Peace To All:
Explain to me why there are so many nut cases in this country. Consider, President Obama was born in Hawaii. Hawaii has been a state for 50 years. The 27% of the people in South Carolina believe that Hawaii is not a state. Documentat ...
Posted Friday, April 8th 2011 at 12:38PM
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Forces loyal to Col. Moammar Gadhafi have captured four journalists, two of whom are U.S. citizens.
One of the reporters, Clare Morgana Gillis, has reported for USA TODAY, TheAtlantic.com and TheChristian Science Monitor. The other U.S. citizen ar ...
Posted Friday, April 8th 2011 at 12:10PM
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TYLER (April 7, 2011)--Maricela Aguilera Rodriguez of Tyler is accused of dressing as a man, arming herself with a knife and a stun gun, and then barging into what turned out to be the wrong house to try to collect a debt.
Tyler police say a child ...
Posted Friday, April 8th 2011 at 12:05PM
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Meet the "First Family of Education" in England. They are black.
Peter and Paula Imafidon, 9-year-old twins from Waltham Forest in northeast London, are a part of the highest-achieving clan in the history of Great Britain education. The two younges ...
Posted Thursday, April 7th 2011 at 2:42PM
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WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan issued a challenge and delivered guidance to the next generation of Black leaders on the campus of Howard University here April 2.
The campus hosted a four-day conference bringin ...
Posted Thursday, April 7th 2011 at 1:57PM
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By the time Hurricane Katrina passed to the east of New Orleans, it wasn't a once-in-a-lifetime storm; the city probably experienced no more than Category 2 conditions. And many of the levees that failed weren't breached; they gave way because they h ...
Posted Thursday, April 7th 2011 at 1:44PM
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MEXICO CITY – A magnitude-6.5 earthquake shook a wide area of southern and central Mexico on Thursday, sending people fleeing into the streets, but causing only minor reported damage.
The epicenter was located near Las Choapas, a town of about 83, ...
Posted Thursday, April 7th 2011 at 1:34PM
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LOS ANGELES--In recent weeks the controversial urban/ Hip Hop inspired practice of sagging pants has come under fire. Two weeks ago Dallas Cowboy wide receiver Dez Bryant was kicked out of a shopping mall along with several of his friends for wearing ...
Posted Wednesday, April 6th 2011 at 12:19PM
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Naomi Campbell is hoping to arrange a fundraising event through her Fashion for Relief charity to raise money for earthquake-stricken Japan.
The 40-year-old supermodel is hoping to arrange an event with her Fashion for Relief charity - through whi ...
Posted Wednesday, April 6th 2011 at 12:07PM
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One of the most prominent and effective African American members of Congress, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), has long been a fighter against the spread of HIV/AIDS in the African American community and a strong advocate for the rights and care of ind ...
Posted Wednesday, April 6th 2011 at 12:01PM
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New York– The Secret Service is investigating a data heist that is being called the largest data heist in history.
Hackers breached the Epsilon marketing company’s records Friday, stealing millions of email contacts. Fortunately for countless pe ...
Posted Tuesday, April 5th 2011 at 12:30PM
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(Reuters) - Actress and goodwill ambassador Angelina Jolie appealed on Tuesday for international support for people fleeing the conflict in Libya and for increased aid for those inside the country.
Jolie, a goodwill ambassador for the United Natio ...
Posted Tuesday, April 5th 2011 at 12:27PM
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HARTFORD — Lawmakers are looking to strengthen landmark legislation requiring police to record the race of motorists in traffic stops.
The law, as currently written, directs the African-American Affairs Commission to analyze the data to determine ...
Posted Monday, April 4th 2011 at 8:41PM
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ATLANTA: The first-ever, over-the-air broadcast TV network programmed exclusively for African-American audiences will launch this fall, according to its founders. Bounce TV was announced today by a team of executives that includes former United Natio ...
Posted Monday, April 4th 2011 at 7:05PM
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From The Minnepolis Heart Institute
April 2, 2011
The sickle cell trait could be a cause—albeit rare—of sudden death in young African-American competitive athletes, most commonly during football training, according to a scientific poster that wil ...
Posted Sunday, April 3rd 2011 at 2:46PM
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DAKAR, Senegal — As rebels swept across Ivory Coast in a rapid advance to oust the nation’s strongman, Laurent Gbagbo, hundreds of people were killed in a single town last week, by far the worst episode of violence reported in the four-month politica ...
Posted Saturday, April 2nd 2011 at 7:18PM
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Inaugurated by the Academy of American Poets in 1996, National Poetry Month is now held every April, when publishers, booksellers, literary organizations, libraries, schools and poets around the country band together to celebrate poetry and its vital ...
Posted Saturday, April 2nd 2011 at 3:35PM
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SOUTH CAROLINA--A Lexington woman has been arrested on charges of impersonating a registered nurse and illegally treating patients.
Angela Gray-Jackson, 36, of South Lake Drive, is accused of using someone else's credentials to get jobs at the Co ...
Posted Saturday, April 2nd 2011 at 3:31PM
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The high school boy had had all he could take about grades and studying, so he stormed out of the classroom with a final crack about the teacher’s “Bill Cosby sweater.”
The line was part of a skit Friday at Ruskin High School. Everybody laughed. I ...
Posted Saturday, April 2nd 2011 at 3:26PM
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