CALIFORNIA--It was not only a full house, but an overflowing crowd, at Moorpark High School’s performing arts center when Myrlie Evers-Williams spoke there Thursday evening.
The audience was young and old, white and black, and the anticipation was ...
Posted Saturday, March 26th 2011 at 3:48PM
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Newsweek.com--Supporting Oil prices advanced again Wednesday as the U.S. and its allies reportedly continued air strikes in Libya and new data showed U.S. gasoline demand continues to rise despite sharp price increases at the pump.
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Posted Friday, March 25th 2011 at 11:57AM
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FORT LAUDERDALE- A South Florida Catholic school teacher is being reprimanded after making an insensitive comment to an African-American student.
According to the student - a Cardinal Gibbons 9th grader who asked that we identify him as Kaylan - h ...
Posted Friday, March 25th 2011 at 11:54AM
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Some advocates for racial equality are criticizing the selection of Louis Farrakhan as the keynote speaker for an annual convention of civil rights veterans in Mississippi.
Farrakhan leads the Chicago-based Nation of Islam, w ...
Posted Friday, March 25th 2011 at 11:48AM
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TENNESSEE--A world-renown scholar, author and political activist, Angela Davis, urged students to ask questions when she spoke to a crowded room Tuesday night in the James Union Building.
The lecture was part of National Women's History Month obse ...
Posted Thursday, March 24th 2011 at 12:02PM
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Paris Hilton's representatives have denied that the actress made racist comments in an interview.
Neil Strauss, author of Everyone Loves You When You're Dead: Journeys Into Fame and Madness, claims that Hilton, who is currently preparing a new rea ...
Posted Thursday, March 24th 2011 at 11:57AM
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An attorney for a New Orleans police sergeant charged with shooting unarmed civilians on the Danziger Bridge is asking a judge to drop the murder charges against his client due to alleged prosecutorial missteps.
Frank DeSalvo, who represents Sgt ...
Posted Thursday, March 24th 2011 at 11:51AM
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A love-starved 92-year-old woman in Florida shot up her neighbor's house after he refused to kiss her, local police said.
Helen Staudinger told police in Marion County that she went over to neighbor Dwight Bettner's house on Monday and refused to ...
Posted Wednesday, March 23rd 2011 at 1:44PM
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This is worth more than all the money in the world!
I give this to you today!
How do we access our true spiritual power?
We are often caught in the trap of seeking power in the physical world. It’s easy to get in the habit of trying to atta ...
Posted Tuesday, March 22nd 2011 at 3:36PM
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From BlackAgendaReport.com
March 19, 2011
“The West dearly wishes to appropriate to itself a section of the ‘Arab revolt,’ so as to bomb an evil ‘dictator’ on their behalf.”
The UN Security Council voted on Thursday to authorize a “no-fly zone ...
Posted Sunday, March 20th 2011 at 4:10PM
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