WASHINGTON – Former President Jimmy Carter has become the target of a class action lawsuit over ostensibly mean things he said about Israel in his best-selling 2006 book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.
The lawsuit, filed in New York by an Israel ...
Posted Wednesday, May 11th 2011 at 12:09PM
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The 2011-2012 incoming class at the number one ranking undergraduate college school just got a little more diversified. The driving force behind the dynamics? Fifteen-year-old Saheela Ibraheem.
As the daughter of Nigerian immigrants, Ibraheem will ...
Posted Tuesday, May 10th 2011 at 1:19PM
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A zero tolerance policy may produce results but are they the right results?
10th grade New York city student named "Messiah" experienced first-hand how unforgiving and unfair that kind of policy can be when he was suspended, handcuffed and arreste ...
Posted Tuesday, May 10th 2011 at 1:12PM
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The following is a four part speech by Minister Donna Farrakhan, one of the daughters of The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, delivered on April 19, 2011.
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Posted Sunday, May 8th 2011 at 2:56PM
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The following text is derived from one of several Mother's Day speeches delivered by The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan.
THE HONORABLE MINISTER LOUIS FARRAKHAN:
"Heaven Lies at the Foot of Mother." This quotation was spoken by Prophet Muham ...
Posted Sunday, May 8th 2011 at 2:44PM
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CNN.com--A boat carrying 300 African immigrants sank in the Mediterranean Sea near Libya’s coastline, leaving at least sixteen Somali asylum-seekers including children and pregnant women dead.
In an interview with BBC Somali Service, Abdul-ghani M ...
Posted Sunday, May 8th 2011 at 2:19PM
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A TRUE FRIEND
By Sister Siebra Muhammad
Nothing so beautiful and caring as she
The one who brought me to this World
and in the light of day or night
Her smile shines on my heart
So sweet with so much love
Nothing as radiant as she
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Posted Saturday, May 7th 2011 at 5:41PM
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NEW ORLEANS — Ex-New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin is releasing a memoir in June about his experiences dealing with Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and its aftermath.
He sent an e-mail and Twitter notes Tuesday about the book, “Katrina’s Secrets: Storms after ...
Posted Saturday, May 7th 2011 at 5:11PM
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A celebrity-enhanced ACLU delegation criticized Puerto Rico's government Tuesday for using police to keep the island's main university system open during a strike over a new fee, with members saying they found clear evide ...
Posted Friday, May 6th 2011 at 11:47AM
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