BANGOR, Maine — A former employee at Family Dollar in Ellsworth claims she suffered such traumatic verbal abuse from her boss that it induced a panic attack at work and she had to be brought to a hospital by ambulance.
Evette Forrest, 39, of Trent ...
Posted Tuesday, April 23rd 2013 at 11:51AM
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Poverty in America: 20 Percent of African-Americans Live Without Bank Accounts
By Bob Sullivan, Columnist, NBC News
Sabino Fuentes-Sanchez hid $25,000 all around his house because he didn't trust banks. Lasonia Christon receives her Wal-Mart sala ...
Posted Tuesday, April 23rd 2013 at 11:28AM
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(The Root) -- Amazing Fact About the Negro No. 28: What were the largest slave rebellions in America?
One of the most pernicious allegations made against the African-American people was that our slave ancestors were either exceptionally "docile" o ...
Posted Tuesday, April 23rd 2013 at 11:11AM
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KANSAS CITY, MO (KCTV) - A man who was once the leader of the Kansas City Black Panther Party is hoping for a presidential pardon to re-enter the United States.
Pete O'Neal's family said he was exiled to Africa for 43 years because he did not wan ...
Posted Sunday, April 21st 2013 at 6:37PM
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April 20, 2013 9:12pm
Singer Erykah Badu took to her Twitter account early in the morning on Wednesday to share her very-candid views on the Minister Louis Farrakhan. Rather than taking aim at some of the divisive comments that the faith leader co ...
Posted Sunday, April 21st 2013 at 6:15PM
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The mother of a young male murdered 20 years ago in London because his skin was black is still not optimistic about race in the U.K.. Doreen Lawrence, whose son Stephen was killed by 5 racists thugs at a bus stop, said this week she wants more progre ...
Posted Sunday, April 21st 2013 at 5:38PM
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LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas--Broadcasting over the air and on digital channels initially, the new channel -- which has closed a $10 million round of financing -- will initially be available in 30 TV markets.
The Soul of the South Network, targeting Afri ...
Posted Sunday, April 21st 2013 at 4:50PM
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By Abayomi Azikiwe
Pan African News Wire, April 20, 2013
Region: USA
(NOTE: The following lecture was delivered at the Michigan State University (MSU) Detroit Center on April 19, 2013. This event was sponsored by the African American and African ...
Posted Saturday, April 20th 2013 at 2:21PM
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Philadelphia — For the second time in less than two weeks, African-American professors and students at Temple University staged demonstrations on April 10 to protest racist attacks on the school’s Department of African-American Studies. The hundreds ...
Posted Saturday, April 20th 2013 at 2:17PM
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