SANTA FE-- The surest way to eliminate racism is to raise expectations, the Rev. Al Sharpton said Friday.
"Don't let anybody tell you what you can and cannot be. To fit people into social boxes is not the way we made history," Sharpton said. "My s ...
Posted Saturday, February 12th 2011 at 3:39PM
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Jamie Foxx had a "full-on fight" with a former business associate during an Usher performance last night (10.02.11).
The 43-year-old singer-and-actor was reportedly involved in an altercation with Breyon Prescott at Belvedere Vodka's pre-Grammy pa ...
Posted Saturday, February 12th 2011 at 3:14PM
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It’s important during Black History Month to review the enduring civil rights work of Thomas and the eight other original members of the Little Rock Nine. They spoke at the Gem Theater five years ago.
The Brown Foundation reunited them to speak to ...
Posted Friday, February 11th 2011 at 12:56PM
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From Newsweek.com
February 10, 2011
If law school enrollment today is made up largely of the white and the wealthy, it is because the American Bar Association, the chief accreditor of the nation’s law schools, has designed the rules that produce ...
Posted Friday, February 11th 2011 at 12:47PM
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OAKLAND, CA--If it were up to the nine young African- American men on stage at Castlemont High School, teachers would be stricter, parents would be more involved in their children’s education and students would be more focused on their studies.
Th ...
Posted Friday, February 11th 2011 at 12:40PM
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African Americans first introduced Islam to the east coast city of Baltimore 65 years ago. Today, more than 60 percent of the city's 630,000 residents are black. About 5000 of them are African-American Muslims. Some Africa ...
Posted Friday, February 11th 2011 at 12:33PM
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DENVER--A pregnant woman in Colorado who was mistakenly given an abortion pill by a drugstore pharmacist now must suffer an agonizing wait before finding out if her unborn child will survive.
Mareena Silva, who is six weeks pregnant with her first ...
Posted Thursday, February 10th 2011 at 3:23PM
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TUSCALOOSA, AL (WBRC) - Today the University of Alabama released a statement about racist writings in chalk turning up on campus Tuesday evening. The release is from Vice Provost and President of Student Affairs Mark D. Nelson.
In it, he says, "La ...
Posted Thursday, February 10th 2011 at 3:19PM
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A week into Black History Month, American writer James Baldwin and his contributions to civil rights were celebrated Tuesday evening at The University of Texas-Pan American's Student Union Theatre. As part of the library's monthlong series, Videos of ...
Posted Thursday, February 10th 2011 at 3:12PM
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All six candidates for Chicago mayor claim they support reparations for descendants of United State slaves, but they have different definitions of what that means.
The topic came up at a debate Wednesday evening sponsored by the Chicago Defend ...
Posted Thursday, February 10th 2011 at 3:08PM
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Despite the advancement we’ve endured over the last 50 years, generational poverty and financial illiteracy continue to run rampant in the Black community. We’ve been able to earn substantially more over time and yet fiscally we remain disproportiona ...
Posted Wednesday, February 9th 2011 at 7:20PM
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