CNN.com--This year marks the 30th anniversary of the first diagnosed case of AIDS. In June 1981, a rare pneumonia diagnosed in five Los Angeles gay men was reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). These were the first documen ...
Posted Saturday, January 22nd 2011 at 5:33PM
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Joan Rivers says she censored a joke out of her stand up routine in which she referred to First Lady Michelle Obama as "Blackie O" for fear of being labeled a racist.
Rivers revealed the controversial joke on Thursday morning's Howard Stern Show:
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Posted Saturday, January 22nd 2011 at 2:21PM
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ATLANTA (AP) - The Rev. Bernice King said Friday she will not assume the presidency of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the civil rights group co-founded by her father more than 50 years ago.
King was elected in October 2009 to lead t ...
Posted Friday, January 21st 2011 at 3:12PM
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SOUTH CAROLINA--Statistics presented at the Third AACR Conference on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities revealed that black women often have lower vitamin D levels than white women.
The authors of a study on the subject added that the partic ...
Posted Friday, January 21st 2011 at 3:07PM
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Peace To All:
Whether or not you are a follower of the NOI or an independent thinking black man or woman you have to be disappointed at the present predicament that this society has planned for black people in general.
Politics like religion is ...
Posted Friday, January 21st 2011 at 3:03PM
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Peace To All:
My word is bond and bond is life, before my word shall fail I shall give my life. The key or enface is place on the word, word. The Muslims should be familiar with this saying. To give your word one must understand the value in doing ...
Posted Thursday, January 20th 2011 at 3:28PM
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If someone asked you What does it mean to be spiritual and are you a spiritual person, What would be your response?
If you ask the average American you'll get a potpourri of answers: some would say it means going to church, others chanting a mantr ...
Posted Thursday, January 20th 2011 at 1:27PM
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This is absolutely crazy. Some fool out there actually tried to kill a peaceful march. I hope when they found him they shoot shrapnel through him like he was trying to do to those people.
Anita: http://goddessdd.ning.com/ ...
Posted Thursday, January 20th 2011 at 7:25AM
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BLACK CHURCH LEADERS CALL FOR SUPPORT OF PRESIDENT OBAMA'S HEALTH CARE REFORM
Nationwide (BlackNews.com) -- Presiding Bishop of the Church of God in Christ Bishop Charles E. Blake, Sr. released the following statement:
President Obama's historic ...
Posted Wednesday, January 19th 2011 at 4:27PM
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BET.com--No one man should have all this power!
Just after releasing his latest album alongside his group Dirty Money — which moved more than 101,000 units during it's first week in stores and peaked at No. 7 on the Billboard 200 chart — Diddy app ...
Posted Wednesday, January 19th 2011 at 3:22PM
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NAPERVILLE, Ill.--Filmmaker Spike Lee told an audience at North Central College that he wasn’t too surprised to hear that Italian-American groups were protesting his appearance at the Naperville campus Tuesday night.
He did find some irony in the ...
Posted Wednesday, January 19th 2011 at 3:01PM
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Astronomer Parke Kunkle caused quite a stir recently among believers in astrology when he pointed out that a wobble in Earth’s rotation meant that the stars were in a different position above us two millennia ago, when the Zodiac was created.
Astr ...
Posted Tuesday, January 18th 2011 at 5:08PM
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One-year payroll tax holiday key to toppling seniors' safety net, Sanders warns
Social Security may be on the White House chopping block, a US Senator recently told Raw Story, expressing deep uneasiness about President Barack Obama's noncommittal ...
Posted Tuesday, January 18th 2011 at 5:00PM
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NEW ORLEANS -- A day after honoring Martin Luther King, New Orleans also remembers a controversial speech given by a controversial former mayor.
"It's time for us to rebuild a New Orleans, the one that should be a chocolate New Orleans," said ...
Posted Tuesday, January 18th 2011 at 2:34PM
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NORTH CAROLINA--The head of the state NAACP says local school leaders are "out of control."
The Rev. William J. Barber III blasted the Burke County Board of Education while speaking to nearly 200 people at the Morganton Community House during the ...
Posted Tuesday, January 18th 2011 at 2:20PM
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They say that women can be some ferocious fighters! We can really take it there, especially when someone is messing with our loved ones. It's our protective natures. A mother will fight hard to protect her children from all dangers, whether we bir ...
Posted Monday, January 17th 2011 at 9:02PM
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Today is not only Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, but it's also Michelle Obama Day. In a way. The first lady turned 47 on Monday, and she and her family marked the occasion by paying tribute to MLK with a painting project at a school on Capitol Hill.
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Posted Monday, January 17th 2011 at 2:04PM
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