Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. discussed black genealogy and ancestry to an audience of students, faculty and community members on Thursday at the Ryan Family Auditorium in Tech.
Gates, a noted African-American scholar and author, deliver ...
Posted Friday, February 18th 2011 at 3:02PM
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NEW ORLEANS--Leon Waters was a boy when he first heard stories from his 91-year old cousin, Clara “Kizzie” Duncan, about a slave revolt in southeast Louisiana. Duncan, the daughter of slaves, helped the young Waters understand the importance of oral ...
Posted Thursday, February 17th 2011 at 4:28PM
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From ChicagoTribune.com
February 17, 2011
Well, they’ve done it again. Urban Prep Academy of Chicago, an all-male charter school with kids from the “worst” parts of Chicago, is sending 100% of its graduating seniors off to college. The school, fo ...
Posted Thursday, February 17th 2011 at 4:10PM
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A woman awakes during the night to find that her husband was not in their bed. She puts on her robe and goes downstairs to look for him. She finds him sitting at the kitchen table with a cup of coffee in front him.
He appears deep in thought, jus ...
Posted Wednesday, February 16th 2011 at 5:06PM
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Newsweek.com--The two weeks of protest in Egypt seemed to be settling into a pattern, and the press, ever impatient, began to turn away. Then, in two days, protest turned to revolution and coverage of the unrest in the Middle East again dominated the ...
Posted Wednesday, February 16th 2011 at 1:14PM
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In a surprise development, which analysts are at a loss to explain, African Americans are starting their own businesses at a record-setting pace.
According to a report last week from the U.S. Census Bureau, there was a 60.5 percent surge in the nu ...
Posted Wednesday, February 16th 2011 at 12:52PM
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YOUR BALANCE
By Sister Siebra Muhammad
I am inside every
Man, woman and child
Sometimes I am heated
And others I am mild
I moan, I howl, I
Turn and twist
No matter how hard you
Try to ignore that I exist
I know your deepest
...
Posted Wednesday, February 16th 2011 at 12:21PM
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The following text is excerpted from a speech delivered by the Honorable Louis Farrakhan June 9, 1996 at Mosque Maryam in Chicago.
THE HONORABLE MINISTER LOUIS FARRAKHAN:
I have chosen as a subject today, “The Divine Destruction of America: Can ...
Posted Tuesday, February 15th 2011 at 6:25PM
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William DeHart Hubbard (born in Cincinnati, Ohio on November 25, 1903 - June 23, 1976) was a track and field athlete who was the first African American to win an Olympic gold medal in an individual event; the running long jump at the 1924 Paris Summe ...
Posted Tuesday, February 15th 2011 at 2:54PM
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