The following text is excerpted from “A Torchlight for America,” chapter 4, pages 47-53, written by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, 1993.
THE HONORABLE MINISTER LOUIS FARRAKHAN:
Let’s deal with what education is supposed to be as oppose ...
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Arthur John (Jack) Johnson (1878 -1946) was the first black, and first Texan, to win the heavyweight boxing championship of the world.
Born in Galveston on March 31, 1878, he was the second of six children of Henry and Tiny Johnson. Henry was a fo ...
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Eric Himpton Holder, Jr. was born in the Bronx, New York, to parents with roots in Barbados. Holder grew up in East Elmhurst, Queens, and attended public school until the age of 10. When entering the 4th grade he was selected to participate in a prog ...
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The Woolworth sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests which led to the Woolworth's department store chain reversing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States.
While not the first sit-ins of the African-American Civil Righ ...
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Peace,
On Page 7, of The Frederick Douglass Encyclopedia, it states: "Douglass was unconvinced that living and working in Africa would appreciably be more effective in abolishing the slave trade, because the "savage chiefs" in West Africa were lit ...
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MICHEL MARTIN, HOST:
I'm Michel Martin, and this is TELL ME MORE, from NPR News. We are taking TELL ME MORE on the road to Detroit tomorrow, so we wanted to get in a Detroit state of mind with some music from Detroit's own singer-songwriter K'Jon ...
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Newsweek.com--The conflict between property rights and human rights has entered a new chapter. It is a debate that goes back to the challenge by landowners and merchants behind the American Revolution’s war on British control over the colonial econom ...
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Faruq Hunter, an entrepreneur with a growing business and family,bought life insurance partly because of a hard lesson he learned from his father, who left behind $40,000 in debt when he died.
Hunter admires the fact that his father always helped ...
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January 29, 2012
An article in the Washington Post on January 26 revealed that a delegation from the Philippines was engaged in bilateral talks in Washington to negotiate the expansion of the American military presence in the c ...
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CANCER KILLER ¨C Natural Cancer Cell Killer 10,000 Times Stronger Than Chemo!
The Sour Sop or the fruit from the graviola tree is a miraculous natural cancer cell killer 10,000 times stronger than Chemo.
Why are we not aware of this? Its becaus ...
Posted Sunday, January 29th 2012 at 3:11PM
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ThinkProgress.org--ThinkProgress reported last week that Kansas House Speaker Mike O’Neal (R) was forced to apologize to First Lady Michelle Obama after forwarding an email to fellow lawmakers that called her “Mrs. YoMama” and compared her to the Gri ...
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BET.com--Associates of presidential candidate Ron Paul told the Washington Post that the Texas congressman was heavily involved in newsletters that included racist and incendiary language published under his name in the 1980s and 1990s.
Paul has ...
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ARIZONA--Film director Spike Lee asked the more than 2,000 people who came to hear his lecture Wednesday night at Arizona State University’s Gammage Auditorium in honor of Black History Month for permission to speak directly to the African-Americans ...
Posted Friday, January 27th 2012 at 11:54AM
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January 25, 2012
Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad
By CHARLES DUHIGG and DAVID BARBOZA
The explosion ripped through Building A5 on a Friday evening last May, an eruption of fire and noise that twisted metal pipes as if they were discarded straw ...
Posted Friday, January 27th 2012 at 11:39AM
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Peace,
President Obama should be praised for wanting to RIGHT the WRONG that Bush did while he was in office. However, during John Kennedy's short tenure as president, he faced a similar situation regarding how to address South East Asia and the t ...
Posted Wednesday, January 25th 2012 at 12:04PM
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Peace,
If we are ever ready, willing and able to study the Transatlantic Slave trade from an analytical, logical, unemotional standpoint, there may be great benefit for us as individual ,ethnic groups, a nation and the whole world community.
I ...
Posted Wednesday, January 25th 2012 at 11:48AM
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Kate Beckinsale is back with a vengeance, with her latest "Underworld" movie opening at No. 1 this weekend.
"Underworld Awakening" made an estimated $25.4, distributor Sony Screen Gems reported Sunday.
This is the fourth fil ...
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MSNBC.com--President Barack Obama will make the domestic economy the centerpiece of his last State of the Union address before he seeks re-election in November.
The speech is expected to call for sweeping initiatives to bolster the U.S. manufactur ...
Posted Tuesday, January 24th 2012 at 12:53PM
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TENNESSEE--Rand Paul, the junior senator from Kentucky and son of presidential hopeful Ron Paul, was detained by TSA agents in Nashville, Tennessee Monday morning, according to social media updates made by both libertarian lawmakers.
Just after 1 ...
Posted Tuesday, January 24th 2012 at 12:06PM
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By Fredda Sacharow
January 23, 2012
Environmental factors in many predominantly African-American communities – neighborhoods fortified with bullet-proof glass and barbed wire, for example, and bus ads aggressively pushing the glories of alcohol - ...
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