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Henry Louis "Hank" Aaron (born February 5, 1934) is widely considered one of the greatest baseball players of all time. In 1999, editors at The Sporting News ranked Hank Aaron fifth on their list of "

Newsweek.com--Hundreds of anti-war activists are expected to attend the United National Antiwar Coalitions National Conference in Stamford, Conn., March 23-25. UNAC established itself as a major a

 

From The San Francisco Chronicle February 4, 2012 The labels used to describe Americans of African descent mark the movement of a people from the slave house to the White House. Today, many are re

SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates — A research body here is seeking global tie ups to produce drugs to treat deadly diseases including Aids from the unique antibodies found in camel's milk. The Arab Sc

The following text is excerpted from “A Torchlight for America,” chapter 4, pages 47-53, written by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, 1993. THE HONORABLE MINISTER LOUIS FARRAKHAN: Let’s de

Arthur John (Jack) Johnson (1878 -1946) was the first black, and first Texan, to win the heavyweight boxing championship of the world. Born in Galveston on March 31, 1878, he was the second of six

Eric Himpton Holder, Jr. was born in the Bronx, New York, to parents with roots in Barbados. Holder grew up in East Elmhurst, Queens, and attended public school until the age of 10. When entering the

The Woolworth sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests which led to the Woolworth's department store chain reversing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States. While not th

Peace, On Page 7, of The Frederick Douglass Encyclopedia, it states: "Douglass was unconvinced that living and working in Africa would appreciably be more effective in abolishing the slave trade, b

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: I'm Michel Martin, and this is TELL ME MORE, from NPR News. We are taking TELL ME MORE on the road to Detroit tomorrow, so we wanted to get in a Detroit state of mind with som

Newsweek.com--The conflict between property rights and human rights has entered a new chapter. It is a debate that goes back to the challenge by landowners and merchants behind the American Revolution

Faruq Hunter, an entrepreneur with a growing business and family,bought life insurance partly because of a hard lesson he learned from his father, who left behind $40,000 in debt when he died. Hunt

WashingtonPost.com January 29, 2012 An article in the Washington Post on January 26 revealed that a delegation from the Philippines was engaged in bilateral talks in Washington to negotiate the ex

CANCER KILLER ¨C Natural Cancer Cell Killer 10,000 Times Stronger Than Chemo! The Sour Sop or the fruit from the graviola tree is a miraculous natural cancer cell killer 10,000 times stronger than

ThinkProgress.org--ThinkProgress reported last week that Kansas House Speaker Mike O’Neal (R) was forced to apologize to First Lady Michelle Obama after forwarding an email to fellow lawmakers that ca

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BET.com--Associates of presidential candidate Ron Paul told the Washington Post that the Texas congressman was heavily involved in newsletters that included racist and incendiary language published un

ARIZONA--Film director Spike Lee asked the more than 2,000 people who came to hear his lecture Wednesday night at Arizona State University’s Gammage Auditorium in honor of Black History Month for perm

January 25, 2012 Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad By CHARLES DUHIGG and DAVID BARBOZA The explosion ripped through Building A5 on a Friday evening last May, an eruption of fire and noise that t