The year 2013 marks the centenary of the reported founding of the Canaanite Temple in Newark, N.J. That was the very earliest form of an indigenous African-American Islam, one completely distinct from normative Islam, the 1,400-year-old religion from ...
Posted Monday, December 30th 2013 at 5:08PM
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MSNBC.com--A church nativity scene featuring a bleeding Trayvon Martin is stirring up controversy in southern California.
The outdoor display at the Claremont United Methodist Church spotlights a black-hooded dummy—in place of where baby Jesus wou ...
Posted Monday, December 30th 2013 at 4:56PM
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No Scrubs: How to Know if Your New Man Has a Future.
December 28, 2013 by Dr. Boyce Watkins
(ThyBlackMan.com) I speak to my daughters regularly about how to choose a good man. Of course, their preferences often differ from my own, and I accept ...
Posted Sunday, December 29th 2013 at 7:40PM
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The Testimony of Pastor Hagins' Transition from Christianity to Afrikan Consciousness
by Brother Ray Hagins
Hotep (Peace) Brothers & Sisters,
My (birth) name is Ray Hagins. My spiritual name is Sa Ra Ankh Hotep Maakheru Setep En Ra (which ...
Posted Saturday, December 28th 2013 at 6:55PM
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From Houston Forward Times
December 26, 2013
In a story that the Houston Forward Times (HFT) has been extensively covering, we have learned that the preliminary autopsy performed on Alfred Wright that showed that he was not a victim of homicide h ...
Posted Saturday, December 28th 2013 at 6:39PM
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CHICAGO (FinalCall.com) - The year 2013 saw George Zimmerman tried for the killing of unarmed teen Trayvon Martin and the case kept the country riveted. However, when Mr. Zimmerman was found not guilty, a wave of grief and anger swept over Black Amer ...
Posted Saturday, December 28th 2013 at 6:10PM
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WASHINGTON--A bullet fired during what was described as a running gun battle Thursday night on the plaza of the African American Civil War Memorial and Museum on U Street Northwest damaged a panel listing names of black soldiers who fought for the Un ...
Posted Friday, December 27th 2013 at 9:58PM
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By Professor Damon L. Fordham, MA
December 24, 2013
Most non historians’ knowledge of blacks during the 1800s tends to be an incomplete understanding of slavery as a time of complete illiteracy and ignorance for African Americans. It may surprise ...
Posted Thursday, December 26th 2013 at 7:08PM
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I can knit, mostly winter hats and scarves, which just sits up in one of my closets. I have no plans to sell my hats or scarves (I'm so proud of them because they are the first things I made when I learned to knit LOL).
I also do the cross-stitch ...
Posted Monday, December 23rd 2013 at 4:15PM
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Paul Mooney says it all. Hate it, love it, or despise it, this is the American justice system, and in some way, this goes on every day.
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Posted Sunday, December 22nd 2013 at 7:23PM
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