Re-education of the Negro
By Kirsten West Savali
Posted 1/1/2013 9:12 am
This letter is part of our "Letters to Our Ancestors" project. In celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, we've asked members of our communit ...
Posted Saturday, January 5th 2013 at 3:58PM
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12-year-old business owner Maya Penn penned advice to budding entrepreneurs on how to run a start-up. Penn is the owner of Maya’s Ideas, a virtual store that sells 100% eco-friendly, environmentally sustainable, fashionable accessories and clot ...
Posted Saturday, January 5th 2013 at 2:30PM
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COLUMBUS, Ohio --The Columbus homeless man whose silky voice made him a web phenomenon in 2011 is now using his past to help others who are struggling like he once was.
Ted Williams, the so-called "Golden Voice" now has a contract with Kraft Maca ...
Posted Saturday, January 5th 2013 at 2:18PM
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CHICAGO, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- Seven candidates have filed petitions in Illinois to run for Jesse Jackson Jr.'s vacated congressional seat, officials said.
Candidates were allowed to begin filing with the Illinois State Board of Elections Thursday for ...
Posted Friday, January 4th 2013 at 11:32PM
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The Ethnic Cleansing of Historically Black Colleges and Universities
by Jahi Issa, Ph.D.
January 1, 2013
Despite the long and loud verbal commitment of the Black Misleadership class to HBCUs, the deference and dependence of black leadership t ...
Posted Friday, January 4th 2013 at 11:39AM
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Angela Davis, a retired professor, political activist and the third woman ever named to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list, will be in Grand Forks Feb. 6 as a diversity speaker selected by the UND University Program Council.
Davis will be part of ...
Posted Thursday, January 3rd 2013 at 4:09PM
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Tami Roman has entered 2013 with two major accomplishments including a new commercial with NV Clinical. Roman's ad with the dietary supplement company debuted Monday, Dec. 31 and showcases her tremendous weight loss.
"I've tried to lose weight so ...
Posted Thursday, January 3rd 2013 at 3:53PM
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Fantasia has been the center of controversy because she dated and subsequently had a baby with a married man. However, she may not have handled the criticism well at times and sometime even appeared depressed during the taping of her reality TV show ...
Posted Thursday, January 3rd 2013 at 3:46PM
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Why Are Dogs Racist? Canine Experts Speak
Hamilton Nolan
Dogs: why are they so racist? You know the type: prancing along as merry as can be until a human of a certain skin tone walks by, and then—bang!—all the barking and snarling and bitin ...
Posted Thursday, January 3rd 2013 at 2:29PM
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A ninth-grade student in western Wisconsin has been suspended for placing “some kind of KKK symbol” and a macramé noose on a black student’s desk.
Baldwin-Woodville High School Principal Eric Russell suspended the boy, who is white, on Dec ...
Posted Thursday, January 3rd 2013 at 2:24PM
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Julian Marley, raves about India's energetic audience and its abundance of love
INDIA--He has his father's dreadlocks and Rastafari spirit, and Julian Marley - Bob Marley's son with Lucy Pounder - says that just like his legendary father's music, ...
Posted Thursday, January 3rd 2013 at 2:21PM
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From Ebony Magazine
January 3, 2012
Finally, there will be one last Teena Marie album.
The Ivory Queen of Soul singer died suddenly back in 2010, and her 21-year-old daughter Alia Rose completed the album and will release it this month. At the ...
Posted Thursday, January 3rd 2013 at 1:39PM
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LOUISIANA--On New Year's morning in New Orleans in 2009, 22-year-old Adolph Grimes III was killed by nine undercover police officers in a shooting just down the block from his grandmother's house. Grimes was shot at 48 times and hit 14 times. Twelve ...
Posted Wednesday, January 2nd 2013 at 5:52PM
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My prayers for each one of you as you strive to fulfill and concur your struggles and huddles for the coming year.
I truly believe that 2013 will be your year to shine and reveled what you been holding on inside of you, let go and let God show out in you.
I can’t wait to see the result in 20 ...
Posted Monday, December 31st 2012 at 8:14PM
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Fontella Bass, a gospel, blues and soul singer known to most of the music world as a one-hit wonder for "Rescue Me," died Wednesday of complications from an earlier heart attack. She was 72.
She had been in declining health in recent years, thoug ...
Posted Monday, December 31st 2012 at 5:42PM
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LOS ANGELES, Calif. — It turns out Spike Lee isn’t the only one angry with director Quentin Tarantino over his use of the “N-word” in “Django Unchained.”
Troubled comedian Katt Williams has now allegedly threatened to “punch” ...
Posted Sunday, December 30th 2012 at 7:11PM
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Consider the times in which Laura Ann Scott Cansler, Knoxville's first African-American schoolteacher, lived.
Born in the western North Carolina hills some 15 years before the Civil War began, Cansler was a free black woman. (Her tombstone and 192 ...
Posted Sunday, December 30th 2012 at 6:25PM
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by Scotty Reid
A campaign was launched in November targeting R&B legend Stevie Wonder who planned to perform at a Los Angeles fundraiser for the Israeli Defense Forces who frequently are on the offense against the indigenous people of Palestine sinc ...
Posted Sunday, December 30th 2012 at 6:21PM
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