New Orleans Times Picayune--Born Helen Folasade Adu to a Nigerian father and an English mother, the future Sade moved from Nigeria to England at age 4. In 1981, she joined a British Latin soul band called Pride.
Sade Adu fronts the band that bear ...
Posted Saturday, July 23rd 2011 at 5:38PM
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GEORGIA--About 30 people showed their support of Raquel Nelson, the Marietta woman convicted of vehicular homicide after her 4-year-old son was killed by a hit-and-run driver, at the Marietta Square on Friday morning.
Many of the supporters were m ...
Posted Saturday, July 23rd 2011 at 5:31PM
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From BlackAgendaReport.com
July 21, 2011
The drought that threatens more than ten million lives in the Horn of Africa has been made vastly more deadly by U.S. and Ethiopian use of food as a weapon of war. The Americans last year forced the colla ...
Posted Friday, July 22nd 2011 at 12:11PM
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Health.com--Two independent research teams have used a new method to develop the first detailed maps of the places where DNA is likely to be reshuffled in the genomes of African Americans, creating a tool that will help find genes that cause disease, ...
Posted Thursday, July 21st 2011 at 12:34PM
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From Newsweek.com
July 20, 2011
NASA’s 135th space shuttle flight ended this morning when Atlantis touched down at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, marking the close of a 30-year run for NASA’s ambitious, controversial and trouble ...
Posted Thursday, July 21st 2011 at 12:29PM
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(ThyBlackMan.com) Many of us have seen the dismal statistics for black males in America. African American men are at the bottom of the barrel in nearly every category of life, including healthcare, education, incarceration, and unemployment. Many o ...
Posted Wednesday, July 20th 2011 at 2:44PM
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ATLANTA (AP) — Authorities say a 59-year-old former leader of a Ku Klux Klan chapter was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for seeking to have sex with two teenage girls.
Neal Ray Schmidt was sentenced Thursday after he pleaded guilty to dri ...
Posted Wednesday, July 20th 2011 at 2:40PM
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BET.com--We all know that childhood obesity is a serious issue in this country—an estimated 2 million children suffer from it. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 24 percent of African-American girls ages 6 to 11 are overweig ...
Posted Wednesday, July 20th 2011 at 2:04PM
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DETROIT - In a stunning and long-thirsted for victory against the forces of reaction in this country, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals declared Michigan's Proposal 2 unconstitutional July 1, paving the way to re-instate ...
Posted Tuesday, July 19th 2011 at 10:02AM
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By Frank Main
Chicago Sun-Times
-Joe Iosbaker, spokesman for the United National Antiwar Committee, said Thursday that he was scouting marching routes to McCormick Place, where he said the city might host the summits...“People are saying this w ...
Posted Monday, July 18th 2011 at 2:46PM
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CNN--Former President Nelson Mandela spent his 93rd birthday with friends and relatives in his rural hometown Monday, as South Africans paid tribute to the anti-apartheid icon through song and community service projects.
Millions of South African sc ...
Posted Monday, July 18th 2011 at 2:43PM
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(PHILADELPHIA ) - Police said a 3-year old boy died after being tortured by the adults responsible for his care.
Jaquinn Brewton’s death was ruled a homicide when he was taken off life support. Police say that he was kicked, punched and had his h ...
Posted Sunday, July 17th 2011 at 3:31PM
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The era of brutal Nigerian dictatorships found many writers of conscience physically and emotionally brutalised. Indeed several works by the Nigerian writers of that era came later as they began to explore what happened to them and the Nigerian proje ...
Posted Sunday, July 17th 2011 at 3:28PM
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LOUISIANA--It's not every day you get to meet someone who is both an artistic and a civil rights icon -- though it happens more often when you're president.
President Obama met Friday with Ruby Bridges, the subject of Norman Rockwell's memorable c ...
Posted Sunday, July 17th 2011 at 2:46PM
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I recently compiled a short list of books that I thought were worth reading. I take it that every Muslim here has already read Elijah Muhammad's 7 books and Min. Farrakhan's book "The Secret Relationship between Blacks and Jews" which is why I didn't ...
Posted Sunday, July 17th 2011 at 2:35PM
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I have been in dialouge with a brother who has a father-in-law from Ghana. His (father-in-laws) name was Kwame. He (the father-in-law) said "The reason that our ancestors were sold into slavery was that they were problem people that the tribe needed ...
Posted Saturday, July 16th 2011 at 5:16PM
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By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
Global Research, July 16, 2011
Mirage fighters, F16 fighters, B-2 Stealth bombers, 15,000 NATO air sorties. the bombing of thousands of civilan targets...
NATO is said to be coming to the rescue of the Libyan peopl ...
Posted Friday, July 15th 2011 at 4:56PM
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From The New York Times
July 14, 2011
Gay history will soon be included in California's schools curriculum.
The state has become the first in the nation to require textbooks and history classes to cover the contributions of gay, lesbian and tr ...
Posted Friday, July 15th 2011 at 4:45PM
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Tyler Perry covers Ebony magazine’s August 2011 issue. Inside, he reveals the 3 events in his life that profoundly changed him; the first being turning 40, the second being his mother dying, and the third being his appearance on “Oprah” in which he s ...
Posted Thursday, July 14th 2011 at 6:26PM
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Religion has been the greatest tool used to conquer and convert the minds of Black people. When you connect a belief system to a religion its affects can be so much more profound and longer lasting. An example of this can be seen wherein which during ...
Posted Thursday, July 14th 2011 at 5:55PM
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