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House Republicans are moving forward to repeal all provisions of health reform, with a final vote scheduled for next week.
If they get their way, insurance companies will once again have the rig ...
Posted Friday, January 7th 2011 at 3:06PM
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From GlobalResearch.com
January 6, 2010
Suppose you were a person who painted the exteriors of houses, and that one August afternoon you were close to completing a job when you noticed a thunderstorm looming. Suppose you looked around and saw a p ...
Posted Friday, January 7th 2011 at 2:23PM
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1. The Wiz (1978)
Two names: Michael Jacson and Diana Ross. Need we say more? This black remake of the Wizard of Oz is one of those films every black person has seen not once, but more likely, twice.
2. The Color Purple (1985)
The Steven Spielbe ...
Posted Thursday, January 6th 2011 at 4:38PM
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WASHINGTON--A new crisis has erupted in U.S.-Venezuelan relations after Washington responded to Caracas’ refusal to welcome the United States’ proposed envoy to Venezuela by revoking the visa of Venezuelan Ambassador to the United States Bernardo Alv ...
Posted Wednesday, January 5th 2011 at 7:10PM
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QUEEN
By Sister Siebra Muhammad
I'm a lady a Queen
I'm not here for your needs
But for the needs of my own
See me sitting on this throne
When your free you cannot hide
Or sit around waiting to die
We must make our destiny clear
Bef ...
Posted Tuesday, January 4th 2011 at 6:39PM
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From GlobalResearch.com
January 3, 2010
The longest-serving Supreme Court Justice doesn't believe women's rights are necessarily protected by the Constitution. In a recent interview with California Lawyer (via the Huffington Post), Justice Scali ...
Posted Tuesday, January 4th 2011 at 4:06PM
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Do pre-employment background checks amount to racial discrimination?
Is it wrong for a company to use pre-employment criminal background checks to weed out applicants? In some cases, the practice could amount to racism, at least according to Uncle ...
Posted Tuesday, January 4th 2011 at 2:11PM
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WASHINGTON--The US’s failure under Barack Obama to impose peace between Israel and the Palestinians makes a new war likely.
In March 1973 the Israeli prime minister Golda Meir visited US president Richard Nixon in Washington. He told her that the ...
Posted Tuesday, January 4th 2011 at 2:01PM
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By Glenda R. Carpio and Werner Sollors
January 3, 2011
Last spring began with no hint of any but the usual excitement of a new class. We were team-teaching a course on Richard Wright and Zora Neale Hurston, writers who represent opposing literar ...
Posted Monday, January 3rd 2011 at 8:50PM
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In the version of history being taught in some Virginia classrooms, New Orleans began the 1800s as a bustling U.S. harbor (instead of as a Spanish colonial one). The Confederacy included 12 states (instead of 11). And the United States entered World ...
Posted Monday, January 3rd 2011 at 3:18PM
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PHILADEPHIA--A discrimination lawsuit filed over three years ago against the Lower Merion School District by eight African American families will go to trial in November, according to a recent decision by Chief Judge Harvey Bartle III of the U.S. Dis ...
Posted Monday, January 3rd 2011 at 3:13PM
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Katie Couric, perhaps reflecting the rather goofy and insular attitudes of her class, is awfully worried about her fellow Americans hating on Muslims, more worried in fact than about Muslims of the Islamo Fascist variety hating on Americans.
Accor ...
Posted Saturday, January 1st 2011 at 5:48PM
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HONOLULU (AP) — President Barack Obama has condemned deadly New Year's Eve attacks in Egypt and Nigeria.
In a statement, Obama says the perpetrators of an attack on an Egyptian church have no respect for human life or dignity. He says those respon ...
Posted Saturday, January 1st 2011 at 3:21PM
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TEXAS--The late legislator Barbara Jordan—who is honored with statues at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport and the University of Texas at Austin—will receive another honor in 2011.
A portrait of Jordan, who died in 1996, will be featured on a ...
Posted Saturday, January 1st 2011 at 3:04PM
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Happy 2011 Family!
May everyone be blessed with health, wealth, happiness, peace, motivation and success this year. ...
Posted Saturday, January 1st 2011 at 2:26PM
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1. San Diego, California
The city's official have tried curbing the deficit by increasing sales taxes, but residents of the city strongly oppose this and have voted it down.
San Diego already cut over $200 million over the past two years, so th ...
Posted Friday, December 31st 2010 at 3:21PM
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As-Salaam Alaikum (Peace Be Unto You):
The first day of the New Year should be a day of reflection, a day of prayer, a day of praise and thanks that we were blessed to make it through the last year, because there are so many of those that we know, ...
Posted Thursday, December 30th 2010 at 2:51PM
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MISSOURI--A Baytown teacher is suing a school district, saying that it terminated her employment due to racial discrimination.
Plaintiff Veronica Cooper filed the lawsuit in Harris County on Dec. 27, alleging that defendant Goose Creek Consolidate ...
Posted Wednesday, December 29th 2010 at 2:48PM
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On Tuesday, Dec. 28th a cross section of leadership from the Black coommunity staged a public demonstration and press conference against the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper at 350 N. Orleans near the Chicago River. African-American clergy, business ...
Posted Wednesday, December 29th 2010 at 2:43PM
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