Two men behind bars for more than half their lives over a triple murder walked free this week after DNA evidence tore holes in their convictions. FULL STORY
*DNA frees 2 men in triple murder
*Cleared after false confession
*Sentenced to life, ...
Posted Saturday, February 8th 2014 at 10:34AM
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OLYMPICS RESULTS: The United States clinched the first gold medal of the Sochi Olympic Games on Saturday when Sage Kotsenburg won the snowboard men's slopestyle. The Canadian snowboard team talked a big game coming into the first-ever men's slopesty ...
Posted Saturday, February 8th 2014 at 10:30AM
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Demand -- for both facilities and providers -- has long outpaced supply in the field of mental health, but recent moves to increase funding for mental health services combined with innovative delivery systems may reverse that trend.
In December, t ...
Posted Saturday, February 8th 2014 at 10:05AM
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My mom was born in China and didn't know the Lord. She came to America for graduate school, but instead married my father against her parents' wishes. Because of her strained relationship with her parents, she longed to create a new family with my fa ...
Posted Saturday, February 8th 2014 at 12:43AM
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In his book The Next Christians, Gabe Lyons writes, "It's our job to be faithful to respond to the brokenness of culture with an eye for the Creator's original intent." When we look around, it's very easy to see brokenness in the world, especially as ...
Posted Friday, February 7th 2014 at 11:02PM
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(News World) Nelson Mandela left money in his will to children and grandchildren, staff and the African National Congress (ANC) but gave nothing to his ex-wife Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, it emerged on Monday.
The family of South Africa's first bla ...
Posted Friday, February 7th 2014 at 10:36PM
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The Planned Parenthood abortion business has been forced to pay a $2 million settlement to the family of a black teenager it killed in a botched legal abortion in 2012.
Walter Hoye, a black pro-life leader who has closely followed the case, obtain ...
Posted Friday, February 7th 2014 at 9:23PM
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It's just "goofy stuff" to suggest that increasing the minimum wage will lead to cuts in workers' hours or reduced hiring, Sen. Tom Harkin told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" Friday.
"That's nuts. That's just goofy stuff," the Iowa Democrat said Friday, i ...
Posted Friday, February 7th 2014 at 8:14PM
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Each year in February, I have to endure one post after another here on BIA filled about slavery and a whole lot of whatnot; it's too much at times for my soul to bear. I found history boring in school & whether it's Black or Europeans' history.... T ...
Posted Friday, February 7th 2014 at 7:56PM
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Click on the order button below to download this Training Pack from Gifted for Leadership as a PDF or eBook file. Training Packs include full articles, action points, and thought-provoking questions.
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Posted Friday, February 7th 2014 at 7:46PM
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Many of us black women go to our hair stylist faithfully just as you may attend church on sundays. We grow close to our stylists and form a bond that is hard to break. What we need to understand is there is still a level of sales involved in the hair ...
Posted Friday, February 7th 2014 at 4:53PM
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Comedian Chris Rock’s has starred in a number of movies and toured the world in sold-out arenas. But little did we know he was bullied as a child.
The bullying began when he was in second grade.
“We lived in Bed-Stuy, one of the most famous g ...
Posted Friday, February 7th 2014 at 4:47PM
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Philip Seymour Hoffman, who fiercely protected his private life, will be mourned behind closed doors today in an emotional farewell from his close-knit family and loyal Hollywood friends. A private funeral for the Oscar-winning actor is being held f ...
Posted Friday, February 7th 2014 at 4:30PM
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..."It's your choice how you view things. In the words of Shakespeare, “there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” (Hamlet Act 2, Scene 2). Events are only negative from your limited perspective. All you have to do is change your ...
Posted Friday, February 7th 2014 at 9:23AM
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February 4, 2014, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius announced that the US Dept. of Ed. Administration plans to use $250 million for a major new competition to build, develop and ...
Posted Friday, February 7th 2014 at 9:11AM
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In 1972, it was renamed Black History Week and in 1976, it became Black History Month. During the month, lectures, exhibitions, banquets, cultural events, television and radio programs celebrate the achievements of African-Americans.
Since 1978, t ...
Posted Friday, February 7th 2014 at 7:23AM
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Novelist Toni Morrison (pictured) is one of the most-celebrated writers of all time, cementing her place in history as the first African-American woman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. Morrison has also won the Pulitzer Prize, and in 2012, ...
Posted Thursday, February 6th 2014 at 4:31PM
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Feb 5, 2014 By Tracy Scott. Mary Jane Paul, the fictional career woman of BET’s “Being Mary Jane,” is a proud mistress who explained to her lover’s wife why she’s satisfied being No. 2…for now. “I’ve found that being No. 2 gives you all the glory of ...
Posted Thursday, February 6th 2014 at 3:46PM
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Close your eyes for a few seconds and notice how you’re feeling. Are you confident, scattered, hopeful, or weary? How would you describe the state of your soul? Your soul is the source of what makes you alive. It’s the spiritual side of your nature ...
Posted Thursday, February 6th 2014 at 3:31PM
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By: BEN LAFFIN A look back at the career of Philip Seymour Hoffman, who was found dead Sunday. He was perhaps the most admired American actor of his generation. Click link Or, copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://nyti.ms/1fnt9Lr
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Posted Thursday, February 6th 2014 at 10:48AM
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*This date marks the birth of Bob Marley in 1945. He was a Jamaican singer and songwriter whose name more than anyone represents reggae music, the tenets of Rastafarianism, and the struggle of the economically and politically oppressed.
Bob Marley ...
Posted Thursday, February 6th 2014 at 10:43AM
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*The birth of Alexander Pushkin in 1799 is celebrated on this date. He was a Black Russian poet and the great-grandson of Abraham Hannibal, an African general and friend of Peter the Great.
As a child, Alexander Sergeyvich Pushkin displayed a tale ...
Posted Thursday, February 6th 2014 at 10:38AM
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The New York Times Harry Belafonte is 86, an age that tends to focus the mind on putting one’s affairs in order. And that is why, Mr. Belafonte says, he has filed a lawsuit in federal court against the three surviving children of one of his closest f ...
Posted Wednesday, February 5th 2014 at 7:04PM
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February 4, 2014 Atlanta, GA. On January 20, as we observed my father’s 85th birthday and The King Holiday, my brothers, Dexter Scott King and Martin Luther King, III, notified me that they want to sell to a private buyer our father’s most prized po ...
Posted Wednesday, February 5th 2014 at 4:32PM
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Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe - on ChatAfrik BookClub
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Things Fall Apart tells two intertwining stories, both centering on Okonkwo, a “strong man” of an Ibo village in Nigeria. The ...
Posted Wednesday, February 5th 2014 at 1:36AM
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