Peace,
I would like to wish all the sisters of this forum a Happy Mother's Day! Often we hear stories about mothers and their children, however rarely about the do good mothers and even rarer still the adoptive mothers. However I would like to me ...
Posted Saturday, May 8th 2010 at 5:52PM
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration now says it supports a proposal to audit the Federal Reserve's lending practices that has won broad bipartisan backing in the Senate.
Deputy Treasury Secretary Neal Wolin said last-minute changes to an a ...
Posted Friday, May 7th 2010 at 1:21PM
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During his show Sunday at the New Orleans Jazz Fest, Frankie Beverly said he and Maze had not been invited to this summer’s Essence Music Festival in the Superdome. Today’s release of the nightly Essence schedule confirms this will be the first time ...
Posted Friday, May 7th 2010 at 1:13PM
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PARIS — Historians and anti-racism campaigners are to urge the countries that oversaw and profited from the Atlantic slave trade to recognise it as a crime against humanity, opening the way for reparations.
Next week, activists are to send a lette ...
Posted Thursday, May 6th 2010 at 9:15AM
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From Newsweek.com
May 2, 2010
Despite the fact that we are a nation of immigrants -- or perhaps because of it -- immigration continues to be one of America 's most contentious topics. The new law in Arizona authorizing police to arrest individual ...
Posted Wednesday, May 5th 2010 at 1:54PM
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Appealing to voters weary of rampant crime, a lagging recovery and a strapped city budget, Mitch Landrieu spent his campaign for mayor of New Orleans hammering home this simple message: "I know what to do, and I know how to do it."
Starting today, ...
Posted Monday, May 3rd 2010 at 11:33AM
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After spending 22 years of her life working in mortgage banking, Mollie Jelks admits she never found the sense of fulfillment she longed for. When her Citibank office relocated to St. Louis, Jelks wasn't willing to follow. Instead, she picked up a te ...
Posted Monday, May 3rd 2010 at 11:27AM
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One day, when a seamstress was sewing while sitting close to a river, her thimble fell into the river. When she cried out, the Lord appeared and asked, "My dear child, why are you crying?" The seamstress replied that her thimble had fallen into the w ...
Posted Sunday, May 2nd 2010 at 6:41PM
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Puerto Rican funeral home presents shooting victim on his motorcycle
If you thought you'd previously seen it all, well, you're wrong. Case in point: David Morales Colón, a 22-year-old Puerto Rican man who was shot to death last Thursday, and whos ...
Posted Sunday, May 2nd 2010 at 5:38PM
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NEW YORK – Police found an “amateurish” but potentially powerful bomb that apparently began to detonate but did not explode in a smoking sport utility vehicle in Times Square, authorities said Sunday.
Thousands of tourists were cleared from the ...
Posted Sunday, May 2nd 2010 at 5:12PM
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NEW ORLEANS--As state and federal officials displayed increasing displeasure with its response, BP on Friday tried a new approach to protect the Louisiana coast on the 10th day of a massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill: using a chemical to disperse the o ...
Posted Saturday, May 1st 2010 at 5:35PM
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One need only look at the recent introduction of chocolate Cheerios to fully grasp Americans' fondness for the pulp from cacao beans. Savoring chocolate is normal.
But, researchers said Monday, overindulging in it could be a marker for depression. ...
Posted Saturday, May 1st 2010 at 4:29PM
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From FinalCall.com
April 30, 2010
As-Salaam Alaikum (Peace Be Unto You):
My beloved brothers and sisters, it is a great honor and privilege for me to have this opportunity once again to come to you in your homes or in your cars, or wherever y ...
Posted Friday, April 30th 2010 at 2:50PM
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This was written by Mr. Tom Aswell, a state worker to Mr. John M. Schroder, one of our Louisiana State Representatives (Republican).
Mr. Schroder:
You have my heartfelt sympathy for failing to get that state police job you so desperately wante ...
Posted Friday, April 30th 2010 at 2:27PM
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1.. Ordered all federal agencies to undertake a study and make recommendations for ways to cut spending
2. Ordered a review of all federal operations to identify and cut wasteful spending and practices
3. Instituted enforcement for equal pay for wo ...
Posted Thursday, April 29th 2010 at 11:02AM
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Ray Nagin leaves office as Mayor of New Orleans, and Mayor-elect Mitch Landrieu, who takes office May 3, inherits a $25 million budget deficit. To listen to the full interview, you may log on to www.WWL-TV.com.
Mayor Ray Nagin
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Posted Wednesday, April 28th 2010 at 2:23PM
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NEW YORK -- When laid-off toy company executive Paul Nawrocki hit the streets of Manhattan wearing a sandwich board and handing out his resume, he became the face of the recession.
At the end of 2008, with the giants of Wall Street collapsing and ...
Posted Tuesday, April 27th 2010 at 2:31PM
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PALM BEACH--For more and more women in Palm Beach County, the road to economic recovery is paved with garter belts, g-strings and 4-inch plexiglass heels.
Take, Stephanie White, for example. She recently registered to dance at Sugar Daddy's in Wes ...
Posted Tuesday, April 27th 2010 at 2:27PM
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PHILADELPHIA — The private boarding school for underprivileged students now led by Autumn Adkins, who describes herself simply as “a black girl from Richmond, Virginia,” would have excluded her in years past.
The one-time white boys-only instituti ...
Posted Monday, April 26th 2010 at 1:21PM
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Rush Limbaugh has written an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal titled "Liberals and the Violence Card."
The crux of the op-ed is that conservative protests like the tea-party are not driven by hate but "by a love of what America stands for." In ma ...
Posted Monday, April 26th 2010 at 1:10PM
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