LOS ANGELES - Education is the key to breaking black men and youths out of a vicious cycle of crime and unemployment, African-American leaders said Thursday at the close of the annual NAACP convention. The plight of black males, which have above ave ...
Posted Wednesday, August 3rd 2011 at 11:54PM
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Six year old Laila Crawley invites girls everwhere to participate in taking the Pretty Brown Girl Pledge.
Nationwide (August 1, 2011) -- This month, one million girls around the country will be invited to take the Pretty Brown Girl pledge to h ...
Posted Wednesday, August 3rd 2011 at 11:42PM
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Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has walked free from a state prison after serving just over a year for violating probation in a 2008 criminal case. In a statement issued ahead of his release, Kilpatrick thanked all those who prayed for him and ...
Posted Wednesday, August 3rd 2011 at 11:39PM
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After dealing with the debt crisis, Senate negotiators tried and failed Tuesday to end a stalemate over temporary funding for the Federal Aviation Administration, leaving 4,000 F.A.A. employees out of work and relying on airport safety inspectors to ...
Posted Wednesday, August 3rd 2011 at 11:25PM
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The administration of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, in a blunt acknowledgment that thousands of young black and Latino men are cut off from New York’s civic, educational and economic life, plans to spend nearly $130 million on far-reaching measures to ...
Posted Wednesday, August 3rd 2011 at 11:02PM
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"We had been emailing back and forth all morning," Maria Cutrone, 30, a Baltimore-based web designer recalls. She and a coworker couldn't see eye-to-eye on a project. Should they ask the client to postpone the deadline in order to complete testing or ...
Posted Wednesday, August 3rd 2011 at 9:24PM
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Celebrated polygamist and Islamic cleric, Pa Abubakar Masaba, on Monday said he had divorced 21 out of his 86 wives over indiscipline. The NewsPaper the Punch, had three years ago broken the news of the then 84 years old man having 86 wives. But tod ...
Posted Wednesday, August 3rd 2011 at 3:52PM
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--The president, who turns 50 tomorrow, will be in Chicago tonight for two DNC birthday fundraisers -- a dinner followed by a larger, low-dollar concert, with presidential remarks, at the Aragon Entertainment Center. All the acts are Chicagoans: OK G ...
Posted Wednesday, August 3rd 2011 at 3:31PM
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(BlackDoctor.org) -- Whether they’re slimming down to play a perfectionist ballerina or bulking up to a gladiator-esque stature, celebrities often need to change their shape drastically—and on short notice—to ace roles (or meet the expectations of a ...
Posted Wednesday, August 3rd 2011 at 2:39PM
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On GPS this week, two important, exclusive interviews as the clock ticks ever closer to a debt debacle for the U.S.
Deal or no deal, Fareed thinks the damage has been done. He puts that to two people with extensive experience and power in the worl ...
Posted Wednesday, August 3rd 2011 at 11:19AM
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(CNN) -- The Syrian city of Hama has an ancient past as part of the Roman, Greek and Byzantine empires, but recent deadly violence has revived memories of its more recent history as a hotbed of unrest and brutal government crackdown. At least 62 peo ...
Posted Wednesday, August 3rd 2011 at 11:01AM
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Cairo, Egypt (CNN) -- When Iman Abdella steps out of a black-and-white Cairo taxi in Haggana, residents of the impoverished quarter rush to greet her with jubilant cries and trilling zaghareet. "Alf marhaba (welcome a thousand times)," cries Soad Be ...
Posted Wednesday, August 3rd 2011 at 10:49AM
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(CNN) -- Photographer Thomas Nybo has captured images of some of the toughest issues facing Africa, from child mortality to access to education. He recently visited five countries in 11 days as he traveled around West Africa with New York Times colu ...
Posted Wednesday, August 3rd 2011 at 10:12AM
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Havana (CNN) -- Olivia Sersute and her sister have shared the same home on the second floor of a faded Havana mansion since they were children and even after getting married and having kids of their own. They didn't have much choice. In theory, Cuba ...
Posted Wednesday, August 3rd 2011 at 10:08AM
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BlackDoctor.org) -- Most of us are quick to acknowledge the need to protect our skin from the rigors of summer heat and sun. But come Labor Day a quick glance in the mirror frequently lets us know what we forgot to protect -- our hair. Indeed, a se ...
Posted Tuesday, August 2nd 2011 at 3:21PM
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I’ve said many times that God has a plan for your life. But what I want to emphasize is that his plan, which Paul describes as a race in today’s verse, is custom-designed for you and you alone.
You are supposed to run the race God has set for you ...
Posted Tuesday, August 2nd 2011 at 2:58PM
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Washington, D.C. – On Monday, the Department of Justice filed suit against the state of Alabama to block the implementation of HB 56, which is set to take effect September 1. HB 56 is similar to but far more punitive than Arizona’s SB 1070. The law i ...
Posted Tuesday, August 2nd 2011 at 2:46PM
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You can beat burnout by discovering ways to devote more time to the activities and people that matter most to you. Here are five ways to bring a little more balance to your daily routine.
1. Build downtime into your schedule.
When you plan you ...
Posted Tuesday, August 2nd 2011 at 2:03PM
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Lagos, Nigeria (CNN) -- How to make money from movies online is a question vexing studio executives the world over. But a Nigerian tech entrepreneur claims to have the answer -- for his country's burgeoning film industry at least.
Jason Njoku is t ...
Posted Tuesday, August 2nd 2011 at 1:28PM
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The Senate approved a last-minute compromise plan to raise the nation's debt ceiling, which will impose sweeping new spending cuts and will narrowly avert an unprecedented national default. The House of Representatives approved the measure Monday by ...
Posted Tuesday, August 2nd 2011 at 1:24PM
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Rep. Gabrielle Giffords returned to U.S. House chamber to a standing ovation to cast vote in favor of debt ceiling deal.
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Posted Monday, August 1st 2011 at 10:26PM
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NEW YORK -- Six months after New York City news junkies flocked to Al Jazeera English’s website for up-to-the-second coverage of the Egyptian uprising, they’ll now have a chance to watch the 24-hour news network on its original platform: television. ...
Posted Monday, August 1st 2011 at 5:22PM
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Don't Hold the Middle Class Hostage to Give Millionaires Tax Breaks>>>
It's getting down to the wire. The August 2nd deadline to fix our debt ceiling and prevent an economic collapse is rapidly approaching. But instead of making compromises and find ...
Posted Monday, August 1st 2011 at 4:24PM
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What the Debt Deal Does
•Removes economic uncertainty surrounding the debt limit at a critical time and prevents either party from using a failure to meet our obligations for political gain.
•Makes a significant down payment to reduce the deficit ...
Posted Monday, August 1st 2011 at 4:12PM
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