Dear Anita,
Big telecom is about to win a huge battle in the fight to destroy our open Internet. FCC Commissioner Michael Copps can be a hero and stop this stealth attack on net neutrality.
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski has announced plans to ...
Posted Monday, December 13th 2010 at 4:38PM
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by Aaron Gould Sheinin
Two African-American Democrats on Thursday announced that they were joining the Republican Party.
Hall County Commissioner Ashley Bell and former state executive committee member Andre Walker said the Democratic Party had g ...
Posted Sunday, December 12th 2010 at 2:46PM
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By: Jeanna Bryner
Veiled beneath the Persian Gulf, a once-fertile landmass may have supported some of the earliest humans outside Africa some 75,000 to 100,000 years ago, a new review of research suggests.
At its peak, the floodplain now below th ...
Posted Sunday, December 12th 2010 at 8:11AM
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RALEIGH, NC (December 6, 2010) -- The country's most prominent civil rights group has come to Raleigh to draw attention to what it calls a growing erosion of the gains made since a 1954 Supreme Court decision made segregated schools illegal.
Using ...
Posted Saturday, December 11th 2010 at 4:02PM
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Sarah Palin was, for the third straight year, named one of Barbara Walters’ 10 most fascinating people of the year. The full version of Walters’ interview with Palin, snippets of which were released already, aired on ABC tonight, and they include ...
Posted Friday, December 10th 2010 at 7:51PM
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Former President Bill Clinton made a surprise appearance in the White House briefing room Friday afternoon to express his support for the tax cut compromise worked out between President Obama and Congressional Republicans.
Mr. Obama stood next to ...
Posted Friday, December 10th 2010 at 6:48PM
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Dear friends,
The Internet has made amazing things possible, like freeing the Jena 6 and electing President Obama. None of it could have happened without an "open" Internet: one where Internet service providers are not allowed to interfere with wh ...
Posted Sunday, December 5th 2010 at 2:51PM
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"The policy is an absurdity and borderline on being an obscenity. What it does is cause people to ask of themselves that they lie to themselves, that they pretend to be something that they are not. There is no empirical evidence that would indicate ...
Posted Thursday, December 2nd 2010 at 9:51AM
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Secretary of Defense Robert Gates:
"I fully support the president’s decision. The question before us is not whether the military prepares to make this change but how we must - how we best prepare for it." ...
Posted Thursday, December 2nd 2010 at 9:47AM
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Police in Britain know WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s whereabouts in the country, but have not acted on an international arrest warrant for him, a British newspaper reported Thursday.
The enigmatic figure, whose organization is in the midst ...
Posted Thursday, December 2nd 2010 at 9:32AM
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Oprah's Reply: "Spirituality for me is recognizing that I am connected to the energy of all creation, that I am a part of it—and it is always a part of me."
Spiritual author and lecturer Marianne Williamson says spirituality wakens when you become ...
Posted Thursday, December 2nd 2010 at 9:18AM
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Posy By: Marijah McCain - (My Naturopath Instructor)
The "Food and Nutrition Board" committee that compiled the report
basically came to the conclusion that current recommended daily intake
(RDI) levels for vitamin D (which are typically no more ...
Posted Thursday, December 2nd 2010 at 7:52AM
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Despite an incredible outpouring of public opposition to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) "Food Safety Modernization Act", or S. 510, the Senate voted 73 to 25 to pass the bill anyway. And data presented by Maplight.org, a nonprofit, nonpa ...
Posted Wednesday, December 1st 2010 at 9:45PM
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From: Mitch Stewart, BarackObama.com
Friend --
It's time.
The Pentagon study released yesterday confirms what we've long known: The military is ready to repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell."
The report found that 70 percent of troops do not belie ...
Posted Wednesday, December 1st 2010 at 1:04PM
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An act of civil disobedience 55 years ago -- Rosa Parks' refusal to move to the back of a city bus -- made the seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama, a pivotal symbol in America's civil rights movement.
Wednesday marks the 55th anniversary of the civi ...
Posted Wednesday, December 1st 2010 at 11:38AM
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Posted by Sam of flynews.com
China’s consumer market is in an uproar following the release of a popular Chinese toothpaste.
The paste, which is known as Darlie in English and as” Black People Toothpaste” in Chinese, is a product of the Haw ...
Posted Wednesday, December 1st 2010 at 11:33AM
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Faith Evans pleads no contest to reckless driving
Nov. 29, 2010, 8:11 PM EST
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Authorities say Faith Evans has pleaded no contest to reckless driving after being arrested in August for investigation of drunken driving. Los Angel ...
Posted Tuesday, November 30th 2010 at 3:10PM
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President Obama deemed the so-called Slurpee Summit with GOP leaders "a good start" toward ending an ideological logjam on Capitol Hill.
"The American people did not vote for gridlock," Obama said following the two-hour White House meeting."They d ...
Posted Tuesday, November 30th 2010 at 2:22PM
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Last night, BlackVoices.com attended the opening of Lincoln Center Theater's production of John Guare's new play, 'A Free Man of Color,' directed by George C. Wolfe and starring Tony, Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning actor Jeffrey Wright and rappe ...
Posted Monday, November 29th 2010 at 1:26PM
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Post by RK Byers
If I were locked in a room with Jesse Jackson and Soledad O’Brien and given a gun with exactly 1 bullet, I’d probably blow my own brains out because no matter which of those two I shot, I’d still be stuck with the other one.
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Posted Monday, November 29th 2010 at 1:09PM
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Post by Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG – A new survey says more than one in three South African men admit to having committed rape.
A 2010 study led by the government-funded Medical Research Foundation says that in Gauteng province, home to Sout ...
Posted Monday, November 29th 2010 at 1:03PM
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This interview was interesting although I didn't care for the interviewer. She didn't seem to be on the same level with Jay. She didn't seem familiar with his background, just there to ask questions. No intimacy between the two. Jay is such an intere ...
Posted Monday, November 29th 2010 at 8:09AM
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By: United Nations Development Fund For Women
Violence against women and girls is a problem of pandemic proportions. Based on country
data available,1 up to 70 percent of women experience physical or sexual violence from men
in their lifetime — ...
Posted Sunday, November 28th 2010 at 9:14AM
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