WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama's joke wasn't lost in translation — even though he referred to a Cinco de Mayo celebration as "Cinco de Cuatro."
Obama jumbled his words as he welcomed guests to the White House to observe the Mexican holiday, sen ...
Posted Tuesday, May 5th 2009 at 7:00AM
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May 5
On this date of Cinco de Mayo, we look briefly at the history of Africans in Latin (Central and South) America and the Caribbean. In world history these two western regions were the first areas of the Americas to be populated by African immig ...
Posted Tuesday, May 5th 2009 at 6:52AM
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By Robert N. Taylor
President Barack Obama has much of which to be proud after 100 days in office. But I write today not to praise him but to warn him of trouble ahead. That trouble goes by the name “War.”As a man with plenty of gray hair in his hea ...
Posted Saturday, May 2nd 2009 at 12:42PM
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(Taylor Media Services) Former basketball star Jayson Williams was rushed for medical treatment last week after reportedly acting suicidal and being tasered by police when he allegedly resisted their attempts to take him to a hospital. The incident t ...
Posted Saturday, May 2nd 2009 at 12:31PM
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(Taylor Media Services) Popular Rapper Snoop Dogg (real name Calvin Broadus) took the witness stand last week to defend himself against a $22 million lawsuit. Former fan Richard Monroe, Jr. is claiming that Broadus and his bodyguards severely beat ...
Posted Saturday, May 2nd 2009 at 12:28PM
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By Marilyn Kai Jewett (NBNJ Philadelphia Correspondent)
People who feel a major injustice remains uncorrected packed the Church of the Advocate in North Philadelphia recently to celebrate the 55th birthday of Mumia Abu-Jamal and mark the release ...
Posted Saturday, May 2nd 2009 at 12:24PM
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(Taylor Media Services) One of the primary reasons Barack Obama won last November’s presidential election was because of a massive turnout by the nation’s minorities, especially African American women. According to a just-released study by the Pew Re ...
Posted Saturday, May 2nd 2009 at 12:09PM
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(Taylor Media Services) According to a just released 10-year study, Africans have more genetic variation than any other people on Earth. The finding, published Thursday in the online edition of the journal Science, confirms the so-called “Out of Afri ...
Posted Saturday, May 2nd 2009 at 12:08PM
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State and federal officials intensified their response to the swine flu outbreak on Tuesday, with President Obama asking Congress for $1.5 billion in supplemental funding. The global response included more restrictions on travel to and from Mexico, ...
Posted Wednesday, April 29th 2009 at 11:27AM
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A photo tour of the president’s first 100 days in office and a live broadcast of his news conference tonight on NYTimes.com.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/04/29/us/politics/0429OBAMA_index.html?th&emc=th ...
Posted Wednesday, April 29th 2009 at 11:12AM
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BELGRADE (Reuters) - A Serbian union official who chopped off his finger and ate it in a protest over wages that in some cases have not been paid in years, said Monday he did it to show how desperate he and other workers were. "We, the workers have ...
Posted Tuesday, April 28th 2009 at 12:16AM
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On April 28, 2009 American history will be made. The National Congress of Black Women, Inc. (NCBW) will introduce Sojourner Truth as the first African American woman to have a memorial bust in the United States Capitol buildin ...
Posted Monday, April 27th 2009 at 11:06AM
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(Taylor Media Services) Grammy-nominated Gospel singer Pastor Timothy Wright died last week apparently as a result of complications from an automobile accident in July of last year which took the lives of his wife Betty, 58, and 14-year-old grandson ...
Posted Monday, April 27th 2009 at 10:31AM
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WASHINGTON – The U.S. declared a public health emergency Sunday to deal with the emerging new swine flu, much like the government does to prepare for approaching hurricanes. Officials reported 20 U.S. cases of swine flu in five states so far, with t ...
Posted Sunday, April 26th 2009 at 4:55PM
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It's no secret that nearly every profession around the globe is feeling the effects of the economic crisis -- even prostitution. In Germany, where the world's oldest profession is legal, prostitutes have created their own version of a stimulus packag ...
Posted Thursday, April 23rd 2009 at 1:50AM
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