June 29, 2011 - The Jerusalem Film Festival foreign office has confirmed that legendary basketball star and actor Kareem Abdul-Jabbar reversed plans to visit Israel due to concerns arising "after the Nakba Day violence."
Abdul-Jabbar was slated to ...
Posted Thursday, June 30th 2011 at 12:04PM
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INDIANA--Rosa Williams was encouraged when she heard a grand jury was meeting about the death of her grandfather, Frank Morris, who burned to death in his Louisiana shoe shop in 1964 in a suspected Ku Klux Klan attack.
But the waiting as the inves ...
Posted Thursday, June 30th 2011 at 11:37AM
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There was a time not so long ago when Americans, regardless of their political stripes, rallied round their president. Once elected, the man who won the White House was no longer viewed as a Rep ...
Posted Wednesday, June 29th 2011 at 1:48PM
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After the botched response to Hurricane Katrina, then New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin said he plunged into a state of paranoia.
In his new book, Katrina’s Secrets: Storms After the Storm, Nagin writes that he believed his criticisms of top officials, ...
Posted Wednesday, June 29th 2011 at 11:45AM
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June 14, 2011
Brother Leader Muammar Gadhafi
Tripoli, Libya
Dear Brother Gadhafi,
May this letter find you, your family and the faithful people of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya in the best of health and spirit in spite of the prevailing circum ...
Posted Wednesday, June 29th 2011 at 11:33AM
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BUSINESS WIRE--Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins rose to fame as an actress, singer and member of the popular 90s musical group TLC – all while quietly battling sickle cell disease. Now, she is lending her famous voice to encourage people, especially t ...
Posted Tuesday, June 28th 2011 at 11:56AM
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By Dr. Boyce Watkins
June 27, 2011
I just spent the week in New Orleans, the powerbase for one of the most talented, powerful and destructive forces in the history of music: Lil Wayne. I’ve admittedly bopped my head to the tunes of Lil Wayne in t ...
Posted Tuesday, June 28th 2011 at 11:49AM
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Peace To All:
There are some things we cannot recapture, and some things we can. There are times when I wish I could make those happy that are close friends.
Some of us here on this forum seem to pride ourselves on having open minds. However, ...
Posted Tuesday, June 28th 2011 at 11:35AM
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SAYINGS NOT FOUND IN SCRIPTURE...WHERE DID THEY REALLY COME FROM??? INTERESTING INFO
1. Moderation in all things
The phrase, "Moderation in all things," is common extrapolation of Aristotle's Doctrine of the Mean (as presented in his Nicomach ...
Posted Monday, June 27th 2011 at 1:08PM
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By Ibrahim Abdul-Matin
June 26, 2011
When you are a compassionate person, you also fight against injustice.
As a Muslim, I have always been taught to be compassionate.
When I was about fifteen years old and lived in upstate New York, I wa ...
Posted Monday, June 27th 2011 at 12:27PM
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FORT WORTH, Texas--At a glance, people may look at Steve Harvey and his accomplishments and possibly only see him as an entertainer. On television, he is the host of one of the longest airing game shows of all time, Family Feud and also The Steve Har ...
Posted Monday, June 27th 2011 at 12:22PM
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