From AliceWalkersGarden.com
June 25, 2011
Why am I going on the Freedom Flotilla II to Gaza? I ask myself this, even though the answer is: what else would I do? I am in my 67th year, having lived already a long and fruitful life, one with which I ...
Posted Sunday, June 26th 2011 at 3:58PM
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SHREVEPORT – Richard Washington was truly surprised when the first anonymous phone call came. The caller was a white man telling him to remove photos and paintings of Black historical figures from his wall or lose business. But that was only the firs ...
Posted Saturday, June 25th 2011 at 5:21PM
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CHICAGO--Gun rights advocates and other right-wing groups responded harshly on Friday to some strong words on gun control by Chicago's new top cop.
Garry McCarthy, brought in as the superintendent of police by newly elected mayor Rahm Emanuel, mad ...
Posted Saturday, June 25th 2011 at 5:10PM
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From The Wall Street Journal
June 24, 2011
In April 1857, Samuel Green, a free black farmer and preacher living on Maryland's Eastern Shore, was taken from his home and sentenced to 10 years in prison for the felony of possessing a book that was, ...
Posted Friday, June 24th 2011 at 12:31PM
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In recent news, high-profile African-American men have come out of the closet. The latest to announce that they are gay are CNN News anchor Don Lemon and Georgia State Rep. Rashad Taylor, both of whom named homophobia in the black community as one of ...
Posted Friday, June 24th 2011 at 12:25PM
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LOUISIANA--"From the time I was little I wanted to be a doctor. Back in those days, the thing people would say to a good student was 'Oh, you're going to grow up and be a doctor,'" Lisa Jackson remembers. "I also had a female pediatrician and I know ...
Posted Friday, June 24th 2011 at 12:19PM
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O.J Simpson has reportedly confessed to Oprah Winfrey that he murdered his former wife, Nicole Simpson Brown. Oprah made headlines recently saying that one of her regrets was never having got the disgraced football player to confess to the killing.
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Posted Thursday, June 23rd 2011 at 1:46PM
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There's no doubt that the black man has the toughest job in America. He has been beaten down, called worthless and strategically cut out of American prosperity.
The dropout rate, incarceration rate and illiteracy rate would all lead us to believe ...
Posted Thursday, June 23rd 2011 at 12:56PM
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From GlobalResearch.com
June 22, 2011
Crescent City is far north in California, about 20 miles from the Oregon border. In 1989, 275 acres of dense forest near there were chopped down to build the $277.5 million Pelican Bay State Prison (PBSP). To ...
Posted Thursday, June 23rd 2011 at 12:35PM
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Community activist Rev. Al Sharpton and noted educator Dr. Cornell West will engage in a debate on June 24 during the annual convention of the National Newspapers Publishers Association.
The convention is being held in Chicago and the debate, acco ...
Posted Thursday, June 23rd 2011 at 12:28PM
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Last month, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers decided to blow holes in the levee in eastern Missouri's Birds Point. This month, reported the Kansas City Star, a small African-American town is suffering for it.
The small village of Pinhook, Mo. had ...
Posted Wednesday, June 22nd 2011 at 11:37AM
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NEW YORK--Prosecutors say a New York City woman beat her 5-year-old son to death because he broke the television while playing a Nintendo Wii video game.
Kim Crawford was charged with murder and manslaughter in Bronx Criminal Court on Tuesday. Sh ...
Posted Tuesday, June 21st 2011 at 12:27PM
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Anthony Weiner's resignation following the sexting scandal is number one news with all of the mainstream media today. But believe it or not, Weiner stepping down is not the most important news you need to know. As US military intervention in Liby ...
Posted Tuesday, June 21st 2011 at 12:07PM
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LOUISIANA--On June 1, a week past her 31st birthday, civil rights activist Catrina Wallace was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
This was the first arrest for Wallace, a single mother who became politically active when her brother was arrested in ...
Posted Tuesday, June 21st 2011 at 11:57AM
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FREEDOM OR FREE
By Sister Siebra Muhammad
Freedom or free are ideas to consider
Both has its might and splendor
One you have and one you are
Yet the one you are is the greatest by far
Freedom or free which do I prefer to have or be
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Posted Sunday, June 19th 2011 at 3:41PM
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The following is excerpted from one of several Father's Day speeches by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan.
THE HONORABLE MINISTER LOUIS FARRAKHAN:
As-Salaam Alaikum (Peace Be Unto You),
There is a scripture in the Bible that reads, “Fo ...
Posted Sunday, June 19th 2011 at 3:34PM
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MY LOVE, MY HEAVEN
My Brother
You are our love
You are our heaven
Our heaven right here on earth.
You are all that I want, need and adore
And there is nothing I want more.
You are
A love supreme
A beautiful black flower
You know y ...
Posted Sunday, June 19th 2011 at 3:19PM
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CHICAGO (FinalCall.com) - The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan told hundreds gathered for a town hall meeting here that those who resist the enemy and fight for justice should be supported and defended, and Black institutions should remain controll ...
Posted Saturday, June 18th 2011 at 5:58PM
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By Ranard Morris
June 13, 2011
As cities across our nation gear up for this year's annual Juneteenth celebration, the oldest known commemoration of the ending of slavery in America, I often wonder what freedom meant to the black men, women and c ...
Posted Tuesday, June 14th 2011 at 11:06AM
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MediaTakeout.com--Making the Twitter rounds on a super-sized scale today is this obviously fake sign that’s allegedly in a McDonald’s restaurant. It claims that “African-American customers are now required to pay an additional fee of $1.50 per transa ...
Posted Monday, June 13th 2011 at 10:22AM
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(FinalCall.com) - The war raging in Libya since February is getting progressively worse as NATO forces engage in regime change and worse, an objective to kill Muammar Gadhafi to eradicate his vision of a United Africa with a single currency backed by ...
Posted Monday, June 13th 2011 at 10:17AM
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