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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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We live in a complicated world, and America is no different. There are layers of complexities borne out of a history that is multifaceted, where deep darkness, human degradation and astronomical accomplishments all collided to produce what we have to ...
Posted Monday, May 27th 2013 at 1:19PM
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SEE PIC
Shortly after this Colonel Williams received information that one of the prisoners held by Livingstone had been murdered by the enemy.
He immediately sent a flag of truce to Livingstone demanded the body of the person who committed t ...
Posted Monday, May 27th 2013 at 1:06PM
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"This was the first Memorial Day. African Americans invented Memorial Day in Charleston, South Carolina. What you have there is black Americans recently freed from slavery announcing to the world with their flowers, their feet, and their songs what t ...
Posted Monday, May 27th 2013 at 12:59PM
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I served in the United States Marines and honor those that served but there is a new story about Memorial Day that you might not know about ,,,here it is! READ !
What we now know as Memorial Day began as "Decoration Day" in the immediate afterm ...
Posted Monday, May 27th 2013 at 12:47PM
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MIND BLOWN!!!!!!!
There is nothing more powerful and beautiful then a wise and beautiful black man,fighting for the Love of his people! ...
Posted Monday, May 27th 2013 at 12:25AM
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In the latest installment of his excellent New York Times series, Time and Punishment, John Tierney writes that mass incarceration trends of the past 30 years may have done more to harm crime-ridden communities and their residents than help them. As ...
Posted Friday, May 24th 2013 at 11:48PM
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Tony Martin is an historian who has written of the Jews and the African slave trade. Jews called Tony Martin defiant for using a book that relied almost entirely on Jewish sources. What incredible arrogance. Do Jews have the right to write our histor ...
Posted Friday, May 24th 2013 at 11:39PM
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What scandals? They are like the old time police officer who would 'throw the book ' at you and hope one of the charges will stick. This GOP action merely validates this senseless 'effort of disrespect'.
In light of the recent scandals that have roc ...
Posted Friday, May 24th 2013 at 12:06AM
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Malcolm X's 88th Birthday Celebration
Sunday, May 19
Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz
Memorial and Educational Center
3940 Broadway
New York, NY 10032
212-568-1341 phone
> visit website
> map it! · view my map
> MTA: NYC transit
Pa ...
Posted Sunday, May 19th 2013 at 4:32PM
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As far as many pastors are concerned, the most important scripture of all is not to be found in the word of Jesus. Neither is it even in the New Testament.
That scripture says: “‘Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be food in ...
Posted Sunday, May 19th 2013 at 2:16AM
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After Firing From CNN, Soledad O’Brien Developing “White in America
AFRICANGLOBE - Soledad O’Brien is responding to criticism she’s received over remarks made recently while talking about her “Black in America” documentaries. In the process, she a ...
Posted Sunday, May 19th 2013 at 1:04AM
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AFRICANGLOBE – Speaking to about 250 religious and community leaders in Detroit on Thursday, minister Louis Farrakhan urged unity among African Americans and called on them to buy up property in Detroit.
“We don’t have a lot of money,” Farrakhan s ...
Posted Friday, May 17th 2013 at 11:23PM
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I was at city hall to do business and notice this statue so i took a few pics and thiught what would you think about it !
Do share your thoughts ! ...
Posted Friday, May 17th 2013 at 10:24AM
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For me It's clear our nation is standing at a crossroads, and from the look of things we have to create a new path for our people, unification, participation, and commitment are the keys that will bring about that change, or we will always be standi ...
Posted Thursday, May 16th 2013 at 12:33PM
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With pen-maker Uni-ball’s release of an ad featuring what amounts to a racist white fantasy on Black manhood in America, they have displayed the level of cultural insensitivity, sheer ignorance and blatant bigotry typically reserved for Ku Klux Klan ...
Posted Thursday, May 16th 2013 at 12:29PM
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For years, labor unions and immigrant rights activists have accused large-scale farmers of exploiting Mexican guest workers. Working for hours on end under a punishing sun, the pickers are said to be crowded into squalid camps, driven without a brea ...
Posted Thursday, May 16th 2013 at 12:25PM
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African Americans virtually lost a grip on land ownership and farming. In 1920, African Americans owned 14 percent of all farms in the United States. Today, African Americans own less than 1 percent of farms in the U.S.; and in 1910, nearly one milli ...
Posted Thursday, May 16th 2013 at 11:58AM
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Look at my cool grndsn trying to post up !
WE WILL BE SHOWING YOU THE NY ,,,LIFE coming soon 1 Hip Hop – True School NYC Summer Park Jams
http://consequenceofsound.net/2013/05/summer-jam-2013-lineup-wu-tang-clan-kendrick-lamar-asap-rocky/
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Posted Wednesday, May 15th 2013 at 7:36PM
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Parents, how would you feel if you found out that your junior or senior high school daughter was showering with a boy at school? Then how would you feel if you were told by the school that there is nothing they or you can do about it?
Last week, th ...
Posted Tuesday, May 14th 2013 at 5:43PM
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More evidence Beyonce is with (2nd) child -- she just canceled her concert in Belgium and BLAMED IT ON DEHYDRATION AND EXHAUSTION!!!!!
Who smells BS???
Fact: The preggo rumors have been circulating for weeks ... but B has remained mum on the s ...
Posted Tuesday, May 14th 2013 at 5:34PM
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