Oak Park, Michigan--Their front yard was torn up after replacing a sewer line, so instead of replacing the dirt with grass, one Oak Park woman put in a vegetable garden and now the city is seeing green.
The list goes on: fresh basil, cabbage, carr ...
Posted Saturday, July 9th 2011 at 4:56PM
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IDAHO —A self-proclaimed skinhead was knocked unconscious by a black man after threatening to stab him last weekend in Bayview, Idaho, officials said Friday.
Daren Christopher Abbey, 28, was booked into jail on a malicious harassment charge after ...
Posted Saturday, July 9th 2011 at 4:39PM
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The following article contains excerpts from the keynote address delivered by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan on Saturday, April 2, 2011 titled, “Channeling Our Intelligence and Creative Energy to Save Ourselves” during Howard University's 2n ...
Posted Saturday, July 9th 2011 at 4:32PM
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From The Los Angeles Times
July 8, 2011
CNN's newly announced prime-time news lineup has come under fire by the NAACP, which claims the slate continues a multi-network trend that excludes African Americans from prime-time slots as anchors and hos ...
Posted Friday, July 8th 2011 at 1:32PM
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NORTH CAROLINA--Researchers from Villanova University recently found that women convicted of crimes who are of darker complexion, serve more time in jail that lighter skinned Blacks.
Villanova researchers studied more than 12,000 cases of African- ...
Posted Thursday, July 7th 2011 at 11:53AM
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NEW ORLEANS-- Today, African-American homeowners and two civil rights organizations announced a settlement in a post-Hurricane Katrina housing discrimination lawsuit brought against the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the S ...
Posted Thursday, July 7th 2011 at 11:47AM
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BET.com--Clayton Hill, a former member of the Nation of Islam and currently incarcerated at a federal prison in Chicago, has come forward and told HipHopDX.com that he played an accessory to the murder of rapper Notorious BIG after the fact, and know ...
Posted Wednesday, July 6th 2011 at 1:04PM
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AN OPEN LETTER TO BLACK LEADERSHIP
July 19, 2010
To the Spiritual, Political, Educational, and Economic Leaders and to our Sports and Entertainment Giants:
May this open letter find you well and in good spirit as we search for a solution to ...
Posted Wednesday, July 6th 2011 at 12:55PM
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Alabama's Racist New Immigration Law
From Jim Crow to Juan Crow
By ALVARO HUERTA
When it comes to scapegoating immigrants for America’s woes, the Deep South takes the cake. From slavery to Jim Crow—legalized, racial segregation—to the recent wa ...
Posted Tuesday, July 5th 2011 at 11:22AM
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JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA--Nelson Mandela, icon-hero of the world, turns 93 this month. He is hanging on despite family tragedies that claimed another great-grandchild in June. The child was born premature and died after just four days,
The man k ...
Posted Monday, July 4th 2011 at 4:21PM
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It was Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr., that great purveyor of black nationalism, who once made the following remarks: "The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness." "A people without the knowledge of their pa ...
Posted Monday, July 4th 2011 at 4:15PM
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A teenager now lives at the White House.
Malia Obama, the eldest of President Barack Obama's two daughters, turned 13 on the Fourth of July.
As usual, she was sharing her parents with hundreds of others on her special day.
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Posted Monday, July 4th 2011 at 4:09PM
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By Dr. Boyce Watkins
July 2, 2011
When I think about the fourth of July, my mind is motionless. I don’t get happy, sad, angry or thoughtful. As a 40-year old man, I can’t even get excited about the fireworks anymore. The holiday means as much ...
Posted Sunday, July 3rd 2011 at 4:27PM
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Philly.com--She had to kill off Precious.
That was what Sapphire, the 60-year-old author of the 1996 underground classic Push, the novel that was the basis for the unflinching movie Precious, concluded.
The California-born literacy teacher, poe ...
Posted Sunday, July 3rd 2011 at 4:19PM
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NEW ORLEANS--In its 17th season, the Essence Music Fest is still dressed to impress.
Patrons who file into the Louisiana Superdome tonight will bear witness to what, on paper at least, looks to be as entertaining an opening-night roster as Es ...
Posted Friday, July 1st 2011 at 12:08PM
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