COLUMBIA, S.C. (FinalCall.com) - Nearly 150 years after Emancipation, trapped by extreme poverty, isolation, fear and shame, some Blacks remain victims of neo-slavery in rural areas of the South, locked into work in fields, factories and assorted ind ...
Posted Sunday, July 25th 2010 at 2:55PM
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CHICAGO- Recent calls by Jewish organizational leaders for public denunciations of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan are part of a long history of avoiding honest discussion of their historical involvement in the slave trade and misdeeds involvi ...
Posted Sunday, July 25th 2010 at 2:50PM
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BP will leave the cap on the oil well while it vacates the area for a number of days to avoid the coming tropical storm.
What could possibly go wrong?
One expert warns that increasing pressure might have an unintended danger:
Bill Gale, a Ca ...
Posted Saturday, July 24th 2010 at 6:11PM
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Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott said today that race was one of the reasons to support local control of schools.
“If you’re 70 percent African-American, you’re going to deal with different issues,” Scott said.
“Yes, you are,” sa ...
Posted Friday, July 23rd 2010 at 2:54PM
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Gulf Coast fishermen and others with lost income claims against BP are outraged by a recent announcement that the $20 billion government-administered claim fund will subtract money they earn by working on the cleanup effort from any future damage cla ...
Posted Thursday, July 22nd 2010 at 10:49AM
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When you and I set out on this journey three years ago, we knew that ours would be a lengthy struggle to build a new foundation for this country -- one that would require squaring off against the special interests who had spent decades stacking the d ...
Posted Thursday, July 22nd 2010 at 9:49AM
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — State health officials want women in their childbearing years and seniors to get immunized against whooping cough as California's epidemic grows.
As of July 16, at least 1,496 cases of whooping cough, or pertussis, have been fou ...
Posted Wednesday, July 21st 2010 at 2:23PM
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WALNUT CREEK, Calif. (AP) - Dozens of people rallied Monday in support of a white former transit officer convicted of killing an unarmed black man on an Oakland train platform.
The emotional display brought an outcry from hundreds of counter-prote ...
Posted Wednesday, July 21st 2010 at 2:21PM
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July 19, 2010
To the Spiritual, Political, Educational, and Economic Leaders and to our Sports and Entertainment Giants:
May this open letter find you well and in good spirit as we search for a solution to the many problems that we face as a pe ...
Posted Tuesday, July 20th 2010 at 9:11PM
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