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In this tender, beautiful letter to his daughters, President Barack Obama has written a moving tribute to thirteen groundbreaking Americans and the ideals that have shaped our nation. From the artistry of Georgia O'Keeffe, to the courage ...
Posted Friday, May 27th 2011 at 12:49PM
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by Dr. Boyce Watkins, YourBlackWorld.com
“Matters have been resolved,” according to an attorney familiar with the legal situation involving Bishop Eddie Long. The suit involved four young men who sued Long and New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, ...
Posted Friday, May 27th 2011 at 11:48AM
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(CNN) -- A top Nation of Islam official arrested in Guyana on suspicion of terrorism was released by police Friday afternoon and is demanding a formal apology, he and his lawyer there told CNN.
Painting himself as the victim of a "smear campaign," ...
Posted Thursday, May 26th 2011 at 12:07PM
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Newsweek.com--Monday's Supreme Court decision ordering California to reduce its overcrowded prisons by 30,000 inmates is as welcome as a ray of sunlight streaming through prison bars. State officials have known for decades of the horrific, if not cri ...
Posted Thursday, May 26th 2011 at 12:04PM
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Newsweek.com--In Zayed Military City, in a training camp in a desert area of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a secret army is in the making.
This secret army of mercenaries, which is slated to be used not only in the Emirates but throughout the M ...
Posted Thursday, May 26th 2011 at 12:03PM
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Black people with multiple sclerosis are more likely to have vitamin D deficiencies than blacks who don't have the disease, a new study shows.
The study, published in the May 24 issue of the journal Neurology, also said the deficiency is due prima ...
Posted Wednesday, May 25th 2011 at 12:53PM
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MSNBC.com--Even though Black male unemployment is at a record low of 17%, African-American men are still suffering from the fallout of The Great Recession. According to MSNBC, the current unemployment rate for black men is down from last year’s rate ...
Posted Wednesday, May 25th 2011 at 12:49PM
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NEW ORLEANS--New orleans police are searching for a thief who discovered a way to beat rising fuel prices: steal it by the barrel.
Police officers are investigating the theft of more than 1,000 gallons, or 23 barrels, of diesel fuel from a constru ...
Posted Tuesday, May 24th 2011 at 1:37PM
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(CNN) -- A former U.S. congresswoman slammed U.S. policy on Libyan state TV late Saturday and stressed the "last thing we need to do is spend money on death, destruction and war."
The station is fiercely loyal to Moammar Gadhafi and her interview ...
Posted Tuesday, May 24th 2011 at 12:20PM
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NEWSWEEK.com--The Spirit of Rachel Corrie is back in Egyptian territorial waters. The crew and passengers are safe. The Malaysian Embassy in Cairo has advised that the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has granted permission to the ship to berth i ...
Posted Tuesday, May 24th 2011 at 12:16PM
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TheRoot.com--In a study whose findings are somewhat intuitive but nonetheless significant for the representation of African Americans in Hollywood, researchers have found that movies with black directors are far more likely to have black characters w ...
Posted Tuesday, May 24th 2011 at 12:13PM
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The recent controversy ignited by Cornel West’s critique of President Barack Obama and subsequent critiques of Dr. West reveal a fundamental crisis in Black leadership. Traditionally, African American intellectuals and activists have encountered the ...
Posted Tuesday, May 24th 2011 at 12:10PM
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Greedmont TV presents a documentary by Corey Davis on a group crack addicts in Atlanta who live outside in a small cove behind a Texaco, infamously dubbed as the "Living Room." They share their stories and tell us what it's like to battle with a ...
Posted Monday, May 23rd 2011 at 12:51PM
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Economist Walter Williams knows that minimum wage laws are hurting poor, African-American teenagers and his new book, “Race and Economics: How Much Can Be Blamed on Discrimination?”, attempts to dispel the myth that higher minimum wage laws help. Sim ...
Posted Sunday, May 22nd 2011 at 5:33PM
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USAToday.com--The First Lady hit the campaign trail Thursday addressing a group of 550 supporters at the Grand Hyatt in Washington. Mrs. Obama told the predominantly female audience "Now, more than ever before, we need to finish what we've started a ...
Posted Sunday, May 22nd 2011 at 5:29PM
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Johnathan Rodgers, president and chief executive of Silver Spring-based TV One, is retiring at the end of July from the cable channel that caters to African Americans.
The network, a joint venture of Lanham’s Radio One and Comcast Corp., said it m ...
Posted Sunday, May 22nd 2011 at 5:26PM
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Although 18-year-old student Courtney Thomas has been charged with ethnic intimidation after admitting to writing racist graffiti at Seaholm High School, the leadership of the local branch of the NAACP doesn’t believe he acted alone.
According to ...
Posted Saturday, May 21st 2011 at 3:43PM
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Posted Saturday, May 21st 2011 at 3:33PM
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Michelle Alexander, an associate professor of law at Ohio State University, worked in and around the criminal justice system for years–clerking for Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackman, and leading the ACLU of Northern California’s Racial Justice Pro ...
Posted Saturday, May 21st 2011 at 3:26PM
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BET.com--Al Sharpton may have mellowed - but he still won't apologize for the Tawana Brawley debacle.
A quarter-century later after he whipped up racial tensions over the incendiary case, Sharpton still stands by a story that the courts of law and ...
Posted Friday, May 20th 2011 at 12:50PM
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