Is it rational and analytical thinking to say that Black Americans are a new race of people and not part of the African race, and at the same time say that White Americans are part of the European race and not a new race? No it is not. ...
Posted Thursday, October 2nd 2014 at 1:48PM
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President Truman Address to the NAACP
at the Lincoln Memorial
June 29, 1947
Mr. Chairman, Mrs. Roosevelt, Senator Morse, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen:
I am happy to be present at the closing session of the 38th Annual Conference ...
Posted Friday, September 12th 2014 at 12:24PM
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I pray this email finds you well.
I want to thank each one of you for the wonderful celebration you gave me on Sunday. My heart and soul continues to rejoice from the morning, during service and after church surprises. You have showered me with b ...
Posted Tuesday, September 9th 2014 at 5:52PM
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For instance, Isaiah was written over a period of several centuries. Isaiah has three distinct divisions from different time periods, chapters 1-39 (8th century BC), 40-66 (no earlier than 6th century BC), and 56-66 (even later). Likewise Prophet Pau ...
Posted Sunday, September 7th 2014 at 5:44PM
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2. African Americans are the most underrepresented of all groups at ISNA. ... Given that African-Americans make up the single largest segment of American Muslims, the fact that they don’t have a sizable stake raises a lot of questions about the val ...
Posted Wednesday, September 3rd 2014 at 1:37PM
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The schematic is dated 1975, the manuals 1976. I purchased it in 1979 for $245.00, power supply not included. It has an 8 bit processor with a 16 bit address bus. The hex keypad allows input of 8 bit machine codes and the hex LED displays the 16 bit ...
Posted Tuesday, September 2nd 2014 at 4:02PM
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Raised by devout Catholic parents, Ellison, the third of five sons, remembers respect, tolerance and social justice being constant topics in his household, and he was given the right to choose his path at a young age. As a kid, when Ellison became d ...
Posted Friday, August 29th 2014 at 9:31PM
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Hiram Young of Independence, Missouri manufactured freight wagons and equipment in the 1850s. Born about 1812 in Tennessee, he entered Missouri as a slave and worked for George Young of Greene County. In 1847, Young obtained freedom, either from hi ...
Posted Thursday, August 28th 2014 at 7:35AM
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Maj. Gen. Charles Frank Bolden, Jr., (USMC-Ret.) was nominated by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the 12th Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. He began his duties as head of the agency on Jul ...
Posted Monday, August 25th 2014 at 4:49PM
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Now the king heard it said about King Tir·ha′kah of E·thi·o′pi·a: “Here he has come out to fight against you.”
2 Kings 19:9
In 688 B.C., when King Tirhakah of Kush became Pharaoh of Egypt, he began to conspire with Phoenicia ...
Posted Friday, August 15th 2014 at 8:37PM
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4. Politely; complaisantly; gently; with due decorum; courteously; as, we were civilly treated.
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Posted Saturday, August 9th 2014 at 12:54PM
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In 1979, 1980, and 1984 Peter R. Schmidt, et al, documented a total of eight iron smelting operations by the Barongo, modern day ironworkers of northwest Tanzania.
"Though they had not worked iron on a regular basis since 1951, they readily and ea ...
Posted Friday, August 8th 2014 at 5:56PM
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Fort Mose
America's Black Colonial Fortress of Freedom
More than 250 years ago, African born slaves risked their lives to escape English plantations in Carolina and find freedom among the Spanish living at St. Augustine. Battling slave catchers ...
Posted Tuesday, July 15th 2014 at 1:55PM
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"Black African slaves arrived in the Spanish colonies in the early 16th century, where they replaced the forced labor of the indigenous population. Enslaved Africans first set foot in St. Augustine at its founding in 1565 as members of Pedro Menénde ...
Posted Tuesday, July 15th 2014 at 12:26PM
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In Memory of Irma
I met Irma through social networking, on the site BlackinAmerica.com, in July of 2009. Over the years our friendship grew, and on January 1, 2013 we met in person at the Soka Gakkai USA New Year celebration at the Sacramento Dis ...
Posted Saturday, July 12th 2014 at 6:18PM
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Author(s): Bezis-Selfa, John
Reviewer(s): Kennedy, Michael V.
Published by EH.NET (May 2004)
John Bezis-Selfa, Forging America: Ironworkers, Adventurers, and the Industrious Revolution. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004. xi + 279 pp. $3 ...
Posted Wednesday, July 9th 2014 at 7:53PM
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“Cotton brought about another demographic change—and for African Americans, a uniquely cruel and destructive one. On the new plantations of the Deep South, cotton meant longer hours for slaves, harder work, and increased brutality. It also meant ...
Posted Sunday, July 6th 2014 at 8:39AM
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CHAP. II.
The author's birth and parentage--His being kidnapped with his sister--Their separation--Surprise at meeting again--Are finally separated--Account of the different places and incidents the author met with till his arrival on th ...
Posted Sunday, July 6th 2014 at 7:11AM
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