From TruthOut.org
January 4, 2014
JAISAL NOOR, TRNN PRODUCER: Welcome to The Real News Network. I'm Jaisal Noor in Baltimore.
On Wednesday, vigils marked the fifth-year anniversary of the killing of Oscar Grant, a 22-year-old African-Ameri ...
Posted Saturday, January 4th 2014 at 5:57PM
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MSNBC host says she never meant to make fun of interracial families
on January 4, 2014 1 hour ago
Melissa Harris-Perry broke into tears on Saturday while apologizing to Mitt Romney and his family for comments made on her MSNBC show about the form ...
Posted Saturday, January 4th 2014 at 4:30PM
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LONDON--Awarding-winning crossing guard, Jon Seymour, was sent home by Camden Council after he likened one of its black staff to the giant movie ape during a row.
Seymour, who is African American and a native of Trinidad, has worked at Carlton Pr ...
Posted Saturday, January 4th 2014 at 4:24PM
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Top 10 Scholarships For African American Students With Deadlines In January 2014
Nationwide - The new year is here, and it's time for students to get back to work. This year, more than $50 billion dollars will be given away in scholarships, and ma ...
Posted Saturday, January 4th 2014 at 4:12PM
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CHICAGO (FinalCall.com) - One of the most recognizable figures on the Earth is Muhammad Ali. While many have heard his name and been told of his exploits in the ring, do you truly know his story?
You may know that he suffers from Parkinson’s disea ...
Posted Saturday, January 4th 2014 at 4:01PM
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Juanita Moore, the actress who shattered racial barriers when she was nominated for an Oscar for her role in 1959′s “Imitation of Life” died Tuesday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 99-years-old.
Moore received a supporting actress no ...
Posted Thursday, January 2nd 2014 at 7:13PM
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Peace,
As we say goodbye to 2013 and welcome 2014, let's find a way to be grateful for all the great things we have (and had) the opportunity to experience. Let's critically look at the year before, analyze, extract wisdom from the lessons of the ...
Posted Tuesday, December 31st 2013 at 6:57PM
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Three Muslim workers at a well-known eatery in a suburb of Toronto, Canada have been awarded around $93,000 in a discrimination case. The men claim they were forced to eat pork, which is prohibited for them to consume due to their religious practices ...
Posted Monday, December 30th 2013 at 5:15PM
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The year 2013 marks the centenary of the reported founding of the Canaanite Temple in Newark, N.J. That was the very earliest form of an indigenous African-American Islam, one completely distinct from normative Islam, the 1,400-year-old religion from ...
Posted Monday, December 30th 2013 at 5:08PM
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MSNBC.com--A church nativity scene featuring a bleeding Trayvon Martin is stirring up controversy in southern California.
The outdoor display at the Claremont United Methodist Church spotlights a black-hooded dummy—in place of where baby Jesus wou ...
Posted Monday, December 30th 2013 at 4:56PM
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No Scrubs: How to Know if Your New Man Has a Future.
December 28, 2013 by Dr. Boyce Watkins
(ThyBlackMan.com) I speak to my daughters regularly about how to choose a good man. Of course, their preferences often differ from my own, and I accept ...
Posted Sunday, December 29th 2013 at 7:40PM
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