Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. discussed black genealogy and ancestry to an audience of students, faculty and community members on Thursday at the Ryan Family Auditorium in Tech.
Gates, a noted African-American scholar and author, deliver ...
Posted Friday, February 18th 2011 at 3:02PM
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The media and the fans are repeatedly revolted due to the Beyonce skin bleaching rumors. It seems that the r'n'b diva managed to shock the world with her lighter complexion shade which is visible in the pictures shot by paparazzi while a shopping bin ...
Posted Thursday, February 17th 2011 at 4:41PM
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NEW ORLEANS--Leon Waters was a boy when he first heard stories from his 91-year old cousin, Clara “Kizzie” Duncan, about a slave revolt in southeast Louisiana. Duncan, the daughter of slaves, helped the young Waters understand the importance of o ...
Posted Thursday, February 17th 2011 at 4:28PM
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From ChicagoTribune.com
February 17, 2011
Well, they’ve done it again. Urban Prep Academy of Chicago, an all-male charter school with kids from the “worst” parts of Chicago, is sending 100% of its graduating seniors off to college. The scho ...
Posted Thursday, February 17th 2011 at 4:10PM
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A woman awakes during the night to find that her husband was not in their bed. She puts on her robe and goes downstairs to look for him. She finds him sitting at the kitchen table with a cup of coffee in front him.
He appears deep in thought, jus ...
Posted Wednesday, February 16th 2011 at 5:06PM
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Newsweek.com--The two weeks of protest in Egypt seemed to be settling into a pattern, and the press, ever impatient, began to turn away. Then, in two days, protest turned to revolution and coverage of the unrest in the Middle East again dominated the ...
Posted Wednesday, February 16th 2011 at 1:14PM
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In a surprise development, which analysts are at a loss to explain, African Americans are starting their own businesses at a record-setting pace.
According to a report last week from the U.S. Census Bureau, there was a 60.5 percent surge in the nu ...
Posted Wednesday, February 16th 2011 at 12:52PM
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YOUR BALANCE
By Sister Siebra Muhammad
I am inside every
Man, woman and child
Sometimes I am heated
And others I am mild
I moan, I howl, I
Turn and twist
No matter how hard you
Try to ignore that I exist
I know your deepest
...
Posted Wednesday, February 16th 2011 at 12:21PM
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The following text is excerpted from a speech delivered by the Honorable Louis Farrakhan June 9, 1996 at Mosque Maryam in Chicago.
THE HONORABLE MINISTER LOUIS FARRAKHAN:
I have chosen as a subject today, “The Divine Destruction of America: C ...
Posted Tuesday, February 15th 2011 at 6:25PM
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William DeHart Hubbard (born in Cincinnati, Ohio on November 25, 1903 - June 23, 1976) was a track and field athlete who was the first African American to win an Olympic gold medal in an individual event; the running long jump at the 1924 Paris Summe ...
Posted Tuesday, February 15th 2011 at 2:54PM
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February is Black History month, a time when educators and students across the United States take time to learn about African American history. On the campus of University of Missouri, this time of year has been fraught with racial bigotry. In the ea ...
Posted Tuesday, February 15th 2011 at 2:41PM
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OXFORD, OH – A new study says Miami University and The Ohio State University favor African American students over Caucasian students when it's a close call.
The study focused on race, grade point average and standardized testing results to come ...
Posted Tuesday, February 15th 2011 at 2:30PM
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Conservative activist and blogger Andrew Breitbart's weekend in Washington at the Conservative Political Action Conference was interrupted when he was served with a lawsuit filed by the subject of one of his infamous videos, the New York Times report ...
Posted Monday, February 14th 2011 at 5:36PM
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In his eloquent autobiographies, abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass described the cruelty he experienced as an African-American slave in Maryland during the early 19th century. But Douglass' descriptions may have been missing some important detai ...
Posted Monday, February 14th 2011 at 4:54PM
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Most people are rightly horrified about the case of a first-grade teacher at a Silver Spring elementary school who was recently charged with several counts of assault after being accused of choking and/or punching eight young students.
Adults ass ...
Posted Monday, February 14th 2011 at 4:48PM
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Dedicated to all my family!!!
HEART 4 U
Me and you is friends
You smile, I smile...
You hurt, I hurt...
You cry, I cry...
You jump off a bridge...
I'm gonna miss your blogs.
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Posted Sunday, February 13th 2011 at 5:37PM
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1. Your kids are becoming you...and you don't like them...but your grandchildren are perfect!
2. GOING OUT is good. COMING HOME is better!
3. When people say you look "Great"...They add "for your age!"
4. When you needed the discount you pai ...
Posted Sunday, February 13th 2011 at 4:14PM
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Born in the South, Edwin Leonard was one of many black men who wanted to fight for his freedom and his country during the Civil War.
Leonard enlisted with the Union Army as a corporal in the 54th Massachusetts, likely the most well-known regiment ...
Posted Sunday, February 13th 2011 at 2:38PM
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ARLINGTON,TX -- An African-American man who planned to use his bus to encourage children to resist bullies says he is being bullied by the National Football League.
Eric Williams is representing himself in a lawsuit filed Monday that names the NFL ...
Posted Sunday, February 13th 2011 at 2:35PM
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(CNN) -- At least 17 artifacts from the Egyptian Museum of Cairo are missing following a break-in, the country's minister of antiquities said Sunday.
The missing objects include a gilded wood statue of King Tutankhamun being carried by a goddess; ...
Posted Sunday, February 13th 2011 at 2:17PM
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Redistricting and gerrymandering are once again the focus of high-stakes politics in Louisiana, and across the country. This is the once-a-decade process during which political incumbents selectively redraw the boundaries of their districts to inclu ...
Posted Saturday, February 12th 2011 at 3:52PM
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