The Mr. Clean we’ve come to know over the past 59 years is in need of a break. And for good reason — he’s been keeping our houses clean for a long time. So, for the next year, America’s favorite muscled cleaner will be taking a vacation.
In his pl ...
Posted Saturday, January 28th 2017 at 12:27PM
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) -- Florida A&M University has announced plans that will move the university towards serving as the national headquarters for the nation’s only African-American news network.
In 2014, FAMU entered into an 11-year agreement ...
Posted Saturday, January 28th 2017 at 12:19PM
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Paris Jackson has insisted she is an African-American because her father Michael always told her she was.
In a revealing interview, she opened up on speculation the King of Pop was not her biological father and how he told her to be proud of his ...
Posted Friday, January 27th 2017 at 7:12PM
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By healthfactsday.com
Ava Roberts (23) is now the youngest first African-American female doctor in the world! Though word of his accomplishment are however minimal, French site Pelea reports in their site that “after a gifted childhood, Ava Robert ...
Posted Friday, January 27th 2017 at 6:39PM
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From TheUndefeated.com
January 25, 2017
As the Australian Open enters its final weekend, the first Grand Slam of the year brings with it a frustrating and perennial question in American tennis circles: Where’s the next great American player?
T ...
Posted Friday, January 27th 2017 at 6:31PM
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has been known to document and chronicle the stories of African, African American people, and those who wanted to know from where they came from. Now, in a bid to add color and context to our legacy, Skip Gates teamed up with P ...
Posted Friday, January 27th 2017 at 5:34PM
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Origins of the Jamaican Maroons
The Jamaican Maroons are often described as enslaved Africans and persons of noticeable African descent who ran away or escaped from their masters or owners to acquire and preserve their freedom. The word ma ...
Posted Friday, January 6th 2017 at 9:10AM
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Four people have been charged with hate crimes in connection with a video broadcast live on Facebook that showed a mentally disabled man being beaten and taunted, threatened with a knife and forced to drink from a toilet.
The assault went on f ...
Posted Friday, January 6th 2017 at 8:51AM
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Richard Muhammad (FCN): As-Salaam Alaikum. I’m Richard B. Muhammad, editor in chief of The Final Call Newspaper. We are pleased to have our founder, publisher and the National Representative of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, the Honorable Mini ...
Posted Friday, January 6th 2017 at 8:31AM
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TOUSSAINT LOUVERTURE
A Revolutionary Life
By Philippe Girard
Illustrated. 340 pp. Basic Books. $29.99.
Any number of books have been written over the centuries about the leader of the Haitian slave revolution, but “Toussaint Louverture,” by Phi ...
Posted Friday, December 16th 2016 at 1:07PM
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LEBANON, Tennessee -- These days, Lawrence McKinney can’t seem to stay still. The 60-year old has spent enough time sitting in one place.
A Memphis, Tennessee, jury convicted McKinney of rape and burglary in 1978. The victim identified him as one ...
Posted Friday, December 16th 2016 at 12:10PM
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