by Agyei Tyehimba
As an educator and activist, I constantly search for ways to empower through teaching. Many of our most effective and inspired leaders addressed how ignorance perpetuates our own victimization and powerlessness. One way to addr ...
Posted Thursday, May 30th 2013 at 10:17AM
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Frequent heartburn is positively associated with cancers of the throat and vocal cord among nonsmokers and nondrinkers, a new study has found.
According to the study, the use of antacids, but not prescription medications, had a protective effect.
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Posted Thursday, May 30th 2013 at 9:35AM
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ATLANTA--Instead of hitting national stages with his 1995 “This Is How We Do It,” Montell Jordan is performing from the pulpit now.
During a recent interview with LA Weekly, the singer revealed that he’s currently a pastor at a megachurch in Atla ...
Posted Wednesday, May 29th 2013 at 12:08PM
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May 28, 2013 (CHICAGO) (WLS) -- A Chicago man accused of killing a 6-month-old girl in a shooting that also wounded her father was seeking revenge for the theft of a video game console, authorities said Monday.
Koman Willis, 33, of the 7800-block ...
Posted Tuesday, May 28th 2013 at 12:09PM
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LUXOR, Egypt May 25, 2013 (AP)--A mother and two daughters were allegedly killed by male relatives in southern Egypt who believed they'd had affairs, the latest apparent example of so-called "honor killings" in which women are slain for violating tra ...
Posted Sunday, May 26th 2013 at 4:27PM
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By Maria Lloyd
BlackBlueDog.com
May 20, 2013
Timothy McNair is a graduate student of opera at Northwestern University’s famed Bienen School of Music. McNair is at the school on a full scholarship, but the 25-year-old is standing up to his sch ...
Posted Sunday, May 26th 2013 at 3:12PM
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Products that Use Aborted Fetal Tissue: Pepsi, Kraft, Nestle and More...
Disclaimer: This is not going to be a very popular post. But again, I feel it is something I need to share.
Earlier in the year I read an article about how the Pepsi Compa ...
Posted Saturday, May 25th 2013 at 4:07PM
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From NPR.org
May 23, 2013 12:00 PM
Hip-hop mogul Dr. Dre and music producer Jimmy Iovine recently donated $70 million to the University of Southern California. Many people are applauding their generosity, but some aren't so happy. Host Michel ...
Posted Friday, May 24th 2013 at 12:41PM
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ATLANTA--Hundreds of black-owned businesses have a new way for consumers to find and shop with them. There is an app for that.
The Around the Way app, the brainchild of a marketing and technology firm in Washington, D.C., allows the customer acces ...
Posted Sunday, May 19th 2013 at 4:59PM
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