I recall the words of my grandmother describing the burden of picking cotton in the Mississippi Delta "we had a rough row to hoe"! Symbolically, nothing has changed. Our burden is still heavy and we must keep up the struggle for totally equality in A ...
Posted Thursday, February 6th 2014 at 3:29PM
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Guillotine may not be a bad ideal. Now we keep people on death row 15/20/25/30/35 years and then argue over the most humane way to execute them. Firing squads, hanging, gas chamber, electric chairs and now, lethal injection is being questioned. The g ...
Posted Thursday, February 6th 2014 at 3:25PM
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We’ve all heard the story of the “40 acres and a mule” promise to former slaves. It’s a staple of black history lessons, and it’s the name of Spike Lee’s film company. The promise was the first systematic attempt to provide a form of reparations to n ...
Posted Thursday, February 6th 2014 at 12:48AM
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Along with the idea of good and evil, the concept of Heaven and Hell seems to predate Judaism as well. In fact the concept of both Heaven and Hell didn’t even exist in the first two thirds of the Bible. Zoroastrianism is known by religious historians ...
Posted Wednesday, February 5th 2014 at 10:48PM
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James McCune Smith was born April 18, 1813. He was an African American physician and abolitionist.
From New York City, he received his early education at the African Free School. Though his academic credentials were exceptional, Smith was effectiv ...
Posted Wednesday, February 5th 2014 at 7:49PM
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We still need your help to find Tarasha Benjamin...Please sign the petition at moveon.org to bring the FBI in Tarasha's case.
Remember...prayer, without work is dead! ...
Posted Wednesday, February 5th 2014 at 7:42PM
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Imagine that an invader broke into a home, robbing and leaving it in ruins. Then the invader kidnapped the children from the home to work as servants within his home. This invader, fearing an eventual retribution from these kidnapped children, may fi ...
Posted Wednesday, February 5th 2014 at 6:08PM
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Trayvon Martin
17 years old
Date of birth: Feb 5, 1995
Date of passing: Feb 26, 2012
http://www.forevermissed.com/trayvon-martin/#about ...
Posted Wednesday, February 5th 2014 at 5:20PM
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VIDEO
Watch this group of little boys perform an Omega Psi Phi hop show.
These little kids are AMAZING! This is a MUST WATCH!
Their hooks are better than some of the Ques you know… ...
Posted Wednesday, February 5th 2014 at 5:02PM
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