By J. Bryan Lauder
February 28, 2012
We’ve been hearing for some time that black women are happier with their bodies than their white counterparts, that in something vaguely defined as “black culture,” heavier, curvier female figures are praised ...
Posted Wednesday, February 29th 2012 at 12:18PM
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MY BLACKNESS
I'VE ANTICIPATED THIS MOMENT
OVER AND OVER IN MY MIND ...
KNOWING I WOULD GET MY CHANCE,
IN DUE TIME ...
A CHANCE TO TELL YOU MY BLACKNESS
IS NOT TOTALLY WHAT I AM,
BUT A MERE DESCRIPTION OF THE COLOR OF MY SKIN
PAY A ...
Posted Wednesday, February 29th 2012 at 11:43AM
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Daniel McCree recognized the safety benefits enjoyed by hotels, apartment buildings and office buildings and decided to extend that safety to homeowners.
Basing his model on fire escapes being used by bigger buildings, McCree created a portable v ...
Posted Tuesday, February 28th 2012 at 4:17PM
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By Jennifer Rubin
February 27, 2012
Is Rick Santorum gloomy? Or “one angry dude”? If you look at the past few days, his increasingly erratic performance reminds you of a basketball team trailing by single digits at the beginning of the fourth qua ...
Posted Monday, February 27th 2012 at 12:00PM
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WASHINGTON--Pentagon wants $100 million extra to be prepared for a war with Iran. The money, requested from the Congress, is to beef up US military presence in the Persian Gulf and rapidly upgrade weapons to more effectively combat Iranian armed forc ...
Posted Monday, February 27th 2012 at 11:51AM
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Donna Farrakhan, daughter of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, spoke to young women at the MGT-GCC (Muslim Girls Training & General Civilization Course) Saturday in Rosemont, Illinois as part of the 2012 Saviours’ Day weekend activities.
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Posted Sunday, February 26th 2012 at 8:26PM
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By Princeton Irvin Parker
February 26, 2012
As we come to the close of Black History month, many people are reflecting on the achievements and the progressive story of African Americans. It is not a novel idea, however, to note that while African ...
Posted Sunday, February 26th 2012 at 2:16PM
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Happy Saviours' Day To The Members Of The NOI,
And The Followers of The Teachings Of The NOI.
I Wish All Of You Many, Many More To Come!!!
As-Salaam Alaikum!!!
Love 2 Live & Live 2 Love,
Siebra
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Posted Sunday, February 26th 2012 at 2:05PM
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Henry Thomas Sampson, Jr. (born in Jackson, Mississippi in 1934) is an African American inventor of the cellular telephone.
Sampson graduated from high school in 1951 from Lanier High School in Jackson, Mississippi. He then attended Morehouse Coll ...
Posted Sunday, February 26th 2012 at 1:33PM
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CHICAGO (FinalCall.com) - Anticipation and excitement is growing as final preparations are being made for Saviours’ Day 2012 marking 82 years of the Nation of Islam’s existence in North America.
Each year, to commemorate the birth of its founder M ...
Posted Saturday, February 25th 2012 at 5:28PM
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By M. Alex Johnson, msnbc.com
St. Louis residents expressed outrage this week over a "Battle of the Complexions" contest scheduled for Friday night, but the event's promoters said they organized it to honor African-American women and regretted any ...
Posted Saturday, February 25th 2012 at 5:05PM
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