While acknowledging that the recession makes the political battle more difficult, President Obama plans to begin addressing the country’s immigration system this year, including looking for a path for illegal immigrants to become legal, a senior admi ...
Posted Sunday, April 12th 2009 at 3:47AM
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April 12
Herbie Hancock was born on this date in 1940. He is an African-American musician, composer, and arranger.
From Chicago his parents weren’t professional musicians but lovers of the art form. His father was a bathtub singer and mother pla ...
Posted Sunday, April 12th 2009 at 3:28AM
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(Taylor Media Services) Dr. Jan Adams, the plastic surgeon who operated on the mother of Hip Hop star Kanye West the day before she died in 2007, has been forced to give up his license to practice medicine in California. The State Medical Board had b ...
Posted Saturday, April 11th 2009 at 2:35PM
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Moyo argues corrupt African leaders misuse foreign aid for their own benefit and live lives of luxury. Pictured are former Zambian President Frederick Chiluba and his wife Regina. He has been charged with theft of state funds.
Amazingly, Economist ...
Posted Saturday, April 11th 2009 at 2:28PM
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(Taylor Media Services) A delegation composed mostly of African American members of the U.S. Congress has called on President Obama to end 50 years of hostility toward Cuba and immediately begin normalizing relations. The seven-member delegation bega ...
Posted Saturday, April 11th 2009 at 2:04PM
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(Taylor Media Services) Hispanic Americans appear to be developing attitudes towards the police and the nation’s criminal justice system similar to the low opinion generally held by Blacks rather than the high opinion generally held by whites. That w ...
Posted Saturday, April 11th 2009 at 2:02PM
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My Music Ticket
Social Networking rolls out a pay day.
Get paid for what you are already doing!!
• Does You Tube send deposits to your bank account?
• Does My Space pay you for using their website?
• Does Face Book share their revenue with you ...
Posted Friday, April 10th 2009 at 7:30PM
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Thanks in no small part to your incredible work and dedication, we have taken another step towards creating jobs and rebuilding our struggling economy.
Last week, the budget I submitted to Congress passed both the House and the Senate and it embra ...
Posted Thursday, April 9th 2009 at 11:20AM
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CNN went further than any national media outlet ever went when it recently implored viewers and its website readers to help Los Angeles police hunt down the Grim Sleeper. That’s the macabre play on the Grim Reaper; the old English term and symbol for ...
Posted Thursday, April 9th 2009 at 1:39AM
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ESSENCE magazine was granted exclusive access into the White House for its May 2009 issue, which features First Lady Michelle Obama and her mother, Mrs. Marian Robinson, on the cover. Before you pick up this must-have special edition issue, view behi ...
Posted Wednesday, April 8th 2009 at 10:50PM
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I have been following this injustice for awhile. I cannot believe they have allowed his conviction to stand.
High Court Lets Abu-Jamal's Conviction Stand
Date: Tuesday, April 07, 2009, 1:51 pm
By: Kathy Matheson, Associated Press
P ...
Posted Tuesday, April 7th 2009 at 4:43PM
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BOSTON - President Barack Obama's aunt will remain in the United States until at least next year as she awaits a chance to make her case before an immigration judge in her bid for asylum from her native Kenya. Zeituni Onyango (zay-TUH'-nee awn-YAHN' ...
Posted Monday, April 6th 2009 at 7:14PM
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By Patrik Jonsson Patrik Jonsson – Mon Mar 30, 5:00 am ET
Atlanta – Four Oakland, Calif., police officers shot down. An Alabama man strolling a small town with a rifle, looking for victims. Seven elderly people shot dead at a North Carolina nursing ...
Posted Sunday, April 5th 2009 at 6:34PM
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Who would have predicted that the GOP would be handing out training manuals to their very own members advising them on how to reach out and engage with the Latino community? And even more amazing, who would have thought that we would have an African- ...
Posted Sunday, April 5th 2009 at 6:30PM
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(Taylor Media Services) President Barack Obama last week scored a major congressional victory with the approval of his $3.5 billion budget. Obama will now be able to pursue his expansive agenda which includes healthcare coverage for the uninsured, ad ...
Posted Sunday, April 5th 2009 at 4:43PM
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