February 24
*This dates Registry from 1492, offers a brief article on the origins of Soul food.
Soul Food is a term used for an ethnic cuisine, food traditionally prepared and eaten by African Americans of the Southern United States. Many of the ...
Posted Tuesday, February 24th 2009 at 9:15PM
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The Washington Times February 23, 2009
“If you want your child to get the best education possible, it’s actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.” This quote is from Bill Gates’ January 2009 annual lett ...
Posted Tuesday, February 24th 2009 at 8:52PM
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Washington, D.C -
The Immigration Policy Center's Director, Angela Kelley, issued the following statement:
"A new report from the Pew Hispanic Center entitled A Rising Share: Hispanics and Federal Crime analyzes the ethnic composition of those sen ...
Posted Friday, February 20th 2009 at 2:26PM
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Your voice is making a real difference in the Oscar Grant case.1 Last week, ColorOfChange members here in the Bay Area confronted the Alameda County District Attorney with stacks of more than 20,000 petitions demanding that he explain why he hasn't ...
Posted Friday, February 20th 2009 at 2:03PM
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By The Canadian Press
OTTAWA - RCMP made an arrest on Parliament Hill shortly before the arrival of U.S. President Barack Obama for a six-hour visit. Few details were immediately available, but a police spokesman said the arrest was made after a ...
Posted Thursday, February 19th 2009 at 3:28PM
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Today, I signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act into law. This is a historic step -- the first of many as we work together to climb out of this crisis -- and I want to thank you for your resolve and your support.
You organized thousand ...
Posted Wednesday, February 18th 2009 at 3:50AM
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NEW YORK (AFP) - The founder of a US television station has been arrested and charged with beheading his wife, local media reported. Muzzammil Hassan was charged with second-degree murder of his wife, Aasiya Hassan, whose decapitated body was found ...
Posted Tuesday, February 17th 2009 at 3:25PM
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By BRIAN STELTER
February 16, 2009
Reacting to an online swell of suspicion about changes to Facebook’s terms of service, the company’s chief executive moved to reassure users on Monday that the users, not the Web site, “own and control their in ...
Posted Tuesday, February 17th 2009 at 1:57PM
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What would you do with an extra $18,000 in your pocket? That's the amount of extra cash each and every Burger King employee in America would have received last year if Goldman Sachs (one of the fast-food chain's largest owners) had shared its bailou ...
Posted Tuesday, February 17th 2009 at 1:42PM
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O’Neal and Kobe Bryant, former teammates and rivals with the Los Angeles Lakers, were briefly reunited Sunday evening, leading the West to a 146-119 victory over the East in the N.B.A. All-Star Game.
They laughed and passed, danced and dunked, and ...
Posted Monday, February 16th 2009 at 2:25PM
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2008 BET Awards
Upcoming albums
Maxwell's next project is his fourth album Black Summers' Night. On his myspace Maxwell states that it is a trilogy of albums released over three years, starting in 2009 with Black. The second album, Summers' coming ...
Posted Monday, February 16th 2009 at 7:30AM
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A British court last week ordered American actor/comedienne Eddie Murphy to pay former Spice Girl Melanie “Scary Spice” Brown a total of 7 million pounds (roughly $9.9 million) in child support for Brown’s 22-month old daugh ...
Posted Monday, February 16th 2009 at 6:36AM
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Halle Berry
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Black Academy Award winning actress Halle Berry says in effect she gave up on Black men and decided to find love with white Canadian Gabriel Aubrey. In an interview for the March issue of Essence magazine, the m ...
Posted Monday, February 16th 2009 at 6:23AM
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January 25th
*Etta James was born on this date in 1938. She is an African-American singer. She was born Jamesette Hawkins in Los Angeles. She received her first professional vocal training at the age of 5, from James Earle Hines, musical director o ...
Posted Thursday, February 12th 2009 at 3:40PM
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I tend to post things about black males, but when I saw this post on the BIA site I felt compelled to copy and paste it here. I didn't realize the number of black females that go missing and aren't covered in the media like others are. Here's the p ...
Posted Tuesday, February 10th 2009 at 12:27PM
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(Taylor Media Services) The recession continued its jobs-destroying grip on the American economy last month. According to data released by the Labor Department Friday, the nation’s unemployment rate jumped from 7.2 percent to 7.6 percent in January ...
Posted Monday, February 9th 2009 at 5:33PM
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On December 8th, 17-year-old Billey Joe Johnson died from a gunshot wound to the head. Police say he killed himself with a shotgun after being stopped for a simple traffic violation in Lucedale, Mississippi.1 Several things seem to cast doubt on the ...
Posted Friday, February 6th 2009 at 4:30PM
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>Secret messages in the form of quilt patterns aided slaves escaping the bonds of captivity in the Southern states before and during the American Civil War.
>Most quilt patterns had their roots in the African traditions the slaves brought with th ...
Posted Monday, February 2nd 2009 at 11:50PM
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Go Steelers But What About those Commercials! (((LoL)))
http://ca.video.yahoo.com/network/100076996?v=4409180&l=5499020 ...
Posted Monday, February 2nd 2009 at 11:37AM
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Born in USA!!!
BORN IN THE U.S.A.
Born down in a dead man's town
The first kick I took was when I hit the ground
You end up like a dog that's been beat too much
Till you spend half your life just covering up
Born in the U.S.A.
I was bor ...
Posted Sunday, February 1st 2009 at 8:21PM
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