by Barry Burch Jr.
A full four years has passed since the official end to the recession, but you wouldn’t know it by reading the results of a recent poll conducted by Gallup.
The poll shows that a great many people, 1 in 5 actually, are having ...
Posted Sunday, September 29th 2013 at 1:27PM
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With the recent suicide of Lee Thompson Young, The Famous Jett Jackson star, who most recently played Detective Barry Frost on TNT’s Rizzoli & Isles, I felt compelled to write this post. He was 29. Young black men are dying at such an alarm rate from ...
Posted Sunday, September 29th 2013 at 1:24PM
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FOR THE NAMES SEE PIC AND FOLLOW THE LINK
http://jecarter4.tumblr.com/post/62446946046/33-members-of-congress-who-have-benefited-from-farm ...
Posted Friday, September 27th 2013 at 11:11PM
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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT!........POWERFUL!!
Slavery by Another ( this is the full program )
http://video.pbs.org/video/2176766758/
Slavery by Another Name is a 90-minute documentary that challenges one of Americans’ most cherished assumptions: th ...
Posted Friday, September 27th 2013 at 1:59PM
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It’s no secret that the United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world or that the population of our prisons has literally exploded since the 1980′s when Ronald Reagan first declared the “war on drugs.” What might not be as we ...
Posted Friday, September 27th 2013 at 1:56PM
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Plan to join your fellow alumni at the Washington Square campus on Saturday, October 19, 2013. Register by October 1 to receive a discounted registration fee of $10 (the fee will be $15 after October 1). Your registration fee includes:
A contine ...
Posted Friday, September 27th 2013 at 1:50PM
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WBLS 107.5
Is this a good idea?
The New Harlem East Merchants Association wants to pay the homeless to clean up trash-strewn stretch of filthy E. 125th St. The merchants group has started raising money for the unconventional plan, which will invo ...
Posted Friday, September 27th 2013 at 1:42PM
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THE FIRST LADY WRITES AN IMPASSIONED AND PERSONAL PIECE URGING THE NATION TO BUY IN TO THE PRESIDENT'S UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE PLAN
It wasn’t that long ago that Barack and I were starting out as a newly married couple, trying to make our apartment i ...
Posted Friday, September 27th 2013 at 12:45PM
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ORLANDO (CBSMiami/AP) - George Zimmerman, the man acquitted of charges for the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin, has been pulled over in a traffic stop for a third time since July.
Zimmerman was pulled over last month, a squad car video broadcast ...
Posted Friday, September 27th 2013 at 12:12PM
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Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has welcomed a new addition to the Romney clan.
On Friday he tweeted, “Our 22nd grandchild was officially adopted today: Kieran James Romney,” alongside a photograph of a cute African-American b ...
Posted Thursday, September 26th 2013 at 11:24PM
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,convicted of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon for firing a gun over the head of her husband in order to stop physical abuse, has been granted a new trial.
The Florida mother was sentenced to 20 years in prison in May 2012. Alexander testif ...
Posted Thursday, September 26th 2013 at 10:34PM
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HIV Among Youth - HIV/AIDS is a serious issue among young African-Americans. http://bet.us/1b60OZ8 ...
Posted Thursday, September 26th 2013 at 12:49PM
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Can Historically Black Colleges and Universities Be Saved? - George Cooper discusses HBCU fiscal challenges. http://bet.us/18qdfwx ...
Posted Thursday, September 26th 2013 at 12:48PM
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God willing, on this Sunday September 29, 2013 at 8:00 p.m. EST. please join your Relationship Servants, Brother Marcus and Sister Cecelia, as we welcome the Brother Rodney Muhammad, the Student Regional Representative of the Honorable Minister Louis ...
Posted Thursday, September 26th 2013 at 9:15AM
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Scare tactics on Obamacare
OUR OPINION: Ted Cruz and other tea party conservatives in the U.S. Senate toy with obstruction at the nation’s peril
BY MIAMI HERALD EDITORIAL
HERALDED@MIAMIHERALD.COM
It wasn’t the longest speech on the Senate ...
Posted Wednesday, September 25th 2013 at 11:20PM
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Alton police search for suspect following purse theft, high-speed pursuit
by Carlos Otero / KMOV.com Staff
KMOV.com
Posted on September 24, 2013 at 9:22 PM
(KMOV) – Police in Alton continue their search for a man who led them on a high-speed ...
Posted Wednesday, September 25th 2013 at 12:43PM
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TEXAS--A Dallas woman is accused of beating her teenage daughter after she saw a cellphone picture of the girl kissing a boy.
Shaquitta Spencer, 31, was arrested Monday on a charge of injury to a child, police records show. She is being held in th ...
Posted Wednesday, September 25th 2013 at 12:39PM
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TMZ--Motown legend Stevie Wonder has urged Marvin Gaye's family not to pursue legal action over Robin Thicke's BLURRED LINES hit because the copyright lawsuit is "not worth it".
Gaye's relatives and Bridgeport Music bosses, who own the rights to G ...
Posted Tuesday, September 24th 2013 at 12:42PM
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In so far as divisive political issues go, welfare is the gift that just keeps on giving. Mainly, that’s because some on the right have done a masterful job of convincing ordinary white people that slothful African-Americans and Latinos are eating at ...
Posted Monday, September 23rd 2013 at 9:54PM
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http://www.nbcnews.com/id/45755822/ns/msnbc-the_ed_show/vp/53088210
Calling on Pope Francis to visit WashingtonThe Ed Show ...
Posted Monday, September 23rd 2013 at 8:47PM
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Quentin Tarantino’s DJango Unchained was met by a mostly receptive African-American audience, but the trend of hiring white filmmakers to create black films has many insiders worried. Among those criticizing this trend is Boyz ‘n the Hoyd director J ...
Posted Monday, September 23rd 2013 at 6:05PM
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THIS BUM BROAD GANELLE GET BUSTED BY HUBBY SNAKE ,,,BRINGS THE OTHER GUY TO SEE HER ,,,,SEE VIDEO ,,HO SNAP ! ...
Posted Sunday, September 22nd 2013 at 7:36PM
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