DETROIT -- First, it was cheese. And many pizza makers across the country absorbed sharply rising prices of the staple ingredient as long as they could before passing along some of the expense.
Now, they're dealing with the surging price of wheat ...
Posted Tuesday, August 21st 2012 at 12:29PM
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Director Spike Lee was surprised to learn how "self-motivated" the late Michael Jackson was.
Spike has put together a commemorative documentary on the King of Pop entitled Bad 25 in celebration of the 25th anniversary of Michael's 1987 hit record ...
Posted Tuesday, August 21st 2012 at 12:21PM
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(AP) RICHMOND, Va. - A former Marine involuntarily detained for psychiatric evaluation for posting strident anti-government messages on Facebook has received an outpouring of support from people who say authorities are trampling on his First Amendmen ...
Posted Tuesday, August 21st 2012 at 12:02PM
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PressTv.om--The father of Jason Smith, a 14-year old African American boy who was lynched by white supremacists in Louisiana on June 6, 2011, speaks out about how his son was beaten and killed.
"He was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan," Bruce Smith t ...
Posted Monday, August 20th 2012 at 2:17PM
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The following text is the second installment of edits from the Historic Saviours’ Day address given by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan on October 9, 1993 at The Los Angeles Sports Arena.
THE HONORABLE MINISTER LOUIS FARRAKHAN:
“Healing” ...
Posted Sunday, August 19th 2012 at 5:42PM
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Ebony spoke to Ludacris about his latest (and probably most wholesome) project -- a team effort with his 10-year-old daughter, Karma, to create karmasworld.com, an interactive, educational website complete with games and music. The site was introduce ...
Posted Saturday, August 18th 2012 at 7:35PM
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Examiner.com--In a video posted at Breitbart.com on Tuesday, a New Black Panther Leader identified by The Blaze as possibly being King Samir Shabazz, said that blacks will have to kill white babies “seconds” after they’re born, while suggesting bombi ...
Posted Thursday, August 16th 2012 at 12:19PM
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Gulfnews.com--Among his many dubious claims to fame, singer Bobby Brown is the man widely credited with introducing his former wife, Whitney Houston, to hard drugs.
But it seems even Whitney’s death in February, which was related to her cocaine u ...
Posted Wednesday, August 15th 2012 at 12:35PM
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DELAWARE--Members of the state and local NAACP chapters, Black Clergy Consortium, and Interfaith Coalition Building Blocks of Wilmington are holding a rally today near New Castle to address the fatal shooting last week of James L. Green by a local po ...
Posted Tuesday, August 14th 2012 at 2:03PM
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Just hours after making Olympic history Usain Bolt proved he was unstoppable both on and off the track as hit the London party scene.
The triple gold winning sprinter took clubbers by complete surprise when he turned up at the Puma Yard in Brick L ...
Posted Sunday, August 12th 2012 at 3:43PM
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(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch today raised questions today about the testimony of Attorney General Eric Holder in the wake of a federal court ruling that cast doubt on the accuracy of sworn testimony provided by Assistant Attorney General for Civ ...
Posted Saturday, August 11th 2012 at 5:00PM
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AP--Officials in east Mississippi operate a "school-to-prison pipeline" that incarcerates students for disciplinary infractions as minor as dress code violations with a policy that affects mostly black and disabled children, the U.S. Justice Departme ...
Posted Saturday, August 11th 2012 at 3:33PM
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From The New York Times
Published: August 7, 2012
Students with disabilities are almost twice as likely to be suspended from school as nondisabled students, with the highest rates among black children with disabilities.
According to a new an ...
Posted Wednesday, August 8th 2012 at 12:17PM
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DailyMail.co.uk--The man whose life was the focus of 'The Corner,' a book about a year on a drug-plagued Baltimore street corner, has died of a suspected drug overdose.
De'Andre McCullough, 35, was found dead by his girlfriend at a home in the Bal ...
Posted Wednesday, August 8th 2012 at 12:14PM
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by Jon Pyle
Tidewater News
Published 10:33am Friday, August 3, 2012
Prior to the arrival at Plymouth Rock of the refugees from the Old World religious and political percussion, the Indians roamed the New England forest — free and unafraid.
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Posted Sunday, August 5th 2012 at 5:21PM
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THIS BLOG IS DEDICATED TO THE OVER 18 MONTHS OF SACRIFICE, SERVICE, AND DEDICATION, THAT WE HAVE RECIEVED FROM OUR LEADER AND PRESIDENT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA'S GUIDANCE & PERFECT EXAMPLE. THIS BLOG IS NOT MAINTA ...
Posted Saturday, August 4th 2012 at 6:59PM
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Peace To All:
In the Bible in Matthew 23:9 it reads, “Call no one on earth your father; you have but one Father in heaven.”
Yet, Jesus quotes Moses and the Decalogue in Mark 7:10, “Honor your father and your mother.”
My question is if the B ...
Posted Friday, August 3rd 2012 at 12:58PM
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Bishop TD Jakes talks Sparkle, black films, and Whitney Houston
August 1, 2012
By: Jeff Rivera
Who says black films don't make money? Mega-producer, businessman, philanthropist and cover of Time magazine honoree, Bishop TD Jakes begs to differ. ...
Posted Thursday, August 2nd 2012 at 6:31PM
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GlobalResearch.com--An Iranian court has sentenced four people to death for a billion-dollar bankfraud that tainted the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, state media reported on Monday.
Iranians, hit by sanctions and soaring inflation, ...
Posted Wednesday, August 1st 2012 at 1:02PM
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NEW YORK (AP) — Snoop Dogg wants you to know that he's tired of hip-hop, is Bob Marley reincarnated and is embracing reggae instead of the culture of guns he once rapped about.
Also, he's got a new name: Snoop Lion.
The artist said at a news co ...
Posted Wednesday, August 1st 2012 at 11:35AM
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