Madison, WI--Charlayne Hunter-Gault didn't plan on becoming a civil rights hero. She just wanted to go to school. But her own personal courage and determination to exercise her right to a public educational facility 50 years ago this week made her ju ...
Posted Wednesday, January 12th 2011 at 6:05PM
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The Concerned Coalition to Protect Prisoner Rights held a press conference on Jan. 6, 2011, to discuss the physical assaults perpetrated on inmates by prison staff. The attacks took place in the wake of fact finding visits by the coalition to Mac ...
Posted Tuesday, January 11th 2011 at 1:51PM
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Second-born children conceived within one year of their older sibling’s birth are more likely to be diagnosed with autism than children born farther apart, new research suggests.
The study, published online today in the journal Pediatrics, is bel ...
Posted Monday, January 10th 2011 at 5:37PM
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From Newsweek.com
January 9, 2010
It was announced last summer that total student loan debt, at $830 billion, now exceeds total US credit card debt, itself bloated to the bubble level of $827 billion. And student loan debt is growing at the rate ...
Posted Monday, January 10th 2011 at 5:33PM
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According to a law enforcement memo based on information provided by DHS and obtained by Fox News, Jared Loughner, the alleged shooter of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, may have been influenced by a pro-white racist organization that publishes an ...
Posted Sunday, January 9th 2011 at 3:47PM
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NEW ORLEANS--Denease Sorapuru and Michael Henderson came to Destrehan Plantation on Saturday afternoon for an event commemorating an 1811 slave revolt. Both described themselves as of Creole descent and related to slaveowners affected by the revolt.
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Posted Sunday, January 9th 2011 at 2:00PM
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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Nine days before Martin Luther King's birthday, a historical barrier was reached, as the Ohio Supreme Court swore in it's first black female justice at the King Arts Complex on Columbus' east side.
"She is the american dream come ...
Posted Sunday, January 9th 2011 at 1:46PM
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Critics who suggest that Oprah Winfrey's new OWN network could use a little more racial diversity found a gentle supporter in Sheila Johnson, co-founder of Black Entertainment Television.
Johnson, who counts herself as Winfrey admirer, said Thursd ...
Posted Saturday, January 8th 2011 at 7:05PM
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(CNN) -- An American school founder who young Haitian men once hailed as a savior was sentenced Tuesday to nearly 20 years in prison for sexually abusing them.
Douglas Perlitz, 40, was sentenced in federal court in New Haven, Connecticut, to 19 ye ...
Posted Saturday, January 8th 2011 at 2:54PM
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This Sunday, about 4 million Sudanese in the war-torn Southern part of the country will go to the polls to cast their ballots in a referendum to decide if they should remain a part of Africa's largest country or become the continent's newest nation.
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Posted Saturday, January 8th 2011 at 2:41PM
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House Republicans are moving forward to repeal all provisions of health reform, with a final vote scheduled for next week.
If they get their way, insurance companies will once again have the rig ...
Posted Friday, January 7th 2011 at 3:06PM
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From GlobalResearch.com
January 6, 2010
Suppose you were a person who painted the exteriors of houses, and that one August afternoon you were close to completing a job when you noticed a thunderstorm looming. Suppose you looked around and saw a p ...
Posted Friday, January 7th 2011 at 2:23PM
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1. The Wiz (1978)
Two names: Michael Jacson and Diana Ross. Need we say more? This black remake of the Wizard of Oz is one of those films every black person has seen not once, but more likely, twice.
2. The Color Purple (1985)
The Steven Spielbe ...
Posted Thursday, January 6th 2011 at 4:38PM
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WASHINGTON--A new crisis has erupted in U.S.-Venezuelan relations after Washington responded to Caracas’ refusal to welcome the United States’ proposed envoy to Venezuela by revoking the visa of Venezuelan Ambassador to the United States Bernardo Alv ...
Posted Wednesday, January 5th 2011 at 7:10PM
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QUEEN
By Sister Siebra Muhammad
I'm a lady a Queen
I'm not here for your needs
But for the needs of my own
See me sitting on this throne
When your free you cannot hide
Or sit around waiting to die
We must make our destiny clear
Bef ...
Posted Tuesday, January 4th 2011 at 6:39PM
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From GlobalResearch.com
January 3, 2010
The longest-serving Supreme Court Justice doesn't believe women's rights are necessarily protected by the Constitution. In a recent interview with California Lawyer (via the Huffington Post), Justice Scali ...
Posted Tuesday, January 4th 2011 at 4:06PM
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