TheRoot.com--Three years before the commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic called on Union veterans’ organizations to decorate the graves of dead soldiers, blacks in Charleston, South Carolina in 1865 launched the first Decoration Day i ...
Posted Saturday, May 28th 2011 at 7:24PM
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(FinalCall.com) - The foundation of American White supremacy sits tenuously on a rickety base of lies and deceptions about how Whites gained their wealth and status. A century and a half after slavery the median wealth of White families is $100,000; ...
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The following text is excerpted from an interview with the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, originally appearing as Part 2 of a five-part Final Call Newspaper series on health in 1991.
THE HONORABLE MINISTER LOUIS FARRAKHAN:
Allah (God), in ...
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BET.com--Earlier this month, the popular magazine Psychology Today published an article by evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa titled “Why Are Black Women Less Physically Attractive Than Other Women?" that was met, expectedly, with mass outrag ...
Posted Saturday, May 28th 2011 at 4:39PM
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CHICAGO--GIL Scott-Heron, a poet and songwriter dubbed the Godfather of Rap, has died aged 62.
Scott-Heron, whose ground-breaking spoken-word performances set to music included The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, passed away at a New York hospi ...
Posted Saturday, May 28th 2011 at 4:19PM
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WASHINGTON—Congress on Thursday passed a four-year extension of post-Sept. 11 powers to search records and conduct roving wiretaps in pursuit of terrorists. Votes taken in rapid succession in the Senate and House came after lawmakers rejected attempt ...
Posted Friday, May 27th 2011 at 2:30PM
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ABCnews.com--PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel knows a thing or two about finding the next big thing.
Thiel was the first investor in Facebook and predicted the dotcom crash and the housing bubble. Now he believes the next big thing to burst is higher ...
Posted Friday, May 27th 2011 at 2:27PM
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(CNN) -- A top Nation of Islam official arrested in Guyana on suspicion of terrorism was released by police Friday afternoon and is demanding a formal apology, he and his lawyer there told CNN.
Painting himself as the victim of a "smear campaign," ...
Posted Thursday, May 26th 2011 at 12:07PM
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Newsweek.com--Monday's Supreme Court decision ordering California to reduce its overcrowded prisons by 30,000 inmates is as welcome as a ray of sunlight streaming through prison bars. State officials have known for decades of the horrific, if not cri ...
Posted Thursday, May 26th 2011 at 12:04PM
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Newsweek.com--In Zayed Military City, in a training camp in a desert area of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a secret army is in the making.
This secret army of mercenaries, which is slated to be used not only in the Emirates but throughout the M ...
Posted Thursday, May 26th 2011 at 12:03PM
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