CHICAGO (FinalCall.com) - Students, faculty and community members packed the Bruce Cherry Theater at Olive-Harvey College on the city’s south side to share views on the importance of education, and to hear solutions to the problems of crime and vio ...
Posted Wednesday, April 9th 2014 at 12:54PM
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A video of police bullying at its finest has gone viral on Facebook. The video shows the victim’s, Donrell Breaux (pictured), home seemingly invaded by a Sheriff’s Office deputy who is seen trying to forcibly cuff him without following protoc ...
Posted Saturday, April 5th 2014 at 4:14PM
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"Hurry up, please.”
Like most busy New York City 5-year-olds, Kinsey Saleh is in a rush.
Instead of playing outside with her friends after school, the spunky kindergartner is hooked up to a dialysis machine three long afternoons a week to sta ...
Posted Wednesday, April 2nd 2014 at 5:12PM
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Spike Lee is on rant mode once again and this time his discontent is directed at New York Times film critic A.O. Scott who wrote a column discussing the director’s gentrification remarks from February. Thing is, Lee attacked Scott for critiques tha ...
Posted Wednesday, April 2nd 2014 at 4:56PM
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Yityish “Titi” Aynaw, First Black Miss Isreal
WASHINGTON — The first black woman to win the crown of Miss Israel says she believes the country has real problems with its treatment of refugees and immigrants from Africa but that the situation ...
Posted Wednesday, April 2nd 2014 at 2:54PM
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Barbara Ross-Lee, the sister of legendary singer and actress Diana Ross, has worked in private practice, for the U.S. Public Health Service, and on numerous committees, and in 1993 was the first African American woman to be appointed dean of a United ...
Posted Monday, March 31st 2014 at 6:54PM
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Lisa Fritsch is the first African-American woman to run for Texas governor, a seventh-generation Texan who grew up in Tyler and now resides in Austin. Although she did not win enough votes to force a runoff for the Republican nomination against Attor ...
Posted Monday, March 31st 2014 at 6:47PM
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Headaches seem to be a common human condition. Some of us get them more frequently and more intensely. We also find relief in different ways. Some hit the meds, and some meditate or find other stress relieving techniques.
How many people find rel ...
Posted Thursday, March 27th 2014 at 1:02PM
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Marjorie Stewart Joyner (October 24, 1896 – December 27, 1994) was an American businesswoman. She was born in 1896, in Monterey, Virginia. She was the granddaughter of a slave owner and a slave. In 1912, she moved to Chicago and began studying cosm ...
Posted Thursday, March 27th 2014 at 11:25AM
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By Reverend Al Sharpton
Posted: 03/24/2014 4:10 pm EDT Updated: 03/24/2014 4:59 pm EDT
It's been 60 years since the groundbreaking Brown v. Board of Education decision, which unanimously held that racial segregation of children in public schools ...
Posted Thursday, March 27th 2014 at 10:54AM
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From GlobalResearch.com
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Doomed Malaysia Airlines Flight 370's pilot was devastated over his wife's decision to move out and could have taken the plane on a "last joyride," according to a long-term friend.
The unnamed ...
Posted Thursday, March 27th 2014 at 10:48AM
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Shirley Ajayi-Carroll was the first African American woman given a part on a television show as a psychic.
Shirley Ajayi-Carroll was born in 1959 to a Caucasian father (an Air Force veteran) and an African American mother. Her early life was very ...
Posted Wednesday, March 26th 2014 at 11:03AM
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LOS ANGELES--A 74-year-old woman was released from prison late Monday night after her conviction in a 1981 double murder was set aside and her sentence was reduced.
Family and friends greeted Mary Virginia Jones with hugs and flowers as she walked ...
Posted Tuesday, March 25th 2014 at 4:30PM
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Oh no, Judge Joe! Former TV court Judge Joe Brown was arrested and jailed in Memphis, Tenn., on Monday, March 24 on a contempt of court charge.
Brown, 66, was sentenced by Juvenile Court Magistrate Harold "Hal" Horne to five days in jail after ...
Posted Tuesday, March 25th 2014 at 4:05PM
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Born in Virginia in 1912, Dorothy Height was a civil rights and women's rights activist focused primarily on improving the circumstances of and opportunities for African-American women. She was a leader in addressing the rights of both women and Afri ...
Posted Wednesday, March 12th 2014 at 8:15PM
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Vinnette Justine Carroll (March 11, 1922 — November 5, 2002) was an American playwright and actress, and the first African-American woman to direct on Broadway, with the 1972 musical Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope.
Born Vinnette Justine Carroll i ...
Posted Tuesday, March 11th 2014 at 9:44PM
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Louise Ellen Beavers was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, to school teacher Ernestine Monroe Beavers and William M. Beavers, who was originally from Georgia. Due to her mother's illness, Louise and her parents moved to Pasadena, California.
Beavers first ...
Posted Monday, March 10th 2014 at 3:57PM
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Margaret Murray Washington, born March 9, 1865, was one of ten children born to sharecroppers. Her father was of Irish descent and her mother was African American. As a child Murray spent much of her time reading and quickly excelled in school. By th ...
Posted Monday, March 10th 2014 at 3:53PM
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