Newsweek.com--The two weeks of protest in Egypt seemed to be settling into a pattern, and the press, ever impatient, began to turn away. Then, in two days, protest turned to revolution and coverage of the unrest in the Middle East again dominated the ...
Posted Wednesday, February 16th 2011 at 1:14PM
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In a surprise development, which analysts are at a loss to explain, African Americans are starting their own businesses at a record-setting pace.
According to a report last week from the U.S. Census Bureau, there was a 60.5 percent surge in the nu ...
Posted Wednesday, February 16th 2011 at 12:52PM
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YOUR BALANCE
By Sister Siebra Muhammad
I am inside every
Man, woman and child
Sometimes I am heated
And others I am mild
I moan, I howl, I
Turn and twist
No matter how hard you
Try to ignore that I exist
I know your deepest
...
Posted Wednesday, February 16th 2011 at 12:21PM
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The following text is excerpted from a speech delivered by the Honorable Louis Farrakhan June 9, 1996 at Mosque Maryam in Chicago.
THE HONORABLE MINISTER LOUIS FARRAKHAN:
I have chosen as a subject today, “The Divine Destruction of America: Can ...
Posted Tuesday, February 15th 2011 at 6:25PM
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William DeHart Hubbard (born in Cincinnati, Ohio on November 25, 1903 - June 23, 1976) was a track and field athlete who was the first African American to win an Olympic gold medal in an individual event; the running long jump at the 1924 Paris Summe ...
Posted Tuesday, February 15th 2011 at 2:54PM
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February is Black History month, a time when educators and students across the United States take time to learn about African American history. On the campus of University of Missouri, this time of year has been fraught with racial bigotry. In the ea ...
Posted Tuesday, February 15th 2011 at 2:41PM
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OXFORD, OH – A new study says Miami University and The Ohio State University favor African American students over Caucasian students when it's a close call.
The study focused on race, grade point average and standardized testing results to come wi ...
Posted Tuesday, February 15th 2011 at 2:30PM
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Conservative activist and blogger Andrew Breitbart's weekend in Washington at the Conservative Political Action Conference was interrupted when he was served with a lawsuit filed by the subject of one of his infamous videos, the New York Times report ...
Posted Monday, February 14th 2011 at 5:36PM
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In his eloquent autobiographies, abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass described the cruelty he experienced as an African-American slave in Maryland during the early 19th century. But Douglass' descriptions may have been missing some important detai ...
Posted Monday, February 14th 2011 at 4:54PM
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Most people are rightly horrified about the case of a first-grade teacher at a Silver Spring elementary school who was recently charged with several counts of assault after being accused of choking and/or punching eight young students.
Adults ass ...
Posted Monday, February 14th 2011 at 4:48PM
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Dedicated to all my family!!!
HEART 4 U
Me and you is friends
You smile, I smile...
You hurt, I hurt...
You cry, I cry...
You jump off a bridge...
I'm gonna miss your blogs.
The most memorable people
in life will be the friends ...
Posted Sunday, February 13th 2011 at 5:37PM
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1. Your kids are becoming you...and you don't like them...but your grandchildren are perfect!
2. GOING OUT is good. COMING HOME is better!
3. When people say you look "Great"...They add "for your age!"
4. When you needed the discount you pai ...
Posted Sunday, February 13th 2011 at 4:14PM
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Born in the South, Edwin Leonard was one of many black men who wanted to fight for his freedom and his country during the Civil War.
Leonard enlisted with the Union Army as a corporal in the 54th Massachusetts, likely the most well-known regiment ...
Posted Sunday, February 13th 2011 at 2:38PM
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ARLINGTON,TX -- An African-American man who planned to use his bus to encourage children to resist bullies says he is being bullied by the National Football League.
Eric Williams is representing himself in a lawsuit filed Monday that names the NFL ...
Posted Sunday, February 13th 2011 at 2:35PM
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(CNN) -- At least 17 artifacts from the Egyptian Museum of Cairo are missing following a break-in, the country's minister of antiquities said Sunday.
The missing objects include a gilded wood statue of King Tutankhamun being carried by a goddess; ...
Posted Sunday, February 13th 2011 at 2:17PM
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Redistricting and gerrymandering are once again the focus of high-stakes politics in Louisiana, and across the country. This is the once-a-decade process during which political incumbents selectively redraw the boundaries of their districts to inclu ...
Posted Saturday, February 12th 2011 at 3:52PM
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SANTA FE-- The surest way to eliminate racism is to raise expectations, the Rev. Al Sharpton said Friday.
"Don't let anybody tell you what you can and cannot be. To fit people into social boxes is not the way we made history," Sharpton said. "My s ...
Posted Saturday, February 12th 2011 at 3:39PM
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Jamie Foxx had a "full-on fight" with a former business associate during an Usher performance last night (10.02.11).
The 43-year-old singer-and-actor was reportedly involved in an altercation with Breyon Prescott at Belvedere Vodka's pre-Grammy pa ...
Posted Saturday, February 12th 2011 at 3:14PM
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It’s important during Black History Month to review the enduring civil rights work of Thomas and the eight other original members of the Little Rock Nine. They spoke at the Gem Theater five years ago.
The Brown Foundation reunited them to speak to ...
Posted Friday, February 11th 2011 at 12:56PM
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From Newsweek.com
February 10, 2011
If law school enrollment today is made up largely of the white and the wealthy, it is because the American Bar Association, the chief accreditor of the nation’s law schools, has designed the rules that produce ...
Posted Friday, February 11th 2011 at 12:47PM
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OAKLAND, CA--If it were up to the nine young African- American men on stage at Castlemont High School, teachers would be stricter, parents would be more involved in their children’s education and students would be more focused on their studies.
Th ...
Posted Friday, February 11th 2011 at 12:40PM
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African Americans first introduced Islam to the east coast city of Baltimore 65 years ago. Today, more than 60 percent of the city's 630,000 residents are black. About 5000 of them are African-American Muslims. Some Africa ...
Posted Friday, February 11th 2011 at 12:33PM
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