CHICAGO--Nation of Islam leader Minister Louis Farrakhan is using the current conflict in Libya to renew interest in the Nation of Islam. The Chicago News Cooperative reports that Farrakhan’s defense of his “brother,” Libyan dictator Colonel Moammar ...
Posted Wednesday, April 13th 2011 at 2:30PM
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RIVERSIDE, CA--Banning city officials are conducting an investigation into allegations of racism and discrimination at the Banning Police Department after one current and two former officers issued a letter indicating they may sue the city.
A Los ...
Posted Tuesday, April 12th 2011 at 12:26PM
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NEW YORK — Very tight braiding or weaving is linked to a permanent type of hair loss that affects many African American women, new research suggests.
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Posted Monday, April 11th 2011 at 7:21PM
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John Legend isn't happy with Donald Trump. But it's not so much The Donald's supposed ambitions to run for president in 2012 that have upset the Grammy-winning pianist; it's Trump's insistence on questioning Barack Obama's nationality.
"He needs t ...
Posted Sunday, April 10th 2011 at 2:30PM
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APRIL 9, 2011
How to Get a Real Education
By SCOTT ADAMS
I understand why the top students in America study physics, chemistry, calculus and classic literature. The kids in this brainy group are the future professors, scientists, thinkers an ...
Posted Sunday, April 10th 2011 at 2:15PM
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NEW YORK – African-American student leaders from a variety of historically black colleges and universities took out full page ads in numerous American college newspapers Thursday, displaying an “Open Letter to Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), ...
Posted Sunday, April 10th 2011 at 2:12PM
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NEWSWEEK.com--Henry Louis Gates Jr., known to all as “Skip,” remembers the day he became obsessed with the subject of race. It was 1960, and he was 9 years old, staring at his grandfather’s corpse lying in state at a funeral home in Cumberland, Md. G ...
Posted Sunday, April 10th 2011 at 1:58PM
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USATODAY.com--Gen. Carter Ham told the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Wednesday that US troops may have to be sent to Libya because there is little chance of the opposition Transitional National Council (TNC) defeating the forces loyal to Colo ...
Posted Saturday, April 9th 2011 at 7:23PM
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O'FALLON, Ill. — A 28-year-old African-American man has been indicted for sending threats signed from the KKK to officials in the southern Illinois community of O'Fallon.
A federal grand jury has indicted Justin Lamar Kidd, formerly of O'Fallon, o ...
Posted Saturday, April 9th 2011 at 7:20PM
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The following article contains excerpts from the Historic Press Conference Addressing Events in The Middle East & The Libya policy of the Obama Administration the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan delivered live via Webcast from Mosque Maryam in Chi ...
Posted Saturday, April 9th 2011 at 7:18PM
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Peace To All:
Explain to me why there are so many nut cases in this country. Consider, President Obama was born in Hawaii. Hawaii has been a state for 50 years. The 27% of the people in South Carolina believe that Hawaii is not a state. Documentat ...
Posted Friday, April 8th 2011 at 12:38PM
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Forces loyal to Col. Moammar Gadhafi have captured four journalists, two of whom are U.S. citizens.
One of the reporters, Clare Morgana Gillis, has reported for USA TODAY, TheAtlantic.com and TheChristian Science Monitor. The other U.S. citizen ar ...
Posted Friday, April 8th 2011 at 12:10PM
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TYLER (April 7, 2011)--Maricela Aguilera Rodriguez of Tyler is accused of dressing as a man, arming herself with a knife and a stun gun, and then barging into what turned out to be the wrong house to try to collect a debt.
Tyler police say a child ...
Posted Friday, April 8th 2011 at 12:05PM
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Meet the "First Family of Education" in England. They are black.
Peter and Paula Imafidon, 9-year-old twins from Waltham Forest in northeast London, are a part of the highest-achieving clan in the history of Great Britain education. The two younges ...
Posted Thursday, April 7th 2011 at 2:42PM
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WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan issued a challenge and delivered guidance to the next generation of Black leaders on the campus of Howard University here April 2.
The campus hosted a four-day conference bringin ...
Posted Thursday, April 7th 2011 at 1:57PM
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By the time Hurricane Katrina passed to the east of New Orleans, it wasn't a once-in-a-lifetime storm; the city probably experienced no more than Category 2 conditions. And many of the levees that failed weren't breached; they gave way because they h ...
Posted Thursday, April 7th 2011 at 1:44PM
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MEXICO CITY – A magnitude-6.5 earthquake shook a wide area of southern and central Mexico on Thursday, sending people fleeing into the streets, but causing only minor reported damage.
The epicenter was located near Las Choapas, a town of about 83, ...
Posted Thursday, April 7th 2011 at 1:34PM
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