LAS VEGAS--Joe Jackson, father of the late Michael Jackson, is expected to be released today from a hospital in Las Vegas after suffering a minor stroke.
The 83-year-old pop-music-family patriarch began experiencing weakness on Wednesday while wal ...
Posted Friday, November 30th 2012 at 12:39PM
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(TriceEdneyWire.com) — There are more than 9,000 Black public officials in America, yet African Americans remain at the rock bottom of every negative statistic in crime, health, economics and education.
This is the reason that one lecturer and aw ...
Posted Friday, November 30th 2012 at 12:27PM
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Michael Jordan may be the greatest player in NBA history, but even he can't get away with wearing cargo shorts on a golf course.
Jordan showed up at La Gorce Country Club in Miami on Wednesday wearing cargo shorts, which is against the dress code ...
Posted Friday, November 30th 2012 at 11:21AM
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Steven Tyler is apologizing — if Nicki Minaj misinterpreted his recent comments.
The former "American Idol" judge and Aerosmith frontman responded to Minaj's claim that he's a racist.
Minaj took offense to comments Tyler made during an MTV in ...
Posted Thursday, November 29th 2012 at 11:39AM
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Has TV One found two new sirens to join the season 2 cast of "R&B Divas"?
There's chatter that Nicci Gilbert isn't the only one leaving the hit TV One reality show! According to FunkyDineva.com, Faith Evans may also have opted out of an encore on ...
Posted Wednesday, November 28th 2012 at 12:40PM
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WASHINGTON — High school and college students nationwide can win one of five $5,000 scholarships through the “Free to Tweet” competition being billed as a 15-day online celebration of First Amendment rights.
#Beginning at midnight Dec. 1, student ...
Posted Wednesday, November 28th 2012 at 11:22AM
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In 1970, Bill Baxley, the new Attorney General of the State of Alabama, reopened the investigation of the 1963 bombing of a church in which four little African-American girls died. For doing so, he received death threats from the Klan and similar org ...
Posted Tuesday, November 27th 2012 at 5:25PM
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(Barbados Nation) Leader of the Nation of Islam, Louis Farrakhan, will be arriving in Barbados on Sunday for a week’s visit as part of the second phase of a Caribbean tour.
The outspoken religious and social leader will be having a number of meeti ...
Posted Saturday, November 24th 2012 at 7:20PM
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After months of rumors, Kimora Lee Simmons and Dijmon Hounsou have officially called it quits.
"Djimon Hounsou and Kimora Lee Simmons have officially separated after 5½ years," his rep told People. "Though never married, they have one child togeth ...
Posted Friday, November 23rd 2012 at 12:24PM
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(Black Agenda Report November 22, 2012) The United States plans to permanently station a U.S. Army brigade on African soil, beginning next year. Is this the start of something big – and ominous – or “only a benign creeping U.S. military presence in A ...
Posted Friday, November 23rd 2012 at 10:51AM
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Black Friday Violence: Police and retailers prepare for crowds and chaos
(CBS) - So-called "Black Friday" sales may be catnip for some holiday shoppers, but in recent years they've also become scenes of bizarre - and in some places deadly - violen ...
Posted Thursday, November 22nd 2012 at 5:57PM
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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, their ...
Posted Wednesday, November 21st 2012 at 9:22PM
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By DeNeen L. Brown,
Nov 17, 2012 01:01 AM EST
At age 70, R&B legend Aretha Franklin remains a musical force — still touring and working with director Taylor Hackford on her upcoming biopic. Although there have been recent questions about her hea ...
Posted Tuesday, November 20th 2012 at 12:38PM
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11/19/12
In the wake of the 2012 presidential election, john powell, Paul Hudson, Eva Paterson and Roger A. Clay, Jr. published the following open letter:
Although we acknowledge the deep support President Obama received from many groups and f ...
Posted Tuesday, November 20th 2012 at 12:29PM
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She must really love Hostess for her to pull this off...LOL
So much for cupcakes...
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Posted Monday, November 19th 2012 at 1:04PM
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A Three Part series by Dr. Cupid Poe, Ph.D, a Psychiatrist in Nashville, Tennessee, discussing the results of a Metro Jail Study dealing with the Relationship Between Crime and Religion:
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Posted Monday, November 19th 2012 at 12:56PM
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(Special to the NNPA from The Michigan Chronicle) – Besides being “in,” yoga is an incredibly beneficial activity for all ages and abilities. The health benefits of yoga are great, and many people are much happier as a result of their practice.
B ...
Posted Sunday, November 18th 2012 at 6:02PM
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ATLANTA BLACK STAR--They are an unlikely team of educational reformers.
Christopher Emdin is a Columbia University professor who likes to declaim Newton’s laws in rhyme. GZA is a member of the Wu-Tang Clan who left school in 10th grade. When the ...
Posted Sunday, November 18th 2012 at 4:15PM
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