Ann Arbor councilmembers debate wind turbine project, approve skatepark design, get briefed on 721 N. Main, hear dog park concerns
By Dave Askins
January 13, 2013 at 12 pm
Ann Arbor city council meeting (Jan. 7, 2013): Most of the council’s ...
Posted Monday, January 14th 2013 at 12:45PM
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Precious Perry shares a few things in common with the fictional protagonist in the 2009 film “Precious.” Both young women grew up in Harlem with troubled single mothers. Both left home in their teens. And both had their lives changed by social worke ...
Posted Sunday, January 13th 2013 at 10:28PM
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In a world of fiercely guarded corporate names and logos, it should be easy to understand this feast. The letters IHS are an abbreviation of Jesous, the Greek name for Jesus. Although St. Paul might claim credit for promoting devotion to the Holy Na ...
Posted Sunday, January 13th 2013 at 12:40AM
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HRN Services Inc. is looking for committed, professional travelers to help fill needs at several Las Vegas facilities. Come spend the winter with us and enjoy the warm, Las Vegas weather. Leav ...
Posted Saturday, January 12th 2013 at 2:06AM
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An Evangelical pastor scheduled to give the benediction at President Obama’s second inaugural ceremony next week withdrew from participating in the event Thursday after uproar over a sermon he gave about homosexuality.
The Rev. Louie Giglio, a pas ...
Posted Saturday, January 12th 2013 at 1:54AM
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Judgement Yard, Jamaica - Scratchylus is the father of 8 year old rising star Empress Reggae who was recently featured for her poetry as a part of Irie FM's 2012 Marcus Garvey Earthstrong Celebration. Most recently Scratchylus & Empress Reggae has be ...
Posted Friday, January 11th 2013 at 5:19PM
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Author: Ivory A. Toldson, Ph.D
As we count down the days to a second term, a look at the president's record on black colleges.
(The Root) -- Between now and the inauguration on Jan. 21, The Root will be taking a daily look at the president's record on a number of policy issues, including his f ...
Posted Friday, January 11th 2013 at 12:38PM
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Abraham Galloway was a mixed-race, 19th century slave and brick mason. Born in Smithville, North Carolina, his father was a white man named John Wesley Galloway, who was the son of a wealthy Brunswick County planter. His mother was a 17-year-old slav ...
Posted Thursday, January 10th 2013 at 4:07PM
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Add Grammy-winning R&B singer Fantasia to the growing list of musical acts heading to New Orleans Super Bowl weekend. Sherri Shepherd, host of ABC’s “The View,” and Grammy-winning gospel musician Kirk Franklin, are hosting the Sup ...
Posted Thursday, January 10th 2013 at 4:02PM
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Erica and Tina Campbell, the award-winning gospel duo known best to fans as Mary Mary, had a successful run with their self-titled reality show on WEtv last year. So of course they’re back with season two on Thursday night at 9 p.m. This episode find ...
Posted Thursday, January 10th 2013 at 3:53PM
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Stressing “kindness creates kindness, generosity creates generosity and love creates love”, a 51-year-old California...
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Posted Thursday, January 10th 2013 at 3:33PM
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WASHINGTON -- Vice President Joseph Biden will deliver his recommendations for comprehensive gun violence legislation. "There is really a very tight window to do this," he told the press corps during his announcement...
The recommendations are ...
Posted Thursday, January 10th 2013 at 3:08PM
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There may be a correlation between restaurant meal consumption and diabetes. Researchers studied type 2 diabetes in 44,072 African American women from the Black Women's Health study to determine if Western culture's consumption of restaurant fo ...
Posted Thursday, January 10th 2013 at 2:16PM
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In February 2010, Laverne Wilkinson of Brooklyn, New York, felt chest pains and thought she was having a heart attack. So she went to see a doctor at Kings County Hospital. But despite her X-ray showing a suspicious nodule in her lung, she was told t ...
Posted Thursday, January 10th 2013 at 1:27PM
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Published on Jan 8, 2013
HBCUs have educated freed slaves, helped create the black middle class, and still train most of the country's black professionals; but many of the nation's historically black colleges and universities could soon disappear ...
Posted Thursday, January 10th 2013 at 1:08PM
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