VIRGINIA--While working on "The 100 Best AfricanAmerican Poems" (Sourcebooks MediaFusion 2010; $22.99), award-winning poet Nikki Giovanni decided to cheat.
"Including just one hundred would only get me to the 1970s," says Giovanni, a University D ...
Posted Sunday, November 21st 2010 at 3:09PM
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HEALTH.com--While one of the singular achievements of American medicine in recent years has been to reduce the largely preventable incidence of cervical cancer, 13,000 women nevertheless will come down with it this year mainly because they have not h ...
Posted Saturday, November 20th 2010 at 4:21PM
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The following is a follow-up to a previous blog "SIGN THE PETITION TO STOP SEXUALLY INVASIVE AIRPORT BODY SCANS" published here on November 18, 2010.
SAN DIEGO--At the San Diego International Airport on Saturday, about one-fifth of the travelers ...
Posted Saturday, November 20th 2010 at 3:59PM
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Today is National Entrepreneurs Day, the grand finale to National Entrepreneurship Week, as proclaimed by President Barack Obama. I found this proclamation to be exciting and encouraging for many reasons.
The first is because this campaign was br ...
Posted Saturday, November 20th 2010 at 8:25AM
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For Chike Akua and L. Kobie Wilkerson, the Black male graduation rate in America is absolutely unacceptable. Several months ago The Schott Foundation released its report finding that the national graduation rate for Black males was a lowly 47%, natio ...
Posted Saturday, November 20th 2010 at 8:08AM
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- A federal judge ordered actor Wesley Snipes to surrender to authorities Friday so he can begin serving a three-year prison sentence for tax-related crimes. U.S. District Court Judge William Terrell Hodges in Ocala, Fla., rejecte ...
Posted Friday, November 19th 2010 at 8:01PM
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Embattled rapper DMX is in trouble with the law again. The hip-hop star was arrested in Phoenix on Nov. 18 on suspicion of parole violation. The rap star, whose real name is Earl Simmons, has served two stints in jail in 2010 and most recently walked ...
Posted Friday, November 19th 2010 at 7:52PM
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Hey BWC Friends: I know its been a long day, youre stressed and weve talked about some serious matters here today, so I thought I would tell you a story to try and make you smile, so here goes. Remember, youve got to use your imagination.
My Aunt ...
Posted Friday, November 19th 2010 at 5:41PM
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An Excerpt from Geoffrey Dunn of the Washington Post:
In passages leaked from her forthcoming book America by Heart, Sarah Palin -- the erstwhile quitter governor of Alaska, who now, by all indications, fancies herself as President of the United St ...
Posted Friday, November 19th 2010 at 4:54PM
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An Excerpt from Geoffrey Dunn of the Washington Post:
In passages leaked from her forthcoming book America by Heart, Sarah Palin -- the erstwhile quitter governor of Alaska, who now, by all indications, fancies herself as President of the United Sta ...
Posted Friday, November 19th 2010 at 2:02PM
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From BlackWeb 2.0
November 17, 2010
This is a question that Ifve tried to answer at several several times during my career and countless other media brands and entrepreneurs have as well. As the Internet becomes a part of the everyday lives of m ...
Posted Friday, November 19th 2010 at 1:30PM
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I have just been alerted to the fact that people are passing out key chains at gas station. Don't take them! They are tracking devices, which leads the culprit back to your home, where they will attempt to rob you. This is just crazy, but this is the ...
Posted Friday, November 19th 2010 at 10:03AM
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Singer/actress Janet Jackson is on the cover of the December 2010 issue of Health Magazine. Inside she talks about her upcoming book called True You and her role in Tyler Perry's new film For Colored Girls.
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Posted Friday, November 19th 2010 at 9:29AM
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Rap superstar Nicki Minaj recently covered an issue of Billboard Magazine. Inside she talks about her Pink Friday album, and how she gained the respect of her hip-hop colleagues.
posted by Anita http://www.girlfriends.connectplatform.com ...
Posted Friday, November 19th 2010 at 9:28AM
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The two have not married in real life, but on the big screen - they have. Terrence Howard plays Nelson Mandela, and Jennifer Hudson plays his wife Winnie Mandela in "Winnie" - an upcoming film directed by Darrell J. Roodt
post by Anita http://www.gi ...
Posted Friday, November 19th 2010 at 9:25AM
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9-0-# on your telephone
I dialed '0' to check this out, and the operator confirmed that this was correct, so please pass it on.. (l also checked out snopes.com and truthorfiction.com This is true, and also applies to cell phones!)
I received a ...
Posted Thursday, November 18th 2010 at 7:10PM
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Peace To All:
Yesterday morning I was at a school board meeting and one of the staff members mentioned something that caused me to think on the lessons we teach our children, both directly and indirectly.
Perhaps we can share some of the valua ...
Posted Thursday, November 18th 2010 at 5:48PM
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SYNDEY--A policeman accused of trying to pull off a Muslim woman's headdress has told a Sydney court he isn't a racist.
Senior Constable Paul Fogarty pulled over Carnita Matthews, 45, on June 8 this year at Woodbine in Sydney's southwest.
She l ...
Posted Thursday, November 18th 2010 at 2:04PM
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A Message from: James Rucker, ColorOfChange.org
Dear Anita,
The big banks are at it again. First they targeted minority communities with subprime loans and other predatory lending schemes, helping to make Black Americans and Latinos 70% more li ...
Posted Thursday, November 18th 2010 at 10:49AM
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Tell me what you think. Do you believe there is a secret society, Devil Worshipping? Do you think they have controls of the minds of our black kids in the Hip Hop genre? Watch the video and Jay's rebuttal and tell me what you think? ...
Posted Thursday, November 18th 2010 at 8:51AM
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Millions of people are flocking to Abadiania, a remote town in Brazil, in search of a miracle. They come with every kind of ailment you can imaginecancer, arthritis, depressionall to see one man: John of God.
Some believe John of God, a simple ...
Posted Thursday, November 18th 2010 at 8:13AM
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Check this little sister out, spitting knowledge. Open your eargates people.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltOz_LljlvU&feature=fvw
Educate Yourselves!!!
Do your research. Im not tryina fool ya kiddos.
Protect your Minds, Bodies and Souls Loves w ...
Posted Wednesday, November 17th 2010 at 8:59PM
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LAS VEGAS (AP) O.J. Simpsons lawyers are asking a three-judge Nevada Supreme Court panel to reconsider whether the former football star should get a new trial following his armed robbery and kidnapping conviction in Las Vegas.
Simpson attorney ...
Posted Wednesday, November 17th 2010 at 3:26PM
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