SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Jan 05, 2012 -- In February 2012, "Independent Lens" will lead the celebration of Black History Month on public television with premieres of three new documentaries that shine a unique light on the history of African American activ ...
Posted Thursday, January 5th 2012 at 3:01PM
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Associated Press--Almost two centuries before there was a man named Obama in the White House, there was a man named Obama shackled in the bowels of a slave ship. There is no proof that the unidentified Obama has ties to President Barack Obama. All th ...
Posted Tuesday, January 3rd 2012 at 10:35AM
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BET.com--Soul music legend Aretha Franklin has got engaged to her long-time companion William Willie Wilkerson. The 69-year-old singer and Wilkerson are to marry in the summer and are considering tying the knot on a yacht in Miami Beach, Contactmusic ...
Posted Tuesday, January 3rd 2012 at 10:23AM
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ClutchMagazine.com--On the first day of the New Year, Indiana will receive its first ever African-American woman mayor. Karen Freeman-Wilson, 51, was sworn in on December 31st to lead one of the nation's most depressed cities from the grip of stagnat ...
Posted Monday, January 2nd 2012 at 12:17PM
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NEW YORK--Cops are investigating a rash of Molotov cocktail attacks in Queens late Sunday, including one on an Islamic mosque and another that set off a major house fire.
Police are handling the four bottle-bombings as possible hate crimes, offici ...
Posted Monday, January 2nd 2012 at 12:01PM
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President Barack Obama signed the controversial National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) into law earlier today in Hawaii.
CNN reports Barack Obama "reluctantly signed a defense authorization bill, saying he was concerned about some in Congress ...
Posted Sunday, January 1st 2012 at 5:17PM
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ABCNews.com--Sami Chugg, 45, was diagnosed with MS in 1998 and it slowly began to attack her ability to move.
The incurable disease stops the body's nerve cells communicating and she was soon so ill she was permanently bed ridden.
Sami, a cha ...
Posted Sunday, January 1st 2012 at 4:56PM
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Happy New Year!!!
May each of you be blessed to seek refuge in God and find God within yourself WITHOUT the influence of hidden agenda and outsiders answers, but WITH the solutions and keys to unlock the door to your dreams.
And remember, TRU ...
Posted Sunday, January 1st 2012 at 4:47PM
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(TriceEdneyWire.com) – At this time of the year, many 20-year-olds have their minds set on the latest I-Phone, a certain brand of jacket or perhaps shoes that they want. But, such things are not priority for Dominique Whalen. He is different than a l ...
Posted Saturday, December 31st 2011 at 4:50PM
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One day,
Youngsters will learn words they will not understand,
Children from India will ask: "What is hunger?"
Children from Alabama will ask: "What is racial segregation?"
Children from Hiroshima will ask: "What is the atomic bomb?"
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Posted Saturday, December 31st 2011 at 4:43PM
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As-Salaam Alaikum (Peace Be Unto You):
The first day of the New Year should be a day of reflection, a day of prayer, a day of praise and thanks that we were blessed to make it through the last year, because there are so many of those that we know, ...
Posted Saturday, December 31st 2011 at 4:31PM
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ABCNews.com--A secret love affair conducted in the 1940's remained unknown to an Italian woman's husband until just before Christmas. Learning of his wife's adultery the man has filed for divorce after 77 years of marriage at the age of 99.
It's ...
Posted Friday, December 30th 2011 at 3:14PM
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CHICAGO--Setting off a new round in his dispute with gay right activists, Chicago’s Cardinal Francis George has issued a statement defending his recent comparison of the gay rights movement to the Ku Klux Klan.
George’s initial comments came in co ...
Posted Friday, December 30th 2011 at 1:55PM
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By Peter Birkenhead
December 28, 2011
The menu at the Cabin was long, one of those unwieldy, laminated mega-menus that grace the tables of roadside diners and chalets everywhere, and reflected a classic attention to theme (gumbo burger, gumbo ome ...
Posted Thursday, December 29th 2011 at 6:18PM
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CNN--In 2006 Countrywide Financial Corporation financed 20 percent of all mortgages in the United States. In 2008 Bank of America completed the purchase of Countywide Financial Corporation (Countrywide) and merged the business of Countrywide into the ...
Posted Thursday, December 29th 2011 at 6:12PM
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WASHINGTON--Across the Washington area, black students are suspended and expelled two to five times as often as white students, creating disparities in discipline that experts say reflect a growing national problem.
An analysis by The Washington P ...
Posted Thursday, December 29th 2011 at 6:06PM
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Change.org--When Sandra Baker was called to pick up her 9-year-old autistic son, Chris, from his Mercer County, Kentucky school, she was stunned by what she found: She says that Chris's teacher had stuffed him in a gym bag and left him in the hallway ...
Posted Wednesday, December 28th 2011 at 11:06AM
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HOUSTON--R&B legend Etta James has been hospitalized in Riverside, California after suffering breathing problems.
The terminally ill singer, who is battling leukemia, spent Christmas in hospital and her longtime manager Lupe De Leon admits the 73- ...
Posted Tuesday, December 27th 2011 at 11:05AM
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From The Los Angeles Times
December 26, 2011
Crenshaw Boulevard and Leimert Park on Monday played host to Los Angeles' main celebration to mark the start of the African American festival of Kwanzaa.
Hundreds of people turned out along the boul ...
Posted Tuesday, December 27th 2011 at 11:01AM
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ABUJA, Nigeria, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Washington and other governments condemned Nigerian Christmas Day church bombings allegedly carried out by an Islamist terror sect that killed 40 people.
"We condemn this senseless violence and tragic loss of life ...
Posted Tuesday, December 27th 2011 at 10:59AM
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OHIO--Less than a year after Frito-Lay announced plans to make half their products without “any artificial or synthetic ingredients,” the $13 billion company was sued last week in federal court for allegedly marketing the snacks that contain genetica ...
Posted Tuesday, December 27th 2011 at 10:55AM
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