Barbara Hillary is the first African American woman to reach the North Pole on April 23, 2007--hold on to your chairs ladies and gents--at the impressive age of 75!
Barbara Hillary is a retired nurse who was born: June 12, 1931 San Juan Hill ...
Posted Saturday, February 5th 2011 at 2:06PM
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Zora Neale Hurston (1891 - 1960)
Novelist, anthropologist, folklorist
Flamboyant, bold and outrageous were Zora Neale Hurston’s writings, as was her life. As the diva of the Harlem Renaissance, Hurston was the most prolific black woman writer of ...
Posted Saturday, February 5th 2011 at 1:50PM
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Newsweek.com--Here is a tyrant of Egypt who ruled over Egypt all my life time. One whose face and stature is virtually inseparable to the image of his country; with his whitewashed marble offices and huge smile welcoming in and sending off dignitarie ...
Posted Friday, February 4th 2011 at 5:51PM
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MINNESOTA--A Duluth man who police believe shot himself with a long gun falsely reported to a 911 operator that a black male was among the people he claimed shot him.
That information was contained in a five-page transcript obtained by the News Tr ...
Posted Friday, February 4th 2011 at 5:40PM
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AN ETHIOPIAN woman who branded black women 'the most desperate women on the planet' has had to issue an apology after receiving a number of threats following her offensive Youtube video
The unnamed woman said that she felt it necessary to i ...
Posted Friday, February 4th 2011 at 5:28PM
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Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an African American civil rights activist, whom the U.S. Congress later called “the first lady of civil rights”, and “the mother of the freedom movement”.
On December 1, 1955 in ...
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By Holly Yettick
February 1, 2011
An offhand comment by an education professor at a diverse, urban university got me thinking about minority teacher recruitment. As he strolled past the department of criminal justice and criminology, this profess ...
Posted Thursday, February 3rd 2011 at 1:14PM
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From The Huffington Post
February 2, 2011
The photos of Mubarak's thugs riding in on camels to attack the peaceful protesters with whips is getting worldwide attention. As CNN notes:
"All at once, about 50 or 60 people carrying clubs and ridin ...
Posted Thursday, February 3rd 2011 at 11:58AM
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NEW YORK--The residents board of the famous Dakota building in New York are racist and are unfairly discriminating against tenants they disapprove of, according to a lawsuit.
According to the lawsuit, Roberta Flack and Antonio Banderas have both ...
Posted Wednesday, February 2nd 2011 at 2:29PM
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Just 10 years ago, the name W.E.B. Du Bois did not ring many bells in the area. Despite being a Harvard graduate and leading philosopher on education and equality of the races, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois’ legacy was largely ignored, mostly beca ...
Posted Wednesday, February 2nd 2011 at 2:02PM
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Newsweek.com--Like death and taxes, the price of oil is always with us. And like taxes, it may be President Barack Obama's worst nightmare at election time next year.
Among forecasters, there is a sharp division between those who see an inexorable ...
Posted Wednesday, February 2nd 2011 at 1:57PM
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MSNBC.com--Secret rooms. Hidden passageways. Trap doors. An underground escape route through a network of caves, surfacing at a nearby spring. Sounds like a James Bond movie, but these clandestine places actually exist in (or under) dozens of America ...
Posted Tuesday, February 1st 2011 at 4:27PM
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John Dabiri of Pasadena, California, is one of the geniuses walking amonst us today. Like the great African Pioneers who came before him, he is blazing a trail across our scientific world at only 30 years old. He is the recipient of the 2010 McAr ...
Posted Tuesday, February 1st 2011 at 4:20PM
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Claudette Colvin (b, September 5, 1939) is a African American woman from Alabama. In 1955, at the age of 15, she refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus to a white person, in violation of local law. Her arrest preceded civil rights activist R ...
Posted Tuesday, February 1st 2011 at 12:08PM
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From FinalCall.com
January 31, 2010
“There are people who want to maintain the system of racism / White supremacy.
They don't want the victims of that system to have clarity as to what's happening to them.” –Dr. Frances Cress Welsing
The Nov ...
Posted Tuesday, February 1st 2011 at 12:06PM
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RIO DE JANEIRO — A Brazilian man has been arrested on suspicion of keeping his wife locked in a squalid basement for 16 years while he lived with another woman in the same house.
Acting on a tip, police on Wednesday found Sebastiana Aparecida Gro ...
Posted Sunday, January 30th 2011 at 4:43PM
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By Nadra Kareem Nittle
January 29, 2011
Imagine a world where everyone had brown skin. Tens of thousands of years ago, that was the case, say scientists at Penn State University. So, how did white people get here?
Evidently, when humans began ...
Posted Sunday, January 30th 2011 at 3:51PM
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