This January 17th in the United States and everywhere we should all honor Martin Luther King Jr for not just his words, but they were great, but for his actions, including his stand against the Vietnam War and so much else of US Government policy in ...
Posted Monday, January 17th 2011 at 2:02PM
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From Newsweek.com
January 16, 2010
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is promising to unleash a cache of secret documents from the hard drive of a U.S. megabank executive. In 2009, he told Computer World that the bank was Bank of America (BofA). In ...
Posted Monday, January 17th 2011 at 1:58PM
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WASHINGTON, D.C.--A US rights group has filed a lawsuit charging former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld with involvement in torturing former prisoners in American prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan.
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) cata ...
Posted Sunday, January 16th 2011 at 4:40PM
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MY NEIGHBOR'S HOUSE
Going to a party at my neighbor's house today
The people that I meet inside I know what they'll say
"Welcome to the future, the past is memories"
Come on to a party at my neighbors house with me.
And when we get insi ...
Posted Saturday, January 15th 2011 at 5:12PM
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(Reuters) - A tribal court ruling that the Cherokee Nation must allow descendants of former slaves owned by Indians to be tribal members, has again raised the painful history of the forcible removal of the Indians to Oklahoma in the nineteenth centur ...
Posted Saturday, January 15th 2011 at 4:37PM
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He is best known for being an iconic figure in the advancement of civil rights in the United States and around the world, using nonviolent methods following the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi. ...He expanded American values to include the vision of a c ...
Posted Saturday, January 15th 2011 at 12:08AM
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Our leaders invoke the dream frequently, but as a society, we rarely measure ourselves against it. Police brutality permeates the surface of a community, and it scars the psyche of everyone who lives there. When police officers can get away with vio ...
Posted Friday, January 14th 2011 at 11:29PM
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Why do we (Muslims) read Quran, even if we can't understand a single Arabic word????
This is a beautiful story.
An old American Muslim lived on a farm in the mountains of eastern Kentucky with his young grandson. Each morning Grandpa was up e ...
Posted Friday, January 14th 2011 at 4:10PM
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The new cast of Donald Trump’s “Celebrity Apprentice” features some big names this go ‘round, as LaToya Jackson, Lil’ Jon, NeNe Leakes, Star Jones, and Dionne Warwick will all compete on the show.
Since Trump likes breaking down the teams along ge ...
Posted Friday, January 14th 2011 at 4:02PM
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ARIZONA--A local Republican Party official in Arizona resigned his position this week after the attempted assassination of Democratic congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, citing the threat of violence from Tea Party members in his area.
Anthony Mille ...
Posted Friday, January 14th 2011 at 3:46PM
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R-E-S-P-E-C-T, were going to find out what it means to a handful of actors Aretha Franklin wants to play roles in a movie about her life.
The Queen Of Soul wants Halle Berry to portray a young Aretha in the film based on her autobiography, "Aretha ...
Posted Thursday, January 13th 2011 at 4:27PM
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CHICAGO (FinalCall.com) - Cholera, a deadly but preventable disease, has killed some 2,500 people in Haiti and another 150,000 are estimated to have been infected with the disease.
The water-borne malady causes dehydration, diarrhea and too often ...
Posted Thursday, January 13th 2011 at 4:22PM
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Obama recaptures his 2004 voice…. He addressed the civility debate head-on… The Incredibly Shrinking Palin… Boehner’s statesman-like speech, then his unforced error… And Pawlenty’s big day.
From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, Domenico Montanaro, and Ali ...
Posted Thursday, January 13th 2011 at 12:16PM
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The decision to use the Martin Luther King Jr., holiday as a snow makeup day for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools has drawn some criticism. There's a lot of emotion involved in the controversy. After passionate opposition to the closing of some west sid ...
Posted Thursday, January 13th 2011 at 7:40AM
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NBA star Shaquille O'Neal (Shaq-A-Licious) aka Superman was spotted in New York City with his new girlfriend Nikki Alexander AKA Hoopz. The couple have reportedly been dating for months, and are quite serious. ...
Posted Thursday, January 13th 2011 at 7:13AM
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Actress Regina King and actor/singer Malcom Jamal Warner have been dating for a while, and it's rumored that the too already living together and are planning to get married. ...
Posted Thursday, January 13th 2011 at 7:11AM
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A kiss is just a kiss. Even if it['s a full-on mouth smooch with mom.
So says Stephanie Seymour's 18-year-old socialite son, Peter Brant II, who issued a statement on his Facebook fan page (yes, the dude has one) smacking down tabloid insinuations ...
Posted Thursday, January 13th 2011 at 7:01AM
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From Newsweek.com
January 11, 2010
There exists currently in the United States an unhealthy obsession with guns, —a form of idolatry of the gun as a useful tool to settle differences between individuals. Increasingly, it seems, when someone feels ...
Posted Wednesday, January 12th 2011 at 6:11PM
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Madison, WI--Charlayne Hunter-Gault didn't plan on becoming a civil rights hero. She just wanted to go to school. But her own personal courage and determination to exercise her right to a public educational facility 50 years ago this week made her ju ...
Posted Wednesday, January 12th 2011 at 6:05PM
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