LOUISIANA--Controversy erupted at a Slidell junior high school late last week when at least one parent observed drawings and altered pictures depicting malicious images of President Barack Obama, including one photo in which a bullet hole was portray ...
Posted Saturday, February 11th 2012 at 4:28PM
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World famous journalist and history's best selling Black author Alex Haley was born Alexander Murray Palmer Haley in Ithaca, New York on August 11, 1921. Haley began his writing career as a senior editor for Reader's Digest shortly after retiring fro ...
Posted Friday, February 10th 2012 at 12:19PM
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Cornell West is pissed because Al Sharpton won't blast President Obama's administration. He said Al came out of the black prophetic tradition like him (Cornell) and should say something but he won't say a mumbling word.
Then Cornell West started ...
Posted Friday, February 10th 2012 at 12:14PM
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Newsweek.com--DCI/Palestine "is a national section of the international non-government child rights organisation and movement (dedicated) to promoting and protecting the rights of Palestinian children," according tointernational law principles.
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Posted Thursday, February 9th 2012 at 1:06PM
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Alice Walker, best known perhaps as the author of The Color Purple, was the eighth child of Georgia sharecroppers. After a childhood accident blinded her in one eye, she went on to become valedictorian of her local school, and attend Spelman College ...
Posted Thursday, February 9th 2012 at 1:03PM
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Newsweek.com--An article published in the Solar System Research magazine reported several objects resembling living beings were detected on photos made by a Russian landing probe in 1982 during a Venus mission.
Leonid Ksanfomaliti of the Space Res ...
Posted Thursday, February 9th 2012 at 11:29AM
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BET--Rap legend MC Lyte is one of 60 African-American stars who are banding together to bring awareness to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the black community.
MC Lyte joins actors and actresses like Nia Long, Affion Crockett, Samuel L. Jackson, Naturi N ...
Posted Tuesday, February 7th 2012 at 12:20PM
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Joseph Lee was born July 19, 1849. He is a black inventor from Boston, Massachusetts. He was known in the food industry because he worked in a bakery as a young boy. So he prepared, cooked, and served food and later opened two successful restaurants ...
Posted Tuesday, February 7th 2012 at 12:13PM
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Over three decades after his death, the immortal words the revered Bob Marley gave the world, continue to inspire.
Protestors around the world, whether those at Occupy Wall St. styled protests or elsewhere, continue to chant "Get Up S ...
Posted Monday, February 6th 2012 at 12:05PM
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WASHINGTON--The Great Recession carried special pain for black women like Jane Ladson.
She had always been the one her family turned to when they needed help, and she didn’t hesitate to give it. She helped pay for weddings and rent. She made room ...
Posted Monday, February 6th 2012 at 11:52AM
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By Charles Foerster
February 1, 2012
There is a great controversy raging between good and evil at the soda fountain or pop machine but the general public does not seem to be aware of it. The consequences of the dietary changes that have occurred ...
Posted Monday, February 6th 2012 at 11:46AM
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Henry Louis "Hank" Aaron (born February 5, 1934) is widely considered one of the greatest baseball players of all time. In 1999, editors at The Sporting News ranked Hank Aaron fifth on their list of "Greatest Baseball Players".
Hank Aaron was born ...
Posted Sunday, February 5th 2012 at 3:57PM
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Newsweek.com--Hundreds of anti-war activists are expected to attend the United National Antiwar Coalitions National Conference in Stamford, Conn., March 23-25.
UNAC established itself as a major anti-war coalition in the summer of 2010 when 800 p ...
Posted Sunday, February 5th 2012 at 3:42PM
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From The San Francisco Chronicle
February 4, 2012
The labels used to describe Americans of African descent mark the movement of a people from the slave house to the White House. Today, many are resisting this progression by holding on to a name f ...
Posted Saturday, February 4th 2012 at 2:22PM
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SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates — A research body here is seeking global tie ups to produce drugs to treat deadly diseases including Aids from the unique antibodies found in camel's milk.
The Arab Science and Technology Foundation that is working on ...
Posted Friday, February 3rd 2012 at 10:53AM
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The following text is excerpted from “A Torchlight for America,” chapter 4, pages 47-53, written by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, 1993.
THE HONORABLE MINISTER LOUIS FARRAKHAN:
Let’s deal with what education is supposed to be as oppose ...
Posted Friday, February 3rd 2012 at 10:40AM
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Arthur John (Jack) Johnson (1878 -1946) was the first black, and first Texan, to win the heavyweight boxing championship of the world.
Born in Galveston on March 31, 1878, he was the second of six children of Henry and Tiny Johnson. Henry was a fo ...
Posted Friday, February 3rd 2012 at 10:21AM
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Eric Himpton Holder, Jr. was born in the Bronx, New York, to parents with roots in Barbados. Holder grew up in East Elmhurst, Queens, and attended public school until the age of 10. When entering the 4th grade he was selected to participate in a prog ...
Posted Thursday, February 2nd 2012 at 12:15PM
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The Woolworth sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests which led to the Woolworth's department store chain reversing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States.
While not the first sit-ins of the African-American Civil Righ ...
Posted Wednesday, February 1st 2012 at 4:55PM
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Peace,
On Page 7, of The Frederick Douglass Encyclopedia, it states: "Douglass was unconvinced that living and working in Africa would appreciably be more effective in abolishing the slave trade, because the "savage chiefs" in West Africa were lit ...
Posted Wednesday, February 1st 2012 at 4:36PM
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