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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 gree

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

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 Energ

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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

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 rese

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. Departmen

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 murde

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

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 C

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 pre

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 great

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 paren

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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

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, concl

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 t