Henry Louis "Hank" Aaron (born February 5, 1934) is widely considered one of the greatest baseball players of all time. In 1999, editors at The Sporting News ranked Hank Aaron fifth on their list of "Greatest Baseball Players".
Hank Aaron was born ...
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Newsweek.com--Hundreds of anti-war activists are expected to attend the United National Antiwar Coalitions National Conference in Stamford, Conn., March 23-25.
UNAC established itself as a major anti-war coalition in the summer of 2010 when 800 p ...
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From The San Francisco Chronicle
February 4, 2012
The labels used to describe Americans of African descent mark the movement of a people from the slave house to the White House. Today, many are resisting this progression by holding on to a name f ...
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SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates — A research body here is seeking global tie ups to produce drugs to treat deadly diseases including Aids from the unique antibodies found in camel's milk.
The Arab Science and Technology Foundation that is working ...
Posted Friday, February 3rd 2012 at 10:53AM
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The following text is excerpted from “A Torchlight for America,” chapter 4, pages 47-53, written by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, 1993.
THE HONORABLE MINISTER LOUIS FARRAKHAN:
Let’s deal with what education is supposed to be as ...
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Arthur John (Jack) Johnson (1878 -1946) was the first black, and first Texan, to win the heavyweight boxing championship of the world.
Born in Galveston on March 31, 1878, he was the second of six children of Henry and Tiny Johnson. Henry was a fo ...
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Eric Himpton Holder, Jr. was born in the Bronx, New York, to parents with roots in Barbados. Holder grew up in East Elmhurst, Queens, and attended public school until the age of 10. When entering the 4th grade he was selected to participate in a prog ...
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The Woolworth sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests which led to the Woolworth's department store chain reversing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States.
While not the first sit-ins of the African-American Civil Righ ...
Posted Wednesday, February 1st 2012 at 4:55PM
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Peace,
On Page 7, of The Frederick Douglass Encyclopedia, it states: "Douglass was unconvinced that living and working in Africa would appreciably be more effective in abolishing the slave trade, because the "savage chiefs" in West Africa were lit ...
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MICHEL MARTIN, HOST:
I'm Michel Martin, and this is TELL ME MORE, from NPR News. We are taking TELL ME MORE on the road to Detroit tomorrow, so we wanted to get in a Detroit state of mind with some music from Detroit's own singer-songwriter K'Jon ...
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Newsweek.com--The conflict between property rights and human rights has entered a new chapter. It is a debate that goes back to the challenge by landowners and merchants behind the American Revolution’s war on British control over the colonial econ ...
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Faruq Hunter, an entrepreneur with a growing business and family,bought life insurance partly because of a hard lesson he learned from his father, who left behind $40,000 in debt when he died.
Hunter admires the fact that his father always helped ...
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WashingtonPost.com
January 29, 2012
An article in the Washington Post on January 26 revealed that a delegation from the Philippines was engaged in bilateral talks in Washington to negotiate the expansion of the American military presence in the c ...
Posted Sunday, January 29th 2012 at 3:21PM
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CANCER KILLER ¨C Natural Cancer Cell Killer 10,000 Times Stronger Than Chemo!
The Sour Sop or the fruit from the graviola tree is a miraculous natural cancer cell killer 10,000 times stronger than Chemo.
Why are we not aware of this? Its becau ...
Posted Sunday, January 29th 2012 at 3:11PM
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ThinkProgress.org--ThinkProgress reported last week that Kansas House Speaker Mike O’Neal (R) was forced to apologize to First Lady Michelle Obama after forwarding an email to fellow lawmakers that called her “Mrs. YoMama” and compared her to t ...
Posted Saturday, January 28th 2012 at 3:17PM
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BET.com--Associates of presidential candidate Ron Paul told the Washington Post that the Texas congressman was heavily involved in newsletters that included racist and incendiary language published under his name in the 1980s and 1990s.
Paul has ...
Posted Friday, January 27th 2012 at 12:44PM
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ARIZONA--Film director Spike Lee asked the more than 2,000 people who came to hear his lecture Wednesday night at Arizona State University’s Gammage Auditorium in honor of Black History Month for permission to speak directly to the African-American ...
Posted Friday, January 27th 2012 at 11:54AM
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January 25, 2012
Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad
By CHARLES DUHIGG and DAVID BARBOZA
The explosion ripped through Building A5 on a Friday evening last May, an eruption of fire and noise that twisted metal pipes as if they were discarded straw ...
Posted Friday, January 27th 2012 at 11:39AM
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