BET.com--A US judge is due to sentence Dr Conrad Murray on Tuesday for the manslaughter of pop star Michael Jackson with prosecutors asking for the maximum four year jail term and defence lawyers arguing for probation.
Murray (58) has been in jai ...
Posted Monday, November 28th 2011 at 2:20PM
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Newsweek.com--The Senate is set to vote on a bill next week that would define the whole of the United States as a ˇ°battlefieldˇ± and allow the U.S. Military to arrest American citizens in their own back yard without charge or trial.
ˇ°The Senate ...
Posted Monday, November 28th 2011 at 2:06PM
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The following is a video lecture by Minister Ava Muhammad, the national spokesperson for the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, speaking to Milwaukee about domestic violence and having a healthy respect for women and young girls in our communities. ...
Posted Sunday, November 27th 2011 at 4:48PM
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Newsweek.com--Reflecting on the Bush administration’s response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says that as the administration's highest-ranking African-American at that time, she regretted being on vacation i ...
Posted Sunday, November 27th 2011 at 4:24PM
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What a bride's love
means to us
is more than
we can express.
We never could
have imagined
What a bride's
love was about
Until we met you
And then we
really found out.
A bride is
the expression
of real love
It's an uncond ...
Posted Sunday, November 27th 2011 at 2:02PM
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OREGON--A couple of days after the Occupy Portland encampment was busted up by police, 15 occupiers took over a vacant, foreclosed home owned by Bank of America. "We have occupied a bank-owned house in the northeast suitable to house 30 to 40 people ...
Posted Thursday, November 24th 2011 at 5:21PM
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The Los Angeles Times is reporting that President Barack Obama told the Rev. Al Sharpton that he called on a higher power to help him understand the congressional super committee's failure to reach a deal to cut $1.2 trillion from the federal budget. ...
Posted Thursday, November 24th 2011 at 4:58PM
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A children's store in Colorado has been forced to pull its range of crotchless underwear for children after sparking outrage among local parents.
Mother Erin French visited the new store at Greeley Mall, Kids N Teen, where she said kids' backpacks ...
Posted Thursday, November 24th 2011 at 4:48PM
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By Sister Siebra Muhammad
The day light breaks
Another day has begun.
Still no sleep has come
My body is weary.
My mind overworked
I lie thinking. ...
Posted Tuesday, November 22nd 2011 at 5:52PM
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LIFE UPON THESE SHORES: Looking at African American History 1513-2008
By Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Knopf, 512 pp., $50.
America’s racial divide, that loathsome fault line through the nation’s soul, is now a decade into its sixth century with no end ...
Posted Tuesday, November 22nd 2011 at 5:37PM
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From The Huffington Post
November 20, 2011
Lisa Ling has covered a range of topics on her documentary series "Our America," from underage sex trafficking to the difficulties of being gay and Christian. Now, the 38-year-old journalist is taking on ...
Posted Sunday, November 20th 2011 at 5:08PM
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Q&A: Why is Gold Increasing?
The price of gold is an inverse indicator of the strength of the currency that you will use to purchase it. Gold has skyrocketed of late, because countries are printing fiat currency, as if no day of balancing will eve ...
Posted Sunday, November 20th 2011 at 3:45PM
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CNN--The "Just Say No" generation was often told by parents and teachers that intelligent people didn't use drugs. Turns out, the adults may have been wrong.
A new British study finds children with high IQs are more likely to use drugs as adults ...
Posted Saturday, November 19th 2011 at 7:00PM
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BET.com--Queen Latifah has revealed that she would like to become a mother and has plans to adopt a child. The 41-year-old singer-and-actress who is usually guarded about her private life told More magazine she would be happy to have a baby naturall ...
Posted Friday, November 18th 2011 at 1:48PM
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The widower of slain rapper Magnolia Shorty has been shot dead just weeks before the first anniversary of his wife's murder.
The hip-hop star - real name Renetta Lowe - was gunned down in her native New Orleans, Louisiana on December 2010.
Now ...
Posted Friday, November 18th 2011 at 1:27PM
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