NEW ORLEANS--Ever since the release of her debut album in 2000, neo-soul singer Jill Scott has elaborated on the question posed by its title: "Who Is Jill Scott?" In brief, she's a singer, songwriter, actress, poet and businesswoman, someone who both ...
Posted Thursday, July 3rd 2014 at 12:23PM
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"What To The American Slave Is Your '4th of July?'"
FREDERICK DOUGLASS SPEECH
July 5, 1852
Independence Day Speech at Rochester, NY
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Fellow citizens, pardon me, allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak here today? What ha ...
Posted Thursday, July 3rd 2014 at 11:31AM
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NEWARK, N.J. - Police in Newark, N.J. are trying to identify potential witnesses after a 17-year-old girl was shot and killed, just days after she graduated high school, reports CBS New York.
Investigators say Cheyanne Bond was walking along a str ...
Posted Thursday, July 3rd 2014 at 11:17AM
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Peace,
I would like to take the time out to wish everyone, not only the Muslims who follow the Holy Quran, but to all who submit to God via all the Prophets and Messengers sent to them who also prescribed fasting as a prescription to ward off evil ...
Posted Monday, June 30th 2014 at 10:43AM
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DETROIT, MI -- It's an unresolved mystery.
Detroit police, hours after saying evidence in the case of missing 12-year-old Charlie Bothuell V suggested he might be the victim of homicide, found the boy hidden behind boxes and a 50-gallon barrel in ...
Posted Friday, June 27th 2014 at 10:26AM
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(BlackMediaScoop) Houston father is surrendering himself Tuesday morning to spend the next six months in jail, because of mistake his employer made over child support payments. Clifford Hall recounted telling his 12-year-old son ‘goodbye’ saying, ...
Posted Thursday, June 26th 2014 at 11:56AM
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I want to share a testimony from a Navajo sister that has embraced Islam, which is very rare in Native America. We in the Nation of Islam, didn’t have to shove Bean Pies and The Final Call down her throat, and we didn’t have to yell at her with q ...
Posted Wednesday, June 25th 2014 at 4:43PM
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Los Angeles (CNN) -- Michael Jackson died on June 25, 2009, in a desperate search for sleep as he prepared for a comeback tour that he hoped would pull him out of deep debt and restore his reputation as the world's top entertainer.
Events of the p ...
Posted Wednesday, June 25th 2014 at 10:22AM
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The original story was that an officer told Denzell to kneel down, and several witnesses say he was then shot in the back.
The police have now come out and said, Denzell was shot in the head, not in the back, and there is no evidence that the offi ...
Posted Wednesday, June 25th 2014 at 10:05AM
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NEW YORK--Spike Lee's new one has bite.
Brooklyn's best known independent filmmaker was in attendance Sunday at New York's SVA Theater in Chelsea, wearing a summer straw hat and Team USA World Cup jersey, debuting his latest flick "Da Sweet Blood ...
Posted Wednesday, June 25th 2014 at 9:58AM
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KUALA LUMPUR, June 23, 2014
Malaysia’s top court on Monday upheld a government ban forbidding non-Muslims from using “Allah” to refer to God.
The government says Allah should be reserved exclusively for Muslims who make up nearly two-thi ...
Posted Tuesday, June 24th 2014 at 11:08AM
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AUSTIN--The number of black-owned businesses in Texas is growing but the firms remain small in comparison to other Texas businesses, and their owners face barriers to growth and profitability, according to a new report from the Bureau of Business Res ...
Posted Sunday, June 22nd 2014 at 4:49PM
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A rare oil painting of an African slave from circa 1733 has been acquired by Virginia’s Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, which runs the history museums at the Jamestown Settlement and Yorktown Victory Center. The portrait is one of a pair of painting ...
Posted Sunday, June 22nd 2014 at 4:36PM
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VIRGINIA--At 111-years-old Lela Babb Burden has proven that it’s never too late to get your education. Burden was awarded an honorary high school diploma from Booker T. Washington High School. Norfolk Public Schools superintendent Samuel T. King aw ...
Posted Saturday, June 21st 2014 at 5:40PM
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From theguardian.com
Thursday 19 June 2014
Speaking at a burial ground for hundreds African slaves in New York in commemoration of Juneteenth – the day in 1865 when Texas learned that the civil war had ended – Ilyasah Shabazz, daughter of hu ...
Posted Friday, June 20th 2014 at 12:18PM
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TEXAS--The activist Dallas group Mothers Against Police Brutality slammed officers’ fatal shooting of a mentally ill man during the weekend.
Police said Saturday that Jason Harrison, 38, charged at officers with a screwdriver in hand, prompting ...
Posted Friday, June 20th 2014 at 9:36AM
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JACKSONVILLE--It took them a while to get with the times. Now they're paying the price.
A Florida school that has long been named after a Confederate general who was the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan is finally taking down signs with his ...
Posted Friday, June 20th 2014 at 9:32AM
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By Richard B. Muhammad
Jun 17, 2014
Since the 1960s and 1970s in what would today be called urban novels and movies, the persona of the pimp was presented as a model for Black males in the ghetto.
From Max Julian in the 1973 movie “The Mack ...
Posted Friday, June 20th 2014 at 9:22AM
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June 16, 2014
As-Salaam Alaikum (Peace Be Unto You)
Another great one has passed into the pantheon of our ancestry. It is with great sorrow that we mourn the loss of Ruby Dee, a woman who was passionately concerned about the condition of her people and the condition of the world. Although she ...
Posted Friday, June 20th 2014 at 9:17AM
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