Decades before Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton, there was Shirley Chisholm. As the first black woman to run for president for a major political party she was years ahead of her time. So why don't more people know about her?
Forty-four years ago th ...
Posted Wednesday, March 16th 2016 at 9:01PM
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The trials of six Baltimore police officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray are set to resume in May, nearly a year after the 25-year-old died from injuries sustained while in police custody, according to The Baltimore Sun.
One of the office ...
Posted Wednesday, March 16th 2016 at 8:53PM
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NOLA.com--Nearly 5,000 homes in Louisiana have been damaged by flooding after heavy rains swept across the state, according to initial figures released Sunday (March 13) by the Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness. Offici ...
Posted Sunday, March 13th 2016 at 9:28PM
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JACKSON, MS (Mississippi News Now) - The City of Jackson and the Mississippi State Health Department have issued a warning for residents, especially pregnant women and children, over lead found in water.
Officials at the MSDH say that after consu ...
Posted Sunday, March 13th 2016 at 9:00PM
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In January, Sarah Reed was found dead in her cell at Holloway prison. She had been the victim of a notorious police brutality case in 2012 and suffered mental health issues known to prison officers, doctors, social workers, lawyers and police. So why ...
Posted Friday, March 11th 2016 at 6:21PM
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CHICAGO—In an exclusive Final Call interview, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam responded to false reports that he has supported Donald Trump, the leading candidate for the presidential nomination of the Republican Party ...
Posted Thursday, March 10th 2016 at 9:45AM
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MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA--Relatives, friends and former classmates crowded a funeral service Saturday for a 58-year-old black man who authorities say was shot and killed by a white Montgomery police officer.
The mourners paid homage to Gregory Gunn, wh ...
Posted Thursday, March 10th 2016 at 9:35AM
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If the walls could talk, imagine what they’d say.
They’d reminisce about family meals, holidays, celebrations and romance, take sides in arguments, and watch children grow. If those walls could talk, they’d tell of triumph, disappointment, ...
Posted Thursday, March 10th 2016 at 9:25AM
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Whitney Elizabeth Houston was born into a musical family on 9 August 1963, in Newark, New Jersey, the daughter of gospel star Cissy Houston, cousin of singing star Dionne Warwick and goddaughter of soul legend Aretha Franklin.
She began singing i ...
Posted Thursday, February 11th 2016 at 5:00PM
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The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) was a labor union organized by African American employees of the Pullman Company in August 1925 and led by A. Philip Randolph and Milton P. Webster. Over the next twelve years, the BSCP fought a three-fr ...
Posted Thursday, February 11th 2016 at 4:47PM
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In 1781, Elizabeth “Mumbet” Freeman became the first African-American woman to win her freedom from slavery through a court of law. The case was held in Massachusetts, which coincidentally, became the first state in the Union to abolish slavery; ...
Posted Wednesday, February 10th 2016 at 9:22PM
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In 1970, Cheryl Adrienne Brown was the first African-American woman to compete in the Miss America pageant.
Born in New York City, to a Port Authority officer and a hospital clinic manager, she grew up in Queens with three brothers. Brown studied ...
Posted Wednesday, February 10th 2016 at 9:16PM
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"Susie King Taylor (1848-1912) was the first Black Army nurse. She tended to an all Black army troop named the First South Carolina Volunteers, 33rd Regiment, where her husband served, for four years during the Civil War. Despite her service, like ma ...
Posted Tuesday, February 2nd 2016 at 4:47PM
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Mordecai Wyatt Johnson (January 4, 1890 – September 10, 1976) was an American educator. He served as the first black president of Howard University, from 1926 until 1960.
Johnson received his B.A. from Morehouse College in 1911, and second bac ...
Posted Tuesday, February 2nd 2016 at 4:45PM
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Google’s honoring of Frederick Douglass through a doodle on its search page Monday highlights one of America's most prominent abolitionists.
Douglass’ life story and his oral and literary work still stand as defining items in the saga of slave ...
Posted Monday, February 1st 2016 at 6:31PM
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The case of a former Ku Klux Klan leader convicted of killing a 16-year-old black girl with a crossbow is being reviewed by the North Carolina Parole Commission, according to the Charlotte Observer.
Russell Hinson, the “Exalted Cyclops” leader ...
Posted Sunday, January 31st 2016 at 4:02PM
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FLINT, Michigan—Arthur Woodson, a longtime resident, sees great irony in the state’s “Pure Michigan” slogan in efforts to draw visitors in light of the pure hell residents are facing with an unhealthy water supply.
In interviews and in wri ...
Posted Sunday, January 31st 2016 at 3:46PM
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In a very honest and informative session, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan sat down for an interview and a dialogue with Alex Jones of Infowars.com (January 20, 2016) ...
Posted Sunday, January 31st 2016 at 3:39PM
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CHICAGO—America’s corrupt criminal justice system cannot be reformed and faces divine destruction, said the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam on the Cliff Kelley Show, a popular Black talk program.
And everyone connecte ...
Posted Tuesday, December 15th 2015 at 11:53AM
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A 28-year-old man who was shot dead by Los Angeles sheriff's deputies had fired rounds into the air in a neighborhood and sparked multiple calls to police in the minutes leading up to his death, police said Sunday after protests.
Two Los Angeles ...
Posted Tuesday, December 15th 2015 at 11:49AM
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A 31-year-old man has died in North Carolina after an arrest attempt involving pepper spray, police said on Thursday, prompting a state investigation and the placement of four officers on administrative duty.
Travis Nevelle Page was pronounced dea ...
Posted Thursday, December 10th 2015 at 7:03PM
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Morgan Freeman introduces Jill Scott's full performance of Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit" from Shining A Light: A Concert for Progress on Race in America, presented by A&E Networks and iHeartMedia. ...
Posted Thursday, December 10th 2015 at 11:45AM
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Muhammad Ali hit out against Islamic extremists and Donald Trump’s plan to bar Muslims from entering the United States on Wednesday.
“I am a Muslim and there is nothing Islamic about killing innocent people in Paris, San Bernardino, or anywher ...
Posted Thursday, December 10th 2015 at 10:16AM
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Former Black Panther Party Chief of Staff David Hilliard and award-winning filmmaker Dante James discuss their forthcoming film on the Black Panther Party and Huey Newton.
December 1, 2015 By The Real News Network
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Huey P. Newton ...
Posted Monday, December 7th 2015 at 2:46PM
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