MONROE, LA--As state works to list building on National Register for Historic Places, city plans to tear it down; history to be lost!
While the state is trying to save a piece of Monroe history for generations to come the City of Monroe is on tra ...
Posted Friday, September 24th 2010 at 10:27AM
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Angie Stone and Anthony Anderson, spokespeople for Lilly's Fearless African-Americans Connected and Empowered (F.A.C.E.) Diabetes initiative, are teaming up with The Tom Joyner Morning Show (TJMS) for the 9th annual Take a Loved One to the Doctor Day ...
Posted Thursday, September 23rd 2010 at 1:40PM
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AUSTIN, Texas- Heroic Media, an Austin, Texas advertising agency dedicated to promoting a pro-life message, is accustomed to controversy. However, even they are surprised at the response to their new campaign, which accuses Planned Parenthood of targ ...
Posted Wednesday, September 22nd 2010 at 11:02AM
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Singer Aretha Franklin's son was severally beaten at a gas station. Eddie Franklin, 52, was brutally attacked on Monday night in Detroit.
Aretha Franklin's son, Eddie Franklin was allegedly assaulted by two men and a woman reports People Magazine. ...
Posted Tuesday, September 21st 2010 at 1:31PM
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ROCKFORD, Ill. - The shooting of Mark Barmore by two Rockford officers draws another big name to Kingdom Authority Church.
Nation Of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan spoke tonight at a rally in support of Pastor Melvin Brown and his family, Mark Barmo ...
Posted Monday, September 20th 2010 at 1:52PM
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Published 09/20/2010 - 8:47 a.m. PST
Oprah shouldn't feel too bad that she initially swallowed whole Bethany Storro's lying claim that a black doused her face with acid and then booked her on her show. O ...
Posted Monday, September 20th 2010 at 12:50PM
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1. Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.
2. Make the best of your circumstances. No one has everything, and everyone has something of sorrow intermingled with gladness of life. The trick is to make the laughter ou ...
Posted Sunday, September 19th 2010 at 7:20PM
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The love story of Ralph and Edna...
Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
Ralph and Edna were both patients in a mental hospital. One day while they wer ...
Posted Sunday, September 19th 2010 at 4:38PM
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NEW ORLEANS--Give Alvin Fraley this: the 73-year-old is nothing if not persistent.
About two months after Fraley was booked with his second car theft in Jefferson Parish, St. Tammany Parish deputies say they found the senior citizen driving around ...
Posted Saturday, September 18th 2010 at 4:38PM
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From Newsweek.com
September 17, 2010
The number of people living in poverty in America rose to 43.6 million in 2009, the US Census Bureau reported Thursday. This is the largest number since the agency began making such estimates 50 years ago and ...
Posted Saturday, September 18th 2010 at 4:33PM
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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is hoping that black voters don't stand on the sidelines when Democrats need all the election help they can get this year.
With polls showing his party facing a wide "enthusiasm gap" with the GOP, Obama sought ...
Posted Saturday, September 18th 2010 at 4:30PM
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From Newsweek.com
September 14, 2010
Is Newt Gingrich just pretending to have lost his mind, or has he actually gone around the bend? His lunacy certainly seems genuine enough. It's one thing to be a rhetorical bomb-thrower, as Gingrich has long ...
Posted Thursday, September 16th 2010 at 1:56PM
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VIRGINIA--Eleven years before Rosa Parks, there was Angela McLinn. Twenty-four years before the Civil Rights Act, there was Angela McLinn.
But history missed her somehow.
In 1944, McLinn and three other Howard University female African-American ...
Posted Thursday, September 16th 2010 at 1:49PM
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Washington, D.C. - The US Department of Education recently proposed a series of rules aimed at tightening regulatory oversight of career colleges. But the new standards, if enacted, are a classic example of the federal government doing more harm than ...
Posted Wednesday, September 15th 2010 at 12:18PM
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From PsychologyToday.com
September 13, 2010
During my two years of research on children among the Kalahari San, or Bushmen, I watched kids scramble over huge termite hills, chase each other around the scrub brush in the savanna, practice dance st ...
Posted Tuesday, September 14th 2010 at 10:36AM
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WHO AM I?
By Sister Siebra Muhammad
I'm Mary J. Blige giving you the 411
And I won't stop until the war is won
I'm the Salt with a Deadly Pepa
Aiming higher, never settling for lesser
I'm Angela Bassett, Halle, Jada, and Taraji
I'm the one ...
Posted Monday, September 13th 2010 at 2:03PM
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BET.com--Monday (September 13) is the 14th anniversary of the death of Tupac Shakur. Pac died in 1996, after succumbing to gunshot wounds he suffered a week prior when leaving a Mike Tyson fight in Las Vegas.
Travie McCoy still vividly remembers ...
Posted Monday, September 13th 2010 at 1:57PM
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From Newsweek.com
September 12, 2010
Since the founding of the Drug Enforcement Administration in 1973, 15 million Americans have been arrested for marijuana.
That is more people than live in California’s 25 largest cities – millions more than l ...
Posted Sunday, September 12th 2010 at 6:57PM
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