrowers for at least two years, current and former employees say.
The ...
Posted Saturday, March 17th 2012 at 2:14PM
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Huffington Post--A photograph of a bumper sticker that features racist, anti-Obama language has gone viral on Facebook and other social networks.
The sticker reads "Don't Re-Nig In 2012," in large white type, above smaller text that reads: "Stop r ...
Posted Friday, March 16th 2012 at 11:45AM
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Unita Blackwell, a civil rights activist and the first black female mayor in the state of Mississippi, was born the daughter of sharecropping parents in Coahoma County, Mississippi on March 18, 1933. She worked throughout the civil rights era urging ...
Posted Friday, March 16th 2012 at 11:28AM
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This information presented at American Academy of Dermatology’s 70th Annual Meeting by Raechele Cochran Gathers, MD, FAAD, senior physician at the Multi-Cultural Dermatology Center of Henry Ford Hospital Department of Dermatology in Detroit.
San ...
Posted Friday, March 16th 2012 at 11:18AM
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On a local R&B station here in New Orleans their was a discussion on worship. The host of the morning radio show posed this idea that when we speak in a different language we are speaking from the reality of the people that speak that language.
O ...
Posted Thursday, March 15th 2012 at 11:55AM
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Chicago Sun-Times--When Steve Harvey signed on to do a nationally syndicated daytime TV talk show, producers considered basing the program in Connecticut or New York. Harvey’s current hometown, Atlanta, was in the mix too.
“But Chicago was my favo ...
Posted Thursday, March 15th 2012 at 11:38AM
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Dorothy Irene Height was born in Richmond, Virginia, on March 24, 1912. She was the daughter of James Edward Height, a building contractor, and Fannie Burroughs Height, a nurse. When Dorothy Height was very young, the family moved to Rankin, Pennsylv ...
Posted Wednesday, March 14th 2012 at 12:02PM
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Newsweek.com--In a massacre that expresses the brutality and horror of the entire American war in Afghanistan, an Army staff sergeant walked into a village in rural Kandahar province early Sunday morning and murdered 16 people, nine of them children. ...
Posted Monday, March 12th 2012 at 3:24PM
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SAN FRANCISCO--UC Berkeley on Saturday was once again the crucible of the free speech debate.
The birthplace of the Free Speech Movement in the 1960s hosted another iconoclast from the era, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, whose speeches an ...
Posted Sunday, March 11th 2012 at 3:09PM
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Lorraine Hansberry (born May 19, 1930, Chicago, Ill., U.S.—died Jan. 12, 1965, New York, N.Y.) American playwright whose A Raisin in the Sun (1959) was the first drama by an African American woman to be produced on Broadway.
Hansberry was interest ...
Posted Sunday, March 11th 2012 at 3:05PM
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