WASHINGTON--The extensive private art collection of Bill and Camille Cosby opens to the public Sunday at the Smithsonian Institution as part of a major exhibition.
More than 60 rarely seen African-American artworks from the Cosby collection are be ...
Posted Saturday, November 8th 2014 at 9:08PM
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The Gould School of Law held a panel discussion on civil rights on Monday featuring actress and alumna Daniele Watts, who was involved in a controversy after she was arrested for lewd conduct in a September encounter with police. Watts, who graduated ...
Posted Tuesday, November 4th 2014 at 1:34PM
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The question of who ordered the assassinations of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. is a vital one, and thousands of pages have been written on the issue. Those who dismiss the notion that the United States government would engage in assassination ...
Posted Monday, November 3rd 2014 at 10:15AM
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Lesley McSpadden, the mother of the 18-year-old boy whose death at the hands of a Ferguson police officer in August sparked weeks of protests, is going to Geneva, Switzerland next month to speak about her son and other victims of police brutality in ...
Posted Monday, November 3rd 2014 at 8:57AM
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HOUSTON – A local woman has a warning for social media users after she said she was targeted by a scam artist with a wild story.
Jennifer Murphy says she is determined to make sure it doesn't happen to someone else.
It all started after Mur ...
Posted Wednesday, October 29th 2014 at 9:01PM
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Centuries before Ebola, Cotton Mather faced down another global epidemic with a health tactic from abroad.
Cotton Mather’s successful smallpox campaign was based on inoculation advice he received from a slave named Onesimus.
The spread of E ...
Posted Saturday, October 25th 2014 at 3:40PM
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DETROIT (WXYZ) - The State of Michigan is ordering a Detroit man to pay tens of thousands of dollars, or go to prison. The reason? He owes back child support for a child that everyone agrees is not his.
"I feel like I’m standing in front of a b ...
Posted Saturday, October 25th 2014 at 2:28PM
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New York (CNN) -- A Doctors Without Borders physician who recently returned to New York from West Africa has tested positive for the Ebola virus, becoming the first diagnosed case in the city, a law enforcement official briefed on the matter told CNN ...
Posted Thursday, October 23rd 2014 at 8:46PM
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St. Louis (CNN) -- Activist and Princeton University professor Cornel West was among an estimated 10 people arrested at the "Moral Monday" march in Ferguson, Missouri, event organizer Andrew Kling said.
A photo from CNN affiliate KMOV-TV in St. L ...
Posted Monday, October 13th 2014 at 3:34PM
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Doug Stanglin, USA TODAY 5:03 p.m. EDT
October 9, 2014
Angry protests erupted Wednesday night in the Shaw neighborhood of St. Louis after an off-duty white police officer shot and killed an African-American teenager who, police said, had fired t ...
Posted Thursday, October 9th 2014 at 6:04PM
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Doug Stanglin, USA TODAY 5:03 p.m. EDT
October 9, 2014
Angry protests erupted Wednesday night in the Shaw neighborhood of St. Louis after an off-duty white police officer shot and killed an African-American teenager who, police said, had fired t ...
Posted Thursday, October 9th 2014 at 6:03PM
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Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States, died Tuesday morning, the hospital said.
Duncan may have contracted the virus in Liberia while taking a deathly ill neighbor in Liberia to the hospital in a taxi. He ...
Posted Wednesday, October 8th 2014 at 11:36AM
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October 3, 2014
The Liberian taxi driver who drove Texas Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan with his sick pregnant friend said the lady was so sick, “she was not able to walk by herself.” It is believed Duncan contracted the deadly virus during ...
Posted Saturday, October 4th 2014 at 6:27PM
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American White Supremacy and Racial Domestic Abuse
By Robert Muhammad -Guest Columnist- | Last updated: Oct 2, 2014 - 8:08:48 PM
(FinalCall.com) Doesn’t it seem rather strange that during a time when Black people (especially Black males) are b ...
Posted Saturday, October 4th 2014 at 5:15PM
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From AlterNet.org
October 1, 2014
We look at the incredible story of how a 16-year-old high school sophomore from the Bronx ended up spending nearly three years locked up at the Rikers jail in New York City after he says he was falsely accus ...
Posted Friday, October 3rd 2014 at 11:55AM
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Nation of Islam Leader Louis Farrakhan: Ebola Was Manufactured to Kill Blacks
by Warner Todd Huston 2 Oct 2014
Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation if Islam, is warning his acolytes that Ebola and AIDS were created by the US government to ...
Posted Friday, October 3rd 2014 at 10:44AM
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Gina and Pat Neely, the stars of Food Network's popular cooking show "Down Home With The Neelys," are getting divorced after two decades of marriage.
The duo, whose empire consists of a TV show, cookbooks and a restaurant, released a joint statem ...
Posted Tuesday, September 30th 2014 at 9:23AM
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DALLAS (RNN) - A patient is being evaluated for “potential Ebola Virus disease … based on the patient's symptoms and recent travel history,” a Texas hospital said Monday.
Texas Health Presbyterian in Dallas issued a statement saying the pat ...
Posted Tuesday, September 30th 2014 at 8:59AM
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Cameron Tillman, a high school freshman, was shot dead around 5:40 p.m. Tuesday after police responded to an abandoned house in Houma, in Terrebonne Parish. Three others were arrested and one person escaped. It's unclear if Tillman was armed, but a w ...
Posted Sunday, September 28th 2014 at 5:05PM
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CNN--Starting next year, the Confederate flag will no longer be available for sale or on display at government agencies in California. Governor Jerry Brown has signed a new law that prohibits selling or displaying items that have the flag on it.
T ...
Posted Sunday, September 28th 2014 at 4:30PM
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An NYPD officer was caught on a disturbing video tackling a clearly pregnant woman and riding her to the ground early Saturday in Brooklyn.
The recordi ...
Posted Wednesday, September 24th 2014 at 10:27AM
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(CNN) -- Police say a Savannah, Georgia, police officer killed a handcuffed, armed man Thursday as the man tried to break out of a patrol car, a shooting that stirred up citizens and prompted the mayor to acknowledge that the community has "many ques ...
Posted Monday, September 22nd 2014 at 7:00PM
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KINGSTON, Jamaica - Leaders and officials who met with a Nation of Islam delegation embraced the movement, its mission and its leader during a visit to this Caribbean nation to officially announce the Oct. 19 commemoration of the 2014 anniversary of ...
Posted Monday, September 22nd 2014 at 5:39PM
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