USAToday.com--The First Lady hit the campaign trail Thursday addressing a group of 550 supporters at the Grand Hyatt in Washington. Mrs. Obama told the predominantly female audience "Now, more than ever before, we need to finish what we've started a ...
Posted Sunday, May 22nd 2011 at 5:29PM
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Johnathan Rodgers, president and chief executive of Silver Spring-based TV One, is retiring at the end of July from the cable channel that caters to African Americans.
The network, a joint venture of Lanham’s Radio One and Comcast Corp., said it m ...
Posted Sunday, May 22nd 2011 at 5:26PM
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Although 18-year-old student Courtney Thomas has been charged with ethnic intimidation after admitting to writing racist graffiti at Seaholm High School, the leadership of the local branch of the NAACP doesn’t believe he acted alone.
According to ...
Posted Saturday, May 21st 2011 at 3:43PM
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Posted Saturday, May 21st 2011 at 3:33PM
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Michelle Alexander, an associate professor of law at Ohio State University, worked in and around the criminal justice system for years–clerking for Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackman, and leading the ACLU of Northern California’s Racial Justice Pro ...
Posted Saturday, May 21st 2011 at 3:26PM
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BET.com--Al Sharpton may have mellowed - but he still won't apologize for the Tawana Brawley debacle.
A quarter-century later after he whipped up racial tensions over the incendiary case, Sharpton still stands by a story that the courts of law and ...
Posted Friday, May 20th 2011 at 12:50PM
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The following article contains excerpts from the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan's April 1, 2011 interview on WPFW-Pacifica Radio with Spectrum Today's Askia Muhammad, along with regular panelist Wilmer Leon, host of XM Satellite Radio's On With L ...
Posted Friday, May 20th 2011 at 12:40PM
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Princeton University professor and author Cornel West has many followers who admire his pro-Black progressive ideology. His wit, historical research and insight into Black political and cultural life delight, entertain and intrigue many. But his mont ...
Posted Thursday, May 19th 2011 at 12:25PM
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HuffingtonPost.com--Robert Fitzpatrick does not lack conviction.
The 60-year-old ex-MTA employee has plunked down $140,000, his life savings, to help spread the word that the world will end on May 21, 2011.
"I'm trying to warn people about what ...
Posted Wednesday, May 18th 2011 at 12:36PM
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USATODAY.com--Oprah Winfrey has revealed the real reason why she’s ending her daytime talk show after 25 years on the air. In an editorial published in her ‘O’ magazine this month, Oprah revealed that a dying 12-year-old boy told her to end her show ...
Posted Wednesday, May 18th 2011 at 12:22PM
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