BET.com--We all know that childhood obesity is a serious issue in this country—an estimated 2 million children suffer from it. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 24 percent of African-American girls ages 6 to 11 are overwe ...
Posted Wednesday, July 20th 2011 at 2:04PM
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DETROIT - In a stunning and long-thirsted for victory against the forces of reaction in this country, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals declared Michigan's Proposal 2 unconstitutional July 1, paving the way to re-instate ...
Posted Tuesday, July 19th 2011 at 10:02AM
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By Frank Main
Chicago Sun-Times
-Joe Iosbaker, spokesman for the United National Antiwar Committee, said Thursday that he was scouting marching routes to McCormick Place, where he said the city might host the summits...“People are saying this ...
Posted Monday, July 18th 2011 at 2:46PM
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CNN--Former President Nelson Mandela spent his 93rd birthday with friends and relatives in his rural hometown Monday, as South Africans paid tribute to the anti-apartheid icon through song and community service projects.
Millions of South African sc ...
Posted Monday, July 18th 2011 at 2:43PM
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(PHILADELPHIA ) - Police said a 3-year old boy died after being tortured by the adults responsible for his care.
Jaquinn Brewton’s death was ruled a homicide when he was taken off life support. Police say that he was kicked, punched and had his ...
Posted Sunday, July 17th 2011 at 3:31PM
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The era of brutal Nigerian dictatorships found many writers of conscience physically and emotionally brutalised. Indeed several works by the Nigerian writers of that era came later as they began to explore what happened to them and the Nigerian proje ...
Posted Sunday, July 17th 2011 at 3:28PM
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LOUISIANA--It's not every day you get to meet someone who is both an artistic and a civil rights icon -- though it happens more often when you're president.
President Obama met Friday with Ruby Bridges, the subject of Norman Rockwell's memorable c ...
Posted Sunday, July 17th 2011 at 2:46PM
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I recently compiled a short list of books that I thought were worth reading. I take it that every Muslim here has already read Elijah Muhammad's 7 books and Min. Farrakhan's book "The Secret Relationship between Blacks and Jews" which is why I didn't ...
Posted Sunday, July 17th 2011 at 2:35PM
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I have been in dialouge with a brother who has a father-in-law from Ghana. His (father-in-laws) name was Kwame. He (the father-in-law) said "The reason that our ancestors were sold into slavery was that they were problem people that the tribe needed ...
Posted Saturday, July 16th 2011 at 5:16PM
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By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
Global Research, July 16, 2011
Mirage fighters, F16 fighters, B-2 Stealth bombers, 15,000 NATO air sorties. the bombing of thousands of civilan targets...
NATO is said to be coming to the rescue of the Libyan peopl ...
Posted Friday, July 15th 2011 at 4:56PM
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From The New York Times
July 14, 2011
Gay history will soon be included in California's schools curriculum.
The state has become the first in the nation to require textbooks and history classes to cover the contributions of gay, lesbian and tr ...
Posted Friday, July 15th 2011 at 4:45PM
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Tyler Perry covers Ebony magazine’s August 2011 issue. Inside, he reveals the 3 events in his life that profoundly changed him; the first being turning 40, the second being his mother dying, and the third being his appearance on “Oprah” in whic ...
Posted Thursday, July 14th 2011 at 6:26PM
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Religion has been the greatest tool used to conquer and convert the minds of Black people. When you connect a belief system to a religion its affects can be so much more profound and longer lasting. An example of this can be seen wherein which during ...
Posted Thursday, July 14th 2011 at 5:55PM
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The following excerpt is taken from a message delivered by Minister Louis Farrakhan on November 25, 2003.
The prevailing attitude of White supremacy has produced within the minds and hearts of Black people throughout the world, but especially in A ...
Posted Thursday, July 14th 2011 at 5:52PM
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Nailing Rupert Murdoch for his employees' phone tapping or bribery would be a little like bringing down Al Capone for tax fraud, or George W. Bush for torture. I'd be glad to see it happen but there'd still be something perverse about it.
I remem ...
Posted Thursday, July 14th 2011 at 12:44PM
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1441: Start of European slave trading in Africa. The Portuguese captains Antão Gonçalves and Nuno Tristão capture 12 Africans in Cabo Branco (modern Mauritania) and take them to Portugal as slaves.
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1444: Lançarote de Freitas, a tax-colle ...
Posted Thursday, July 14th 2011 at 12:29PM
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Health.com--High levels of anxiety, stress or depression during pregnancy may be associated with a greater risk of asthma for the baby, suggests a new study that focused on inner-city minority women.
Somewhat similar findings regarding an associat ...
Posted Thursday, July 14th 2011 at 12:19PM
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“I have never met a person whose greatest need was anything other than real, unconditional love. You can find it in a simple act of kindness toward someone who needs help. There is no mistaking love. You feel it in your heart. It is the common fibe ...
Posted Monday, July 11th 2011 at 11:59AM
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Washington (CNN) – Republican presidential candidates Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum sough to clarify their support of a pledge that contained a controversial preamble suggesting black children born into slavery had better family structures tha ...
Posted Monday, July 11th 2011 at 11:54AM
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CHICAGO--While sorting through old records in the Burr Oak cemetery office, employees found a handful of old brochures asking for donations to the “Emmett Till Historical Museum and Mausoleum.”
Former manager Carolyn Towns, sentenced Friday to ...
Posted Monday, July 11th 2011 at 11:35AM
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From GlobalResearch.com
July 8, 2011
The New York Times coverage of the recent National Education Association (N.E.A.) convention focused on the inconsequential, while paying little notice to what harbored fundamental significance. It aimed its s ...
Posted Sunday, July 10th 2011 at 3:15PM
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The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is seeking applicants for its annual scholarship honoring the life and work of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks.
This year's awardee of the annual $1,000 "Rosa Parks Civil Liberties Scholarship" will ...
Posted Sunday, July 10th 2011 at 3:01PM
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