By Roger Friedman
Forbes.com
EXCLUSIVE--Whitney Houston’s death made for a long day’s journey into night at the Beverly Hilton. While the Clive Davis Grammy dinner had to proceed downstairs in the ballroom–with 800 guests already filing in ...
Posted Wednesday, February 15th 2012 at 11:12AM
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Louis Armstrong was born on August 4, 1901, in New Orleans, Louisiana, the birthplace of jazz. He is considered the most important improviser in jazz, and he taught the world to swing. Armstrong, fondly known as "Satchmo" (which is short for "Satchel ...
Posted Wednesday, February 15th 2012 at 11:05AM
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From The Seattle Times
February 14, 2012
Treneicia Gardner is counting down from five, signaling her kindergarten and first-grade students to hurry to the classroom rug for a math lesson.
Most have no problem making it. The only holdup is a li ...
Posted Wednesday, February 15th 2012 at 10:58AM
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NEW ORLEANS--Some Southern residents are becoming the targets of pre-recorded phone calls indicating a family member was arrested or involved in a serious accident.
Those calls are being made to several residents of California, Texas, Louisiana, ...
Posted Wednesday, February 15th 2012 at 10:54AM
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Dedicated to all my family!!!
A TRUE LOVE STORY
Every moment we spent together
Has touched our lives, our souls forever
The things that we shared and learned
Is permanent growth that we've earned.
The person that I have grown into tod ...
Posted Tuesday, February 14th 2012 at 12:56PM
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Don Alan Raymond (1952-1969) was an African American athlete who was integrated into Hahnville High School in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana during a time of racial tension.
Raymond, nick-named "Easy" because of his go-with-the-flow attitude, affe ...
Posted Monday, February 13th 2012 at 10:45AM
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NO PERMANENT SCARS
c 2009 By Sister Siebra Muhammad
Shadows of the past fall behind me
Tossed aside on the road less traveled
Before me is the path to my future
Footsteps line my dreams unraveled
In the distance I see what I have lost ...
Posted Sunday, February 12th 2012 at 6:12PM
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LOS ANGELES--Investigators probing the death of Whitney Houston are trying to determine whether she drowned while in a bathtub at the Beverly Hilton on Saturday shortly before she was set to attend a pre-Grammy Awards gala, according to a source who ...
Posted Sunday, February 12th 2012 at 4:52PM
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LOUISIANA--Controversy erupted at a Slidell junior high school late last week when at least one parent observed drawings and altered pictures depicting malicious images of President Barack Obama, including one photo in which a bullet hole was portray ...
Posted Saturday, February 11th 2012 at 4:28PM
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World famous journalist and history's best selling Black author Alex Haley was born Alexander Murray Palmer Haley in Ithaca, New York on August 11, 1921. Haley began his writing career as a senior editor for Reader's Digest shortly after retiring fro ...
Posted Friday, February 10th 2012 at 12:19PM
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Cornell West is pissed because Al Sharpton won't blast President Obama's administration. He said Al came out of the black prophetic tradition like him (Cornell) and should say something but he won't say a mumbling word.
Then Cornell West started ...
Posted Friday, February 10th 2012 at 12:14PM
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Newsweek.com--DCI/Palestine "is a national section of the international non-government child rights organisation and movement (dedicated) to promoting and protecting the rights of Palestinian children," according tointernational law principles.
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Posted Thursday, February 9th 2012 at 1:06PM
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Alice Walker, best known perhaps as the author of The Color Purple, was the eighth child of Georgia sharecroppers. After a childhood accident blinded her in one eye, she went on to become valedictorian of her local school, and attend Spelman College ...
Posted Thursday, February 9th 2012 at 1:03PM
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Newsweek.com--An article published in the Solar System Research magazine reported several objects resembling living beings were detected on photos made by a Russian landing probe in 1982 during a Venus mission.
Leonid Ksanfomaliti of the Space Res ...
Posted Thursday, February 9th 2012 at 11:29AM
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BET--Rap legend MC Lyte is one of 60 African-American stars who are banding together to bring awareness to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the black community.
MC Lyte joins actors and actresses like Nia Long, Affion Crockett, Samuel L. Jackson, Naturi N ...
Posted Tuesday, February 7th 2012 at 12:20PM
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Joseph Lee was born July 19, 1849. He is a black inventor from Boston, Massachusetts. He was known in the food industry because he worked in a bakery as a young boy. So he prepared, cooked, and served food and later opened two successful restaurants ...
Posted Tuesday, February 7th 2012 at 12:13PM
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Over three decades after his death, the immortal words the revered Bob Marley gave the world, continue to inspire.
Protestors around the world, whether those at Occupy Wall St. styled protests or elsewhere, continue to chant "Get Up S ...
Posted Monday, February 6th 2012 at 12:05PM
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WASHINGTON--The Great Recession carried special pain for black women like Jane Ladson.
She had always been the one her family turned to when they needed help, and she didn’t hesitate to give it. She helped pay for weddings and rent. She made roo ...
Posted Monday, February 6th 2012 at 11:52AM
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By Charles Foerster
February 1, 2012
There is a great controversy raging between good and evil at the soda fountain or pop machine but the general public does not seem to be aware of it. The consequences of the dietary changes that have occurred ...
Posted Monday, February 6th 2012 at 11:46AM
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