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VIDEO: AL SHARPTON ON THE SEAN HANNITY SHOW 1/24/2011
KKK POSTER FOR "TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD" PLAY STIRS DEBATE
GREENFIELD, Ind.- Imagine walking into a school lobby and finding a poster with a Ku Klux Klan member and a burning cross. A mom posted the picture on Facebook. The school is Greenfield Central Hig
FOOD FOR THOUGHT: IS THIS CONSIDERED RACIST?
This video is a piece on Turkey Creek, Mississippi that was done by the Daily Show on Comedy Central. What do you think?
BLACK MOM JAILED FOR SENDING KIDS TO WHITE SCHOOL DISTRICT
AKRON--An Ohio mother is in jail after being convicted of tampering with records to enroll her children in a better school district. Kelley Williams-Bolar, 40, of Akron, illegally registered her tw
GLOBAL POVERTY, FOOD RIOTS, AND THE ECONOMIC CRISIS
From Newsweek.com January 24, 2011 The sugar-coated bullets of the “free market” are killing our children. The act to kill is instrumented in a detached fashion through computer program trading on
FATHER OF 23 CHILDREN SLAMMED BY CHILD SUPPORT LAWYER ON FACEBOOK
NEW ORLEANS-- A child-support hearing officer has deleted his Facebook page after posting that a father of 23 children has "too much time on his hands." A representative for William Dunckelman, the
GOVERNOR BOBBY JINDAL PLANS TO MERGE NEW ORLEANS HBCUS
BATON ROUGE--Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, a Republican, on Tuesday ordered a study of the feasibility of merging two neighboring New Orleans universities that have both struggled to fill classrooms an
TEACHER IN BIRMINGHAM SCHOOL DISTRICT REPRIMANDED FOR SENDING RACIST EMAILS TO COLLEGUES
A BIRMINGHAM primary school teacher has been allowed to continue in his profession, despite sending a string of “racist” emails to former colleagues. Ilyas Uddin sent “offensive, bullying, racist a
UNSUNG HEROES: Clarence Lusane, "The Black History of the White House"
WASHINGTON--When Leon Czolgosz assassinated President William McKinley in 1901, he was subdued and held by an African American dishwasher named James Benjamin Parker, who acted faster and more decisiv
NEVER, EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER WEAR THIS OUTSIDE
Case of fashion gone horribly wrong (click on picture to enlarge)
VIDEO: COLIN POWELL SPEAKING ON PRESIDENT OBAMA AND ARIZONA SHOOTING
VIDEO: HAITI'S FORMER DICTATOR SUED FOR TORTURE
PARENTS IRATE OVER STUDENT CONDITIONS DURING SCHOOL LOCKDOWNS
LOS ANGELES -- Thousands of students were kept in classrooms without food, water or access to restrooms longer than necessary, the Los Angeles school district's police chief acknowledged Thursday, as
THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIV/AIDS
CNN.com--This year marks the 30th anniversary of the first diagnosed case of AIDS. In June 1981, a rare pneumonia diagnosed in five Los Angeles gay men was reported to the Centers for Disease Control
JOAN RIVERS CALLS MICHELLE OBAMA "BLACKIE O": IS IT RACIST?
Joan Rivers says she censored a joke out of her stand up routine in which she referred to First Lady Michelle Obama as "Blackie O" for fear of being labeled a racist. Rivers revealed the controvers
VIDEO: AL SHARPTON SPEAKING ON RUSH LIMBAUGH
VIDEO: OPRAH INTERVIEWS MAYA ANGELOU ON LOVE AND LIBERATION
AMERICAN IDOL: NEW ORLEANS AUDITIONS 1/20/2011
Two of my favorites from the show last night:
MLK'S DAUGHTER WON'T LEAD SCLC
ATLANTA (AP) - The Rev. Bernice King said Friday she will not assume the presidency of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the civil rights group co-founded by her father more than 50 years
AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN OFTEN VITAMIN D DEFICIENT
SOUTH CAROLINA--Statistics presented at the Third AACR Conference on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities revealed that black women often have lower vitamin D levels than white women. The autho
FOOD FOR THOUGHT: WILL WE CONTINUE TO JUST SIT IDLY BY AND DO NOTHING?
Peace To All: Whether or not you are a follower of the NOI or an independent thinking black man or woman you have to be disappointed at the present predicament that this society has planned for bla
GLENN BECK TRIES TO WHITEWASH HIS HISTORY OF CALLING OBAMA A RACIST
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