The recent controversy ignited by Cornel West’s critique of President Barack Obama and subsequent critiques of Dr. West reveal a fundamental crisis in Black leadership. Traditionally, African American intellectuals and activists have encountered th ...
Posted Tuesday, May 24th 2011 at 12:10PM
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Greedmont TV presents a documentary by Corey Davis on a group crack addicts in Atlanta who live outside in a small cove behind a Texaco, infamously dubbed as the "Living Room." They share their stories and tell us what it's like to battle with a ...
Posted Monday, May 23rd 2011 at 12:51PM
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Economist Walter Williams knows that minimum wage laws are hurting poor, African-American teenagers and his new book, “Race and Economics: How Much Can Be Blamed on Discrimination?”, attempts to dispel the myth that higher minimum wage laws help. ...
Posted Sunday, May 22nd 2011 at 5:33PM
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USAToday.com--The First Lady hit the campaign trail Thursday addressing a group of 550 supporters at the Grand Hyatt in Washington. Mrs. Obama told the predominantly female audience "Now, more than ever before, we need to finish what we've started a ...
Posted Sunday, May 22nd 2011 at 5:29PM
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Johnathan Rodgers, president and chief executive of Silver Spring-based TV One, is retiring at the end of July from the cable channel that caters to African Americans.
The network, a joint venture of Lanham’s Radio One and Comcast Corp., said it ...
Posted Sunday, May 22nd 2011 at 5:26PM
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Although 18-year-old student Courtney Thomas has been charged with ethnic intimidation after admitting to writing racist graffiti at Seaholm High School, the leadership of the local branch of the NAACP doesn’t believe he acted alone.
According ...
Posted Saturday, May 21st 2011 at 3:43PM
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Posted Saturday, May 21st 2011 at 3:33PM
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Michelle Alexander, an associate professor of law at Ohio State University, worked in and around the criminal justice system for years–clerking for Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackman, and leading the ACLU of Northern California’s Racial Justice ...
Posted Saturday, May 21st 2011 at 3:26PM
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BET.com--Al Sharpton may have mellowed - but he still won't apologize for the Tawana Brawley debacle.
A quarter-century later after he whipped up racial tensions over the incendiary case, Sharpton still stands by a story that the courts of law and ...
Posted Friday, May 20th 2011 at 12:50PM
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Based on recently released reports, there is a slim chance that many Black children will be able to join or increase the size of the Black Middle Class.
Becoming lower middle class is the bare minimum for the standard of life that anyone would wis ...
Posted Friday, May 20th 2011 at 12:44PM
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The following article contains excerpts from the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan's April 1, 2011 interview on WPFW-Pacifica Radio with Spectrum Today's Askia Muhammad, along with regular panelist Wilmer Leon, host of XM Satellite Radio's On With L ...
Posted Friday, May 20th 2011 at 12:40PM
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Princeton University professor and author Cornel West has many followers who admire his pro-Black progressive ideology. His wit, historical research and insight into Black political and cultural life delight, entertain and intrigue many. But his mont ...
Posted Thursday, May 19th 2011 at 12:25PM
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HuffingtonPost.com--Robert Fitzpatrick does not lack conviction.
The 60-year-old ex-MTA employee has plunked down $140,000, his life savings, to help spread the word that the world will end on May 21, 2011.
"I'm trying to warn people about what ...
Posted Wednesday, May 18th 2011 at 12:36PM
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USATODAY.com--Oprah Winfrey has revealed the real reason why she’s ending her daytime talk show after 25 years on the air. In an editorial published in her ‘O’ magazine this month, Oprah revealed that a dying 12-year-old boy told her to end her ...
Posted Wednesday, May 18th 2011 at 12:22PM
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Four white Philadelphia teachers charge in federal race-bias lawsuits that a black principal suggested they were unfit to teach black students.
The teachers work at a predominantly black school in the city's East Falls neighborhood. Their lawsuits ...
Posted Wednesday, May 18th 2011 at 12:17PM
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HEALTH.com--One hundred obese mums-to-be will be given Metformin as part of a three-year study to tackle obesity rates and reduce the number of difficult births.
Patients at Liverpool Women's Hospital will be given the drug to reduce the food supp ...
Posted Tuesday, May 17th 2011 at 1:30PM
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The following is a video shot at a Tucson, Arizona school board meeting. The lady within the video is reading excerpts from a book in the Ethnic Studies curriculum. Yes, the following is actually being taught to children.
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Posted Tuesday, May 17th 2011 at 12:58PM
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Michael Jackson often sang about saving the world and, indirectly, he may help achieve that goal.
Reginald Garcia, who photographed the young Jackson 33 years ago, believes he has the answer to the world's energy problem. According to a CNN art ...
Posted Monday, May 16th 2011 at 1:49PM
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ATLANTA -- First lady Michelle Obama reminded graduating seniors at Spelman College in Atlanta Saturday of their obligation to pay forward the inheritance they received.
In a commencement speech interwoven with key threads of history of the tradit ...
Posted Sunday, May 15th 2011 at 10:34PM
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This funeral announcement was published in the December 26 2001 edition of Al Wafd, an Egyptian Newspaper, and has been translated from Arabic.
Al-Wafd, Wednesday, December 26, 2001 Vol 15 No 4633
A prominent official in the Afghan Taleban mov ...
Posted Sunday, May 15th 2011 at 10:25PM
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