LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Civil rights leaders and relatives of Trayvon Martin and a slain California teenager joined together at a Los Angeles rally Thursday, urging justice and tolerance and called for action to stop the violence.
A photo of Martin we ...
Posted Monday, April 30th 2012 at 12:59PM
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LOS ANGELES--The Rev. Jesse Jackson addressed hundreds of Pasadena High School students on Wednesday with a message of nonviolent civic activism, encouraging teens to study hard, vote and resolve their issues peacefully.
Jackson is in the area to ...
Posted Sunday, April 29th 2012 at 3:15PM
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RAPID CITY--A 68-year-old, blind South Dakota man says after a two week stay in a Rapid City hospital, he returned home with unusual wounds on his abdomen which his caretakers soon discovered appear to spell out the letters "KKK."
Vernon Traversi ...
Posted Sunday, April 29th 2012 at 2:55PM
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NEW YORK--Robert Galinsky is skeptical about claims by producers of ABC’s “The Bachelor” that they’ve had a hard time finding black singles willing to be on the show.
Back when he was an acting teacher, Galinsky’s students were predomina ...
Posted Saturday, April 28th 2012 at 4:29PM
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Cissy Houston reportedly met with publishers about a book she would pen with a ghostwriter about Whitney Houston's life.
Cissy Houston, Whitney Houston's mother, says her book would 'dispel all of those lies.'
Cissy Houston had a meeting with ...
Posted Saturday, April 28th 2012 at 4:26PM
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SIOUX FALLS, SD - Some teenagers have found a new way to get drunk without going to a liquor store; they're turning to hand sanitizer. But the effects can be just as harmful and even lead to death.
It's no longer just a way to get your hands clean ...
Posted Friday, April 27th 2012 at 12:57PM
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Peace,
There is a saying in the Nation Of Islam that goes as such: "A Nation Can Rise No Higher Than Its Woman."
Someone in an NOI sisters group I frequent posed to us the question: "Why do you think this is so?"
ANSWER: For the same reason ...
Posted Friday, April 27th 2012 at 12:39PM
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CHICAGO (AP) — Jennifer Hudson shut her eyes tight Tuesday, holding still on a spectators’ bench, as a police officer at the trial of the man accused of killing three members of the Oscar winner’s family described coming across bloodied bodies ...
Posted Wednesday, April 25th 2012 at 12:39PM
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WASHINGTON--Former US President Jimmy Carter warned against a possible war with Iran Monday as he decried his nation’s involvement in unjust conflicts at a summit of Nobel Peace Prize laureates in Chicago.
Carter, a naval veteran who served as ...
Posted Wednesday, April 25th 2012 at 12:26PM
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By Jennie Rothenberg Gritz
April 23, 2012
David Pilgrim was 12 years old when he bought his first racist object at a flea market: a saltshaker in the shape of a mammy. As a young black boy growing up in Mobile, Alabama, he'd seen similar knick-k ...
Posted Monday, April 23rd 2012 at 12:25PM
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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. - A 6-year-old elementary school student was handcuffed and arrested Friday after she allegedly threw a tantrum in class.
CBS affiliate WMAZ reports that according to the police report, the girl tore items off the walls and thr ...
Posted Monday, April 23rd 2012 at 12:17PM
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AP--Two brothers accused of beating a black teenager so badly they broke his wrist while patrolling an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood are set to go on trial Monday in a case with similarities to the Trayvon Martin shooting.
The brothers, who are whi ...
Posted Sunday, April 22nd 2012 at 4:56PM
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (FinalCall.com) - The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan spoke to hundreds of Black students April 12, however, it was not on the grounds of historic Tennessee State University as originally planned.
The Minister delivered his pas ...
Posted Sunday, April 22nd 2012 at 3:52PM
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YOU KNOW YOU ARE LIVING IN 2012 when...
1. You accidentally enter your PIN on the microwave.
2. You haven't played solitaire with real cards in years.
3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of three.
4. You e-mail t ...
Posted Sunday, April 22nd 2012 at 3:37PM
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NEW ORLEANS — New Orleans Saints owner Tom Benson sat on stage at the New Orleans Arena on Monday afternoon, his wife Gayle to his right and NBA commissioner David Stern to his left and in front of a blue banner with the NBA logo scattered on it.
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Posted Friday, April 20th 2012 at 2:06PM
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The Gulf Ecosystem Is Being Decimated
From GlobalResearch.com
April 20, 2012
The BP oil spill started on April 20, 2010. We’ve previously warned that the BP oil spill could severely damage the Gulf ecosystem.
But we may well be witnessing t ...
Posted Friday, April 20th 2012 at 1:59PM
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HEALTH BENEFITS OF GINGER
1.OVARIAN CANCER TREATMENT
Ginger may be powerful weapon in the treatment of ovarian cancer. A study conducted at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center found that ginger powder induces cell death in all ...
Posted Friday, April 20th 2012 at 1:48PM
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(NYDailyNews.com) Was MLK's assassination part of a conspiracy?
Yes, says the new book "The Awful Grace of God: Religious Terrorism, White Supremacy and the Unsolved Murder of Martin Luther King, Jr.," by historians Stuart Wexler and Larry Hancock ...
Posted Wednesday, April 18th 2012 at 12:15PM
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GREENVILLE, SC--International poet and best-selling author Maya Angelou quietly picked up the central theme of 2012 Minority Health Summit on Saturday that health and education are directly linked.
Angelou said that the 5,000 people attending the ...
Posted Monday, April 16th 2012 at 11:02AM
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Mike says:
My personal feeling is that, as a young kid that was beat on by a bully, the guy stalked him and didn't follow instructions from a superior officer. But my all-around perspective, I wasn't there. I don't know what happened. ...
Posted Sunday, April 15th 2012 at 3:01PM
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