MSNBC.com--Secret rooms. Hidden passageways. Trap doors. An underground escape route through a network of caves, surfacing at a nearby spring. Sounds like a James Bond movie, but these clandestine places actually exist in (or under) dozens of America ...
Posted Tuesday, February 1st 2011 at 4:27PM
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John Dabiri of Pasadena, California, is one of the geniuses walking amonst us today. Like the great African Pioneers who came before him, he is blazing a trail across our scientific world at only 30 years old. He is the recipient of the 2010 McAr ...
Posted Tuesday, February 1st 2011 at 4:20PM
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Claudette Colvin (b, September 5, 1939) is a African American woman from Alabama. In 1955, at the age of 15, she refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus to a white person, in violation of local law. Her arrest preceded civil rights activist R ...
Posted Tuesday, February 1st 2011 at 12:08PM
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From FinalCall.com
January 31, 2010
“There are people who want to maintain the system of racism / White supremacy.
They don't want the victims of that system to have clarity as to what's happening to them.” –Dr. Frances Cress Welsing
The Nov ...
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RIO DE JANEIRO — A Brazilian man has been arrested on suspicion of keeping his wife locked in a squalid basement for 16 years while he lived with another woman in the same house.
Acting on a tip, police on Wednesday found Sebastiana Aparecida Gro ...
Posted Sunday, January 30th 2011 at 4:43PM
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By Nadra Kareem Nittle
January 29, 2011
Imagine a world where everyone had brown skin. Tens of thousands of years ago, that was the case, say scientists at Penn State University. So, how did white people get here?
Evidently, when humans began ...
Posted Sunday, January 30th 2011 at 3:51PM
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DETROIT — John Hardy went to Mississippi to help give blacks the knowledge and courage to register to vote in a state where a black man's decision to do so could cost him his home, his job and/or his life.
It was 50 years ago — the summer of 1961. ...
Posted Sunday, January 30th 2011 at 3:45PM
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January 30, 2011, is the fifth anniversary of Coretta Scott King’s death. Though well known as the wife of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a role she cherished, she was much more than just a wife and widow. In her honor, we present 20 facts you may ...
Posted Sunday, January 30th 2011 at 3:02PM
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