"What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July?" asked Frederick Douglass on July 5, 1852, in a speech in Corinthian Hall in Rochester.
The Frederick Douglass Resource Center is offering an opportunity to reflect on that question during its ...
Posted Monday, July 5th 2010 at 9:32AM
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Peace To All,
I advise all members to please pay attention to the following email being circulated by Mrs. Deborah Norman to members of this site. If it looks like a scam, and smells like a scam, chances are it's a scam.
Mrs Deborah Norman wrot ...
Posted Sunday, July 4th 2010 at 2:17PM
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The following contains excerpts from an historic message delivered by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan on Saturday, June 26, 2010 at the Atlanta Civic Center in Atlanta, Georgia.
THE HONORABLE MINISTER LOUIS FARRAKHAN:
In the Name of All ...
Posted Saturday, July 3rd 2010 at 5:29PM
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Peace To All,
It has come to my attention that most of us do not pay close attention to past events in history to understand what is happening to the “haves, the have-nots, the middle class and the poor” regarding how we all are living the way we ...
Posted Saturday, July 3rd 2010 at 5:15PM
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Over the past decade or so since “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill” was released, every so often you would see an article or blog post questioning, “What ever happened to Lauryn Hill?”
Thanks to NPR chasing down the rapper/singer outside of a conce ...
Posted Friday, July 2nd 2010 at 12:44PM
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NEW ORLEANS — It's been two years since singer Janet Jackson performed on a concert stage and her fans say that's been two years too long.
Jackson marks her stage return Friday with an opening night, first-time performance at the Essence Music ...
Posted Friday, July 2nd 2010 at 12:39PM
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Mel Gibson's racist rant to his baby mama Oksana Grigorieva is getting the attention of people all over Hollywood. Civil rights leader Reverend Jesse Jackson is fed up with Gibson's tirades and says he needs help. He says his outburst "demonstrates o ...
Posted Friday, July 2nd 2010 at 11:29AM
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The African American Ministers Leadership Council (AAMLC) of People For the American Way Foundation, and African American Ministers in Action (AAMIA) of People For the American Way, congratulate President Obama on his thoughtful remarks yesterday on ...
Posted Friday, July 2nd 2010 at 11:20AM
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The Essence Music Festival takes over the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center and the Superdome this weekend but beauty and fashion festivities are spread all over downtown.
Here’s a look at a few of the events planned:
•Carol’s Daughter, the ...
Posted Thursday, July 1st 2010 at 8:42PM
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NOTE FROM SIEBRA:
The following article contains edited excerpts from a message delivered by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan on the occasion of the 37th Pastoral Anniversary of Reverend Willie Wilson, held April 25, 2010 at Union Temple Bapt ...
Posted Wednesday, June 30th 2010 at 12:30PM
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NEW ORLEANS-Vice President Joe Biden arrived at Louis Armstrong International Airport in Kenner at 9:40 this morning for the start of his visit to several areas affected by the massive BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Wearing khaki pants, a blu ...
Posted Tuesday, June 29th 2010 at 9:14PM
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PROVINCETOWN, Mass. (CBS/AP) — How young is too young?
That’s the question a Massachusetts public school is facing as they have come under fire for making condoms available to all students, even those in elementary school.
Children start first ...
Posted Tuesday, June 29th 2010 at 9:07PM
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President Obama will be handed the power to shut down the Internet for at least four months without Congressional oversight if the Senate votes for the infamous Internet ‘kill switch’ bill, which was approved by a key Senate committee yesterday and n ...
Posted Monday, June 28th 2010 at 9:05PM
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ATLANTA—The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan raised the level of accountability to heights that no leader to date has done, by calling out the architects and horrors of the trans-Atlantic slave trade to thousands of attendees at Atlanta’s Civic Cen ...
Posted Sunday, June 27th 2010 at 8:41PM
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Washington (CNN) -- Diversity is not a word that describes the Supreme Court's makeup over most of its existence. Only three women justices have served (the first in 1981), and only two African-Americans (the first in 1967).
The first Hispanic was ...
Posted Sunday, June 27th 2010 at 5:01PM
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Bottle of Wine (Women will LOVE this one!)
A woman and a man are involved in a car accident on a snowy, cold Monday morning; it's a bad one. Both of their cars are totally demolished, but amazingly neither of them is hurt. God works in mysterious ...
Posted Saturday, June 26th 2010 at 6:25PM
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — As electronic highway billboards flashing neon advertisements become more prevalent, the next frontier in distracted driving is already approaching — ad-blaring license plates.
The California Legislature is considering a bill ...
Posted Saturday, June 26th 2010 at 4:44PM
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In a surprise move, Barack Obama's administration has rejected Sen. Mary Landrieu's recommendation to fill a federal judgeship in New Orleans, asking her to offer another candidate to replace her choice of Parish Civil Court Judge Michael Bagneris.
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Posted Friday, June 25th 2010 at 11:15AM
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