USATODAY.com--New US claims for unemployment benefits rose last week by 10,000, climbing to a seasonally adjusted 424,000, as the nation’s job markets continue to stagnate. This marked the seventh straight week in which new claims have topped the 400 ...
Posted Wednesday, June 1st 2011 at 10:16AM
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We’ve all been there. You’re walking down the street with your man and a beautiful girl passes you both. What does your man do? Does he keep his eyes fixated on you or does he break his neck to watch this other chick walk by?
If your man has the c ...
Posted Monday, May 30th 2011 at 3:26PM
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BET.com--Whether it’s the new car, new handbag, new shoes or new something, there’s no doubt that Black folk will stay sharp, but at what cost is it to keep up with the Jones?
It may not cost anything the moment the purchase is made, but billions ...
Posted Monday, May 30th 2011 at 2:54PM
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Outskirts Press, Inc. has published Inside The Soul of Me: A Journey Through Poetry and Prose by Eric L. Burt. The author's most recent book to date is a 6.14 x 9.21 paperback in the African-American poetry category and is available worldwide on b ...
Posted Sunday, May 29th 2011 at 2:46PM
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NAACP questions library system's hiring practices
By SCOTT DAUGHERTY, Staff Writer
Published 05/29/11
ANNAPOLIS--The county chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People last week publicly asked County Executive John ...
Posted Sunday, May 29th 2011 at 2:32PM
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TheRoot.com--Three years before the commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic called on Union veterans’ organizations to decorate the graves of dead soldiers, blacks in Charleston, South Carolina in 1865 launched the first Decoration Day i ...
Posted Saturday, May 28th 2011 at 7:24PM
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(FinalCall.com) - The foundation of American White supremacy sits tenuously on a rickety base of lies and deceptions about how Whites gained their wealth and status. A century and a half after slavery the median wealth of White families is $100,000; ...
Posted Saturday, May 28th 2011 at 4:58PM
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The following text is excerpted from an interview with the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, originally appearing as Part 2 of a five-part Final Call Newspaper series on health in 1991.
THE HONORABLE MINISTER LOUIS FARRAKHAN:
Allah (God), in ...
Posted Saturday, May 28th 2011 at 4:46PM
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BET.com--Earlier this month, the popular magazine Psychology Today published an article by evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa titled “Why Are Black Women Less Physically Attractive Than Other Women?" that was met, expectedly, with mass outrag ...
Posted Saturday, May 28th 2011 at 4:39PM
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CHICAGO--GIL Scott-Heron, a poet and songwriter dubbed the Godfather of Rap, has died aged 62.
Scott-Heron, whose ground-breaking spoken-word performances set to music included The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, passed away at a New York hospi ...
Posted Saturday, May 28th 2011 at 4:19PM
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WASHINGTON—Congress on Thursday passed a four-year extension of post-Sept. 11 powers to search records and conduct roving wiretaps in pursuit of terrorists. Votes taken in rapid succession in the Senate and House came after lawmakers rejected attempt ...
Posted Friday, May 27th 2011 at 2:30PM
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ABCnews.com--PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel knows a thing or two about finding the next big thing.
Thiel was the first investor in Facebook and predicted the dotcom crash and the housing bubble. Now he believes the next big thing to burst is higher ...
Posted Friday, May 27th 2011 at 2:27PM
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(CNN) -- A top Nation of Islam official arrested in Guyana on suspicion of terrorism was released by police Friday afternoon and is demanding a formal apology, he and his lawyer there told CNN.
Painting himself as the victim of a "smear campaign," ...
Posted Thursday, May 26th 2011 at 12:07PM
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Newsweek.com--Monday's Supreme Court decision ordering California to reduce its overcrowded prisons by 30,000 inmates is as welcome as a ray of sunlight streaming through prison bars. State officials have known for decades of the horrific, if not cri ...
Posted Thursday, May 26th 2011 at 12:04PM
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Newsweek.com--In Zayed Military City, in a training camp in a desert area of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a secret army is in the making.
This secret army of mercenaries, which is slated to be used not only in the Emirates but throughout the M ...
Posted Thursday, May 26th 2011 at 12:03PM
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Black people with multiple sclerosis are more likely to have vitamin D deficiencies than blacks who don't have the disease, a new study shows.
The study, published in the May 24 issue of the journal Neurology, also said the deficiency is due prima ...
Posted Wednesday, May 25th 2011 at 12:53PM
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MSNBC.com--Even though Black male unemployment is at a record low of 17%, African-American men are still suffering from the fallout of The Great Recession. According to MSNBC, the current unemployment rate for black men is down from last year’s rate ...
Posted Wednesday, May 25th 2011 at 12:49PM
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NEW ORLEANS--New orleans police are searching for a thief who discovered a way to beat rising fuel prices: steal it by the barrel.
Police officers are investigating the theft of more than 1,000 gallons, or 23 barrels, of diesel fuel from a constru ...
Posted Tuesday, May 24th 2011 at 1:37PM
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(CNN) -- A former U.S. congresswoman slammed U.S. policy on Libyan state TV late Saturday and stressed the "last thing we need to do is spend money on death, destruction and war."
The station is fiercely loyal to Moammar Gadhafi and her interview ...
Posted Tuesday, May 24th 2011 at 12:20PM
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NEWSWEEK.com--The Spirit of Rachel Corrie is back in Egyptian territorial waters. The crew and passengers are safe. The Malaysian Embassy in Cairo has advised that the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has granted permission to the ship to berth i ...
Posted Tuesday, May 24th 2011 at 12:16PM
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TheRoot.com--In a study whose findings are somewhat intuitive but nonetheless significant for the representation of African Americans in Hollywood, researchers have found that movies with black directors are far more likely to have black characters w ...
Posted Tuesday, May 24th 2011 at 12:13PM
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