By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
Global Research, July 16, 2011
Mirage fighters, F16 fighters, B-2 Stealth bombers, 15,000 NATO air sorties. the bombing of thousands of civilan targets...
NATO is said to be coming to the rescue of the Libyan peopl ...
Posted Friday, July 15th 2011 at 4:56PM
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From The New York Times
July 14, 2011
Gay history will soon be included in California's schools curriculum.
The state has become the first in the nation to require textbooks and history classes to cover the contributions of gay, lesbian and tr ...
Posted Friday, July 15th 2011 at 4:45PM
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Tyler Perry covers Ebony magazine’s August 2011 issue. Inside, he reveals the 3 events in his life that profoundly changed him; the first being turning 40, the second being his mother dying, and the third being his appearance on “Oprah” in which he s ...
Posted Thursday, July 14th 2011 at 6:26PM
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Religion has been the greatest tool used to conquer and convert the minds of Black people. When you connect a belief system to a religion its affects can be so much more profound and longer lasting. An example of this can be seen wherein which during ...
Posted Thursday, July 14th 2011 at 5:55PM
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The following excerpt is taken from a message delivered by Minister Louis Farrakhan on November 25, 2003.
The prevailing attitude of White supremacy has produced within the minds and hearts of Black people throughout the world, but especially in A ...
Posted Thursday, July 14th 2011 at 5:52PM
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Nailing Rupert Murdoch for his employees' phone tapping or bribery would be a little like bringing down Al Capone for tax fraud, or George W. Bush for torture. I'd be glad to see it happen but there'd still be something perverse about it.
I remem ...
Posted Thursday, July 14th 2011 at 12:44PM
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1441: Start of European slave trading in Africa. The Portuguese captains Antão Gonçalves and Nuno Tristão capture 12 Africans in Cabo Branco (modern Mauritania) and take them to Portugal as slaves.
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1444: Lançarote de Freitas, a tax-collector ...
Posted Thursday, July 14th 2011 at 12:29PM
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Health.com--High levels of anxiety, stress or depression during pregnancy may be associated with a greater risk of asthma for the baby, suggests a new study that focused on inner-city minority women.
Somewhat similar findings regarding an associat ...
Posted Thursday, July 14th 2011 at 12:19PM
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“I have never met a person whose greatest need was anything other than real, unconditional love. You can find it in a simple act of kindness toward someone who needs help. There is no mistaking love. You feel it in your heart. It is the common fiber ...
Posted Monday, July 11th 2011 at 11:59AM
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Washington (CNN) – Republican presidential candidates Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum sough to clarify their support of a pledge that contained a controversial preamble suggesting black children born into slavery had better family structures than ...
Posted Monday, July 11th 2011 at 11:54AM
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CHICAGO--While sorting through old records in the Burr Oak cemetery office, employees found a handful of old brochures asking for donations to the “Emmett Till Historical Museum and Mausoleum.”
Former manager Carolyn Towns, sentenced Friday to 12 ...
Posted Monday, July 11th 2011 at 11:35AM
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From GlobalResearch.com
July 8, 2011
The New York Times coverage of the recent National Education Association (N.E.A.) convention focused on the inconsequential, while paying little notice to what harbored fundamental significance. It aimed its s ...
Posted Sunday, July 10th 2011 at 3:15PM
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The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is seeking applicants for its annual scholarship honoring the life and work of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks.
This year's awardee of the annual $1,000 "Rosa Parks Civil Liberties Scholarship" will ...
Posted Sunday, July 10th 2011 at 3:01PM
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Oak Park, Michigan--Their front yard was torn up after replacing a sewer line, so instead of replacing the dirt with grass, one Oak Park woman put in a vegetable garden and now the city is seeing green.
The list goes on: fresh basil, cabbage, carr ...
Posted Saturday, July 9th 2011 at 4:56PM
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The following article contains excerpts from the keynote address delivered by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan on Saturday, April 2, 2011 titled, “Channeling Our Intelligence and Creative Energy to Save Ourselves” during Howard University's 2n ...
Posted Saturday, July 9th 2011 at 4:32PM
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From The Los Angeles Times
July 8, 2011
CNN's newly announced prime-time news lineup has come under fire by the NAACP, which claims the slate continues a multi-network trend that excludes African Americans from prime-time slots as anchors and hos ...
Posted Friday, July 8th 2011 at 1:32PM
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NORTH CAROLINA--Researchers from Villanova University recently found that women convicted of crimes who are of darker complexion, serve more time in jail that lighter skinned Blacks.
Villanova researchers studied more than 12,000 cases of African- ...
Posted Thursday, July 7th 2011 at 11:53AM
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NEW ORLEANS-- Today, African-American homeowners and two civil rights organizations announced a settlement in a post-Hurricane Katrina housing discrimination lawsuit brought against the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the S ...
Posted Thursday, July 7th 2011 at 11:47AM
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BET.com--Clayton Hill, a former member of the Nation of Islam and currently incarcerated at a federal prison in Chicago, has come forward and told HipHopDX.com that he played an accessory to the murder of rapper Notorious BIG after the fact, and know ...
Posted Wednesday, July 6th 2011 at 1:04PM
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AN OPEN LETTER TO BLACK LEADERSHIP
July 19, 2010
To the Spiritual, Political, Educational, and Economic Leaders and to our Sports and Entertainment Giants:
May this open letter find you well and in good spirit as we search for a solution to ...
Posted Wednesday, July 6th 2011 at 12:55PM
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