The release of a Florida man who had served 35 years in prison for a rape he did not commit is setting off a fresh wave of self-examination by the legal profession in America about the dangers of faulty testimony, which can result not just in wrongfu ...
Posted Saturday, December 19th 2009 at 3:47PM
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According to a news report, a certain school in Garden City, MI was recently faced with a unique problem. A number of 12-year-old girls were beginning to use lipstick and would put it on in the washroom.That was fine, but after they put on their lips ...
Posted Friday, December 18th 2009 at 7:08PM
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Race and location are still the strongest factors in determining whether a child lives in poverty in Louisiana , according to a recent report on the status of the state’s children. In Louisiana , black children are 3.5 times as likely to live in pove ...
Posted Monday, December 14th 2009 at 12:22PM
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KINGSTON, Jamaica — Jamaica is deploying more than 700 police officers to high-crime areas over the holiday season as the island nears a record number of killings.
Assistant Police Chief Glenmore Hinds says officers will patrol malls, bus statio ...
Posted Monday, December 14th 2009 at 12:16PM
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During the turbulent days after Hurricane Katrina made landfall, New Orleans police shot 10 civilians, at least four of whom died, according to interviews and internal police documents.
Some incidents involving police were widely publicized and h ...
Posted Sunday, December 13th 2009 at 8:42PM
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The Rev. Al Sharpton held a press conference today to blast Tiger Woods for the lack of diversity among his mistresses. Sharpton claims that the lack of African-American women among Woods’ harem will have a negative affect on the black community, spe ...
Posted Saturday, December 12th 2009 at 5:34PM
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WASHINGTON — Call it the $6 billion boycott.
By boycotting a key House committee vote last week and threatening to abandon support for banking regulations, members of the Congressional Black Caucus got $4 billion added to a Wall Street regulation ...
Posted Friday, December 11th 2009 at 11:29AM
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Cotton and Race in the Making of America -- The Human Costs of Economic Power by Gene Dattel
From the early 19th century to the middle of the last century, writes Gene Dattel, cotton was America's leading export crop, helping make the United State ...
Posted Friday, December 11th 2009 at 11:26AM
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NOTE FROM SIEBRA:
The following text is excerpted from a speech delivered by Minister Farrakhan on October 20 in Philadelphia, Pa.
THE HONORABLE MINISTER LOUIS FARRAKHAN:
We are in a very, very serious hour. The sun is setting on this world ...
Posted Thursday, December 10th 2009 at 3:45PM
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By Robert Kutner
December 6, 2009
It was the best of Obama; it was the worst of Obama.
I was pleasantly surprised to be invited to the White House jobs summit last Thursday, where I got to watch President Obama engage with about 130 people off ...
Posted Wednesday, December 9th 2009 at 1:12PM
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Movie producer Tyler Perry announced on his Web site that his mother, Willie Maxine Perry, died Tuesday. "My mother is the wisdom of Madea, " Perry said. She was 64.
"Thank you for all your prayers," Perry said on the "e-mail messages from Tyler" ...
Posted Tuesday, December 8th 2009 at 9:55PM
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While going through some of my old things this weekend, I came across a ticket stub from a 2000 Teen Summit. I attended the summit in September 2000, sponsored by the New Orleans Public Schools system and hip-hop/R&B stations WQUE-FM and KMEZ-FM in N ...
Posted Tuesday, December 8th 2009 at 3:17PM
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The following is an actual question given on University of Arizona chemistry mid- term.
The answer by one student was so 'profound' that the professor shared it with colleagues, via the Internet, which is, of course, why we now have the pleasur ...
Posted Sunday, December 6th 2009 at 5:51PM
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By all accounts, Disney's animated fairy-tale "The Princess and the Frog," which opens next Friday (Dec. 11) in New Orleans, is a warm, family-friendly affair, telling the story of a New Orleans girl named Tiana who puckers up for an amphibian in a t ...
Posted Saturday, December 5th 2009 at 8:53PM
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Jameshia Conner, 12, was found strangled and dumped in an alley near her home after being missing for two weeks.
Authorities believe that Jameshia was only dead one day before her body was found, although she had been missing two weeks.
The f ...
Posted Friday, December 4th 2009 at 3:46PM
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