Thousands of UC Berkeley students, faculty, occupy protesters and residents from around the Bay Area lined up Friday night to view a dialogue between Carl Dix, a founding member of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, and Cornel West, a politicall ...
Posted Sunday, December 4th 2011 at 4:37PM
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LOUISVILLE--A small Kentucky church has chosen to ban marriages and even some worship services for interracial couples. The Gulnare Freewill Baptist Church, located in Pike County, made the vote in response to a longtime member who is engaged to a ma ...
Posted Friday, December 2nd 2011 at 12:43PM
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ATLANTA -- An attorney for Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain has demanded cell phone records from an Atlanta businesswoman accusing Cain of an extramarital affair.
Cain attorney Lin Wood sent a letter Wednesday to a lawyer representing ...
Posted Thursday, December 1st 2011 at 12:49PM
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LOS ANGELES, Nov. 27 (UPI) -- Lawyers for the man convicted in the 1968 assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy in Los Angeles say their client should be freed because he is innocent.
Sirhan Sirhan, 67, is serving a life sentence at Pleasant Valle ...
Posted Wednesday, November 30th 2011 at 12:32PM
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BET.com--A US judge is due to sentence Dr Conrad Murray on Tuesday for the manslaughter of pop star Michael Jackson with prosecutors asking for the maximum four year jail term and defence lawyers arguing for probation.
Murray (58) has been in jai ...
Posted Monday, November 28th 2011 at 2:20PM
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Newsweek.com--The Senate is set to vote on a bill next week that would define the whole of the United States as a ˇ°battlefieldˇ± and allow the U.S. Military to arrest American citizens in their own back yard without charge or trial.
ˇ°The Senate ...
Posted Monday, November 28th 2011 at 2:06PM
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The following is a video lecture by Minister Ava Muhammad, the national spokesperson for the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, speaking to Milwaukee about domestic violence and having a healthy respect for women and young girls in our communities. ...
Posted Sunday, November 27th 2011 at 4:48PM
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Newsweek.com--Reflecting on the Bush administration’s response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says that as the administration's highest-ranking African-American at that time, she regretted being on vacation i ...
Posted Sunday, November 27th 2011 at 4:24PM
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What a bride's love
means to us
is more than
we can express.
We never could
have imagined
What a bride's
love was about
Until we met you
And then we
really found out.
A bride is
the expression
of real love
It's an uncond ...
Posted Sunday, November 27th 2011 at 2:02PM
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OREGON--A couple of days after the Occupy Portland encampment was busted up by police, 15 occupiers took over a vacant, foreclosed home owned by Bank of America. "We have occupied a bank-owned house in the northeast suitable to house 30 to 40 people ...
Posted Thursday, November 24th 2011 at 5:21PM
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The Los Angeles Times is reporting that President Barack Obama told the Rev. Al Sharpton that he called on a higher power to help him understand the congressional super committee's failure to reach a deal to cut $1.2 trillion from the federal budget. ...
Posted Thursday, November 24th 2011 at 4:58PM
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A children's store in Colorado has been forced to pull its range of crotchless underwear for children after sparking outrage among local parents.
Mother Erin French visited the new store at Greeley Mall, Kids N Teen, where she said kids' backpacks ...
Posted Thursday, November 24th 2011 at 4:48PM
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By Sister Siebra Muhammad
The day light breaks
Another day has begun.
Still no sleep has come
My body is weary.
My mind overworked
I lie thinking. ...
Posted Tuesday, November 22nd 2011 at 5:52PM
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LIFE UPON THESE SHORES: Looking at African American History 1513-2008
By Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Knopf, 512 pp., $50.
America’s racial divide, that loathsome fault line through the nation’s soul, is now a decade into its sixth century with no end ...
Posted Tuesday, November 22nd 2011 at 5:37PM
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From The Huffington Post
November 20, 2011
Lisa Ling has covered a range of topics on her documentary series "Our America," from underage sex trafficking to the difficulties of being gay and Christian. Now, the 38-year-old journalist is taking on ...
Posted Sunday, November 20th 2011 at 5:08PM
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Q&A: Why is Gold Increasing?
The price of gold is an inverse indicator of the strength of the currency that you will use to purchase it. Gold has skyrocketed of late, because countries are printing fiat currency, as if no day of balancing will eve ...
Posted Sunday, November 20th 2011 at 3:45PM
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