Motivational speaker Eric Thomas’s speech to Vashon High School students in St. Louis last month has gone viral over his reaction to a group of students who kept interrupting him.
Thomas begins by telling the crowd his story.
He dropped out ...
Posted Friday, March 18th 2016 at 11:42AM
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“Empire” star Taraji P. Henson will play mathematics genius Katherine Johnson in “Hidden Figures” for Fox 2000.
The studio has been developing the adaptation of the Margot Lee Shetterly book “Hidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women ...
Posted Wednesday, March 16th 2016 at 9:15PM
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Decades before Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton, there was Shirley Chisholm. As the first black woman to run for president for a major political party she was years ahead of her time. So why don't more people know about her?
Forty-four years ago th ...
Posted Wednesday, March 16th 2016 at 9:01PM
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The trials of six Baltimore police officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray are set to resume in May, nearly a year after the 25-year-old died from injuries sustained while in police custody, according to The Baltimore Sun.
One of the office ...
Posted Wednesday, March 16th 2016 at 8:53PM
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NOLA.com--Nearly 5,000 homes in Louisiana have been damaged by flooding after heavy rains swept across the state, according to initial figures released Sunday (March 13) by the Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness. Offici ...
Posted Sunday, March 13th 2016 at 9:28PM
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JACKSON, MS (Mississippi News Now) - The City of Jackson and the Mississippi State Health Department have issued a warning for residents, especially pregnant women and children, over lead found in water.
Officials at the MSDH say that after consu ...
Posted Sunday, March 13th 2016 at 9:00PM
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In January, Sarah Reed was found dead in her cell at Holloway prison. She had been the victim of a notorious police brutality case in 2012 and suffered mental health issues known to prison officers, doctors, social workers, lawyers and police. So why ...
Posted Friday, March 11th 2016 at 6:21PM
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CHICAGO—In an exclusive Final Call interview, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam responded to false reports that he has supported Donald Trump, the leading candidate for the presidential nomination of the Republican Party.
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Posted Thursday, March 10th 2016 at 9:45AM
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MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA--Relatives, friends and former classmates crowded a funeral service Saturday for a 58-year-old black man who authorities say was shot and killed by a white Montgomery police officer.
The mourners paid homage to Gregory Gunn, wh ...
Posted Thursday, March 10th 2016 at 9:35AM
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If the walls could talk, imagine what they’d say.
They’d reminisce about family meals, holidays, celebrations and romance, take sides in arguments, and watch children grow. If those walls could talk, they’d tell of triumph, disappointment, begin ...
Posted Thursday, March 10th 2016 at 9:25AM
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Whitney Elizabeth Houston was born into a musical family on 9 August 1963, in Newark, New Jersey, the daughter of gospel star Cissy Houston, cousin of singing star Dionne Warwick and goddaughter of soul legend Aretha Franklin.
She began singing i ...
Posted Thursday, February 11th 2016 at 5:00PM
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The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) was a labor union organized by African American employees of the Pullman Company in August 1925 and led by A. Philip Randolph and Milton P. Webster. Over the next twelve years, the BSCP fought a three-fr ...
Posted Thursday, February 11th 2016 at 4:47PM
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