You might think African-Americans might be more pessimistic about their lives. The housing crisis decimated pockets of Black wealth. The Black unemployment rate has been nearly double the national average for several years. But according to findings ...
Posted Sunday, June 9th 2013 at 6:52PM
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This is the twenty-seventh time I have been arrested and I ain’t going to jail no more! The only way we gonna stop them White men from whuppin’ us is to take over. What we gonna start sayin’ now is Black Power !
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Posted Sunday, June 9th 2013 at 12:39PM
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By: Randy R. Miller, MPA
High School Teacher and Author
When it comes to my job as a teacher in an inner-city, there are very few things that bother me. However, the one thing that does is the reality that within my school district, I am t ...
Posted Sunday, June 9th 2013 at 12:23PM
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AFRICANGLOBE – For those of you who heard of it, this is an article Dee Lee was reading on a New York radio station. For those of you who didn’t hear it, this is very deep. This is a heavy piece and a Caucasian wrote it.
“They Are Still Our Slaves ...
Posted Saturday, June 8th 2013 at 4:09PM
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Prosecutors Friday recommended four years in prison for former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., following his guilty plea this year on criminal charges that he engaged in a scheme to spend $750,000 in campaign funds on personal items.
The government suggeste ...
Posted Friday, June 7th 2013 at 7:43PM
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We might not totally agree today with MLK, Jr.'s nonviolent philosophy, but we must agree it might have been painful, but it change the foundation of this nation, how can we produce similar results without losing our cool, losing our lives, ending ...
Posted Friday, June 7th 2013 at 4:42PM
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We know the obstacles our nation faces today, yet we continue to lay dormant while our nation is being catapulted into the past, how do we awaken a sleeping giant and break the mental chains holding them hostage, thoughts anyone? ...
Posted Friday, June 7th 2013 at 4:38PM
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God willing, on this Sunday June 9, 2013 at 8:00 p.m. EST. please join Relationship specialists, Brother Marcus and Sister Cecelia, as we address the topic of, “Is Money – Mismanagement or the lack of money undermining your marriage in 2013?” Money i ...
Posted Thursday, June 6th 2013 at 3:02PM
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Communication is key. That is the belief of this generation. In fact, communication is a major economic commodity. Being connected is so important that almost every new electronic device boasts about internet connectivity. It seems that reaching othe ...
Posted Wednesday, June 5th 2013 at 5:20PM
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Whether or not you love Oprah, there is no doubt that she often drops life-altering pearls of wisdom. For those of us who came late to the “love yourself first” arena, here is a great perspective about men (in my humble opinion).
If a man wants y ...
Posted Wednesday, June 5th 2013 at 4:18PM
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Sharanda Jones has been in prison for the last 13 years. She was given a sentence of life in prison with no chance for parole in an alleged conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine. The 45-year old mother and her family are pleading for the public’s ...
Posted Saturday, June 1st 2013 at 2:06AM
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This year marks the 50th anniversary of the great March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. It was there, at one of the largest rallies for human rights, that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech.
On Aug. 28, 196 ...
Posted Saturday, June 1st 2013 at 12:22AM
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Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) accused Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) on Wednesday of being complicit in the terror attacks on the U.S. diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya last year and the deaths of four Americans, including the late Ambassador Chris Stevens. ...
Posted Friday, May 31st 2013 at 8:38PM
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God willing, on this Sunday June 2, 2013 at 8:00 p.m. EST. please join Relationship specialists, Brother Marcus and Sister Cecelia, as we address the topic of, “What not to do in your Marriage and R ...
Posted Friday, May 31st 2013 at 2:32PM
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Kelvin Doe, aka DJ Focus, is a 16 year old kid from Sierre Leone. He has taught himself to build electronics from parts he's found in trashcans. He made his own FM radio transmitter and radio station.
Kelvin Doe, who has recently signed $100,000 s ...
Posted Friday, May 31st 2013 at 2:07AM
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It is important that the leadership of our struggle come from among our own people,
just as it is crucial that we build the necessary machinery that will develop this
leadership. The problem of leadership has always been a vexing one for Black ...
Posted Thursday, May 30th 2013 at 10:14PM
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I have argued that George Zimmerman is a murderer, one motivated by racism, an over-identification with Whiteness and White Authority, as well as a fetish for playing cop, to kill a person who was guilty of walking while Black in the “wrong” neighbo ...
Posted Wednesday, May 29th 2013 at 8:26PM
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Nearly 65 years later, not much has changed about Republicans, eh???
On October 13th, 1948, President Harry Truman made an appearance in St. Paul, Minnesota, on behalf of both his own re-election campaign and a bid by the mayor of Minneapolis, fel ...
Posted Tuesday, May 28th 2013 at 11:54AM
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SYRIA (The Borowitz Report)—During a meeting yesterday with Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona), Syrian rebels told the senator that he still seemed “really bitter” about losing the 2008 election to President Obama and advised him to “get over it.”
After ...
Posted Tuesday, May 28th 2013 at 11:49AM
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THE "educated Negroes" have the attitude of contempt toward their own people because in their own as well as in their mixed schools Negroes are taught to admire the Hebrew, the Greek, the Latin and the Teuton and to despise the African. Of the hundre ...
Posted Monday, May 27th 2013 at 1:52PM
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see pic before reading story !
While they likely were asked to stand there on the log to take the picture, this is not a photograph from a movie production. It is an accurate and fair depiction on what life looked like for enslaved Africans and th ...
Posted Monday, May 27th 2013 at 1:48PM
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Dear Black Female,
It’s ok to make that transition from Black Female to Black Woman. But, I’m not rushing you into something you are not ready for. The time will show itself when you should move on. Yes, I understand that you are afraid. We all we ...
Posted Monday, May 27th 2013 at 1:40PM
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