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Eric Himpton Holder, Jr. was born in the Bronx, New York, to parents with roots in Barbados. Holder grew up in East Elmhurst, Queens, and attended public school until the age of 10. When entering the

The Woolworth sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests which led to the Woolworth's department store chain reversing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States. While not th

Peace, On Page 7, of The Frederick Douglass Encyclopedia, it states: "Douglass was unconvinced that living and working in Africa would appreciably be more effective in abolishing the slave trade, b

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: I'm Michel Martin, and this is TELL ME MORE, from NPR News. We are taking TELL ME MORE on the road to Detroit tomorrow, so we wanted to get in a Detroit state of mind with som

Newsweek.com--The conflict between property rights and human rights has entered a new chapter. It is a debate that goes back to the challenge by landowners and merchants behind the American Revolution

Faruq Hunter, an entrepreneur with a growing business and family,bought life insurance partly because of a hard lesson he learned from his father, who left behind $40,000 in debt when he died. Hunt

WashingtonPost.com January 29, 2012 An article in the Washington Post on January 26 revealed that a delegation from the Philippines was engaged in bilateral talks in Washington to negotiate the ex

CANCER KILLER ¨C Natural Cancer Cell Killer 10,000 Times Stronger Than Chemo! The Sour Sop or the fruit from the graviola tree is a miraculous natural cancer cell killer 10,000 times stronger than

ThinkProgress.org--ThinkProgress reported last week that Kansas House Speaker Mike O’Neal (R) was forced to apologize to First Lady Michelle Obama after forwarding an email to fellow lawmakers that ca

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BET.com--Associates of presidential candidate Ron Paul told the Washington Post that the Texas congressman was heavily involved in newsletters that included racist and incendiary language published un

ARIZONA--Film director Spike Lee asked the more than 2,000 people who came to hear his lecture Wednesday night at Arizona State University’s Gammage Auditorium in honor of Black History Month for perm

January 25, 2012 Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad By CHARLES DUHIGG and DAVID BARBOZA The explosion ripped through Building A5 on a Friday evening last May, an eruption of fire and noise that t

Peace, President Obama should be praised for wanting to RIGHT the WRONG that Bush did while he was in office. However, during John Kennedy's short tenure as president, he faced a similar situation

Peace, If we are ever ready, willing and able to study the Transatlantic Slave trade from an analytical, logical, unemotional standpoint, there may be great benefit for us as individual ,ethnic gro

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Kate Beckinsale is back with a vengeance, with her latest "Underworld" movie opening at No. 1 this weekend. "Underworld Awakening" made an estimated $25.4, distributor Sony Scre

MSNBC.com--President Barack Obama will make the domestic economy the centerpiece of his last State of the Union address before he seeks re-election in November. The speech is expected to call for s

TENNESSEE--Rand Paul, the junior senator from Kentucky and son of presidential hopeful Ron Paul, was detained by TSA agents in Nashville, Tennessee Monday morning, according to social media updates ma

By Fredda Sacharow January 23, 2012 Environmental factors in many predominantly African-American communities – neighborhoods fortified with bullet-proof glass and barbed wire, for example, and bus