Ruby Bridges Hall (born Ruby Nell Bridges September 8, 1954, in Tylertown, Mississippi) moved with her parents to New Orleans, Louisiana at the age of 4. In 1960, when she was 6 years old, her parents responded to a call from the National Association ...
Posted Monday, February 7th 2011 at 4:40PM
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WASHINGTON--Three US warships dispatched to Egypt signal that Washington is stepping up efforts to secure the embattled regime of Hosni Mubarak.
As millions of Egyptian people persist in nationwide protests against the US-backed regime, Washington ...
Posted Monday, February 7th 2011 at 4:19PM
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THE INFLUENCE OF AFRICAN AMERICAN DANCE IN AMERICAN CULTURE
The Greater Chesapeake area embracing Virginia, Maryland, and much of North Carolina was the earliest and perhaps most influential location of the black-while cultural interchange tha ...
Posted Monday, February 7th 2011 at 3:34PM
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Live action bumpers featuring Bill Cosby were set around animated episodes of Fat Albert and The Cosby Kids, a series about a group of urban adolescents growing up in a Philadelphia neighborhood. The show was based on Cosby's '60s stand up comedy ...
Posted Sunday, February 6th 2011 at 5:51PM
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN MARCHING BANDS
The earliest marching bands in America were most likely the fifers, drummers, trumpeters, and pipers of Colonial-era militias. Like their European predecessors, these bands functioned to regul ...
Posted Sunday, February 6th 2011 at 5:44PM
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We all know Mike Tyson can sing a mean cover of Phil Collins' "In the Air Tonight," but did you know that he also writes poetry? No kidding.
Some of Tyson's poetry will appear in the April issue of Oprah Winfrey's O Magazine, and he is apparently ...
Posted Sunday, February 6th 2011 at 3:57PM
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Anderson Cooper has decided to leave Egypt. NBC and CBS anchors Brian Williams and Katie Couric left the country on Thursday, and it appears as if Saturday Cooper had opted to follow suit.
According to a report from Popeater, Cooper issued the fol ...
Posted Sunday, February 6th 2011 at 3:36PM
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New York, February 4, 2011--Journalists in Cairo faced assaults, detentions, and threats again today as supporters of President Hosni Mubarak continued their efforts to obstruct news coverage of protests demanding the Egyptian leader's ouster. While ...
Posted Saturday, February 5th 2011 at 2:53PM
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Newsweek.com--Police in the US now rival criminals, and exceed terrorists, as the greatest threat to the American public. Rogelio Serrato is the latest case to be in the news of an innocent person murdered by the police. Serrato was the wrong man, ...
Posted Saturday, February 5th 2011 at 2:40PM
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BALTIMORE--A Laurel minister whose two young daughters were placed on the wrong bus Thursday and left unaccompanied at a stop says their elementary school called the police on him after he went to the school and became agitated.
C.J. Blair, 38, sa ...
Posted Saturday, February 5th 2011 at 2:19PM
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Barbara Hillary is the first African American woman to reach the North Pole on April 23, 2007--hold on to your chairs ladies and gents--at the impressive age of 75!
Barbara Hillary is a retired nurse who was born: June 12, 1931 San Juan Hill ...
Posted Saturday, February 5th 2011 at 2:06PM
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Zora Neale Hurston (1891 - 1960)
Novelist, anthropologist, folklorist
Flamboyant, bold and outrageous were Zora Neale Hurston’s writings, as was her life. As the diva of the Harlem Renaissance, Hurston was the most prolific black woman writer of ...
Posted Saturday, February 5th 2011 at 1:50PM
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Newsweek.com--Here is a tyrant of Egypt who ruled over Egypt all my life time. One whose face and stature is virtually inseparable to the image of his country; with his whitewashed marble offices and huge smile welcoming in and sending off dignitarie ...
Posted Friday, February 4th 2011 at 5:51PM
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MINNESOTA--A Duluth man who police believe shot himself with a long gun falsely reported to a 911 operator that a black male was among the people he claimed shot him.
That information was contained in a five-page transcript obtained by the News Tr ...
Posted Friday, February 4th 2011 at 5:40PM
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AN ETHIOPIAN woman who branded black women 'the most desperate women on the planet' has had to issue an apology after receiving a number of threats following her offensive Youtube video
The unnamed woman said that she felt it necessary to i ...
Posted Friday, February 4th 2011 at 5:28PM
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Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an African American civil rights activist, whom the U.S. Congress later called “the first lady of civil rights”, and “the mother of the freedom movement”.
On December 1, 1955 in ...
Posted Friday, February 4th 2011 at 5:20PM
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By Holly Yettick
February 1, 2011
An offhand comment by an education professor at a diverse, urban university got me thinking about minority teacher recruitment. As he strolled past the department of criminal justice and criminology, this profess ...
Posted Thursday, February 3rd 2011 at 1:14PM
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From The Huffington Post
February 2, 2011
The photos of Mubarak's thugs riding in on camels to attack the peaceful protesters with whips is getting worldwide attention. As CNN notes:
"All at once, about 50 or 60 people carrying clubs and ridin ...
Posted Thursday, February 3rd 2011 at 11:58AM
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NEW YORK--The residents board of the famous Dakota building in New York are racist and are unfairly discriminating against tenants they disapprove of, according to a lawsuit.
According to the lawsuit, Roberta Flack and Antonio Banderas have both ...
Posted Wednesday, February 2nd 2011 at 2:29PM
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