Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has walked free from a state prison after serving just over a year for violating probation in a 2008 criminal case. In a statement issued ahead of his release, Kilpatrick thanked all those who prayed for him and ...
Posted Wednesday, August 3rd 2011 at 11:39PM
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"We had been emailing back and forth all morning," Maria Cutrone, 30, a Baltimore-based web designer recalls. She and a coworker couldn't see eye-to-eye on a project. Should they ask the client to postpone the deadline in order to complete testing or ...
Posted Wednesday, August 3rd 2011 at 9:24PM
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Last week concluded the first National Association of Black Accountants (NABA) Accounting Career Awareness Program (ACAP) at Harris-Stowe State University, during which 25 local minority high school students resided on campus for a week to increase t ...
Posted Wednesday, August 3rd 2011 at 3:49PM
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On GPS this week, two important, exclusive interviews as the clock ticks ever closer to a debt debacle for the U.S.
Deal or no deal, Fareed thinks the damage has been done. He puts that to two people with extensive experience and power in the worl ...
Posted Wednesday, August 3rd 2011 at 11:19AM
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(CNN) -- The Syrian city of Hama has an ancient past as part of the Roman, Greek and Byzantine empires, but recent deadly violence has revived memories of its more recent history as a hotbed of unrest and brutal government crackdown. At least 62 peo ...
Posted Wednesday, August 3rd 2011 at 11:01AM
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(CNN) -- Photographer Thomas Nybo has captured images of some of the toughest issues facing Africa, from child mortality to access to education. He recently visited five countries in 11 days as he traveled around West Africa with New York Times colu ...
Posted Wednesday, August 3rd 2011 at 10:12AM
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By The Root as posted on The Huffington Post.
The Huffington Post has picked up a Maynard Institute report that a Chicago news station is under fire for purposely taking the words of a 4-year-old boy out of context to portray him as a future crimi ...
Posted Tuesday, August 2nd 2011 at 8:59PM
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BlackDoctor.org) -- Most of us are quick to acknowledge the need to protect our skin from the rigors of summer heat and sun. But come Labor Day a quick glance in the mirror frequently lets us know what we forgot to protect -- our hair. Indeed, a se ...
Posted Tuesday, August 2nd 2011 at 3:21PM
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Washington, D.C. – On Monday, the Department of Justice filed suit against the state of Alabama to block the implementation of HB 56, which is set to take effect September 1. HB 56 is similar to but far more punitive than Arizona’s SB 1070. The law i ...
Posted Tuesday, August 2nd 2011 at 2:46PM
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You can beat burnout by discovering ways to devote more time to the activities and people that matter most to you. Here are five ways to bring a little more balance to your daily routine.
1. Build downtime into your schedule.
When you plan you ...
Posted Tuesday, August 2nd 2011 at 2:03PM
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NEW YORK -- Six months after New York City news junkies flocked to Al Jazeera English’s website for up-to-the-second coverage of the Egyptian uprising, they’ll now have a chance to watch the 24-hour news network on its original platform: television. ...
Posted Monday, August 1st 2011 at 5:22PM
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We salute our HBCU Queen as she gives us a sneak peek into her office where the magic happens! Just think... the OWN channel was once just an idea, then Ms. Winfrey and her team made the dream a reality! I wonder how many years of planning went in to ...
Posted Friday, July 29th 2011 at 5:35PM
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Here we go again with another SCANDAL! Rememeber when former NY Attorney Gen Andrew Coumo broke the news back in 2007 that revealed widespread unethical relationships between schools and lenders, with colleges and universities accepting gifts and ot ...
Posted Thursday, July 28th 2011 at 8:45PM
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(CNN) -- Every morning before school, nine-year-old Terisia Techu would undergo a painful procedure. Her mother would take a burning hot pestle straight out of a fire and use it to press her breasts. With tears in her eyes as she recalls what it was ...
Posted Thursday, July 28th 2011 at 8:38PM
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Tice Davids is an international DJ, Music Producer, Entertainment Entrepreneur and has more recently been dubbed the Black Internet Guru.
I was doing research on Internet Moguls the other day and decided to focus on Black Internet Moguls in partic ...
Posted Thursday, July 28th 2011 at 5:13PM
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