From GlobalResearch.com
February 4, 2010
As newly freed slaves would soon learn, freedom was not as they had anticipated. White southerners were anxious to regain power over them and used the law in order to achieve that objective. In 1865, south ...
Posted Friday, February 5th 2010 at 6:50AM
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JACKSON, Tennessee - An Arkansas man pleaded guilty to charges he plotted to kill then-Sen. Barack Obama and dozens of other Black people in 2008.
Paul Schlesselman, 19, of Arkansas, pleaded guilty Jan. 14 to one count of conspiracy, one count of ...
Posted Wednesday, February 3rd 2010 at 2:12PM
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Annie Turnbo Malone (1869-1957) was an African American entrepreneur and philanthropist during the early 20th century. She manufactured a line of beauty products for black women and created a unique distribution system that helped thousands of black ...
Posted Wednesday, February 3rd 2010 at 2:08PM
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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 Monday, February 1st 2010 at 3:58PM
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This week on Washington Watch, Roland speaks with U.S. Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, about the state of urban education, specifically in New Orleans.
What he has to say is SHOCKING:
Arne Duncan On New Orleans’ progress in education since ...
Posted Saturday, January 30th 2010 at 9:21PM
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A friend sent this along to me.
I am sending this to virtually everybody on my e-mail list and that includes conservatives, liberals, And everybody in between. Even though we disagree on a number of issues, I count all of you as friends. My frie ...
Posted Friday, January 29th 2010 at 6:29PM
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From GlobalResearch.com
Thursday, January 21, 2010
A divided Supreme Court on Thursday swept away decades of legislative efforts to limit the role of corporations in election campaigns, ruling that severe restrictions on corporate spending are in ...
Posted Friday, January 29th 2010 at 6:07PM
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From Newsweek.com
Friday, January 22, 2010
The Supreme Court on Thursday upended a century's worth of campaign finance law. An immediate question raised by the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision is whether this will flood el ...
Posted Thursday, January 28th 2010 at 2:44PM
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Six Rutgers sorority girls -- including one from The Bronx -- have been charged with putting pledges through a horrific eight-day nightmare of beatings and starvation, authorities said yesterday.
The university suspended the Rutgers chapter of Si ...
Posted Thursday, January 28th 2010 at 2:35PM
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Washington (CNN) -- Dozens of lawmakers support legislation that would set up a more streamlined system for matching Haitian orphans with families in the United States, a U.S. senator said Tuesday.
Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-Louisiana, said that the in ...
Posted Wednesday, January 27th 2010 at 1:57PM
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Former first lady Laura Bush has a new title to add to her resume. She's the newest member of the advisory board for the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
The board is working to raise money for the yet-to-be-built museum. ...
Posted Wednesday, January 27th 2010 at 1:51PM
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Peace Family,
I was in a discussion with a sister in the NOI on the power of the language, how it started was when her son got into an argument with his employer and said to her what his "boss" told her. The sister stopped her son there and told ...
Posted Tuesday, January 26th 2010 at 4:48PM
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A South Carolina politician is making very a public apology - and this time it's not Governor Mark Sanford.
After likening welfare recepients to stray animals, Andre Bauer, the embattled Republican's lieutenant governor, is hastily back-pedallin ...
Posted Tuesday, January 26th 2010 at 4:06PM
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THE SAINTS ARE ON THEIR WAY TO THE SUNSHINE STATE!!!
MAY GOD CONTINUE TO BLESS THE CHOCOLATE CITY!!!
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Posted Monday, January 25th 2010 at 8:53PM
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NEW BOOK TRACES THE HISTORY OF AFRICAN AMERICANS IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY:
Unheralded but Unbowed: Black Scientists & Engineers who Changed the World makes it clear that "in America, you cannot do high technology without Black folks!"
PHILADEL ...
Posted Monday, January 25th 2010 at 8:48PM
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Call For Immediate Arrest of 5 Supreme Court Justices For Treason
Five members of the Supreme Court declared that a “corporation” is a person, not a “regular person” but one above all natural laws, subject to no God, no moral code but one with un ...
Posted Sunday, January 24th 2010 at 4:06PM
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SHREVEPORT, La., Jan. 22 (UPI) -- A Louisiana man faces years in federal prison for burning a cross at the home of a relative involved in an interracial relationship, officials said Friday.
A jury in Shreveport, La., convicted Daniel Earl Danforth ...
Posted Saturday, January 23rd 2010 at 3:44PM
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The co-founder of the American Third Position (ATP), white supremacist Los Angeles lawyer William Daniel Johnson, says his new California-based group plans to run as many candidates for political office around the country as it can muster.
In an i ...
Posted Thursday, January 21st 2010 at 6:22PM
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