(AP) – Bob Dylan says the stigma of slavery ruined America and he doubts the country can get rid of the shame because it was "founded on the backs of slaves."
The veteran musician tells Rolling Stone that in America "people (are) at each other's ...
Posted Wednesday, September 12th 2012 at 10:17AM
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BLOOMINGDALE, Ill. - The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan said the Nation of Islam’s educators, and by extension, the Muhammad University of Islam should be in the vanguard position of a new educational movement enabling students to reach the highe ...
Posted Tuesday, September 11th 2012 at 12:50PM
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(FinalCall.com) - Faulty equipment, fights in the hallways, overcrowded classrooms, failing grades, security guards, scarce resources and high suspension rates. This is not the description of a school in some Third World war torn country. It is the ...
Posted Tuesday, September 11th 2012 at 12:41PM
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LOS ANGELES--Doris Thompson is not your typical 82-year-old and has the history to prove it. She was recently arrested again by Torrance police in California and has a 50-year-old rap sheet that includes nine burglaries and other charges.
Thompso ...
Posted Monday, September 10th 2012 at 12:09PM
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ThinkProgress.org
September 8, 2012
Fuera de Serie, a Spanish magazine, has created an international uproar with its latest cover, in which it photoshops First Lady Michelle Obama into a French painting, and ends up portraying her as a slave woma ...
Posted Sunday, September 9th 2012 at 6:07PM
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You saw a shirt for $97'
You didn't have the cash, so you borrowed $50 from your mom and $50 from your dad.
$50 +$50 = $100
You bought the shirt and had $3 change. You gave your dad $1 and your mom $1 and kept $1 for yourself.
Now you owe ...
Posted Sunday, September 9th 2012 at 4:23PM
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USATODAY.com--American gymnast Gabby Douglas captured hearts and gold medals with her performances at the Summer Olympics. Now she'll be telling her story (with the help of a co-writer) in a memoir due out by Christmas.
The book, titled "Grace, Go ...
Posted Friday, September 7th 2012 at 7:24PM
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MISSOURI--What started off as a food fight between two St Louis men ended up with one of them dead and the other behind bars.
42-year-old Roger Wilkes died on Tuesday night after he was stabbed in the chest during a row over a packet of Cheetos c ...
Posted Friday, September 7th 2012 at 12:37PM
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September brings with it Ovarian Cancer Awareness month, a rare and often-deadly disease that can strike at any time in a woman’s life.
According to the American Cancer Society, every year almost 22,000 American women are diagnosed with ovarian c ...
Posted Friday, September 7th 2012 at 12:10PM
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Pam Grier plans on taking a break from fan conventions and autograph signings for a while following her many movie theater and autograph show appearances in the Chicago area this weekend. It's not that the blaxploitation movie legend doesn't enjoy me ...
Posted Thursday, September 6th 2012 at 12:44PM
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From GlobalResearch.com
September 03, 2012
It’s impossible to exaggerate the national importance of the teachers’ struggle in Chicago. If the Chicago teachers’ union — 26,000 members strong — goes on strike, many critical yet ignored political i ...
Posted Thursday, September 6th 2012 at 11:48AM
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CHICAGO--President Barack Obama or even the late the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. could not stop shootings plaguing the city, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright told some members Sunday at a West Side Church.
The community would have to come together to sto ...
Posted Wednesday, September 5th 2012 at 11:09AM
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Peace Family,
I am fine back in my New Orleans home recovering from the Tropical Storm Isaac aftermath. I was without cable and internet service for a week due to the power outages and other than the loss of a few plants in my garden, everything i ...
Posted Tuesday, September 4th 2012 at 11:19AM
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From Los Angeles Times
August 21, 2012
Are hip-hop artists such as Flavor Flav and Lil Wayne the new generation of black minstrels -- the African American jesters who used to entertain audiences with cartoonish, racially stereotypical shtick befo ...
Posted Sunday, August 26th 2012 at 4:13PM
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PORT-AU-PRINCE -- The death toll in Haiti continued to rise Sunday, as authorities struggled to recover form the damage left behind by Tropical Storm Isaac.
Haiti's Office of Civil Protection said at least seven people had been killed, including ...
Posted Sunday, August 26th 2012 at 3:19PM
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Michelle Obama is making a house call on "The Dr. Oz Show."
The show's producers say the first lady will tape an appearance Wednesday to discuss new provisions of her "Let's Move!" campaign and the Presidential Youth Fitness Program.
Producers ...
Posted Saturday, August 25th 2012 at 5:29PM
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Los Angeles (CNN) -- Rodney King's death in June was the result of accidental drowning, although alcohol, cocaine, marijuana and PCP found in his system were contributing factors, authorities said Thursday.
King, whose beating by Los Angeles polic ...
Posted Friday, August 24th 2012 at 11:24AM
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LOUISIANA--Many Isadore Newman students exhaled as the first day of the new school year came to an end Thursday, August 16. But that day was far from over for teen jewelry designer, Bridgeja’ Baker.
Later that evening, Baker, 14, owner of Creative ...
Posted Friday, August 24th 2012 at 10:43AM
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LL Cool J Takes Down Home Intruder
From Billboard
August 23, 2012
LL Cool J plays a special agent on TV's "NCIS: Los Angeles," and now he's caught an actual bad guy. The 44-year-old rapper struggled with and subdued a suspected burglar early Wed ...
Posted Thursday, August 23rd 2012 at 11:07AM
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Union City, GA-- On "Random Act of Kindness Day," A local Kroger manager brutally assaults 72-year-old "Good Samaritan" in store parking lot following produce give-away.
John Young, under the auspices of "God's Goodness, Inc." has for years colle ...
Posted Thursday, August 23rd 2012 at 10:45AM
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DETROIT -- First, it was cheese. And many pizza makers across the country absorbed sharply rising prices of the staple ingredient as long as they could before passing along some of the expense.
Now, they're dealing with the surging price of wheat ...
Posted Tuesday, August 21st 2012 at 12:29PM
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Director Spike Lee was surprised to learn how "self-motivated" the late Michael Jackson was.
Spike has put together a commemorative documentary on the King of Pop entitled Bad 25 in celebration of the 25th anniversary of Michael's 1987 hit record ...
Posted Tuesday, August 21st 2012 at 12:21PM
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(AP) RICHMOND, Va. - A former Marine involuntarily detained for psychiatric evaluation for posting strident anti-government messages on Facebook has received an outpouring of support from people who say authorities are trampling on his First Amendmen ...
Posted Tuesday, August 21st 2012 at 12:02PM
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PressTv.om--The father of Jason Smith, a 14-year old African American boy who was lynched by white supremacists in Louisiana on June 6, 2011, speaks out about how his son was beaten and killed.
"He was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan," Bruce Smith t ...
Posted Monday, August 20th 2012 at 2:17PM
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