CHICAGO--Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan continued Thursday in his role as Moammar Gadhafi's only outspoken friend in the United States.
Even Gadhafi's own ambassador to the United Nations has denounced him, comparing the Libyan leader to f ...
Posted Friday, April 1st 2011 at 12:07PM
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Big polluters are working hard to make deals that would threaten the air we breathe, the water we drink and the public lands we all enjoy. In fact, they are trying to attach these dirty deals to just about every piece of legislation considered by Con ...
Posted Friday, April 1st 2011 at 11:50AM
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Naomi Tutu arrived back in the United States from South Africa on Sunday morning, having spent two weeks leading a group of women through her homeland.
"The trip to South Africa was a wonderful opportunity to bring African-American women into conn ...
Posted Tuesday, March 29th 2011 at 1:35PM
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Everywhere you turn on television, women are fussing and fighting with each other. Be it the “Real Housewives,” the “Desperate Housewives” or the “Basketball Wives,” television is pumping out some of the cattiest, most duplicitous females ever seen ...
Posted Tuesday, March 29th 2011 at 1:30PM
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The same pro-life group behind the controversial New York City billboard that was recently forcefully removed is putting up another attention-grabbing, anti-abortion ad in Chicago, this time featuring the likeness of President Barack Obama.
Pro-li ...
Posted Tuesday, March 29th 2011 at 1:24PM
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Ray Charles alleged mistress Marci Soto, has penned a memoir entitled “Ray & Me,” where she dishes some very private secrets and even admits to robbing the blind soul star!
Soto writes that even though the pair were both married to other people wh ...
Posted Monday, March 28th 2011 at 3:08PM
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Trace amounts of radiation from damaged nuclear-power facilities in Japan have been detected in rainwater in the U.S., but pose no health risks, officials said.
Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Nevada and other Western states are among the states that ...
Posted Monday, March 28th 2011 at 3:07PM
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A deaf Texan is accused of channelling his inner Mike Tyson and chomping off part of another deaf man's ear during a night of mayhem, police said Monday.
And that was before 26-year-old Davon Stewart got flattened by an SUV - and busted out of a H ...
Posted Monday, March 28th 2011 at 2:57PM
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Velvet-voiced chanteuse Sade will release The Ultimate Collection on May 3rd.
In addition to classics, the two-disc album will include three new, never-before heard songs including "Moon & The Sky," which features Jay-Z.
The track listing wil ...
Posted Sunday, March 27th 2011 at 7:27PM
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The following writing is by Lindsay Turner, a 13 year old student at Agnes Irwin School in Rosemont, Pennsylvania:
If one looked at Booker T. Washington while he was a slave living in Virginia, the thought of him becoming one of the most famous Af ...
Posted Sunday, March 27th 2011 at 4:59PM
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President Obama is making another gold rush to New York - except this cash bash will be his first north of 125th St.
On Tuesday, Obama will be the headliner for a $30,800-per-head Democratic National Committee fund-raiser at Harlem's trendy Red Ro ...
Posted Sunday, March 27th 2011 at 4:51PM
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As demonstrations took place across the country to mark the eighth anniversary of the "shock and awe" invasion of Iraq, bombs and missiles began raining down on the people of Libya. The ANSWER Coalition immediately put out a call for protests to take ...
Posted Sunday, March 27th 2011 at 4:46PM
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No one has been able to explain to me why young men and women serve in the U.S. Military for 20 years, risking their lives protecting freedom, and only get 50% of their pay. While politicians hold their political positions in the safe confines of the ...
Posted Saturday, March 26th 2011 at 5:00PM
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The Nobel Peace Prize that Barack Obama won in 2009 is back in the news again, now that American forces are involved in military action against the Libyan government.
Jody Williams, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997 for her work eliminatin ...
Posted Saturday, March 26th 2011 at 4:01PM
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CALIFORNIA--It was not only a full house, but an overflowing crowd, at Moorpark High School’s performing arts center when Myrlie Evers-Williams spoke there Thursday evening.
The audience was young and old, white and black, and the anticipation was ...
Posted Saturday, March 26th 2011 at 3:48PM
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Newsweek.com--Supporting Oil prices advanced again Wednesday as the U.S. and its allies reportedly continued air strikes in Libya and new data showed U.S. gasoline demand continues to rise despite sharp price increases at the pump.
May light sweet ...
Posted Friday, March 25th 2011 at 11:57AM
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FORT LAUDERDALE- A South Florida Catholic school teacher is being reprimanded after making an insensitive comment to an African-American student.
According to the student - a Cardinal Gibbons 9th grader who asked that we identify him as Kaylan - h ...
Posted Friday, March 25th 2011 at 11:54AM
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Some advocates for racial equality are criticizing the selection of Louis Farrakhan as the keynote speaker for an annual convention of civil rights veterans in Mississippi.
Farrakhan leads the Chicago-based Nation of Islam, w ...
Posted Friday, March 25th 2011 at 11:48AM
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TENNESSEE--A world-renown scholar, author and political activist, Angela Davis, urged students to ask questions when she spoke to a crowded room Tuesday night in the James Union Building.
The lecture was part of National Women's History Month obse ...
Posted Thursday, March 24th 2011 at 12:02PM
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