This year marks the 50th anniversary of the great March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. It was there, at one of the largest rallies for human rights, that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech.
On Aug. 28, 196 ...
Posted Saturday, June 1st 2013 at 12:22AM
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Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) accused Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) on Wednesday of being complicit in the terror attacks on the U.S. diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya last year and the deaths of four Americans, including the late Ambassador Chris Stevens. ...
Posted Friday, May 31st 2013 at 8:38PM
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Kelvin Doe, aka DJ Focus, is a 16 year old kid from Sierre Leone. He has taught himself to build electronics from parts he's found in trashcans. He made his own FM radio transmitter and radio station.
Kelvin Doe, who has recently signed $100,000 s ...
Posted Friday, May 31st 2013 at 2:07AM
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It is important that the leadership of our struggle come from among our own people,
just as it is crucial that we build the necessary machinery that will develop this
leadership. The problem of leadership has always been a vexing one for Black ...
Posted Thursday, May 30th 2013 at 10:14PM
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I have argued that George Zimmerman is a murderer, one motivated by racism, an over-identification with Whiteness and White Authority, as well as a fetish for playing cop, to kill a person who was guilty of walking while Black in the “wrong” neighbo ...
Posted Wednesday, May 29th 2013 at 8:26PM
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Nearly 65 years later, not much has changed about Republicans, eh???
On October 13th, 1948, President Harry Truman made an appearance in St. Paul, Minnesota, on behalf of both his own re-election campaign and a bid by the mayor of Minneapolis, fel ...
Posted Tuesday, May 28th 2013 at 11:54AM
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SYRIA (The Borowitz Report)—During a meeting yesterday with Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona), Syrian rebels told the senator that he still seemed “really bitter” about losing the 2008 election to President Obama and advised him to “get over it.”
After ...
Posted Tuesday, May 28th 2013 at 11:49AM
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THE "educated Negroes" have the attitude of contempt toward their own people because in their own as well as in their mixed schools Negroes are taught to admire the Hebrew, the Greek, the Latin and the Teuton and to despise the African. Of the hundre ...
Posted Monday, May 27th 2013 at 1:52PM
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see pic before reading story !
While they likely were asked to stand there on the log to take the picture, this is not a photograph from a movie production. It is an accurate and fair depiction on what life looked like for enslaved Africans and th ...
Posted Monday, May 27th 2013 at 1:48PM
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Dear Black Female,
It’s ok to make that transition from Black Female to Black Woman. But, I’m not rushing you into something you are not ready for. The time will show itself when you should move on. Yes, I understand that you are afraid. We all we ...
Posted Monday, May 27th 2013 at 1:40PM
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We live in a complicated world, and America is no different. There are layers of complexities borne out of a history that is multifaceted, where deep darkness, human degradation and astronomical accomplishments all collided to produce what we have to ...
Posted Monday, May 27th 2013 at 1:19PM
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SEE PIC
Shortly after this Colonel Williams received information that one of the prisoners held by Livingstone had been murdered by the enemy.
He immediately sent a flag of truce to Livingstone demanded the body of the person who committed t ...
Posted Monday, May 27th 2013 at 1:06PM
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"This was the first Memorial Day. African Americans invented Memorial Day in Charleston, South Carolina. What you have there is black Americans recently freed from slavery announcing to the world with their flowers, their feet, and their songs what t ...
Posted Monday, May 27th 2013 at 12:59PM
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I served in the United States Marines and honor those that served but there is a new story about Memorial Day that you might not know about ,,,here it is! READ !
What we now know as Memorial Day began as "Decoration Day" in the immediate afterm ...
Posted Monday, May 27th 2013 at 12:47PM
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MIND BLOWN!!!!!!!
There is nothing more powerful and beautiful then a wise and beautiful black man,fighting for the Love of his people! ...
Posted Monday, May 27th 2013 at 12:25AM
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In the latest installment of his excellent New York Times series, Time and Punishment, John Tierney writes that mass incarceration trends of the past 30 years may have done more to harm crime-ridden communities and their residents than help them. As ...
Posted Friday, May 24th 2013 at 11:48PM
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Tony Martin is an historian who has written of the Jews and the African slave trade. Jews called Tony Martin defiant for using a book that relied almost entirely on Jewish sources. What incredible arrogance. Do Jews have the right to write our histor ...
Posted Friday, May 24th 2013 at 11:39PM
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What scandals? They are like the old time police officer who would 'throw the book ' at you and hope one of the charges will stick. This GOP action merely validates this senseless 'effort of disrespect'.
In light of the recent scandals that have roc ...
Posted Friday, May 24th 2013 at 12:06AM
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Malcolm X's 88th Birthday Celebration
Sunday, May 19
Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz
Memorial and Educational Center
3940 Broadway
New York, NY 10032
212-568-1341 phone
> visit website
> map it! · view my map
> MTA: NYC transit
Pa ...
Posted Sunday, May 19th 2013 at 4:32PM
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As far as many pastors are concerned, the most important scripture of all is not to be found in the word of Jesus. Neither is it even in the New Testament.
That scripture says: “‘Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be food in ...
Posted Sunday, May 19th 2013 at 2:16AM
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After Firing From CNN, Soledad O’Brien Developing “White in America
AFRICANGLOBE - Soledad O’Brien is responding to criticism she’s received over remarks made recently while talking about her “Black in America” documentaries. In the process, she a ...
Posted Sunday, May 19th 2013 at 1:04AM
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AFRICANGLOBE – Speaking to about 250 religious and community leaders in Detroit on Thursday, minister Louis Farrakhan urged unity among African Americans and called on them to buy up property in Detroit.
“We don’t have a lot of money,” Farrakhan s ...
Posted Friday, May 17th 2013 at 11:23PM
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I was at city hall to do business and notice this statue so i took a few pics and thiught what would you think about it !
Do share your thoughts ! ...
Posted Friday, May 17th 2013 at 10:24AM
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