A disturbing thirty year trend has resulted in a disproportionate number of incarcerated black male youths in U.S. prisons. A new study shows that the conditions that contribute to this trend begin early in life, and are often exacerbated by their ex ...
Posted Monday, April 12th 2010 at 3:42PM
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Tyler Perry is is Glenn Beck's hero???
When asked to list his modern day heroes, Beck doesn’t rattle off a predictable list of names like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity or Newt Gingrich. After giving it some thought he finally comes up with one: Tyle ...
Posted Sunday, April 11th 2010 at 7:20AM
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Three charged in the murders of Jersey City couple, Michael Muchioki & Nia Haqq:
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Posted Friday, April 9th 2010 at 4:09PM
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Katie Washington, first black valedictorian at Notre Dame.
In the 161 years Notre Dame has been awarding degrees, never had there been an African-American as valedictorian. Until this year.She’s Katie Washington.
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Posted Friday, April 9th 2010 at 9:33AM
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Conservative Magazine has forum on black unemployment without any black panelist. The conservative magazine The National Review held a forum on black unemployment. They just forgot one thing. That would be having on blacks on the 6 member panel holdi ...
Posted Thursday, April 8th 2010 at 6:15AM
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In Rocky Mount North Carolina 8 bodies of 10 missing African American women have been found. All 8 are believed to have been killed by Antwan Maurice Pittman who is currently in the Edgecomb County Jail. The governor of North Carolina has sent in the ...
Posted Wednesday, April 7th 2010 at 4:00AM
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Heart disease is the #1 killer of black women. Heart disease takes the lives of thousands of minority women every year. According to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, black women are 35 percent more likely than white. Read more here:
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Posted Tuesday, April 6th 2010 at 12:12PM
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Ground breaking TV Show The Wire being taught as a college course at universities like Harvard and Duke. Some sociologists and social anthropologists, believe The Wire has something to teach their students about poverty, class, and bureaucracy .Read ...
Posted Monday, April 5th 2010 at 6:01PM
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In a very sad story a young college educated couple were gunned down. Micheal Muchioki and Nia Haqq a college educated couple with a bright future were gunned down hours after their engagement party in an apparent car jacking.:
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Posted Sunday, April 4th 2010 at 7:12PM
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More black candidates seeking republican nomination to run for congress. At latest count, 33 African Americans are running for Republican nominations to Congress. The bad news in this story is that none of the 33 is considered at this point to be a f ...
Posted Sunday, April 4th 2010 at 10:01AM
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Video: President Obama discusses Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.
On CBS Early Show President Obama discussed the level of vitriol leveled at him by Beck and Limbaugh. Watch the video by using the link below:
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Posted Saturday, April 3rd 2010 at 12:34PM
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President Obama picks African American on census form:
He may be the world's foremost mixed-race leader, but when it came to the official government head count, President Barack Obama gave only one answer to the question about his ethnic backgroun ...
Posted Friday, April 2nd 2010 at 2:54PM
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Video: NY Senator Eric Adams ask kids to pull up their sagging pants:
An elected African American official in NY State has reached out to black kids to ask them to take pride in their image and pull up their pants. Watch Senator Adam's 2 minute vi ...
Posted Thursday, April 1st 2010 at 5:39PM
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Fox News uses LL Cool J in false advertisement for Palin's Show:
In an commercial for Sarah Palin's Fox News show Real American Stories LL Cool J is featured as if he was interviewed for the show. The problem is that no such interview was produc ...
Posted Wednesday, March 31st 2010 at 3:09PM
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2010 National Urban League's State Of Black America Report. The book offers Jobs Plan to Put Urban America Back to Work. Read a summary of the book here:
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Posted Tuesday, March 30th 2010 at 4:11PM
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When Marie Meggs walked into Christ the Cornerstone Community Church in 2006, Pastor Otis Adams was surprised. Elderly white women don't drop by black churches often, and he assumed her first visit would be her last."It's just not normal," says the p ...
Posted Monday, March 29th 2010 at 3:46PM
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Black republican candidate refers to President Obama as "Buckwheat":
Corey Poitier a republican candidate for congress in Florida recently made remarks in which he called President Obama "Buckwheat". Read more about this story by using the link b ...
Posted Sunday, March 28th 2010 at 7:55AM
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President Obama gets 4 billion in aid for black colleges ( HBCUs ) In line with his stated commitment to help HBCUs President Obama has gotten 4 billion for these colleges tucked in side the healthcare bill. Read more here:
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Posted Saturday, March 27th 2010 at 8:07AM
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Black Marriage Day 2010 will celebrate its eighth year of Black Marriage Day activities in cities across the country with the release of two marriage-themed films as part of this year’s Black Marriage Day observance Sunday, March 28, 2010. Read more ...
Posted Friday, March 26th 2010 at 2:26PM
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A group of black pastors is looking to spread biblical teaching and quash the prosperity gospel teachings that have been proliferating in their churchesThe prosperity gospel is a highly criticized theology that teaches wealth and good health are a si ...
Posted Wednesday, March 24th 2010 at 4:35PM
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Case of the missing Clinton Avenue 5 solved.
The case of 5 missing black teens from Newark NJ who went misssing over 30 years ago has been solved:
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Posted Tuesday, March 23rd 2010 at 2:34PM
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Healthcare protestors use N-word and spit at black democrats including civil rights icon John Lewis in washington DC:
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Posted Saturday, March 20th 2010 at 8:05PM
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"The fact that middle-class black children lag behind their white and Asian peers" remains a mystery to many researchers, says Travis Gosa, Cornell assistant professor of Africana studies
People are aware of the achievement gap in the "black undercl ...
Posted Saturday, March 20th 2010 at 7:29AM
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An Open Letter to Tavis Smiley: Anthony Coley an African American is the former communications director and chief spokesman for the late Sen. Edward Kennedy and former New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine. He has written a letter to Tavis Smiley explaing why ...
Posted Friday, March 19th 2010 at 3:32PM
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Dr. Ron Walters a political analyst and Professor Emeritus at the Univeristey of Maryland College Park ask if now is the time for a "Black Party". Read his article by using the link below:
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Posted Thursday, March 18th 2010 at 5:17PM
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