NEW YORK (FinalCall.com) - Dr. Yosef A. A. ben-Jochannon, engineer, linguist, anthropologist and historian died in a New York City nursing home on March 19 at the age of 97.
“Dr. Ben” as he was affectionately referred to was born on Dece ...
Posted Saturday, March 28th 2015 at 4:29PM
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INDIANA--The Assistant Fire Chief in Marion is being reprimanded after racist allegations involving a noose. It started off as a work exercise. Fire officials say Assistant Chief Rick Backs was practicing ropes and knots with his crew, when he tied ...
Posted Saturday, March 28th 2015 at 4:02PM
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SOUTH CAROLINA--Upper Marlboro solo practitioner Jimmy Bell usually files documents alleging discrimination and harassment on behalf of of his clients, such as the lawsuit earlier this week by the lone female police officer in Morningside.
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Posted Saturday, March 28th 2015 at 3:58PM
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March 10, 2015
The Georgia Bureauu of Investigation has been brought in to investigate the fatal police shooting of an Dekalb County man with a history of mental illness who was both unarmed and naked at the time of the shooting.
Tw ...
Posted Tuesday, March 10th 2015 at 4:32PM
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Ola Orekunrin is a British-Nigerian medical doctor and Managing director of Flying Doctors of Nigeria; a charity based in Lagos, Nigeria.
Ola was born in London, England and grew up under the care of foster parents in Lowestoft. Her name "Ol ...
Posted Tuesday, March 10th 2015 at 12:32PM
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Sunday, March 8, 2015
Police were calling for restraint Saturday in Madison, Wis., after the fatal shooting of an African-American teenager that sparked demonstrations.
Police Chief Mike Koval said Saturday it is "absolutel ...
Posted Sunday, March 8th 2015 at 4:48PM
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Victoria Gray Adams was born Victoria Jackson on November 5, 1926 in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Her mother died when Adams was just three years old, and she was raised on her paternal grandparents’ farm. In 1945, she earned her high school diplo ...
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Last month the U.S. Postal Service announced a Dr. Maya Angelou Forever stamp was in the works. Tuesday, the U.S. Postal Service offered a first look at the Dr. Maya Angelou Forever Stamp. The postal service released an image of the stamp early this ...
Posted Thursday, March 5th 2015 at 3:07PM
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(FinalCall.com) - As news articles and media reports are replete with stories of people across the globe targeted and killed because of their religious beliefs and groups like ISIS killing Christians, Min. Farrakhan used a selfless act of a Muslim si ...
Posted Thursday, March 5th 2015 at 9:08AM
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Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is the world's first elected black female president and Africa's first elected female head of state.
Born in Liberia in 1938, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was schooled in the United States before serving in ...
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Elizabeth Freeman (c. 1742 – December 28, 1829), in early life known as Bett and later Mum Bett, was among the first black slaves in Massachusetts to file a "freedom suit" and win in court under the 1780 constitution, with a ruling that slavery ...
Posted Saturday, February 28th 2015 at 6:35PM
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Louis Farrakhan says as rappers are becoming conscious, white folks are upset
Louis Farrakhan discusses how rappers are changing while delivering comments to the Nation of Islam’s annual Saviours’ Day keynote address on Sunday (Febru ...
Posted Friday, February 27th 2015 at 12:30PM
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