CHICAGO (FinalCall.com) - Students, faculty and community members packed the Bruce Cherry Theater at Olive-Harvey College on the city’s south side to share views on the importance of education, and to hear solutions to the problems of crime and viole ...
Posted Wednesday, April 9th 2014 at 12:54PM
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A video of police bullying at its finest has gone viral on Facebook. The video shows the victim’s, Donrell Breaux (pictured), home seemingly invaded by a Sheriff’s Office deputy who is seen trying to forcibly cuff him without following protocol.
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Posted Saturday, April 5th 2014 at 4:14PM
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"Hurry up, please.”
Like most busy New York City 5-year-olds, Kinsey Saleh is in a rush.
Instead of playing outside with her friends after school, the spunky kindergartner is hooked up to a dialysis machine three long afternoons a week to stay ...
Posted Wednesday, April 2nd 2014 at 5:12PM
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Spike Lee is on rant mode once again and this time his discontent is directed at New York Times film critic A.O. Scott who wrote a column discussing the director’s gentrification remarks from February. Thing is, Lee attacked Scott for critiques that ...
Posted Wednesday, April 2nd 2014 at 4:56PM
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Yityish “Titi” Aynaw, First Black Miss Isreal
WASHINGTON — The first black woman to win the crown of Miss Israel says she believes the country has real problems with its treatment of refugees and immigrants from Africa but that the situation is im ...
Posted Wednesday, April 2nd 2014 at 2:54PM
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Barbara Ross-Lee, the sister of legendary singer and actress Diana Ross, has worked in private practice, for the U.S. Public Health Service, and on numerous committees, and in 1993 was the first African American woman to be appointed dean of a United ...
Posted Monday, March 31st 2014 at 6:54PM
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Lisa Fritsch is the first African-American woman to run for Texas governor, a seventh-generation Texan who grew up in Tyler and now resides in Austin. Although she did not win enough votes to force a runoff for the Republican nomination against Attor ...
Posted Monday, March 31st 2014 at 6:47PM
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Headaches seem to be a common human condition. Some of us get them more frequently and more intensely. We also find relief in different ways. Some hit the meds, and some meditate or find other stress relieving techniques.
How many people find rel ...
Posted Thursday, March 27th 2014 at 1:02PM
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Marjorie Stewart Joyner (October 24, 1896 – December 27, 1994) was an American businesswoman. She was born in 1896, in Monterey, Virginia. She was the granddaughter of a slave owner and a slave. In 1912, she moved to Chicago and began studying cosmet ...
Posted Thursday, March 27th 2014 at 11:25AM
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By Reverend Al Sharpton
Posted: 03/24/2014 4:10 pm EDT Updated: 03/24/2014 4:59 pm EDT
It's been 60 years since the groundbreaking Brown v. Board of Education decision, which unanimously held that racial segregation of children in public schools ...
Posted Thursday, March 27th 2014 at 10:54AM
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