20 years ago, Magic told the world that he was HIV-positive but would live for a very long time. Today, he remains a living symbol of hope. Watch the 1991 announcement, the work of his charitable foundation, and stories of others living with HIV/AIDS ...
Posted Tuesday, November 8th 2011 at 12:54PM
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ABCNews--Former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says Washington must never take the military option off the table and do everything in its power to bring the Iranian government down.
Rice told This Week political affairs program of ABC te ...
Posted Tuesday, November 8th 2011 at 12:47PM
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Newsweek.com--In advance of Saturday night’s Viva Don King boxing card at the Seminole Hard Rock in Hollywood, the 80-year-old promotional legend threw his verbose support behind those squatting in Lower Manhattan to make their case against those fin ...
Posted Sunday, November 6th 2011 at 5:12PM
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Peace To All,
Nearly every other ethnic group has taken turns exploiting the Black community. Some of us are old enough to have seen the stores in our communities go from Jewish-owned, to Asian-owned to Arab-owned. They all come to the U.S. and g ...
Posted Sunday, November 6th 2011 at 4:49PM
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T.O.D.A.Y.
By Sister Siebra Muhammad
Today is different, like no other day I’ve seen
Come walk with me, let me show you what I mean
There’s something special about this day.
This morning I felt relieved, kind of refreshed in a way
Oth ...
Posted Sunday, November 6th 2011 at 3:45PM
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NEW YORK - A newly released investigation into the deadly scourge of Beri-beri in Haiti's National Penitentiary uncovered evidence that the clash between the manufacturing process used in U.S. processed rice and the traditional Haitian rice cooking m ...
Posted Sunday, November 6th 2011 at 3:40PM
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TEXAS--Hank Skinner is scheduled to die on November 9. But the state of Texas may execute him without even conducting DNA tests on all of the evidence from his trial, despite a decade of requests from Hank and his lawyers.
Hank has been on death r ...
Posted Saturday, November 5th 2011 at 7:15PM
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After reading several blog posts and commentary criticizing, if not lambasting, the leadership qualities of Minister Farrakhan or the lack thereof, and who basically imply that he’s a "fake" leader, I thought I would began a thread, asking, "what do ...
Posted Friday, November 4th 2011 at 2:49PM
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By Djehuty Ma’at-Ra
If you are currently on blood thinner medication, make sure you have life insurance for your family because blood thinners can prove fatal. These drugs are lethal! Especially 'Coumadin' (Warfarin)! You have to be partially ...
Posted Friday, November 4th 2011 at 2:39PM
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The following is an open letter written by J. Shango, the father of Ma'at Shango, a 12-year old female contestent on the FOX reality television series "The X Factor" which features participants engaging in singing competitions. Read on:
October 31 ...
Posted Friday, November 4th 2011 at 2:36PM
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Newsweek.com--Black Conservative Republican Apostle Claver Kamau-Imani, founder of www.RagingElephants.org, is not afraid to tell the black community that the Republicans are the good guys and the Democrats are the bad guys. He has been known for doi ...
Posted Thursday, November 3rd 2011 at 10:19PM
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CBSNews.com--A gang of Libyan looters have raided a priceless collection of gold and silver coins that are believed to date back to the time of Alexander the Great.
The thieves carried off with the pieces, known as The Treasure of Benghazi, havin ...
Posted Tuesday, November 1st 2011 at 9:50PM
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Beethoven, the Black Spaniard
By Deborah D. Moseley
Just how does an individual with a Teutonic surname born in eighteenth-century Germany acquire the moniker “The Black Spaniard”? One of the homes in which Beethoven resided in Vienna, Austria, ...
Posted Monday, October 31st 2011 at 12:27PM
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The dinosaur-like mainstream media is finally waking up to the fact that Herman Cain is an unqualified boob, who according to MSNBC host Joe Scarborough "Is making it up as he is goes along."
Cain recently put out two ads that are so bad, that the ...
Posted Monday, October 31st 2011 at 12:15PM
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