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WDSU Channel 6 News--New Orleans human rights defenders are preparing a gathering Wednesday at BP headquarters for the start of a New Orleans style funeral service and procession for the murdered Gulf

New Orleans Times Picayune--Controversy over the proper role of religion in American politics was inflamed yet again during the weekend when Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum said that h

SPRINGFIELD, Ill.— The Illinois Coalition of Community Blood Centers is working with the General Assembly's Black Caucus to increase blood donations in the African-American community. The campaign is

By J. Bryan Lauder February 28, 2012 We’ve been hearing for some time that black women are happier with their bodies than their white counterparts, that in something vaguely defined as “black cult

MY BLACKNESS I'VE ANTICIPATED THIS MOMENT OVER AND OVER IN MY MIND ... KNOWING I WOULD GET MY CHANCE, IN DUE TIME ... A CHANCE TO TELL YOU MY BLACKNESS IS NOT TOTALLY WHAT I AM, BUT

Daniel McCree recognized the safety benefits enjoyed by hotels, apartment buildings and office buildings and decided to extend that safety to homeowners. Basing his model on fire escapes being use

By Jennifer Rubin February 27, 2012 Is Rick Santorum gloomy? Or “one angry dude”? If you look at the past few days, his increasingly erratic performance reminds you of a basketball team trailing b

WASHINGTON--Pentagon wants $100 million extra to be prepared for a war with Iran. The money, requested from the Congress, is to beef up US military presence in the Persian Gulf and rapidly upgrade wea

Donna Farrakhan, daughter of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, spoke to young women at the MGT-GCC (Muslim Girls Training & General Civilization Course) Saturday in Rosemont, Illinois as part of

By Princeton Irvin Parker February 26, 2012 As we come to the close of Black History month, many people are reflecting on the achievements and the progressive story of African Americans. It is not

Happy Saviours' Day To The Members Of The NOI, And The Followers of The Teachings Of The NOI. I Wish All Of You Many, Many More To Come!!! As-Salaam Alaikum!!! Love 2 Live & Live 2 Love,

Henry Thomas Sampson, Jr. (born in Jackson, Mississippi in 1934) is an African American inventor of the cellular telephone. Sampson graduated from high school in 1951 from Lanier High School in Jac

CHICAGO (FinalCall.com) - Anticipation and excitement is growing as final preparations are being made for Saviours’ Day 2012 marking 82 years of the Nation of Islam’s existence in North America. Ea

By M. Alex Johnson, msnbc.com St. Louis residents expressed outrage this week over a "Battle of the Complexions" contest scheduled for Friday night, but the event's promoters said they organized it

Sarah Boone was one of the first African-American women to receive a United States patent for a reversible ironing board. Although little is known about her life, Boone's application indicates tha

Born George Speck in 1822 in Saratoga Lake, New York, Crum was the son of an African American father and Native American mother, a member of the Huron tribe. He professionally adopted the name "Crum"

Peace, Peeped the National Enquirer cover photo of Whitney Houston lying in her casket...and let me say it doesn't take no Yale education to realize the casket photo is just another way for the tab

Mediaite.com--Don Imus lit in to GOP frontrunner Rick Santorum during his Fox Business Network broadcast today, saying he has first-hand knowledge of how bad a person Santorum is thanks to his wife’s

ATLANTA--It’s not the kind of place one expects to see the R & B singer Usher, yet there he was, holding forth on leadership yesterday at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School in Atlanta. The ke

Rebecca Lee Crumpler was born in 1833 in Richmond, Virginia. She was raised in Pennsylvania by her aunt. Her aunt spent a great deal of time caring for the sick in her community. She was probably Crum

Get ready, world: Tyra Banks now has her business school diploma. The mogul and "America's Next Top Model" host posted a bunch of photos to her Twitter today announcing her big graduation from Harv

William Edward Burghardt DuBois was one of this country's most distinguished educators. Born in a small village in Massachusetts in 1868, DuBois first came face to face with the realities of racism in