"GO DOWN MOSES" ~ HISTORY
"Go Down Moses" is an American Negro spiritual. It describes events in the Old Testament of the Bible, specifically Exodus 7:16: "And the Lord spoke unto Moses, go unto Pharaoh, and say unto him, thus saith the Lord, ...
Posted Saturday, June 9th 2012 at 6:39PM
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Huffington Post--Having played God in Bruce Almighty, Morgan Freeman revealed he has an affinity towards that which is beyond us, according to Reuters.
When asked about his attraction to roles larger than life in an interview, he replied, "I thin ...
Posted Saturday, June 9th 2012 at 6:25PM
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CHICAGO--Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-III) made the case for an immediate increase in the federal minimum wage to $10.00 an hour during a press conference on the Hill Wednesday.
If passed, the ¡°Catching Up To 1968 Act of 2012¡å would be the first ...
Posted Friday, June 8th 2012 at 6:29PM
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McFadden and Whitehead were an American songwriting, production, and recording duo, best known for their signature tune "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now". They wrote and produced some of the most popular R&B hits of the 1970s, and were primarily associa ...
Posted Thursday, June 7th 2012 at 7:38PM
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Nina Simone, better known as "The High Priestess of Soul" was born Eunice Kathleen Waymon in Tryon, North Carolina one of eight children in a poor family. She began playing piano at the age of 3, her first song she learned was "God be Wit ...
Posted Wednesday, June 6th 2012 at 12:05PM
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SAN DIEGO (FinalCall.com) - Sherry Johnson came to the city Convention Center with her nine-year-old-son, 23-year-old daughter and a lot on her mind.
She sees a world spinning out of control, subliminal, anti-social messages in media, rising racis ...
Posted Wednesday, June 6th 2012 at 11:53AM
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BlackBlueDog.com--Attorney General Eric Holder reportedly became “incensed” after being accused of complaining about public interference in his office. The accusations came from top Obama advisor David Axelrod, and allegedly led to the two men havin ...
Posted Wednesday, June 6th 2012 at 11:43AM
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Peace,
This blog is in response to a question asked by one of my dear sisters on the BlackWomenConnect.com site.
INSTINCT or INTUITION?
It is always sad to hear it often said by human beings that: "I should have trusted my instincts" and so ...
Posted Tuesday, June 5th 2012 at 11:47AM
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THE SUGARHILL GANG ~ HISTORY
The Sugarhill Gang is an American hip hop group, known mostly for its 1979 hit "Rapper's Delight," the first hip hop single to become a Top 40 hit. The song uses an interpolation of the instrumental track from the ...
Posted Monday, June 4th 2012 at 10:52AM
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SAN LEANDRO, Calif. -- Authorities say an African American bank robber is in custody after disguising himself as an elderly white man and holding up several banks across Northern California.
San Leandro Police Lt. Jeff Tudor says 34-year-old Deron ...
Posted Sunday, June 3rd 2012 at 4:25PM
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The following is a video lecture of Minister Ava Muhammad, the national spokesperson for the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, speaking in Brooklyn, New York
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Posted Saturday, June 2nd 2012 at 4:16PM
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THE FIVE STAIRSTEPS ~ HISTORY
The Five Stairsteps, known as "The First Family of Soul", were an American Chicago soul group made up of five of Betty and Clarence Burke Sr.'s six children: Alohe Jean, Clarence Jr., James, Dennis, and Kenneth "K ...
Posted Saturday, June 2nd 2012 at 3:05PM
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - An internationally acclaimed Turkish classical pianist is to stand trial on charges of insulting Muslim religious values in comments posted on Twitter, an Istanbul court ruled on Friday.
Fazil Say has performed with the New Yo ...
Posted Friday, June 1st 2012 at 12:24PM
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LIFT EVERY VOICE AND SING ~HISTORY
"Lift Every Voice and Sing" was publicly performed first as a poem as part of a celebration of Lincoln's Birthday on February 12, 1900 by 500 school children at the segregated Stanton School. Its principal, J ...
Posted Friday, June 1st 2012 at 12:19PM
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Beyonce will play Queen Tara in the 20th Century Fox Animation and Blue Sky Studios’ Epic.
From the creators of Ice Age and Rio, Epic tells the story of an ongoing battle deep in the forest between the forces of good and the forces of evil.
Wh ...
Posted Friday, June 1st 2012 at 12:04PM
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By Mary Foster, Associated Press
May 30, 2012
They marched out of cotton and cane fields, away from the kitchens, the laundries and the rows of cabins standing behind white-columned plantations. In May 1862, the fall of New Orleans to Union force ...
Posted Thursday, May 31st 2012 at 10:29AM
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NEW ORLEANS - New Orleans police are looking for suspects Wednesday morning in a series of shootings which, even by New Orleans standards, constituted an especially violent day.
There were four brazen shootings across the Crescent City Tuesday ...
Posted Wednesday, May 30th 2012 at 11:52AM
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VIRGINIA--Poet and activist Nikki Giovanni urged the older generation at Lynchburg College’s annual Conference on Aging to “write your story down.”
“We should not have to be apologizing for our age,” said 68-year-old Giovanni Tuesday afternoon to ...
Posted Tuesday, May 29th 2012 at 12:28PM
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT)- Boston University researchers found that sarcoidosis accounts for 25 percent of deaths among women in the Black Women’s Health Study who have the disease.
Sarcoidosis causes inflammation in the lungs, lymph nodes, liver, ...
Posted Tuesday, May 29th 2012 at 12:18PM
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TheRoot.com--Three years before the commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic called on Union veterans’ organizations to decorate the graves of dead soldiers, blacks in Charleston, South Carolina in 1865 launched the first Decoration Day i ...
Posted Monday, May 28th 2012 at 5:20PM
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From Global Research.com
May 27, 2012
They came as slaves; vast human cargo transported on tall British ships bound for the Americas. They were shipped by the hundreds of thousands and included men, women, and even the youngest of children.
W ...
Posted Monday, May 28th 2012 at 4:49PM
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