By Dr. Boyce Watkins
July 2, 2011
When I think about the fourth of July, my mind is motionless. I don’t get happy, sad, angry or thoughtful. As a 40-year old man, I can’t even get excited about the fireworks anymore. The holiday means as much ...
Posted Sunday, July 3rd 2011 at 4:27PM
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Philly.com--She had to kill off Precious.
That was what Sapphire, the 60-year-old author of the 1996 underground classic Push, the novel that was the basis for the unflinching movie Precious, concluded.
The California-born literacy teacher, poe ...
Posted Sunday, July 3rd 2011 at 4:19PM
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NEW ORLEANS--In its 17th season, the Essence Music Fest is still dressed to impress.
Patrons who file into the Louisiana Superdome tonight will bear witness to what, on paper at least, looks to be as entertaining an opening-night roster as Es ...
Posted Friday, July 1st 2011 at 12:08PM
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News from John Hopkins
AFTER YEARS OF TELLING PEOPLE CHEMOTHERAPY IS THE ONLY WAY TO TRY (TRY THE KEY WORD) AND ELIMINATE CANCER, JOHN HOPKINS IS FINALLY STARTING TO TELL YOU THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY
Cancer Update from John Hopkins:
1. ...
Posted Friday, July 1st 2011 at 11:51AM
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Homelessness in California is now punishable by a year in jail.
By Steven Argue
For protesting on the county steps against Santa Cruz laws that make it illegal for the homeless to sleep at night, homeless activists Gary Johnson and Attorney E ...
Posted Thursday, June 30th 2011 at 12:32PM
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June 29, 2011 - The Jerusalem Film Festival foreign office has confirmed that legendary basketball star and actor Kareem Abdul-Jabbar reversed plans to visit Israel due to concerns arising "after the Nakba Day violence."
Abdul-Jabbar was slated to ...
Posted Thursday, June 30th 2011 at 12:04PM
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INDIANA--Rosa Williams was encouraged when she heard a grand jury was meeting about the death of her grandfather, Frank Morris, who burned to death in his Louisiana shoe shop in 1964 in a suspected Ku Klux Klan attack.
But the waiting as the inves ...
Posted Thursday, June 30th 2011 at 11:37AM
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There was a time not so long ago when Americans, regardless of their political stripes, rallied round their president. Once elected, the man who won the White House was no longer viewed as a Rep ...
Posted Wednesday, June 29th 2011 at 1:48PM
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After the botched response to Hurricane Katrina, then New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin said he plunged into a state of paranoia.
In his new book, Katrina’s Secrets: Storms After the Storm, Nagin writes that he believed his criticisms of top officials, ...
Posted Wednesday, June 29th 2011 at 11:45AM
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June 14, 2011
Brother Leader Muammar Gadhafi
Tripoli, Libya
Dear Brother Gadhafi,
May this letter find you, your family and the faithful people of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya in the best of health and spirit in spite of the prevailing circum ...
Posted Wednesday, June 29th 2011 at 11:33AM
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BUSINESS WIRE--Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins rose to fame as an actress, singer and member of the popular 90s musical group TLC – all while quietly battling sickle cell disease. Now, she is lending her famous voice to encourage people, especially t ...
Posted Tuesday, June 28th 2011 at 11:56AM
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By Dr. Boyce Watkins
June 27, 2011
I just spent the week in New Orleans, the powerbase for one of the most talented, powerful and destructive forces in the history of music: Lil Wayne. I’ve admittedly bopped my head to the tunes of Lil Wayne in t ...
Posted Tuesday, June 28th 2011 at 11:49AM
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Peace To All:
There are some things we cannot recapture, and some things we can. There are times when I wish I could make those happy that are close friends.
Some of us here on this forum seem to pride ourselves on having open minds. However, ...
Posted Tuesday, June 28th 2011 at 11:35AM
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SAYINGS NOT FOUND IN SCRIPTURE...WHERE DID THEY REALLY COME FROM??? INTERESTING INFO
1. Moderation in all things
The phrase, "Moderation in all things," is common extrapolation of Aristotle's Doctrine of the Mean (as presented in his Nicomach ...
Posted Monday, June 27th 2011 at 1:08PM
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By Ibrahim Abdul-Matin
June 26, 2011
When you are a compassionate person, you also fight against injustice.
As a Muslim, I have always been taught to be compassionate.
When I was about fifteen years old and lived in upstate New York, I wa ...
Posted Monday, June 27th 2011 at 12:27PM
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FORT WORTH, Texas--At a glance, people may look at Steve Harvey and his accomplishments and possibly only see him as an entertainer. On television, he is the host of one of the longest airing game shows of all time, Family Feud and also The Steve Har ...
Posted Monday, June 27th 2011 at 12:22PM
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ATLANTA (AP)—Nick Charles, a former taxi driver who became CNN’s first sports anchor, died Saturday after a two-year struggle with bladder cancer, the cable network reported.
He died peacefully at his New Mexico home, his wife Cory told the networ ...
Posted Sunday, June 26th 2011 at 4:33PM
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The "CIRCLE OF WILLIS" is the vessel shown here. It provides the brain with Oxygen. nutrients, and creates a magnetic charge by the flow of Blood around the Pineal Gland. It was known by the Ancient Egyptians who made the Ankh after the shape of it r ...
Posted Sunday, June 26th 2011 at 4:28PM
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From AliceWalkersGarden.com
June 25, 2011
Why am I going on the Freedom Flotilla II to Gaza? I ask myself this, even though the answer is: what else would I do? I am in my 67th year, having lived already a long and fruitful life, one with which I ...
Posted Sunday, June 26th 2011 at 3:58PM
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