WASHINGTON—U.S. President Barack Obama, responding to the failure of BP's latest attempt to plug a mile-deep oil and natural gas leak in the Gulf of Mexico, on Saturday expressed outrage at the duration of the spill and said that a new method the com ...
Posted Saturday, May 29th 2010 at 8:24PM
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From Newsweek.com
May 29, 2010
The deeply flawed plan for immigration reform put forward by Senator Chuck Schumer of New York (and backed by Obama) is not a positive place to begin the discussion.
While the nation's media attention was focuse ...
Posted Saturday, May 29th 2010 at 2:38PM
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From GlobalResearch.com
May 28, 2010
It's been 37 days since BP's offshore oil rig, Deepwater Horizon, exploded in the Gulf of Mexico. Since then, crude oil has been hemorrhaging into ocean waters and wreaking unknown havoc on our ecosystem -- un ...
Posted Saturday, May 29th 2010 at 2:34PM
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Former child TV star Gary Coleman, who suffered intracranial brain bleeding and was on life support in the intensive care unit of a Utah hospital, passed away at the age of 42 on Friday.
Utah Valley Regional Medical Center spokeswoman Janet Frank ...
Posted Friday, May 28th 2010 at 2:50PM
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Peace To All,
In lieu of the devastating tornadoes, the BP oil spill in Louisiana and the hurricane season right around the corner, how prepared are you (we) in the event of such natural disasters happening in your (our) city and state?
1. Ho ...
Posted Friday, May 28th 2010 at 1:14PM
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With lawmakers giving their final approval today, Gov. Bobby Jindal quickly signed into law an overhaul of public school teacher evaluations to include student test scores, with the state highlighting the new approach as part of its next application ...
Posted Friday, May 28th 2010 at 12:42PM
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Electronic road sign hackers generally like to warn motorists of zombie and raptor attacks, but in South Florida, the signs are apparently being used to fuel the immigration debate.
A highway sign flashing "NO LATINOS NO TACOS" greeted drivers on ...
Posted Wednesday, May 26th 2010 at 7:35AM
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FREDERICK DOUGLASS CHURCH JOINS "AMERICA'S 11 MOST ENDANGERED HISTORIC PLACES" LIST
WASHINGTON — When chunks of plaster began falling from the ceiling of the national cathedral of African Methodism last year, one of Washington's oldest black congr ...
Posted Monday, May 24th 2010 at 2:53PM
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BET, George Foreman Grills and Dark & Lovely No Lye Relaxer have a commonality: They're not as black as you think. For the confused, theBVX ( which like Black Voices is NOT black-owned) has compiled a shocking list of 10 things you thought were black owned but actually aren't.
10. Black Entertainment Television
If black is in the name, it must be black owned, right? The network was founded by an African American, Robert Johnson, in the '80s, but in 2003, BET was sold to Viacom, which ...
Posted Monday, May 24th 2010 at 2:42PM
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Christ's Mother, "The Black Madonna" is worshiped throughout Europe, of all places.
The most sacred icons of the Catholic Church are the Black Madonna and Christ child, which are found in Europe's most venerated shrines and cathedrals. Each year, ...
Posted Sunday, May 23rd 2010 at 4:07PM
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DETROIT — Civil rights activist the Rev. Al Sharpton gave a rousing eulogy Saturday for a 7-year-old girl killed in a police raid, challenging the hundreds of mourners to take responsibility and help stop a spiral of violence that has swept the city. ...
Posted Sunday, May 23rd 2010 at 12:54PM
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NOTE FROM SIEBRA:
The following edited text is taken from a message delivered by Minister Farrakhan to a gathering of youth in Tchula, Mississippi on November 3, 2002. He was invited to Tchula by Reverend Eddie Carthan for the dedication of Good Sam ...
Posted Friday, May 21st 2010 at 10:47AM
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CHICAGO – In her police mug shot, the doe-eyed cartoon heroine with the bowl haircut has a black eye, battered lip and bloody nose.
Dora the Explorer’s alleged crime? “Illegal Border Crossing Resisting Arrest.”
The doctored picture, one of seve ...
Posted Friday, May 21st 2010 at 10:30AM
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Betty Kilby was gripped with apprehension. Descendants of the white family that enslaved her kin were coming to dinner.
She scrolled through a mental Rolodex of relatives who might flip out. Her brothers had already asked her: Why would you want ...
Posted Thursday, May 20th 2010 at 10:51AM
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