Chanequa Campbell is a African-American honors student at Harvard, but was not allowed to graduate with her class last week after she was forced off campus by the university. Campbell's dismissal follows the recent campus killing of a suspected drug ...
Posted Tuesday, June 9th 2009 at 4:53AM
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Murder charges were dismissed Thursday against two men jailed eight months in the death of Brandon McClelland on a rural Lamar County road.
It turns out that someone else in a different vehicle accidentally hit Brandon McCelland. Read more by clic ...
Posted Friday, June 5th 2009 at 4:37PM
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Hi this is George Cook the owner/creator of www.letstalkonestly.com. It's with great pride that I tell you that my team, Team Menza ( Democrats independent of local democratic committee ) has advanced to a runoff election in our little town of Hillsi ...
Posted Tuesday, May 19th 2009 at 9:09PM
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It's with great pride that I tell you that my team, Team Menza ( Democrats independent of local democratic committee ) has advanced to a runoff election in our little town of Hillside NJ. It may not seem much but we went up against the Hillside Democ ...
Posted Wednesday, May 13th 2009 at 7:50PM
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Although black women get breast cancer at a lower rate than white women bey die at a higher rate than black women.
While cancer screening is very important a new study suggest that black women should get screened at a much earlier age than white w ...
Posted Tuesday, May 5th 2009 at 6:58PM
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A new study by Robert Livingston of the Kellog School of Managaement shows that black CEO's who have a babyface tend to have an easier time in the corporate workplace. Read more about the study titled The Teddy Bear Effect: Does babyfaceness benefi ...
Posted Saturday, May 2nd 2009 at 9:31PM
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Civil rights leaders are not that happy with President Obama. It appears that it's not so much what he has done about civil rights issues and race relations as much as it is he doesn't seem to want to address either issue at all.
Read a great arti ...
Posted Thursday, April 30th 2009 at 8:51PM
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A NY school went without a music program for a year due to budgetary issues. When no adult would step up and volunteer to do the job an 11 year old did. Read more about this remarkable young man by clicking the link below:
http://www.letstalkhones ...
Posted Tuesday, April 28th 2009 at 4:47PM
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Three people have been injured in a shooting at Hampton University. Watch video of the story by using the link below:
http://www.letstalkhonestly.com/blacknewsblackviews.html ...
Posted Sunday, April 26th 2009 at 8:29AM
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An African American family adopted a white child about five years ago. They quickly learned that while many have accepted white parents adopting black children the opposite is not true. In some cases people for some reason assume the child is in trou ...
Posted Thursday, April 23rd 2009 at 9:43PM
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15 year old Kristen Parm of Riveria Beach Florida has been missing since April 15. Learn more about her case and see her picture here:
http://www.letstalkhonestly.com/missingblackwomen.html ...
Posted Wednesday, April 22nd 2009 at 8:26PM
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Click the link below to check out the winning design for the National Museum of African American History & Culture. The winning design is by Freelon Adjaye Bond.
http://www.letstalkhonestly.com/blacknewsblackviews.html
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Posted Sunday, April 19th 2009 at 8:32AM
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A program in California called Project Best has sent several hundred young black men to college and since it's inception in 1996 200 of the program participants have gotten four year degrees. BEST stands for Black Excellence in Scholarship and Teachi ...
Posted Thursday, April 16th 2009 at 8:06PM
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In 2009 what is the role of the Black Church in the Black Community?
As the black church has lost it's position as the center of many black communities the the situation in many of those communities has gotten worse.
While it's easy to blame the ...
Posted Sunday, April 12th 2009 at 9:33AM
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Hi George cook here. I am running for councilman in my town of Hillside NJ. Hillside is a predominantly African American town. So you can imagine some of the grief I got after choosing to run on the slate of a white candidate whom I chose because I b ...
Posted Saturday, April 4th 2009 at 8:14PM
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It’s only been about 70 days ( at the time of this show ) since President Obama hs taken office and the relentless criticim is getting ridiculous. It didn’t take 70 days for the economy to get this way it took 8 years. It will take more than 70 t ...
Posted Saturday, March 28th 2009 at 8:30AM
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While you may not be surprised that a Republican would want to bring back hangings as a way to reduce crime it may surprise you to find out that Republican is black. Jackson Mississippi mayoral candidate George Lambus believes that crime can be reduc ...
Posted Sunday, March 22nd 2009 at 10:12AM
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I am sure by now that many if not of you have heard of the Chris Brown Rihhana incident by now. Chris Brown was dead wrong and as bad as this whole thing was it has opened up the door for us to talk about the 500 pound goriilaa in the African America ...
Posted Sunday, March 15th 2009 at 10:27AM
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Please donate 1$ to help publicize the cases of missing black women. Your donation will ensure the survival of the Missing Black Woman Page ( http://www.letstalkhonestly.com/missingblackwomen.html ) and help to build a better database of not only the ...
Posted Friday, March 13th 2009 at 1:32PM
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Many believe that slavery ended in the United States in 1863. That is wrong. There are known cases of descendants of slaves and share croppers who have been forced into indentured servitude up until 1973.
Peonage as this type of servitude is known ...
Posted Wednesday, February 18th 2009 at 8:53PM
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I’m sure that we can all agree that a sellout is someone who turns their back on their own community for no other reason than to be accepted by another.
But wouldn’t a person that claims to be “down” with a community and then does things t ...
Posted Tuesday, February 10th 2009 at 9:28PM
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ESSENCE.com asked the civil rights leader and founder of the Rainbow
PUSH Coalition, Inc. to pen an "open letter to President Barack Obama."
With the passion Jackson is known for, he asks the nation's first Black
President to carefully examine imp ...
Posted Thursday, February 5th 2009 at 6:14PM
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The human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, which helps cut a sexual active female's risk of cervical cancer, is viewed positively by its target audience in the black community, even though few are actually getting the shots, a new survey says.
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Posted Wednesday, February 4th 2009 at 8:29PM
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