Six badly decomposed bodies found at a Cleveland home were all females and all were homicide victims. All are believed to believed to have been killed at the hands of Anthony Sowell a convicted rapist. Read more or watch video of this story by using ...
Posted Tuesday, November 3rd 2009 at 10:58AM
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November 3
*From the beginning of U. S. history, American Native populations and Africans had a historical relationship of both cooperation and confrontation. Europeans first enslaved Indians, introducing Africans to the Americas shortly after. Nic ...
Posted Tuesday, November 3rd 2009 at 10:30AM
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(CNN) -- Rape has turned into a weapon of war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with the number of attacks on women having grown threefold over the past few years, human rights activists said in October. Anneke van Woudenberg, senior researcher w ...
Posted Monday, November 2nd 2009 at 6:02PM
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(BlackDoctor.org) -- Brothers, how many of you out there have a secret you’re keeping from your woman? Have you cheated on her? Have you given her a false promise of commitment? Do you feel the need to come clean? Many men out there are keeping secre ...
Posted Monday, November 2nd 2009 at 2:23PM
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November 2
On this date in 1903, the Saint Luke Penny Savings Bank opened it doors. Started by Maggie Walker in Richmond, Virginia, this was one of the first Black owned banks in America. The Saint Luke Penny Savings Bank, as its name suggests, was ...
Posted Monday, November 2nd 2009 at 2:12PM
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I've always thought that many of us couldn't grow long hair unless we were born of mixed parents. I don't think anyone told me this, but as I child I made observations and came to my own child-like conclusions. It's funny in a way, because I am an ...
Posted Monday, November 2nd 2009 at 11:04AM
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U.S. Economy Grew at 3.5% Annual Rate in Third Quarter, Ending Full Year of Decline
Output of goods and services grew at a 3.5 percent annual rate, faster than economists expected, according to preliminary figures from the Bureau of Economic Analysi ...
Posted Sunday, November 1st 2009 at 4:55PM
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(CNN) -- Grammy-winning singer Angelique Kidjo joined human rights activists to demand courts martial for troops who publicly gang raped women in the streets of the West African country of Guinea last month. It's part of a strong message against rap ...
Posted Sunday, November 1st 2009 at 4:19PM
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Stacey McBride-Irby is a designer/intrapreneur at Mattel. Recently, she received rave reviews from the national media for creating their new "So In Style" line - a new line of black Barbie dolls with fuller lips, a wider nose and more pronounced chee ...
Posted Sunday, November 1st 2009 at 3:36PM
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With H1N1 vaccine reaching the public early this month, it's good to know how this vaccine was developed and how it will protect people from H1N1 to make an educated decision on whether to get the shot or not. Three out of the five vaccine manufactu ...
Posted Sunday, November 1st 2009 at 12:40PM
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Don't bad-mouth your ex. Children don't want to hear bad things about either of their parents, and they especially do not want to take sides. No purpose is served in criticizing the other parent to your children.
Don't use your children as spies. ...
Posted Sunday, November 1st 2009 at 11:27AM
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A record number of women are coming home from war with post-traumatic stress disorder. For Vivienne Pacquette, being a combat veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder means avoiding phone calls to her sons, dinner out with her husband and therapy ...
Posted Sunday, November 1st 2009 at 10:50AM
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November 1
"The Black Church," a brief history.
*This dates Registry from 1758, briefly writes about the history of the Black Church in America. This institution which was the first source of land ownership for slaves in America (with the huma ...
Posted Sunday, November 1st 2009 at 4:42AM
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I saw this blog yesterday and wanted to get your opinion of it. Do men really think women are (always) hitting on them? I'm confused and have been left wondering if Betty Wright was correct when she said, "You can't show your teeth (2:26-2:28) to ...
Posted Thursday, October 29th 2009 at 11:07AM
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Car bomb in marketplace in Peshawar, Pakistan, kills at least 90 people, most of them women, government official says. [Although there's some really bad stuff going on here in the States, I really don't believe it can compare to the suffering and de ...
Posted Wednesday, October 28th 2009 at 9:37AM
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I use the word "only" because that doesn't even amount to half of the nearly 7 billion people on this planet. In fact, it calculates to about 24.7% of the world's population. Granted, many are babies and many are elderly - but many of the people who ...
Posted Wednesday, October 28th 2009 at 9:21AM
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Starfall.com opened in September of 2002 as a free public service to motivate children to read with phonics. Our systematic phonics approach, in conjunction with phonemic awareness practice is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, first grade, second ...
Posted Wednesday, October 28th 2009 at 2:06AM
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Customs officials in Norway have arrested a man who they say tried to smuggle 24 reptiles into the country by taping them to his body. Fourteen royal pythons rolled up in socks were found taped to the man's torso and 10 geckos held in small boxes we ...
Posted Wednesday, October 28th 2009 at 1:13AM
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Breaking News Alert:
Brother of Afghan President Is on C.I.A. Payroll, Officials Say Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president and a suspected player in the country's booming illegal opium trade, gets regular payments from the Central I ...
Posted Wednesday, October 28th 2009 at 12:18AM
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KABUL – Roadside bombs — the biggest killer of U.S. soldiers — claimed eight more American lives Tuesday, driving the U.S. death toll to a record level for the third time in four months as President Barack Obama nears a decision on a new strategy for ...
Posted Tuesday, October 27th 2009 at 10:17PM
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Despite nationwide shortfalls in the supply of swine flu vaccine, New York City’s health commissioner said on Monday that the city was going ahead with the first stage of its plan to vaccinate schoolchildren. School nurses will begin giving free vac ...
Posted Tuesday, October 27th 2009 at 6:22PM
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ASHLAND, Ore. — She ran away from her group home in Medford, Ore., and spent weeks sleeping in parks and under bridges. Finally, Nicole Clark, 14 years old, grew so desperate that she accepted a young man’s offer of a place to stay. The price would c ...
Posted Tuesday, October 27th 2009 at 6:11PM
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It is not surprising that public and Congressional support for the public option, always strong, has surged again, just as the insurance industry has ham-handedly tried to manipulate key decision-makers in the Senate. In the crucial weeks to come, ad ...
Posted Tuesday, October 27th 2009 at 6:00PM
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October 27
Ruby Dee was born on this date in 1924. She is an African American actress and activist. Born Ruby Ann Wallace in Cleveland, Ohio, her father, Marshall Edward Wallace, was a porter and waiter on the Pennsylvania Railroad; her mother, Emm ...
Posted Tuesday, October 27th 2009 at 5:26PM
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...The United States is described in mainstream media as largely Christian (between 70 and 80 percent, depending on the study, identify themselves as "Christian"), and compared to the rest of the world, this is certainly the case. However, not all wi ...
Posted Tuesday, October 27th 2009 at 4:53PM
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