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There are a lot of successful Brothas out there and during your dating escapades, you may need some help in separating the women who genuinely like you, and those who are j ...
Posted Wednesday, May 6th 2009 at 12:26PM
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Amount of people in the U.S. diagnosed with swine flu: 253
Amount of people in the U.S. diagnosed with AIDS: 468,578
Amount of people who have died from swine flu this year in the U.S.: 1
Amount of people who have died from AIDS this year in th ...
Posted Tuesday, May 5th 2009 at 2:38PM
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The cool thing about being a minority and a Republican is that you’re likely going to get some face-time, your fifteen minutes in the spotlight. The party, during these uncertain times, seems to be uncertain of their core values, their vision for the ...
Posted Sunday, May 3rd 2009 at 3:31PM
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There is a letter I received, titled "POETRY IS FOR THE MENTALLY ILL". The letter happens to be from a white girl named "Ms. Williams" from Wichita, Kansas. In the letter, she says that poetry is not representative of Blackness and Black people have ...
Posted Sunday, May 3rd 2009 at 2:16PM
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A genetic map of Africa - the continent from which all modern humans originate - has provided information about its huge diversity of language and culture.
It is the result of the largest African genetic study ever undertaken.
The work reveal ...
Posted Saturday, May 2nd 2009 at 11:19AM
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The following is Michael Moore's entry on Bernie Madoff for Time Magazine's issue of The World's Most 100 Influential People.
Elie Wiesel called him a "God." His investors called him a "genius." But, proving correct that old adage from the countr ...
Posted Saturday, May 2nd 2009 at 11:17AM
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Do not clean your hands with hand sanitizers.. Now I never thought I would have to use the information I learned from Biology 101 but now is the time. One important thing I learned was that hand sanitizers work they really do but do you understand wh ...
Posted Friday, May 1st 2009 at 2:39PM
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During his press conference last night, Barack Obama took a question from Andre Showell of BET.
Showell asked about African American Unemployment:
As the entire nation tries to climb out of this deep recession, in communities of color, the circ ...
Posted Friday, May 1st 2009 at 1:42PM
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Although I watched this series on my cable TV, I finally was able to finish watching my DVD copy of CNN'S Black In America this week. CNN ended its documentary with Dr. Michael Eric Dyson and his incarcerated brother meeting in jail. This scene was r ...
Posted Friday, May 1st 2009 at 1:06PM
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The Obama administration is asking Congress to close the big gap in prison sentences for dealing crack versus powdered cocaine, a law that critics say is unfair to blacks.
Such sentencing reform efforts tend to focus on lowering the mandatory mini ...
Posted Friday, May 1st 2009 at 12:53PM
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The issue of reverse discrimination first reached the nation’s highest court in the 1970s, when a student with good grades named Allan Bakke accused a University of California medical school of twice denying him admission because he was white.
Str ...
Posted Thursday, April 30th 2009 at 1:18PM
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The achievement gap between white and minority students has not narrowed in recent years, despite the focus of the No Child Left Behind law on improving the scores of blacks and Hispanics, according to results of a federal test considered to be the n ...
Posted Wednesday, April 29th 2009 at 1:32PM
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Rodney King’s famous line, “Can we all just get along?” still resonates with us today. On this day, seventeen years ago, approximately 53 lives were lost with as many as 2,000 people injured. At the time, Los Angeles was home to the largest Korean ...
Posted Wednesday, April 29th 2009 at 12:43PM
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Fox became the first broadcast network to turn down a request by President Barack Obama for time, opting to show its drama “Lie to Me” on Wednesday instead of the president’s prime-time news conference.
Fox will direct viewers interested in the ne ...
Posted Wednesday, April 29th 2009 at 12:35PM
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Peace To All:
The following letter was placed on a desk inside my cubicle at work, and I would like to share it with the BIA site members. Brothers and Sisters, please take a moment of your time to reflect on the SEVERITY of the statements (and ke ...
Posted Wednesday, April 29th 2009 at 12:21PM
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BET, the leading network tailored for black teens and young adults, will be joined by a new channel aimed at an older black audience.
Named Centric, it’s scheduled to debut in October.
Viacom, which owns BET, says Centric will serve black viewe ...
Posted Tuesday, April 28th 2009 at 2:15PM
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Sojourner Truth, a former slave who met with Abraham Lincoln and was an early crusader for women’s right to vote and an end to slavery, is the first black woman to be honored with a bust at the Capitol.
First lady Michelle Obama, Secretary of Stat ...
Posted Tuesday, April 28th 2009 at 2:12PM
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A young girl who told police her father forced her to help as he cut up her mother’s body with an electric saw said she could only look away when the head fell to the floor.
The girl is the chief witness against James Hawkins, 31, a prison parolee ...
Posted Tuesday, April 28th 2009 at 1:53PM
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Hey Sisters,
The following advertisement was sent to me through my Google account today. If you know of anyone who could benefit from this person, please tell them to be on the lookout after June 30, 2009.
Thanks,
Siebra
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Posted Tuesday, April 28th 2009 at 1:31PM
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I truly believe that we dodged a serious bullet this year with the election of Barack Obama. While I cannot say for certain what would’ve happened if John McCain had won the election this year, here is an educated guess at what might have happened if ...
Posted Monday, April 27th 2009 at 1:12PM
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A Jacksonville researcher has developed a way of sewing up patients after hysterectomies that stands to reduce the risk of complications and simplify the tricky procedure for less-seasoned surgeons.
Oh, and he’s 14 years old.
Feel free to read ...
Posted Monday, April 27th 2009 at 12:53PM
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