DETROIT (WJBK) - Minister Malik Shabazz made headlines when he made this impassioned remark at a Detroit financial review meeting on Monday: "This is white supremacy, and we will fight you. Before you can take over our city, we will burn it down firs ...
Posted Thursday, March 29th 2012 at 2:58PM
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Fannie Lou Hamer (born Fannie Lou Townsend) was born October 6, 1917, in Montgomery County, Mississippi. She was the granddaughter of slaves. Her family were sharecroppers - a position not that different from slavery. Hamer had 19 brothers and sister ...
Posted Wednesday, March 28th 2012 at 11:54AM
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By Li Onesto
March 27, 2012
The February 26 murder of Trayvon Martin has ignited outrage around the country and reminded us once again of this cold hard fact of life in the USA.
That if you¡¯re Black, and especially if you¡¯re young, male, and ...
Posted Wednesday, March 28th 2012 at 11:43AM
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CNN--Irish singer songwriter Sinead O’Connor has posted an open letter to Treyvon Martin’s family on her website. The controversial singer expressed her sympathy towards the Martin family whose teenage son was shot in Sanford, Florida by neighborhood ...
Posted Tuesday, March 27th 2012 at 11:02AM
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AP--Aretha Franklin has a lot more than her 70th birthday to celebrate: She's reuniting with one of her musical mentors, Clive Davis, for a new album.
In an interview at her swanky birthday party on Saturday, Franklin said she and Davis, who help ...
Posted Sunday, March 25th 2012 at 5:51PM
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Blaze.com--As federal and local authorities investigate the killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, and whether or not Florida’s “stand your ground” law applied to the shooter, George Zimmerman, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan has been calling ...
Posted Sunday, March 25th 2012 at 5:47PM
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Hey Mr. Taaffee. This is George. Um, first and foremost, I wanted to say I am very sorry for the loss of your son, and, um, I can't imagine what you must be going through. Um, secondly, I wanted to thank you for doing everything you've been doing ...
Posted Saturday, March 24th 2012 at 1:20PM
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A lot has happened since Trayvon Martin’s parents, Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulton, started their petition on Change.org demanding that Trayvon’s confessed killer, George Zimmerman, be arrested. But George Zimmerman still hasn’t been charged with Tra ...
Posted Saturday, March 24th 2012 at 12:02PM
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By Robin Good
March 22, 2012
Whitney Houston’s death involved foul play and this is implied by the Los Angeles County Coroner’s report released today. We learned that according to Coroner Chief Craig Harvey Whitney Houston died from accidental d ...
Posted Friday, March 23rd 2012 at 1:24PM
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Autherine J. Lucy-Foster, the University's first black student, attended her first class on February 3, 1956, and was suspended three days later "for her own safety" in response to threats from a mob consisting of both University students and non-students from the surrounding community.
Lucy-Fos ...
Posted Wednesday, March 21st 2012 at 2:22PM
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1862-1931) Ida B. Wells was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi, months before the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation.
She was the oldest of eight children. When her parents died in 1880 as a result of a yellow fever plague in Holly Springs, ...
Posted Monday, March 19th 2012 at 11:29AM
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From GlobalResearch.com
March 19, 2012
Gas prices continue to rise, which is finally giving Republicans an issue. Mitt Romney is demanding the President open up more domestic drilling; the super PAC behind Rick Santorum just released a new ad in ...
Posted Monday, March 19th 2012 at 11:20AM
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By Torrance Stephens
March 16, 2012
Hypothetically, let us assume there is a young man who has just finished school, and he is attempting to decide where he will move on to for his personal professional development. In this process, he meets with ...
Posted Saturday, March 17th 2012 at 6:54PM
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WorldSocialist.com--As many as 20 million Americans could lose their employer-sponsored coverage in 2019 under the health care legislation signed into law by President Obama in March 2010. This is the worst-case scenario set out by the Congressional ...
Posted Saturday, March 17th 2012 at 3:08PM
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From AmericanBanker.com
March 16, 2012
JPMorgan Chase & Co. took procedural shortcuts and used faulty account records in suing tens of thousands of delinquent credit card borrowers for at least two years, current and former employees say.
The ...
Posted Saturday, March 17th 2012 at 2:14PM
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Huffington Post--A photograph of a bumper sticker that features racist, anti-Obama language has gone viral on Facebook and other social networks.
The sticker reads "Don't Re-Nig In 2012," in large white type, above smaller text that reads: "Stop r ...
Posted Friday, March 16th 2012 at 11:45AM
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Unita Blackwell, a civil rights activist and the first black female mayor in the state of Mississippi, was born the daughter of sharecropping parents in Coahoma County, Mississippi on March 18, 1933. She worked throughout the civil rights era urging ...
Posted Friday, March 16th 2012 at 11:28AM
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This information presented at American Academy of Dermatology’s 70th Annual Meeting by Raechele Cochran Gathers, MD, FAAD, senior physician at the Multi-Cultural Dermatology Center of Henry Ford Hospital Department of Dermatology in Detroit.
San ...
Posted Friday, March 16th 2012 at 11:18AM
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On a local R&B station here in New Orleans their was a discussion on worship. The host of the morning radio show posed this idea that when we speak in a different language we are speaking from the reality of the people that speak that language.
O ...
Posted Thursday, March 15th 2012 at 11:55AM
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Chicago Sun-Times--When Steve Harvey signed on to do a nationally syndicated daytime TV talk show, producers considered basing the program in Connecticut or New York. Harvey’s current hometown, Atlanta, was in the mix too.
“But Chicago was my favo ...
Posted Thursday, March 15th 2012 at 11:38AM
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