Just 10 years ago, the name W.E.B. Du Bois did not ring many bells in the area. Despite being a Harvard graduate and leading philosopher on education and equality of the races, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois’ legacy was largely ignored, mostly beca ...
Posted Wednesday, February 2nd 2011 at 2:02PM
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Newsweek.com--Like death and taxes, the price of oil is always with us. And like taxes, it may be President Barack Obama's worst nightmare at election time next year.
Among forecasters, there is a sharp division between those who see an inexorable ...
Posted Wednesday, February 2nd 2011 at 1:57PM
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MSNBC.com--Secret rooms. Hidden passageways. Trap doors. An underground escape route through a network of caves, surfacing at a nearby spring. Sounds like a James Bond movie, but these clandestine places actually exist in (or under) dozens of America ...
Posted Tuesday, February 1st 2011 at 4:27PM
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John Dabiri of Pasadena, California, is one of the geniuses walking amonst us today. Like the great African Pioneers who came before him, he is blazing a trail across our scientific world at only 30 years old. He is the recipient of the 2010 McAr ...
Posted Tuesday, February 1st 2011 at 4:20PM
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Claudette Colvin (b, September 5, 1939) is a African American woman from Alabama. In 1955, at the age of 15, she refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus to a white person, in violation of local law. Her arrest preceded civil rights activist R ...
Posted Tuesday, February 1st 2011 at 12:08PM
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From FinalCall.com
January 31, 2010
“There are people who want to maintain the system of racism / White supremacy.
They don't want the victims of that system to have clarity as to what's happening to them.” –Dr. Frances Cress Welsing
The Nov ...
Posted Tuesday, February 1st 2011 at 12:06PM
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RIO DE JANEIRO — A Brazilian man has been arrested on suspicion of keeping his wife locked in a squalid basement for 16 years while he lived with another woman in the same house.
Acting on a tip, police on Wednesday found Sebastiana Aparecida Gro ...
Posted Sunday, January 30th 2011 at 4:43PM
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By Nadra Kareem Nittle
January 29, 2011
Imagine a world where everyone had brown skin. Tens of thousands of years ago, that was the case, say scientists at Penn State University. So, how did white people get here?
Evidently, when humans began ...
Posted Sunday, January 30th 2011 at 3:51PM
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DETROIT — John Hardy went to Mississippi to help give blacks the knowledge and courage to register to vote in a state where a black man's decision to do so could cost him his home, his job and/or his life.
It was 50 years ago — the summer of 1961. ...
Posted Sunday, January 30th 2011 at 3:45PM
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January 30, 2011, is the fifth anniversary of Coretta Scott King’s death. Though well known as the wife of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a role she cherished, she was much more than just a wife and widow. In her honor, we present 20 facts you may ...
Posted Sunday, January 30th 2011 at 3:02PM
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NEWSWEEK.com--As thousands more Egyptian citizens take to the streets in anti-government protests, the country is in danger of witnessing a bloodbath – at the behest of Washington.
Defying a ban on public demonstrations by the government of Presid ...
Posted Sunday, January 30th 2011 at 2:54PM
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The following article was excerpted from a speech delivered by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan on February 24, 2009 following The African Union Summit in Durham, South Africa.
THE HONORABLE MINISTER LOUIS FARRAKHAN:
As-Salaam Alaikum (Pe ...
Posted Saturday, January 29th 2011 at 4:50PM
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INDIANAPOLIS--Shai Warfield-Cross’s rendition of the National Anthem can be seen here. The 16-year-old student has been performing at games for over a year.
But she never received a complaint until she performed at Martinsville, a predominant ...
Posted Saturday, January 29th 2011 at 4:36PM
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MICHIGAN--African Americans report physician visits are stressful and uninformative. A majority of African American men questioned say physicians don't give enough information on how to make changes in behavior and lifestyle, found in a new Universit ...
Posted Saturday, January 29th 2011 at 4:24PM
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It’s now a done deal, as 10-year-old Willow Smith will officially star in the remake of the popular musical “Annie.” Rapper Jay-Z, who famously sampled “Annie” on the track “Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)” in 1998, will co-produce the film, along w ...
Posted Thursday, January 27th 2011 at 1:25PM
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PENNSYLVANIA--A high school has defended its decision to segregate students by race and gender.
The scheme, at McCaskey East High School in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, separates black students from the rest of the school pupils, and then further brea ...
Posted Thursday, January 27th 2011 at 10:59AM
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CHICAGO--A 40-year-old Chicago man, who works as a motivational speaker for the anti-violence group We Stop the Killings, is scheduled to appear in court Feb. 8 after he was charged with hitting a woman in his car, police said.
Warren Jackson was ...
Posted Wednesday, January 26th 2011 at 5:49PM
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Someone that I consider to be highly knowledgeable sent this to me to be shared by many.
Subject: Foreign Trade Zones
This is unbelievable at first, but you will soon realize that there are several motives for the global communists to physica ...
Posted Wednesday, January 26th 2011 at 5:19PM
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