Harper Lee to publish new novel, 55 years after To Kill a Mockingbird
Go Set a Watchman, completed in the mid-50s but lost for more than half a century, was written before To Kill A Mockingbird and features Scout as an adult
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Mary Jane Patterson was born September 12, 1840, in Raleigh, North Carolina. She was the first African American woman to receive a B.A degree. She was the oldest of Henry Irving Patterson and Emeline Eliza (Taylor) Patterson's children. There is conf ...
Posted Monday, February 2nd 2015 at 5:35PM
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January 31st marked the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery.
To commemorate the occasion new photos have been released showing some of the men and women who lived through that era &nda ...
Posted Sunday, February 1st 2015 at 7:33PM
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After dropping his critically lauded Black Messiah, D’Angelo, was the featured guest on a J.K. Simmons-hosted episode of ‘Saturday Night Live.’ The sketch comedy show featured riffs on Obamacare, Microsoft Office, and Seattle Seahaw ...
Posted Sunday, February 1st 2015 at 7:23PM
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Saviours’ Day 2015 marks the 85th year of the Nation of Islam’s existence in North America
Each year, the Nation of Islam commemorates the birth of its founder Master W. Fard Muhammad (February 26, 1877). This year’s Saviours& ...
Posted Sunday, February 1st 2015 at 5:39PM
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The Woolworth sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests which led to the Woolworth's department store chain reversing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States. While not the first sit-ins of the African-American Civil Rights ...
Posted Sunday, February 1st 2015 at 5:31PM
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The following article contains excerpts from the message delivered by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan on June 15, 2013 as Part 23 of his 52-week Lecture Series “The Time and What Must Be Done” titled “We Must Unite To Save Ou ...
Posted Thursday, January 15th 2015 at 8:34PM
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(FinalCall.com) - A large gathering was held January 11 drawing more than a million to the streets of Paris for a rally, which many are calling the largest demonstration in French history.
While that symbolic show of international unity has captured ...
Posted Thursday, January 15th 2015 at 7:34PM
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Popular talk show host Oprah Winfrey is under fire from activists who have been out in the streets drawing attention to police brutality against young black men, after she called their movement “leaderless,” the Washington Post reports.
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Posted Sunday, January 4th 2015 at 3:25PM
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DISCLAIMER: This video is not meant to insult the Christian community. This is merely a point of view.
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TEXAS CITY - The last time Kathey Kelley saw her son, Carlton “Chimmy” Smith, he was surrounded by friends and family celebrating Christmas at her brother’s house in La Marque.
But a few hours later, her 20-year-old son, who friends and f ...
Posted Saturday, December 27th 2014 at 3:34PM
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In anticipation of The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan's desire to lead the Muslim community to Mecca for Hajj (Pilgrimage) in the near future. Here's a Photo to Inspire Us.
Here we see a smiling Minister Farrakhan with his delegation in Mecca ...
Posted Thursday, December 25th 2014 at 4:10PM
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The Beginning
The original God-Men of the Nile, Kemetians, Canaanites, Hittites and Moabites were the world’s first Astronomers. They recorded the exact timing and beginning of the four seasons within a calendar year. “Solstice”, pronounced ...
Posted Wednesday, December 24th 2014 at 6:06PM
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What’s next for Assata Shakur? With Havana’s humanitarian release of American Alan Gross—A USAID worker who had been imprisoned in Cuba for five years on accusations of espionage—President Obama announced a resumption in relations between the ...
Posted Thursday, December 18th 2014 at 5:23PM
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On December 17, 2008, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan was invited by Reverend Dr. Michael Pfleger of The Faith Community of St. Sabina, to deliver remarks at an emotional anti-violence rally at the Illinois State Building in downtown Chicago. ...
Posted Thursday, December 18th 2014 at 1:52PM
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President and Michelle Obama personally identify with everyday experiences of racial bias in America that have underpinned recent protests across the country, they told People magazine in an interview to be released Friday.
“Barack Obama was a ...
Posted Thursday, December 18th 2014 at 1:31PM
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BATON ROUGE--Mychal Bell, who made national headlines a few years ago as part of the ‘Jena Six,’ has graduated from Southern University.
According to a graduate list supplied by the school, Bell received a bachelor’s degree in interdisciplin ...
Posted Thursday, December 18th 2014 at 1:25PM
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PORTLAND, OREGON--Mariann Hyland made a vow 10 years ago, after Portland Police fatally shot 21-year-old Kendra James during a routine traffic stop.
Hyland, a Portland lawyer who is African American, promised to teach young black people how to su ...
Posted Wednesday, December 10th 2014 at 12:05PM
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CHICAGO--DuPage County sheriff’s records allege that 911 received a frantic call from the boy’s dad, Michael Cattron Sr., 46, stating his son had been shot and was laying in a pool of blood. When investigators arrived on the scene, the boy was no ...
Posted Wednesday, December 10th 2014 at 11:59AM
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Researchers working with Brockington Cultural Resources Consulting believe they have found the remnants of Gadsden’s Wharf in South Carolina, where an estimated 100,000 enslaved Africans arrived in America.
“It is the place of arrival for a hu ...
Posted Wednesday, December 10th 2014 at 11:37AM
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In recent weeks, the list of celebrities who have publicly defended Bill Cosby against his multiple sexual abuse accusations have included from Jill Scott, Whoopi Goldberg, and Cee Lo Green. And now longtime Cosby associate, Debbie Allen has shared h ...
Posted Sunday, December 7th 2014 at 8:02PM
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A letter to our African-American sons
Emma McElvaney Talbott, Special to The Courier-Journal 12:07 a.m. EST December 6, 2014
Dear African-American sons:
What just played out in Ferguson, Mo., and in Sanford, Fla., is nothing new. These stori ...
Posted Sunday, December 7th 2014 at 7:48PM
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In life, Marion Barry Jr. was known for his entrances, his sense of when to step into a room, light up a crowd and put himself at the center of the action — often conspicuously late.
In death, Barry delivered a remarkable exit, a three-day spec ...
Posted Saturday, December 6th 2014 at 8:05PM
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