Grace Towns-Hamilton (1907–1992) was the first African American woman elected to the Georgia General Assembly. As executive director of the Atlanta Urban League 1943–1960, Hamilton was involved in issues of housing, health care, schools and voter ...
Posted Sunday, February 10th 2013 at 3:47PM
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PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – In 2013, no one expects to see a man dressed in a Ku Klux Clan robe mid-morning in Center City, Philadelphia.
“I think that’s nonsense,” said one woman on the street.
“He needs to be committed to the jail system, ...
Posted Friday, February 8th 2013 at 10:30AM
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Ralph Waldo Ellison (March 1, 1914 – April 16, 1994) was an American novelist, literary critic, scholar and writer. He was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Ellison is best known for his novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953 ...
Posted Friday, February 8th 2013 at 10:18AM
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MISSOURI (KFVS) -Missouri is number one, but it's on a list that no state wants to be on.
According to The National Violence Policy Center, Missouri has the highest rate of African Americans killed, compared to the total African American populati ...
Posted Thursday, February 7th 2013 at 1:12PM
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Over three decades after his death, the immortal words the revered Bob Marley gave the world, continue to inspire.
Protestors around the world, whether those at Occupy Wall St. styled protests or elsewhere, continue to chant "Get Up S ...
Posted Wednesday, February 6th 2013 at 10:17AM
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Barbara Ross-Lee, D.O., has worked in private practice, for the U.S. Public Health Service, and on numerous committees, and in 1993 was the first African American woman to be appointed dean of a United States medical school.
Born in Detroit, Michi ...
Posted Tuesday, February 5th 2013 at 11:34AM
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Jackie "Moms" Mabley, born Loretta Mary Aiken (March 19, 1894 – May 23, 1975) was an American standup comedian and a pioneer of the so-called "Chitlin' Circuit" of African-American vaudeville.
Mabley was born in Brevard, North Carolina. Alt ...
Posted Saturday, February 2nd 2013 at 5:01PM
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The Woolworth sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests which led to the Woolworth's department store chain reversing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States.
While not the first sit-ins of the African-American Civil Rig ...
Posted Friday, February 1st 2013 at 11:49AM
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Donald Cortez "Don" Cornelius (September 27, 1936 – February 1, 2012) was an American television show host and producer who was best known as the creator of the nationally syndicated dance/music franchise Soul Train, which he hosted from 1971 u ...
Posted Friday, February 1st 2013 at 11:34AM
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Muslims to march on White House next September 11th
Everyone knows that AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, is the most powerful lobby in Washington.
But starting next September 11th, a new group called AMPAC, the American Mu ...
Posted Thursday, January 31st 2013 at 1:31PM
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Ten Best Lies of Black History
By the N.O.I. Research Group | Last updated: Jan 29, 2013 - 12:25:42 PM
In this special month devoted to our history, The Final Call explores some of the most outrageous and false stories, accounts, and sentimental ...
Posted Wednesday, January 30th 2013 at 2:25PM
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At least 50 African children paralyzed after receiving Bill Gates-backed meningitis vaccine
http://vactruth.com/2013/01/06/paralyze ... s-vaccine/
On December 20, 2012, a vaccination tragedy hit the small village of Gouro, located in northern C ...
Posted Monday, January 28th 2013 at 3:11PM
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LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga.--Police say two storage warehouse workers stole $65,000 worth of chicken wings.
Gwinnett County police investigators said they believe Dewayne Patterson and Renaldo Jackson used a rental truck on Jan. 12 and took 10 pallets of f ...
Posted Monday, January 28th 2013 at 1:32PM
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WASHINGTON (CBS DC) – In the third installment of his 52-week sermon series, Nation of Islam leader, Minister Louis Farrakhan, ridiculed the “volatile” American right to own weapons.
On Sunday, Farrakhan continued “The Time and What Must ...
Posted Monday, January 28th 2013 at 1:27PM
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January 25, 2013
by Kirsten West Savali
While perusing several of the hundreds of Django Unchained conversations happening on social media, I began to get this nagging feeling that just wouldn’t go away. It had nothing to do with the hatred h ...
Posted Saturday, January 26th 2013 at 7:35PM
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NBCLosAngeles.com--Two men and a teenage boy were arrested in connection with a series of race-based attacks on an African American family in an attempt to drive them out of Compton in Los Angeles, sheriff’s officials said.
A group of Latino mal ...
Posted Saturday, January 26th 2013 at 6:56PM
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TMZ--Nine black former "American Idol" contestants -- from various seasons -- are banding together to SUE the show ... claiming they were all FORCED off "Idol" as part of a racist (and illegal) plot to boost ratings.
TMZ has obtained a letter, su ...
Posted Friday, January 25th 2013 at 12:37PM
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(EURweb)*Matthew Whitten Darby, a white teen, is scheduled to go on trial in February for the hit and run murder in July, 2012 of 61 year old John Butts, a Sunday school teacher, cancer survivor, and an African-American.
As it now stands, Whitten ...
Posted Tuesday, January 22nd 2013 at 5:26PM
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