The Arabic, Hebrew and Amharic roots of the term RASTAFARI: Ras tafari: RAS: The name Ras is derived from the Arabic name "Rais" meaning "leader" and from the Hebrew name "Raz" meaning "secret". TAFARI: In Amharic, Ras (literally "Head", an Ethiopian ...
Posted Tuesday, September 17th 2013 at 8:21PM
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What role do Historically Black Colleges/Universities have in changing the racist / sexist aspects of the traditional Western College/University experience/lesson/degree curriculum? Or are HBCU simply to be location where the majority of students are ...
Posted Tuesday, September 17th 2013 at 7:31PM
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WORLD HISTORY GAME? But 95% the questions are about European people and their regions. Maybe this test should just be called: History of the White World (with few exceptions). I notice similar trends in WORLD GEOGRAPHY, etc quizzes. NOTE: And what is ...
Posted Tuesday, September 17th 2013 at 7:27PM
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by Dr. Boyce Watkins
The funny thing about so-called “black leadership” is that much of our perception of black public figures is controlled and managed by predominantly white media. Therefore, it is no coincidence that nearly every prominent bla ...
Posted Tuesday, September 17th 2013 at 1:04PM
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We have got to reach a level of economic viability if we are to survive this next wave in history... I know a lot of people have online businesses, but we need more neighborhood and community businesses where people can actually walk in and purcha ...
Posted Tuesday, September 17th 2013 at 1:54AM
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2014 Midterm elections begin in November, it is imperative that we all get out and vote, don't believe the hype, if our votes didn't matter there wouldn't be so many forces trying to suppress our vote, we've been battling an oppressive system far t ...
Posted Tuesday, September 17th 2013 at 1:39AM
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Have we been subjected to so much in this world that we have lost the capacity to love, honor, and respect one another, or are there just a bunch of us running around in circles who could care less about the outcome of our people, and if so, what ...
Posted Tuesday, September 17th 2013 at 1:38AM
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"We know that freedom is not free. We know that freedom is not a place. It is a vision and an ongoing mission. We know that the mantle of freedom must be assumed by each new generation of its own volition. Yet, most of our children are unaware that t ...
Posted Tuesday, September 17th 2013 at 1:34AM
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Black Spending Power to Hit $1 Trillion Dollars in 2015, but Black Wealth is on a Steep Decline
Incomes of African Americans households have increased consistantly since the 1960's unfortunately the problem is our wealth has not improved. We conti ...
Posted Tuesday, September 17th 2013 at 1:30AM
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Black America, Where do you put your money?
2013 LIST OF BLACK OWNED BANKS IN AMERICA
All banks are listed in alphabetical order. In order to be listed in our directory the bank must have at least 51 percent African American ownership.
There ...
Posted Tuesday, September 17th 2013 at 1:28AM
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The Middle Passage
John Newton a slave ship captain who wrote amazing grace, as a Christian while making slave trade excursions. He testified before parliament saying some captains used thumb screws, he himself used them on children.
The regime ...
Posted Tuesday, September 17th 2013 at 1:26AM
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Is the Bible a book by a white God for white people? Of course not. God is spirit and does not have "color" in our human and earthly sense. There is nothing in the Scriptures to indicate that people are excluded from God’s saving grace on the basis o ...
Posted Tuesday, September 17th 2013 at 1:17AM
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hy it has been a mystery to the average person is its a money game. You would often discount it as a corrupt system and depending what vested interest or special interest you have that may be true. Please listen to what one of the leading black econo ...
Posted Tuesday, September 17th 2013 at 1:09AM
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What is Midterm Voting?"
Midterm elections in the United States refer to general elections in the United States that are held two years after the quadrennial (i.e. near the midpoint of the four-year presidential term).
"Midterm Voting A Must ...
Posted Tuesday, September 17th 2013 at 1:07AM
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The myth of post-racial America gets shattered fairly often. The latest instance of this was the appearance of a photo online featuring a white woman wearing a shirt emblazoned with the "n-word" slur while standing next to a Black man sporting a rath ...
Posted Tuesday, September 17th 2013 at 12:48AM
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http://tv.msnbc.com/
Who is the DC gunman? The unanswered questions
1Michele Richinick
6:00 PM on 09/16/2013
No known motive: officials are seeking more information about Aaron Alexis, 34, who was declared dead by Monday afternoon. Read More
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Posted Monday, September 16th 2013 at 11:15PM
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By Richard Esposito, Michael Isikoff, Hannah Rappleye and Aliza Nadi
NBC News
The man accused of killing 12 people in a gun rampage at the Washington Navy Yard was described by mystified friends and family as a Buddhist and Thai speaker who, in th ...
Posted Monday, September 16th 2013 at 11:12PM
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Texas man ID'd as shooter in Navy Yard attack that killed 12
http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/16/us/dc-navy-yard-gunshots/
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/09/16/active-shooter-at-washington-navy-yard/?intcmp=latestnews#ixzz2f5hwBprQ
A gunman ...
Posted Monday, September 16th 2013 at 5:43PM
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Birmingham events marked 50th anniversary of a KKK bombing which killed four young girls a sculpture(see pic)honoring Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley is installed in Birmingham. Photo: Brian Cahn /Corbis
Fifty y ...
Posted Sunday, September 15th 2013 at 5:53PM
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by Yvette Carnell
Modern management techniques are heralded at top business schools as grand mechanisms of efficiency, born in early American factories, but a report published in Harvard Business Review indicates that slave owners were the first t ...
Posted Sunday, September 15th 2013 at 11:05AM
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what DOES THE BLACK IN AMERICA PROPHETS LOOK LIKE ,
Black Prophet is a vegan. He is also a member of the Twelve Tribes .....
https://www.google.com/search?q=black+prophet&hl=en&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=lkk1UoSbKeaYiALssIGwCA&ved=0CDgQsAQ& ...
Posted Sunday, September 15th 2013 at 2:40AM
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TIME TO CK IN ,,WHO'S WITH FLOYD MAYWEATHER ON THIS ONE ,,,,,WHAT ROUND YOU THINK HE IS GOING TO KO CanelO ;;;
DID YOU KNOW Floyd Mayweather puts his legacy and undefeated record on the line Saturday night when he steps into the ring against Saul ...
Posted Sunday, September 15th 2013 at 12:46AM
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