NEW ORLEANS (WLOX News)--Liryca Neville Branch, the daughter of Cyril Neville and niece of Aaron Neville of the famous Neville Brothers musical family, was enjoying her lunch hour with a few co-workers — Branch, 33, works in the field of market ...
Posted Saturday, May 23rd 2015 at 5:30PM
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Excerpted from Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves by Ira Berlin. Out now from Harvard University Press.
This article supplements Episode 1 of The History of American Slavery, our inaugural Slate Academy. Please join Sla ...
Posted Saturday, May 23rd 2015 at 5:20PM
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First Lady Michelle Obama got a surprise compliment after a young girl asked her age, and it's adorable. ...
Posted Friday, April 24th 2015 at 11:25AM
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4/23/2015, 2:50 p.m. Amsterdam News
"The value of the Black woman is worth more than the value of the Earth." This was the message of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, the national minister for the Nation of Islam, who addresse ...
Posted Friday, April 24th 2015 at 11:00AM
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For every 100 black women not in jail, there are only 83 black men. The remaining men – 1.5 million of them – are, in a sense, missing.
Among cities with sizable black populations, the largest single gap is in Ferguson, Mo.
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Posted Friday, April 24th 2015 at 10:54AM
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UPDATE: Beyonce's mom is indeed a newly married woman.
People magazine confirms that Tina Knowles tied the knot with Richard Lawson, and notes that Beyonce even posted an image of the newlyweds looking glam in head-to-toe white on her ...
Posted Monday, April 13th 2015 at 6:29PM
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From The Final Call Newspaper
By Starla Muhammad -Assistant Editor- | Last updated: Apr 7, 2015 - 12:38:59 AM
“The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said, ‘Civilization is measured by the woman.’ If you want to ...
Posted Thursday, April 9th 2015 at 5:26PM
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The bodies of Black people killed by police continue to pile up. This time, a Dekalb County, Georgia officer shot and killed Kevin Davis after he called them for help following an assault at his residence. Davis’s family, friends and colleagues ...
Posted Wednesday, April 8th 2015 at 9:54AM
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COLLEGE PARK, GA (CBS46) - A 15-year-old boy shot by his mother in College Park has died. According to College Park police, the incident occurred in the 3100 block of Godby Road around 8 p.m.
Police said Latoya Tilson, 33, tried to break up a fight ...
Posted Wednesday, April 8th 2015 at 9:47AM
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From The Louisiana Weekly
March 30, 2015
By Edmund Lewis
Wendell Allen, 20, is killed by a trigger-happy cop with a single bullet to his chest for getting out of bed shirtless to see what the racket was in his Gentilly home in New Orleans. ...
Posted Friday, April 3rd 2015 at 9:32AM
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The pastor of the Des Moines Apostolic Temple allegedly made threats toward someone during a recent address to his congregation.
In a video excerpt circulating online, Bishop Jeremiah Reed speaks about a telephone call he says was received, from som ...
Posted Thursday, April 2nd 2015 at 10:52AM
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Mar 19, 2015
By Marilyn Kai Jewett
Many of us who are students of history know about the thousands of Black men who were lynched in this nation. However, most don’t know about the many African American women who were also lynched.
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Posted Thursday, April 2nd 2015 at 9:14AM
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