Born August 9, 1884 in Reading, Pennsylvania, Daisy Lampkin became one of the most highly acclaimed African American women of her time. While Lampkin is best known for becoming the first women to be elected to the national board of the NAACP, she spe ...
Posted Friday, March 9th 2012 at 12:39PM
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AdelaideNow.com--A common heart disease drug may have the unusual side-effect of combating racism, a new study has suggested.
Volunteers given the beta-blocker, used to treat chest pains and lower heart rates, scored lower on a standard psycholog ...
Posted Thursday, March 8th 2012 at 1:06PM
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Janet Collins (March 7, 1917 in New Orleans, Louisiana – May 28, 2003 in Fort Worth, Texas) was a ballet dancer and choreographer.
Janet Collins was one of the few classically trained Black dancers of her generation. In 1951 she won the Donaldson ...
Posted Thursday, March 8th 2012 at 1:00PM
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From The Huffington Post
March 7, 2012
The recently observed Black History month presents the opportunity for individuals worldwide to focus on the accomplishments and contributions of Black citizens in America. Often, this focus is directed at t ...
Posted Wednesday, March 7th 2012 at 1:23PM
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MARYLAND--An Essex man pleaded guilty in federal court on Monday for his role in hanging a raccoon on the porch of an African-American family, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.
Joshua Wall, 20, pleaded guilty to one count of “conspiracy to ...
Posted Tuesday, March 6th 2012 at 12:02PM
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(Reuters) - Black and Latino students across the United States are far more likely to be suspended than white students - and far less likely to have access to rigorous college-prep courses, according to a sweeping study released on Tuesday by the U.S ...
Posted Tuesday, March 6th 2012 at 11:51AM
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By Joan Walsh
March 3, 2012
One of the burdens of blackness, W.E.B. DuBois famously wrote, was facing down an omnipresent question from the wider society: ¡°How does it feel to be a problem?¡± I¡¯ve been wondering lately if white people might soo ...
Posted Sunday, March 4th 2012 at 6:05PM
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South African diva Miriam Makeba is well known throughout the world known as the Mama Africa and the Empress of African Song. Born in 1932 in South Afica, she first came to the public's attention as a featured vocalist with the Manhattan Brothers in ...
Posted Sunday, March 4th 2012 at 5:49PM
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Oprah Winfrey has landed the first interview with late singer Whitney Houston’s daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown, for a special to air March 11 on her OWN cable network.
Winfrey interviewed the 18-year-old (who turns 19 on March 4), as well as her m ...
Posted Saturday, March 3rd 2012 at 7:49PM
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