Atlanta Race Riot of 1906
During the Atlanta race riot that occurred September 22-24, 1906, white mobs killed dozens of blacks, wounded scores of others, and inflicted considerable property damage. Local newspaper reports of alleged assaults by bl ...
Posted Sunday, September 22nd 2013 at 4:45PM
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Written by Sheila Simmons
Shahrazad Ali proclaimed in a recent phone interview: ”I’m back and in living color.” Indeed she is. Twenty-three years after sparking controversy with her book The Blackman’s Guide to Understanding the Blackwoman, Ali r ...
Posted Friday, September 20th 2013 at 12:41PM
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Will and Jada please come get your son!
Jaden Smith recently took to his Twitter account to dismiss the educational system and tell his four million followers they would be better off if they dropped out of school!
“If everybody in the world dr ...
Posted Tuesday, September 17th 2013 at 12:51PM
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King Tutankhamun died from sickle-cell disease, not malaria, say experts. A team from Hamburg's Bernhard Noct Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNI) claim the disease is a far likelier cause of death than the combination of bone disorders and malaria ...
Posted Tuesday, September 17th 2013 at 12:30PM
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DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — Channel 2 Action News has exclusively learned suspected Washington, D.C. Navy Yard shooter, Aaron Alexis, had a run-in with the law in Atlanta in 2008.
Ch. 2’s Aaron Diamont was first to obtain documents showing Alexis was iss ...
Posted Tuesday, September 17th 2013 at 12:21PM
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by theGrio
September 17, 2013 at 8:56 AM
The deadly shooting spree by a 34-year-old Texas man, Aaron Alexis, on Monday, shook Washington D.C. The African-American civilian contractor to the U.S. Navy killed 12 people before being shot to deat ...
Posted Tuesday, September 17th 2013 at 11:51AM
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Did God actually create Eve from Adam's rib?
The answer is that the 'rib' story is a mistake in the Bible! It was not included with the protection of divine inspiration. It should not have been included in the Bible.
The authors of the Bible we ...
Posted Sunday, September 15th 2013 at 6:07PM
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I seen the movie "Fruitvale Station" based on the life of Oscar Grant yesterday and it is a great movie. It almost made me cry at the ending, especially when I thought about Trayvon Martin and how the same situations are happening again and again to ...
Posted Sunday, September 15th 2013 at 4:57PM
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Experts warn fruit smoothies may be just as unhealthy as soda
September 14, 2013
That fruit smoothie you just bought from the local juice bar may not be nearly as healthy as you’d like to believe.
Two researchers responsible for highlighting t ...
Posted Sunday, September 15th 2013 at 4:24PM
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