MICHEL MARTIN, HOST:
I'm Michel Martin, and this is TELL ME MORE, from NPR News. We are taking TELL ME MORE on the road to Detroit tomorrow, so we wanted to get in a Detroit state of mind with some music from Detroit's own singer-songwriter K'Jon ...
Posted Tuesday, January 31st 2012 at 12:25PM
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Newsweek.com--The conflict between property rights and human rights has entered a new chapter. It is a debate that goes back to the challenge by landowners and merchants behind the American Revolution’s war on British control over the colonial econom ...
Posted Monday, January 30th 2012 at 12:50PM
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Faruq Hunter, an entrepreneur with a growing business and family,bought life insurance partly because of a hard lesson he learned from his father, who left behind $40,000 in debt when he died.
Hunter admires the fact that his father always helped ...
Posted Sunday, January 29th 2012 at 3:58PM
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WashingtonPost.com
January 29, 2012
An article in the Washington Post on January 26 revealed that a delegation from the Philippines was engaged in bilateral talks in Washington to negotiate the expansion of the American military presence in the c ...
Posted Sunday, January 29th 2012 at 3:21PM
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CANCER KILLER ¨C Natural Cancer Cell Killer 10,000 Times Stronger Than Chemo!
The Sour Sop or the fruit from the graviola tree is a miraculous natural cancer cell killer 10,000 times stronger than Chemo.
Why are we not aware of this? Its becaus ...
Posted Sunday, January 29th 2012 at 3:11PM
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ThinkProgress.org--ThinkProgress reported last week that Kansas House Speaker Mike O’Neal (R) was forced to apologize to First Lady Michelle Obama after forwarding an email to fellow lawmakers that called her “Mrs. YoMama” and compared her to the Gri ...
Posted Saturday, January 28th 2012 at 3:17PM
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BET.com--Associates of presidential candidate Ron Paul told the Washington Post that the Texas congressman was heavily involved in newsletters that included racist and incendiary language published under his name in the 1980s and 1990s.
Paul has ...
Posted Friday, January 27th 2012 at 12:44PM
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ARIZONA--Film director Spike Lee asked the more than 2,000 people who came to hear his lecture Wednesday night at Arizona State University’s Gammage Auditorium in honor of Black History Month for permission to speak directly to the African-Americans ...
Posted Friday, January 27th 2012 at 11:54AM
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January 25, 2012
Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad
By CHARLES DUHIGG and DAVID BARBOZA
The explosion ripped through Building A5 on a Friday evening last May, an eruption of fire and noise that twisted metal pipes as if they were discarded straw ...
Posted Friday, January 27th 2012 at 11:39AM
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Peace,
President Obama should be praised for wanting to RIGHT the WRONG that Bush did while he was in office. However, during John Kennedy's short tenure as president, he faced a similar situation regarding how to address South East Asia and the t ...
Posted Wednesday, January 25th 2012 at 12:04PM
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Peace,
If we are ever ready, willing and able to study the Transatlantic Slave trade from an analytical, logical, unemotional standpoint, there may be great benefit for us as individual ,ethnic groups, a nation and the whole world community.
I ...
Posted Wednesday, January 25th 2012 at 11:48AM
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Kate Beckinsale is back with a vengeance, with her latest "Underworld" movie opening at No. 1 this weekend.
"Underworld Awakening" made an estimated $25.4, distributor Sony Screen Gems reported Sunday.
This is the fourth fil ...
Posted Wednesday, January 25th 2012 at 11:40AM
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MSNBC.com--President Barack Obama will make the domestic economy the centerpiece of his last State of the Union address before he seeks re-election in November.
The speech is expected to call for sweeping initiatives to bolster the U.S. manufactur ...
Posted Tuesday, January 24th 2012 at 12:53PM
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TENNESSEE--Rand Paul, the junior senator from Kentucky and son of presidential hopeful Ron Paul, was detained by TSA agents in Nashville, Tennessee Monday morning, according to social media updates made by both libertarian lawmakers.
Just after 1 ...
Posted Tuesday, January 24th 2012 at 12:06PM
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By Fredda Sacharow
January 23, 2012
Environmental factors in many predominantly African-American communities – neighborhoods fortified with bullet-proof glass and barbed wire, for example, and bus ads aggressively pushing the glories of alcohol - ...
Posted Tuesday, January 24th 2012 at 12:02PM
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From GlobalResearch.com
January 23, 2012
On December 7, following the U.S. Supreme Court's refusal to consider the Philadelphia District Attorney's final avenue of appeal, current DA Seth Williams announced that he would no longer be seeking a de ...
Posted Monday, January 23rd 2012 at 1:21PM
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USAToday.com--Last month, teachers in Plymouth-Canton Community Schools, a middle-class school district in Wayne County, Michigan, were told to remove Graham Swift’s “Waterland” and Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer-winning “Beloved,” after complaints from tw ...
Posted Sunday, January 22nd 2012 at 4:29PM
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By Latonya Steames
January 21, 2012
I once trusted the Birmingham Public Schools. I sent my children to school thinking they were safe and protected. I found out different.
My 17-year old-daughter Gloria was sprayed in the face with pepper spr ...
Posted Sunday, January 22nd 2012 at 3:39PM
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