NEW ORLEANS — As the City of New Orleans prepares to celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the head of the local branch of the NAACP is upset with how the celebrations have been planned.
Danatus King, president of the civil ...
Posted Friday, January 6th 2012 at 12:48PM
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Los Angeles Times--A baldly racist depiction of First Lady Michelle Obama that appeared Tuesday on a right-wing website is based on a 1775 portrait of Marie Antoinette by Jean-Baptiste André Gautier-Dagoty (1740-1786). The full-length painting hangs ...
Posted Thursday, January 5th 2012 at 3:04PM
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Jan 05, 2012 -- In February 2012, "Independent Lens" will lead the celebration of Black History Month on public television with premieres of three new documentaries that shine a unique light on the history of African American activ ...
Posted Thursday, January 5th 2012 at 3:01PM
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Associated Press--Almost two centuries before there was a man named Obama in the White House, there was a man named Obama shackled in the bowels of a slave ship. There is no proof that the unidentified Obama has ties to President Barack Obama. All th ...
Posted Tuesday, January 3rd 2012 at 10:35AM
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BET.com--Soul music legend Aretha Franklin has got engaged to her long-time companion William Willie Wilkerson. The 69-year-old singer and Wilkerson are to marry in the summer and are considering tying the knot on a yacht in Miami Beach, Contactmusic ...
Posted Tuesday, January 3rd 2012 at 10:23AM
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ClutchMagazine.com--On the first day of the New Year, Indiana will receive its first ever African-American woman mayor. Karen Freeman-Wilson, 51, was sworn in on December 31st to lead one of the nation's most depressed cities from the grip of stagnat ...
Posted Monday, January 2nd 2012 at 12:17PM
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NEW YORK--Cops are investigating a rash of Molotov cocktail attacks in Queens late Sunday, including one on an Islamic mosque and another that set off a major house fire.
Police are handling the four bottle-bombings as possible hate crimes, offici ...
Posted Monday, January 2nd 2012 at 12:01PM
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President Barack Obama signed the controversial National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) into law earlier today in Hawaii.
CNN reports Barack Obama "reluctantly signed a defense authorization bill, saying he was concerned about some in Congress ...
Posted Sunday, January 1st 2012 at 5:17PM
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ABCNews.com--Sami Chugg, 45, was diagnosed with MS in 1998 and it slowly began to attack her ability to move.
The incurable disease stops the body's nerve cells communicating and she was soon so ill she was permanently bed ridden.
Sami, a cha ...
Posted Sunday, January 1st 2012 at 4:56PM
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Happy New Year!!!
May each of you be blessed to seek refuge in God and find God within yourself WITHOUT the influence of hidden agenda and outsiders answers, but WITH the solutions and keys to unlock the door to your dreams.
And remember, TRU ...
Posted Sunday, January 1st 2012 at 4:47PM
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