LOUISIANA--Controversy erupted at a Slidell junior high school late last week when at least one parent observed drawings and altered pictures depicting malicious images of President Barack Obama, including one photo in which a bullet hole was portray ...
Posted Saturday, February 11th 2012 at 4:28PM
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World famous journalist and history's best selling Black author Alex Haley was born Alexander Murray Palmer Haley in Ithaca, New York on August 11, 1921. Haley began his writing career as a senior editor for Reader's Digest shortly after retiring fro ...
Posted Friday, February 10th 2012 at 12:19PM
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Cornell West is pissed because Al Sharpton won't blast President Obama's administration. He said Al came out of the black prophetic tradition like him (Cornell) and should say something but he won't say a mumbling word.
Then Cornell West started ...
Posted Friday, February 10th 2012 at 12:14PM
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Newsweek.com--DCI/Palestine "is a national section of the international non-government child rights organisation and movement (dedicated) to promoting and protecting the rights of Palestinian children," according tointernational law principles.
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Posted Thursday, February 9th 2012 at 1:06PM
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Alice Walker, best known perhaps as the author of The Color Purple, was the eighth child of Georgia sharecroppers. After a childhood accident blinded her in one eye, she went on to become valedictorian of her local school, and attend Spelman College ...
Posted Thursday, February 9th 2012 at 1:03PM
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Newsweek.com--An article published in the Solar System Research magazine reported several objects resembling living beings were detected on photos made by a Russian landing probe in 1982 during a Venus mission.
Leonid Ksanfomaliti of the Space Res ...
Posted Thursday, February 9th 2012 at 11:29AM
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BET--Rap legend MC Lyte is one of 60 African-American stars who are banding together to bring awareness to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the black community.
MC Lyte joins actors and actresses like Nia Long, Affion Crockett, Samuel L. Jackson, Naturi N ...
Posted Tuesday, February 7th 2012 at 12:20PM
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Joseph Lee was born July 19, 1849. He is a black inventor from Boston, Massachusetts. He was known in the food industry because he worked in a bakery as a young boy. So he prepared, cooked, and served food and later opened two successful restaurants ...
Posted Tuesday, February 7th 2012 at 12:13PM
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Over three decades after his death, the immortal words the revered Bob Marley gave the world, continue to inspire.
Protestors around the world, whether those at Occupy Wall St. styled protests or elsewhere, continue to chant "Get Up S ...
Posted Monday, February 6th 2012 at 12:05PM
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