By Clay Routledge, Ph.D.
March 30, 2012
The recent killing of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black male teen, in Florida has reignited discussions regarding the problem of racism in modern America. Though all the facts of the incident are not yet cl ...
Posted Saturday, March 31st 2012 at 4:28PM
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Sarah E. Goode (born Sarah E. Jacob) was born into slavery in about 1850.
She gained her freedom at the end of the Civil War and moved to Chicago shortly after. In Chicago she met and married Archibald Goode, a carpenter.
The idea of being ma ...
Posted Friday, March 30th 2012 at 11:34AM
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CATECHUMENS, HOUSE OF (called also Casa dei Neofiti) was a Roman institution for converting Jews to Catholicism, which the Jews, by means of taxes, were compelled to support. The Vatican founded this house for converts March 21, 1548 (Rieger, ii. 64) ...
Posted Friday, March 30th 2012 at 10:33AM
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NEW ORLEANS -- Hundreds of students from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Charter School marched on the streets of New Orleans in hooded sweatshirts Monday and demanded justice for the death of Trayvon Martin.
Martin, 17, was a Florida student killed la ...
Posted Thursday, March 29th 2012 at 3:08PM
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DETROIT (WJBK) - Minister Malik Shabazz made headlines when he made this impassioned remark at a Detroit financial review meeting on Monday: "This is white supremacy, and we will fight you. Before you can take over our city, we will burn it down firs ...
Posted Thursday, March 29th 2012 at 2:58PM
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This is from a friend of mine:
PLEASE READ THIS, IT’S VERY VERY IMPORTANT
Not just for girls. The moral to this story is
“DO NOT” take anything from strangers, not even if you think you'll just throw it away.
This is an actual email from the ...
Posted Thursday, March 29th 2012 at 2:50PM
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Fannie Lou Hamer (born Fannie Lou Townsend) was born October 6, 1917, in Montgomery County, Mississippi. She was the granddaughter of slaves. Her family were sharecroppers - a position not that different from slavery. Hamer had 19 brothers and sister ...
Posted Wednesday, March 28th 2012 at 11:54AM
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By Li Onesto
March 27, 2012
The February 26 murder of Trayvon Martin has ignited outrage around the country and reminded us once again of this cold hard fact of life in the USA.
That if you¡¯re Black, and especially if you¡¯re young, male, and ...
Posted Wednesday, March 28th 2012 at 11:43AM
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CNN--Irish singer songwriter Sinead O’Connor has posted an open letter to Treyvon Martin’s family on her website. The controversial singer expressed her sympathy towards the Martin family whose teenage son was shot in Sanford, Florida by neighborhood ...
Posted Tuesday, March 27th 2012 at 11:02AM
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AP--Aretha Franklin has a lot more than her 70th birthday to celebrate: She's reuniting with one of her musical mentors, Clive Davis, for a new album.
In an interview at her swanky birthday party on Saturday, Franklin said she and Davis, who help ...
Posted Sunday, March 25th 2012 at 5:51PM
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Blaze.com--As federal and local authorities investigate the killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, and whether or not Florida’s “stand your ground” law applied to the shooter, George Zimmerman, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan has been calling ...
Posted Sunday, March 25th 2012 at 5:47PM
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