USATODAY.com--At least five people have died -- in a car accident, by heart attack and by falling trees -- as a result of Hurricane Irene, the slow-moving but powerful swirl of wind and rain that barreled ashore in North Carolina.
As the storm mov ...
Posted Saturday, August 27th 2011 at 7:16PM
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Newsweek.com--When Rutgers basketball star Epiphany Prince skipped her 2009 senior year to play professionally in Europe, her defection made headlines. The New York Daily News pointed out she became “the first American woman to leave school early a ...
Posted Friday, August 26th 2011 at 11:01AM
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Press-Register Report---Scientific analysis has confirmed that oil bubbling up above BP’s sealed Deepwater Horizon well in recent days is a chemical match for the hundreds of millions of gallons of oil that spewed into the Gulf last summer.
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Posted Friday, August 26th 2011 at 10:51AM
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If the Willie Lynch letter isn't enough to wake our people up, maybe these following videos will:
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Posted Thursday, August 25th 2011 at 12:41PM
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OKLAHOMA--The nation's second-largest Indian tribe formally booted from membership thousands of descendants of black slaves who were brought to Oklahoma more than 170 years ago by Native American owners.
The Cherokee nation voted after the Civil W ...
Posted Thursday, August 25th 2011 at 12:27PM
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VALDEZ, Colo.--The strongest earthquake to hit Colorado in more than four decades startled thousands of residents along the New Mexico border as it toppled chimneys, cracked walls and triggered minor rockslides in the arid, mountainous region. No inj ...
Posted Wednesday, August 24th 2011 at 1:35PM
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By Sharon Ewell Foster
August 23, 2011
On the 180th anniversary of the slave revolt, this author says his "Confessions" were a lie.
"The Confessions of Nat Turner, the Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Va.," as told to Thomas Gr ...
Posted Wednesday, August 24th 2011 at 1:18PM
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On July 5, 2011, closed circuit TV caught six Fullerton cops brutally murdering a homeless, mentally ill man. Kelly Thomas, age 37, died after being taken off life-support five days later.
A whistleblower who viewed the unreleased city-owned vide ...
Posted Wednesday, August 24th 2011 at 1:10PM
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(FinalCall.com) - Shenita Bell-Victor and her family still have vivid memories of losing everything after floodwaters ripped through their hometown of New Orleans. However, six years later, she says they have successfully settled into their new life ...
Posted Wednesday, August 24th 2011 at 1:03PM
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From Newsweek.com
August 21, 2011
I was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1969, in a time and place where no one was saying, ‘Look how far we’ve come,’ because we hadn’t come very far, to say the least. Although Jackson’s population was ...
Posted Tuesday, August 23rd 2011 at 12:16PM
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USAToday.com--Fashion magazine Vogue has sparked a worldwide race row after it ran a trend story on what it labelled 'slave earrings'.
The article, which has been roundly criticised for being 'overtly racist', appeared on the Vogue Italia website ...
Posted Monday, August 22nd 2011 at 1:20PM
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African American know a lot about what happened after our enslavement, in general, except maybe the last generation or so.
What we really don't know is about what we were doing before our enslavement. We were robbed of our great accomplishments. ...
Posted Sunday, August 21st 2011 at 6:19PM
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16-Year-Old Girl Starts Own Fashion Magazine: MyFoxCHICAGO.com
Matteson, Ill. - Illiana Christian High School student Chloe Graham, 16, has created her own fashion magazine because she wants other girls to look at a photo spread and actually see t ...
Posted Sunday, August 21st 2011 at 5:33PM
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — An African American housekeeper wants a judge to reinstate a lawsuit that claims Kathryn Stockett, author of the bestselling novel-turned-movie "The Help," used her likeness without permission.
"The Help" is based on relati ...
Posted Saturday, August 20th 2011 at 6:03PM
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