6 Shocking Facts About Slavery, Natives and African Americans
Vincent Schilling
10/9/13
In the last week of September, the Joseph Jenkins Roberts Center at Norfolk State University (NSU) held a conference called “1619: The Making of America.” Th ...
Posted Sunday, October 13th 2013 at 10:15AM
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The Diary of Malcolm X
Third World Press seeks assistance with the publicity, marketing and production costs of publishing the Malcolm X Diary, set to be released in November of 2013.
Hello, my name is Haki Madhubuti. I am the founder and publi ...
Posted Thursday, October 10th 2013 at 1:33PM
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There are some character traits that existed in chattel slavery in the Americas that still may be lurking or haunting us still today. We need to take a closer look at the behavioral character that was created during this time. Tariq Nasheed brings th ...
Posted Sunday, October 6th 2013 at 6:53PM
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What Every Woman Should Ask Herself Before She Becomes a “Side Piece”
By: Krystle Crossman
HealthyBlackWoman.com
If you are in a relationship with a man who is married or is in a committed relationship, you are considered a mistress. Before you ...
Posted Sunday, October 6th 2013 at 6:39PM
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Breast Cancer is a well-known topic in all groups, no matter the age or gender. The facts circulating every day are generally those meant for prevention or procedural care, so here are some breast cancer facts you may not know to help everyone stay i ...
Posted Sunday, October 6th 2013 at 5:36PM
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Concerned that a prolonged government shutdown could do long-term harm to the U.S. economy, Solar Energy Industries Association's (SEIA) President and CEO Rhone Resch this week issued the following statement:
“As an industry org ...
Posted Thursday, October 3rd 2013 at 11:54AM
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I watched some of Rihanna's latest music video "Pour It Up", and it's sad that our sister has to wear certain things and do certain things in order to be accepted into today's music industry for fame and extreme wealth and privilege. Rihanna's a beau ...
Posted Thursday, October 3rd 2013 at 11:45AM
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You would be surprised by how many sistas have these self hate issues and actually think this mentality is "normal"!!!
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Posted Sunday, September 29th 2013 at 5:19PM
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THE FIRST LADY WRITES AN IMPASSIONED AND PERSONAL PIECE URGING THE NATION TO BUY IN TO THE PRESIDENT'S UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE PLAN
It wasn’t that long ago that Barack and I were starting out as a newly married couple, trying to make our apartment i ...
Posted Friday, September 27th 2013 at 12:45PM
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ORLANDO (CBSMiami/AP) - George Zimmerman, the man acquitted of charges for the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin, has been pulled over in a traffic stop for a third time since July.
Zimmerman was pulled over last month, a squad car video broadcast ...
Posted Friday, September 27th 2013 at 12:12PM
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Alton police search for suspect following purse theft, high-speed pursuit
by Carlos Otero / KMOV.com Staff
KMOV.com
Posted on September 24, 2013 at 9:22 PM
(KMOV) – Police in Alton continue their search for a man who led them on a high-speed ...
Posted Wednesday, September 25th 2013 at 12:43PM
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TEXAS--A Dallas woman is accused of beating her teenage daughter after she saw a cellphone picture of the girl kissing a boy.
Shaquitta Spencer, 31, was arrested Monday on a charge of injury to a child, police records show. She is being held in th ...
Posted Wednesday, September 25th 2013 at 12:39PM
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Paying your bills with crack? That's whack. But that's exactly what one Florida man tried to do.
By Lee Moran / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Tuesday, September 24, 2013, 11:25 AM
Volusia County Sheriff's Office and HAZMAT teams were called in to c ...
Posted Wednesday, September 25th 2013 at 12:38PM
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TMZ--Motown legend Stevie Wonder has urged Marvin Gaye's family not to pursue legal action over Robin Thicke's BLURRED LINES hit because the copyright lawsuit is "not worth it".
Gaye's relatives and Bridgeport Music bosses, who own the rights to G ...
Posted Tuesday, September 24th 2013 at 12:42PM
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Atlanta Race Riot of 1906
During the Atlanta race riot that occurred September 22-24, 1906, white mobs killed dozens of blacks, wounded scores of others, and inflicted considerable property damage. Local newspaper reports of alleged assaults by bl ...
Posted Sunday, September 22nd 2013 at 4:45PM
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Written by Sheila Simmons
Shahrazad Ali proclaimed in a recent phone interview: ”I’m back and in living color.” Indeed she is. Twenty-three years after sparking controversy with her book The Blackman’s Guide to Understanding the Blackwoman, Ali r ...
Posted Friday, September 20th 2013 at 12:41PM
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Will and Jada please come get your son!
Jaden Smith recently took to his Twitter account to dismiss the educational system and tell his four million followers they would be better off if they dropped out of school!
“If everybody in the world dr ...
Posted Tuesday, September 17th 2013 at 12:51PM
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King Tutankhamun died from sickle-cell disease, not malaria, say experts. A team from Hamburg's Bernhard Noct Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNI) claim the disease is a far likelier cause of death than the combination of bone disorders and malaria ...
Posted Tuesday, September 17th 2013 at 12:30PM
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DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — Channel 2 Action News has exclusively learned suspected Washington, D.C. Navy Yard shooter, Aaron Alexis, had a run-in with the law in Atlanta in 2008.
Ch. 2’s Aaron Diamont was first to obtain documents showing Alexis was iss ...
Posted Tuesday, September 17th 2013 at 12:21PM
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by theGrio
September 17, 2013 at 8:56 AM
The deadly shooting spree by a 34-year-old Texas man, Aaron Alexis, on Monday, shook Washington D.C. The African-American civilian contractor to the U.S. Navy killed 12 people before being shot to deat ...
Posted Tuesday, September 17th 2013 at 11:51AM
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Did God actually create Eve from Adam's rib?
The answer is that the 'rib' story is a mistake in the Bible! It was not included with the protection of divine inspiration. It should not have been included in the Bible.
The authors of the Bible we ...
Posted Sunday, September 15th 2013 at 6:07PM
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