Don't forget the sunscreen: It's summer travel time for the female members of the first family - they're headed to southern Africa this month.
First lady Michelle Obama announced Friday she will visit Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa and G ...
Posted Friday, June 3rd 2011 at 2:06PM
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Supermodel Naomi Campbell is reportedly set to take legal action against confectioners Cadbury over a "racist" ad where she was compared to a chocolate bar.
The 40-year-old is considering "every option available" following the chocolate giant's re ...
Posted Thursday, June 2nd 2011 at 1:22PM
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Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. has proposed, while testifying before the U.S. Sentencing Commission, to correct the disparity in sentencing between convicted powder cocaine and crack cocaine offenders by reducing the sentences of thousands of th ...
Posted Thursday, June 2nd 2011 at 1:18PM
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NEW ORLEANS -- New Orleans police have arrested a woman accused of leaving a 3-year-old boy in a parked car in sweltering heat for over eight hours Tuesday.
The woman, Genee' Brumfield, 23, is identified as the godmother of the child. She was boo ...
Posted Wednesday, June 1st 2011 at 10:27AM
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New York, NY--A new study by online auto insurance quote provider 4AutoInsuranceQuote.org finds that African-Americans pay more on average for auto insurance than people of other races. This study, that looked at annual car insurance rates for men in ...
Posted Wednesday, June 1st 2011 at 10:20AM
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USATODAY.com--New US claims for unemployment benefits rose last week by 10,000, climbing to a seasonally adjusted 424,000, as the nation’s job markets continue to stagnate. This marked the seventh straight week in which new claims have topped the 400 ...
Posted Wednesday, June 1st 2011 at 10:16AM
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BET.com--Whether it’s the new car, new handbag, new shoes or new something, there’s no doubt that Black folk will stay sharp, but at what cost is it to keep up with the Jones?
It may not cost anything the moment the purchase is made, but billions ...
Posted Monday, May 30th 2011 at 2:54PM
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Outskirts Press, Inc. has published Inside The Soul of Me: A Journey Through Poetry and Prose by Eric L. Burt. The author's most recent book to date is a 6.14 x 9.21 paperback in the African-American poetry category and is available worldwide on b ...
Posted Sunday, May 29th 2011 at 2:46PM
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NAACP questions library system's hiring practices
By SCOTT DAUGHERTY, Staff Writer
Published 05/29/11
ANNAPOLIS--The county chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People last week publicly asked County Executive John ...
Posted Sunday, May 29th 2011 at 2:32PM
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TheRoot.com--Three years before the commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic called on Union veterans’ organizations to decorate the graves of dead soldiers, blacks in Charleston, South Carolina in 1865 launched the first Decoration Day i ...
Posted Saturday, May 28th 2011 at 7:24PM
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(FinalCall.com) - The foundation of American White supremacy sits tenuously on a rickety base of lies and deceptions about how Whites gained their wealth and status. A century and a half after slavery the median wealth of White families is $100,000; ...
Posted Saturday, May 28th 2011 at 4:58PM
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The following text is excerpted from an interview with the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, originally appearing as Part 2 of a five-part Final Call Newspaper series on health in 1991.
THE HONORABLE MINISTER LOUIS FARRAKHAN:
Allah (God), in ...
Posted Saturday, May 28th 2011 at 4:46PM
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BET.com--Earlier this month, the popular magazine Psychology Today published an article by evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa titled “Why Are Black Women Less Physically Attractive Than Other Women?" that was met, expectedly, with mass outrag ...
Posted Saturday, May 28th 2011 at 4:39PM
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CHICAGO--GIL Scott-Heron, a poet and songwriter dubbed the Godfather of Rap, has died aged 62.
Scott-Heron, whose ground-breaking spoken-word performances set to music included The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, passed away at a New York hospi ...
Posted Saturday, May 28th 2011 at 4:19PM
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WASHINGTON—Congress on Thursday passed a four-year extension of post-Sept. 11 powers to search records and conduct roving wiretaps in pursuit of terrorists. Votes taken in rapid succession in the Senate and House came after lawmakers rejected attempt ...
Posted Friday, May 27th 2011 at 2:30PM
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ABCnews.com--PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel knows a thing or two about finding the next big thing.
Thiel was the first investor in Facebook and predicted the dotcom crash and the housing bubble. Now he believes the next big thing to burst is higher ...
Posted Friday, May 27th 2011 at 2:27PM
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(CNN) -- A top Nation of Islam official arrested in Guyana on suspicion of terrorism was released by police Friday afternoon and is demanding a formal apology, he and his lawyer there told CNN.
Painting himself as the victim of a "smear campaign," ...
Posted Thursday, May 26th 2011 at 12:07PM
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Newsweek.com--Monday's Supreme Court decision ordering California to reduce its overcrowded prisons by 30,000 inmates is as welcome as a ray of sunlight streaming through prison bars. State officials have known for decades of the horrific, if not cri ...
Posted Thursday, May 26th 2011 at 12:04PM
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Newsweek.com--In Zayed Military City, in a training camp in a desert area of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a secret army is in the making.
This secret army of mercenaries, which is slated to be used not only in the Emirates but throughout the M ...
Posted Thursday, May 26th 2011 at 12:03PM
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Black people with multiple sclerosis are more likely to have vitamin D deficiencies than blacks who don't have the disease, a new study shows.
The study, published in the May 24 issue of the journal Neurology, also said the deficiency is due prima ...
Posted Wednesday, May 25th 2011 at 12:53PM
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