(BlackDoctor.org) -- When it comes to working out, half the battle is won by just showing up. Once you're there — you're there. No need to turn back. If you've finally decided that it's time to get fit, motivate yourself to keep on sweating with thes ...
Posted Monday, February 7th 2011 at 7:19PM
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The Haitian Revolution (1791–1804) was a period of brutal conflict in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (present-day Republic of Haiti 1743-1803), led by fellow slave Toussaint Louverture who would later become governor of St. Domingue. The Revolu ...
Posted Monday, February 7th 2011 at 12:03PM
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Tempers have flared in Nigeria as efforts to register voters for an upcoming general election led to public protests. The general and presidential poll is scheduled for April across Africa's most populous nation. But the drive to register the count ...
Posted Friday, February 4th 2011 at 4:25PM
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Why has the tenth parallel turned into a frontline of conflict between Muslims and Christians? It is the line of latitude 1,100 kilometres north of the equator where more than half of the world's Muslims and over 60 per cent of the world's Christian ...
Posted Friday, February 4th 2011 at 4:14PM
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Ongoing protests and strikes in Egypt have led to some of the country's ports being closed, hitting companies around the world that import Egyptian products.
In London, the British capital, companies selling cotton products rely heavily on suppliers ...
Posted Friday, February 4th 2011 at 3:58PM
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Whistleblowing website WikiLeaks has been nominated for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian politician behind the proposal said, a day after the deadline for nominations expired.
Snorre Valen on Wednesday said that the whistleblowing website ...
Posted Friday, February 4th 2011 at 3:54PM
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Hundreds of Jordanians have marched in Amman, the capital, demanding economic and political reforms, while also supporting the revolution unfolding in Egypt.
Protesters from leftist groups and the Muslim Brotherhood marched from the prime minister's ...
Posted Friday, February 4th 2011 at 3:50PM
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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader has called the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia an "Islamic liberation movement". In his address, during Friday prayers at Tehran University in Iran's capital, he said that people are witnessing the reverb ...
Posted Friday, February 4th 2011 at 12:35PM
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NEW ORLEANS — When Hurricane Katrina hit and the murky waters rushed through levee breaches, even the facts were drowned. Official documents were destroyed, years of photographs were ruined, and a city’s ability to know itself was lost. Answers to b ...
Posted Friday, February 4th 2011 at 12:24PM
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WASHINGTON — After maintaining a low profile in protests led largely by secular young Egyptians, the Muslim Brotherhood, the country’s largest opposition force, appeared to be taking a more assertive role on Thursday, issuing a statement asking for P ...
Posted Friday, February 4th 2011 at 11:46AM
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It was hard to be married to Tom Cruise, but for Nicole Kidman, the divorce was even harder. The Australian actress, who was married to the actor from 1990-2000, opened up about her marriage and split from Cruise in the new Marie Claire UK. "That w ...
Posted Thursday, February 3rd 2011 at 9:34PM
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I've been wondering what the heck is going on that I haven't seen Saint or Cynthia here? It's quite unusual and I'm beginning to suspect that perhaps they have left the community. Does anyone know anything or has anyone heard from these two lately? ...
Posted Thursday, February 3rd 2011 at 9:08PM
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Eighteen Democratic senators continue to ignore the fact that their home states are so opposed to President Obama’s health care law that they have sued to block it from taking effect.
The U.S. Senate voted 47-51 Wednesday on repealing the massive ...
Posted Thursday, February 3rd 2011 at 8:37PM
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On Wednesday, Democrats in the Senate successfully blocked the repeal of health reform -- preventing Republicans from tacking it on as an amendment to a completely unrelated bill. But Republicans in Congress aren't finished with the political games. ...
Posted Thursday, February 3rd 2011 at 7:57PM
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How I wish I had learned another language than English when I was a child. Although I am relatively proficient in English, I believe my lack of a second language arises in large part because I wasn't encouraged to learn early. ... Since I want to en ...
Posted Thursday, February 3rd 2011 at 7:32PM
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Whether you need to someone to help you move furniture at 2 p.m. or move the earth at 2 a.m., it’s good to have a friend you can call on. Friends with benefits - those benefits being sex with no strings attached - is the theme of two new movies (one ...
Posted Thursday, February 3rd 2011 at 3:29PM
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(WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. racial minorities accounted for roughly 85 percent of the nation's population growth over the last decade — one of the largest shares ever — with Hispanics accounting for much of the gain in many of the states picking up new H ...
Posted Thursday, February 3rd 2011 at 3:22PM
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A question for black America’s BTT brigade: who ya gonna be mad at now? Certainly not the so-called “brothers” who attacked Nadin Khoury, I’m willing to bet. To rehash, BTT stands for “Blacker Than Thou.” These are the black folks who swear they’re ...
Posted Thursday, February 3rd 2011 at 2:59PM
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NEW YORK (AP) — Isn't it lovely? The Apollo Theater says singer songwriter Stevie Wonder will be inducted into the New York City institution's Hall of Fame. The theater announced Wednesday that the songwriter of hits like "I Just Called to Say I Lov ...
Posted Thursday, February 3rd 2011 at 2:52PM
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LOS ANGELES (January 29, 2011) -- Chris Brown has completed a domestic violence counseling program required as part of the singer’s guilty plea to assaulting then-girlfriend Rihanna nearly two years ago. On Friday, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge ...
Posted Thursday, February 3rd 2011 at 2:48PM
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ATLANTA (January 31, 2011) -- Filmmaker Spike Lee joined Education Secretary Arne Duncan in issuing a call Monday for more black men to become teachers, making their plea at the country’s only all-male historically black college. The two took part i ...
Posted Thursday, February 3rd 2011 at 2:46PM
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President Barack Obama gave an unusually personal speech about his religious faith on Thursday, saying that "it is the biblical injunction to serve the least of these that keeps me going and keeps me from being overwhelmed," in address to a prayer br ...
Posted Thursday, February 3rd 2011 at 11:32AM
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PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. (AP) — The country's most famous groundhog predicted an early spring Wednesday but wasn't willing to go out on a limb to forecast whether his state's Pittsburgh Steelers will win the Super Bowl. Punxsutawney Phil emerged just after ...
Posted Wednesday, February 2nd 2011 at 10:41PM
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Anderson Cooper and his crew were attacked by supporters of Hosni Mubarak in Cairo on Wednesday. CNN's Steve Brusk tweeted that Cooper was punched in the head ten times.
The incident came as pro-Mubarak supporters attacked protesters calling for t ...
Posted Wednesday, February 2nd 2011 at 10:34PM
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The U.S. Senate voted 51-47 today against repealing the massive health care law. All 51 Democrats opposed the repeal; all 47 Republicans supported the effort. “They (Democrats) know it’s a rotten bill,” Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, told Fox News. “This ...
Posted Wednesday, February 2nd 2011 at 10:28PM
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