By Sharon Ewell Foster
August 23, 2011
On the 180th anniversary of the slave revolt, this author says his "Confessions" were a lie.
"The Confessions of Nat Turner, the Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Va.," as told to Thomas Gr ...
Posted Wednesday, August 24th 2011 at 1:18PM
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On July 5, 2011, closed circuit TV caught six Fullerton cops brutally murdering a homeless, mentally ill man. Kelly Thomas, age 37, died after being taken off life-support five days later.
A whistleblower who viewed the unreleased city-owned vide ...
Posted Wednesday, August 24th 2011 at 1:10PM
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(FinalCall.com) - Shenita Bell-Victor and her family still have vivid memories of losing everything after floodwaters ripped through their hometown of New Orleans. However, six years later, she says they have successfully settled into their new life ...
Posted Wednesday, August 24th 2011 at 1:03PM
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From Newsweek.com
August 21, 2011
I was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1969, in a time and place where no one was saying, ‘Look how far we’ve come,’ because we hadn’t come very far, to say the least. Although Jackson’s population was half white ...
Posted Tuesday, August 23rd 2011 at 12:16PM
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African American know a lot about what happened after our enslavement, in general, except maybe the last generation or so.
What we really don't know is about what we were doing before our enslavement. We were robbed of our great accomplishments. ...
Posted Sunday, August 21st 2011 at 6:19PM
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16-Year-Old Girl Starts Own Fashion Magazine: MyFoxCHICAGO.com
Matteson, Ill. - Illiana Christian High School student Chloe Graham, 16, has created her own fashion magazine because she wants other girls to look at a photo spread and actually see t ...
Posted Sunday, August 21st 2011 at 5:33PM
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — An African American housekeeper wants a judge to reinstate a lawsuit that claims Kathryn Stockett, author of the bestselling novel-turned-movie "The Help," used her likeness without permission.
"The Help" is based on relation ...
Posted Saturday, August 20th 2011 at 6:03PM
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On July 31, 2011 the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan was interviewed by legendary radio host Imhotep Gary Byrd of WLIB 1190AM in New York to discuss the upcoming Millions March in Harlem scheduled for Saturday, August 13. The following text origin ...
Posted Friday, August 19th 2011 at 11:45AM
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WASHINGTON--When congressional cost-cutters meet later this year to decide on trimming the federal budget, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq could represent juicy targets. But how much do the wars actually cost the U.S. taxpayer?
Nobody really know ...
Posted Thursday, August 18th 2011 at 10:55AM
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CHICAGO--In a Black History Month interview with the Chicago Sun-Times last year, Ethel Darden fixed lucent brown eyes on a reporter who’d just asked her to take a walk back through America’s race journey.
“I don’t like to look back. It’s hard eno ...
Posted Thursday, August 18th 2011 at 10:41AM
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A Louisiana man is accused of decapitating and dismembering his disabled 7-year-old son and leaving the boy's head near the street so the child's mother would see it -- a killing that brought seasoned police officers to tears, authorities said Monday ...
Posted Tuesday, August 16th 2011 at 1:07PM
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JACKSON, Miss. -- A Hinds County judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed against Kathryn Stockett, the author of "The Help," by a woman who claims a character in the book was based on her.
Hinds County Circuit Court Judge Tomie Green said during a he ...
Posted Tuesday, August 16th 2011 at 1:01PM
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LOS ANGELES, August 16, 2011, /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new episode of TAVIS SMILEY REPORTS primetime special on PBS will examine one of the most disturbing aspects of the education crisis facing America today -- the increased dropout rate among t ...
Posted Tuesday, August 16th 2011 at 12:57PM
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From Detroit Free Press
August 14, 2011
The tone was optimistic and the interaction spirited today as MSNBC presented a national show about public education live from Detroit.
About 400 local Detroiters gathered at Detroit School of Arts in ...
Posted Sunday, August 14th 2011 at 3:08PM
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