Health.com--Drug users have turned to a new legal substance to get high, and it's scaring authorities.
Ivory Wave Salts, often referred to as Salt or Ivory on the streets, have been popping up in Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Florida, and parts o ...
Posted Tuesday, December 7th 2010 at 12:09PM
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OREGON--The Homeland Security Department's customs enforcement division has gone on a Web site shutdown spree, closing down at least 76 domains this week, according to online reports.
While many of the web domains were sites that trafficked in co ...
Posted Thursday, December 2nd 2010 at 3:06PM
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By Robert OConnor, TC Daily Planet
November 28, 2010
The Givens Foundation has launched a program intending to give students greater access to African American literature. Givens Black Books is a reading campaign that celebrates the works of acc ...
Posted Monday, November 29th 2010 at 5:31PM
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MICHIGAN--Battle Creek is shedding some light on a fading resource in rural America -- African American farmers -- and hosting a national public figure, all during a conversation on food and culture.
The community is invited to the event "Rural Fa ...
Posted Sunday, November 28th 2010 at 5:04PM
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From London Free Press
November 27, 2010
It was inevitable, once Ontario's first Afro-centric school became reality, that disputes about race would ensue. That's what segregation does: It creates divisions between people based on race.
At issu ...
Posted Saturday, November 27th 2010 at 3:46PM
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A former professor at the University of Central Florida recently filed a lawsuit against the school, claiming she was fired for refusing to use a textbook that contained offensive racial stereotypes.
According to The Orlando Sentinel, the suit, fi ...
Posted Saturday, November 27th 2010 at 3:04PM
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Detroit — Grand Rapids has a statue honoring Rosa Parks. So do Dallas and Eugene, Ore.
But efforts to build a monument for the civil rights icon in the nation's capital are taking longer than most expected, frustrating supporters as the 55th anni ...
Posted Friday, November 26th 2010 at 6:05PM
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"Some Who Feel No Reason For Thanksgiving"
To this day, I can hardly bear to think of that quintessentially American holiday—Thanksgiving.
When I do, however, I do not dwell on Pilgrims with wide black hats sitting to sup with red men, thei ...
Posted Friday, November 26th 2010 at 5:56PM
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Some sign-making work by the graduates of the Tea Party University (Click on photo to enlarge) ...
Posted Thursday, November 25th 2010 at 4:09PM
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The final Saturday in November is the date and the Louisiana Superdome is the place for this annual gridiron clash of two powerhouse Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) rival football teams. It's a full weekend of fun, excitement and action as th ...
Posted Thursday, November 25th 2010 at 3:05PM
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WASHINGTON—California, New York and New Jersey continue to lead other states in hate crime statistics. According to figures from the annual FBI report released Monday, hate crimes have declined nationally, decreasing by 13 percent in 2009, but these ...
Posted Thursday, November 25th 2010 at 12:57PM
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From The Huffington Post
November 25, 2010
Many of our urban schools have a problem. The problem is one of cultural competency. Many of our teachers within urban communities lack the cultural awareness component as classroom managers and delivere ...
Posted Thursday, November 25th 2010 at 12:49PM
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Beyonce's spirited younger sister Solange Knowles has come out as a vocal critic of former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, after reading that Palin called Michelle Obama a racist.
The controversial Tea Party proponent is currently peddli ...
Posted Wednesday, November 24th 2010 at 3:19PM
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The following article contains excerpts of a message delivered by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan on November 7, 2010 live from Mosque Maryam in Chicago, Illinois.
THE HONORABLE MINISTER LOUIS FARRAKHAN:
In our Lessons that Master Fard ...
Posted Tuesday, November 23rd 2010 at 1:41PM
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This video was sent to me through BlackPlanet.com, and it blew me away. I advise everyone reading this to please do not fast forward the video, view it in its entirety and may it serve as a divine reminder that we must never forget the light side of ...
Posted Tuesday, November 23rd 2010 at 1:30PM
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NEBRASKA--A new study determined that African Americans who smoke cigarettes have a higher risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis (RA). RA risk is more pronounced among individuals positive for the HLA-DRB1 shared epitope, a genetic risk factor for ...
Posted Tuesday, November 23rd 2010 at 1:14PM
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Friday Civil Rights activist Cornel West told Democracy Now!‘s Juan Gonzalez that, like President Bush before him, President Obama’s policies discriminate against African-Americans. West said the President’s neglect of the poor and of poverty program ...
Posted Monday, November 22nd 2010 at 4:48PM
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"The Simpsons" took its latest dig at Fox News on Sunday's episode, inventing a new logo for the channel: "Not Racist, But #1 With Racists."
Granted, it's hardly the first time the cartoon has jabbed at its sister channel ("The Simpsons" is, o ...
Posted Monday, November 22nd 2010 at 4:38PM
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VIRGINIA--While working on "The 100 Best African–American Poems" (Sourcebooks MediaFusion 2010; $22.99), award-winning poet Nikki Giovanni decided to cheat.
"Including just one hundred would only get me to the 1970s," says Giovanni, a University D ...
Posted Sunday, November 21st 2010 at 3:09PM
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