CNN.com--This year marks the 30th anniversary of the first diagnosed case of AIDS. In June 1981, a rare pneumonia diagnosed in five Los Angeles gay men was reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). These were the first documen ...
Posted Saturday, January 22nd 2011 at 5:33PM
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Joan Rivers says she censored a joke out of her stand up routine in which she referred to First Lady Michelle Obama as "Blackie O" for fear of being labeled a racist.
Rivers revealed the controversial joke on Thursday morning's Howard Stern Show:
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Posted Saturday, January 22nd 2011 at 2:21PM
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ATLANTA (AP) - The Rev. Bernice King said Friday she will not assume the presidency of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the civil rights group co-founded by her father more than 50 years ago.
King was elected in October 2009 to lead t ...
Posted Friday, January 21st 2011 at 3:12PM
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SOUTH CAROLINA--Statistics presented at the Third AACR Conference on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities revealed that black women often have lower vitamin D levels than white women.
The authors of a study on the subject added that the partic ...
Posted Friday, January 21st 2011 at 3:07PM
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Peace To All:
Whether or not you are a follower of the NOI or an independent thinking black man or woman you have to be disappointed at the present predicament that this society has planned for black people in general.
Politics like religion is ...
Posted Friday, January 21st 2011 at 3:03PM
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Peace To All:
My word is bond and bond is life, before my word shall fail I shall give my life. The key or enface is place on the word, word. The Muslims should be familiar with this saying. To give your word one must understand the value in doing ...
Posted Thursday, January 20th 2011 at 3:28PM
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BET.com--No one man should have all this power!
Just after releasing his latest album alongside his group Dirty Money — which moved more than 101,000 units during it's first week in stores and peaked at No. 7 on the Billboard 200 chart — Diddy app ...
Posted Wednesday, January 19th 2011 at 3:22PM
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NAPERVILLE, Ill.--Filmmaker Spike Lee told an audience at North Central College that he wasn’t too surprised to hear that Italian-American groups were protesting his appearance at the Naperville campus Tuesday night.
He did find some irony in the ...
Posted Wednesday, January 19th 2011 at 3:01PM
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Astronomer Parke Kunkle caused quite a stir recently among believers in astrology when he pointed out that a wobble in Earth’s rotation meant that the stars were in a different position above us two millennia ago, when the Zodiac was created.
Astr ...
Posted Tuesday, January 18th 2011 at 5:08PM
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One-year payroll tax holiday key to toppling seniors' safety net, Sanders warns
Social Security may be on the White House chopping block, a US Senator recently told Raw Story, expressing deep uneasiness about President Barack Obama's noncommittal ...
Posted Tuesday, January 18th 2011 at 5:00PM
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NEW ORLEANS -- A day after honoring Martin Luther King, New Orleans also remembers a controversial speech given by a controversial former mayor.
"It's time for us to rebuild a New Orleans, the one that should be a chocolate New Orleans," said ...
Posted Tuesday, January 18th 2011 at 2:34PM
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NORTH CAROLINA--The head of the state NAACP says local school leaders are "out of control."
The Rev. William J. Barber III blasted the Burke County Board of Education while speaking to nearly 200 people at the Morganton Community House during the ...
Posted Tuesday, January 18th 2011 at 2:20PM
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Today is not only Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, but it's also Michelle Obama Day. In a way. The first lady turned 47 on Monday, and she and her family marked the occasion by paying tribute to MLK with a painting project at a school on Capitol Hill.
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Posted Monday, January 17th 2011 at 2:04PM
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This January 17th in the United States and everywhere we should all honor Martin Luther King Jr for not just his words, but they were great, but for his actions, including his stand against the Vietnam War and so much else of US Government policy in ...
Posted Monday, January 17th 2011 at 2:02PM
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From Newsweek.com
January 16, 2010
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is promising to unleash a cache of secret documents from the hard drive of a U.S. megabank executive. In 2009, he told Computer World that the bank was Bank of America (BofA). In ...
Posted Monday, January 17th 2011 at 1:58PM
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WASHINGTON, D.C.--A US rights group has filed a lawsuit charging former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld with involvement in torturing former prisoners in American prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan.
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) cata ...
Posted Sunday, January 16th 2011 at 4:40PM
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