Michael B. Jordan pushes back against critics of his colorblind casting as Johnny Storm in the Fantastic Four and encourages the Internet trolls to look beyond stereotypes.
By: Kirsten West Savali
Posted: May 27 2015 11:42 AM
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Posted Monday, June 1st 2015 at 9:30AM
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After almost a century, Henry Johnson, nicknamed the ‘black death’ for his heroism in the Argonne, will be fully honored.Henry Johnson, all 5-feet-4 of him, was given the name “black death” for his valor in the Argonne forest ...
Posted Monday, June 1st 2015 at 8:25AM
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Actor and comedian Reynaldo Rey passed away Thursday at the age of 75 as a result of complications from a stroke.
Rey, who was born Harry Reynolds in Sequoyah County, Ok ...
Posted Sunday, May 31st 2015 at 8:20PM
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Hundreds of people filled a church in the Mississippi Delta for the funeral Saturday of B.B. King, who rose from sharecropper in the area's flat cotton fields to worldwide fame as a blues singer and guitarist who influenced generations of entertainer ...
Posted Sunday, May 31st 2015 at 7:53PM
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Brothers and Sisters of Black In America Good Morning,
I had a chance to revisit one of my favorite post: THE PHYSICAL APPEARANCE OF ANCIENT ISRAEL THE HEBREWS & THE SONS OF HAM PART FOUR (1407 hits)
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Posted Saturday, May 30th 2015 at 7:13PM
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Sean “Diddy” Combs has been vocal about the #BlackLivesMatter movement in the past, taking the nation's justice system to task for non-indictments in the deaths of unarmed black men. In reaction to the recent death of a New York rapper, C ...
Posted Tuesday, May 26th 2015 at 2:54PM
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An 18-month investigation by the Justice Department concluded that the Cleveland Police Department exhibited a pattern of “unconstitutional policing and excessive use of force.”
By: Stephen A. Crockett Jr.
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Posted Tuesday, May 26th 2015 at 2:20PM
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Malcolm X, born Malcolm Little on May 19, 1925, in Omaha, Neb., would have been 90 years old today.
Malcolm X waits for a press conference to begin March 26, 1964.
U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection, Lib ...
Posted Monday, May 25th 2015 at 4:45PM
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They have long been overrepresented in the military, serving and dying for a country that has not always celebrated their freedom or rewarded their sacrifice.
By: Theodore R. Johnson III
Posted: May 25 2015 3:00 AM
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Posted Monday, May 25th 2015 at 4:35PM
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A Detroit-area woman turned 116 Saturday, but she offers no secret for a long life.
"There's nothing I can do about it," Jeralean Talley of Inkster said ahead of her birthday weekend.
Talley will celebrate her birthday twice, including a Sunday par ...
Posted Monday, May 25th 2015 at 10:36AM
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A patrolman charged in the shooting deaths of two unarmed suspects during a 137-shot barrage of gunfire was acquitted Saturday in a case that helped prompt the U.S. Department of Justice determine the city police department had a history of using exc ...
Posted Monday, May 25th 2015 at 9:00AM
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In the end it was probably the soothing tone of the brain surgeon, the last voice you hear before slipping off into the black sleep of anesthesia, that won the first straw poll of the GOP 2016 presidential race. That and the sine qua non of Republica ...
Posted Monday, May 25th 2015 at 8:55AM
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BREAKING NEWS- On Thursday afternoon, Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby announced that all six officers charged in relation to 25-year-old Freddie Gray‘s death have been indicted by a grand jury.On May 1, Mosby announced that Sgt. ...
Posted Friday, May 22nd 2015 at 8:30AM
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The Democrats are going to eat themselves over the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), and rightly so. President Obama continues to charge ahead on TPP and Fast Track, while progressive members of the Democratic party are crying out to protect America f ...
Posted Thursday, May 21st 2015 at 11:02AM
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Was our people afraid of Malcole X of his methods by any means necesary?
The Memory of MALCOLM X 90 years old this week. ...
Posted Thursday, May 21st 2015 at 9:52AM
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Let's have some fun with our differences, that gift that The Most High Yah have given to each and everyone one of us.
LRT US HAVE SOME FUN... ...
Posted Monday, May 18th 2015 at 8:51AM
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Decades after the U.S. Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education ruling declared segregated schooling of black students unconstitutional, many American schools with high minority populations continue to receive fewer resources and provide an educat ...
Posted Monday, May 18th 2015 at 7:39AM
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If anyone tells you they know the truth about who The Hebrew people are in The Holy Bible and cannot show or prove or can give a reasonable explanation on how they arrived to their conclusion, especially when it comes to saying that Christian ...
Posted Sunday, May 17th 2015 at 9:49PM
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Blues giant B.B. King, whose six-string genius shaped generations of guitar gods from around the globe, died at home Thursday in Las Vegas, his lawyer said. He was 89. ...
Posted Saturday, May 16th 2015 at 8:30PM
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Fox News contributor Angela McGlowan asserted on Tuesday that First Lady Michelle Obama had been wrong to bring up racial issues in a recent commencement speech because she owed her success to the color of her skin.
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Posted Saturday, May 16th 2015 at 8:20PM
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First Lady Michelle Obama urged students at Tuskegee University, a historically black university in Alabama, to remain involved in civic life during a time of tension regarding race relations across the country.
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Posted Monday, May 11th 2015 at 8:32AM
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Michelle Obama said on Saturday that she faced a unique set of questions when she was on the brink of becoming the nation's first African-American first lady during her husband's presidential campaign.
While Obama said that she was subject to questi ...
Posted Sunday, May 10th 2015 at 5:15PM
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The Islamic State has reportedly declared it was behind the attack in Garland, Texas, via its Al Bayan radio station.
The Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) made a statement on Tuesday, claiming this was the terrorist group’s first attack on US ...
Posted Wednesday, May 6th 2015 at 11:47AM
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