LIFE UPON THESE SHORES: Looking at African American History 1513-2008
By Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Knopf, 512 pp., $50.
America’s racial divide, that loathsome fault line through the nation’s soul, is now a decade into its sixth century with no end ...
Posted Tuesday, November 22nd 2011 at 5:37PM
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From The Huffington Post
November 20, 2011
Lisa Ling has covered a range of topics on her documentary series "Our America," from underage sex trafficking to the difficulties of being gay and Christian. Now, the 38-year-old journalist is taking on ...
Posted Sunday, November 20th 2011 at 5:08PM
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Q&A: Why is Gold Increasing?
The price of gold is an inverse indicator of the strength of the currency that you will use to purchase it. Gold has skyrocketed of late, because countries are printing fiat currency, as if no day of balancing will eve ...
Posted Sunday, November 20th 2011 at 3:45PM
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CNN--The "Just Say No" generation was often told by parents and teachers that intelligent people didn't use drugs. Turns out, the adults may have been wrong.
A new British study finds children with high IQs are more likely to use drugs as adults ...
Posted Saturday, November 19th 2011 at 7:00PM
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BET.com--Queen Latifah has revealed that she would like to become a mother and has plans to adopt a child. The 41-year-old singer-and-actress who is usually guarded about her private life told More magazine she would be happy to have a baby naturall ...
Posted Friday, November 18th 2011 at 1:48PM
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The widower of slain rapper Magnolia Shorty has been shot dead just weeks before the first anniversary of his wife's murder.
The hip-hop star - real name Renetta Lowe - was gunned down in her native New Orleans, Louisiana on December 2010.
Now ...
Posted Friday, November 18th 2011 at 1:27PM
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FLORIDA--The flames of hate rarely relight a dimming flicker of love, but L.B. Williams of Panama City decided to stage a fake KKK-style cross burning in his front yard as a last-ditch effort to get his wife to call off their planned divorce. Instead ...
Posted Friday, November 18th 2011 at 1:05PM
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Peace Family,
The reality is that the Black community is in aweful shape. In the schools, in the churches, in the prisons....everywhere: we are suffering.
Black boys are placed in special education classes at a higher rate than any of their c ...
Posted Friday, November 18th 2011 at 12:27PM
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Peace To All:
Almost all emotional problems indicate a lack of self-love. (Only a few very rare problems which are caused entirely by physical disease can be excluded.)
DO YOU LOVE YOURSELF?
I'm going to be giving you a lot of examples of h ...
Posted Friday, November 18th 2011 at 11:33AM
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Nawal is a Muslim-American and one of the stars of TLC’s reality show, “All-American Muslim." The powerful, new eight-part series takes a look at life in Dearborn, Michigan -- home to the largest mosque in the United States -- through the len ...
Posted Thursday, November 17th 2011 at 9:26PM
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TheRoot.com--As news unravels around the grand jury report revealing charges against former Penn State football defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky for raping and sexually molesting underage boys, some former black Penn State students are now painfu ...
Posted Wednesday, November 16th 2011 at 10:32AM
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