The Long Beach Martin Luther King Center -- shuttered for months by superstorm Sandy -- is expected to reopen Saturday.
The 33-year-old community center, which sustained 2 feet of flooding and lost its heating systems, kitchen and bathrooms in Sandy ...
Posted Friday, August 30th 2013 at 7:05PM
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It’s less than 24 hours until Budweiser’s Made In America Festival takes over Philadelphia’s Benjamin Franklin Parkway, and Jay Z drops his Made In America documentary.
The two-minute trailer features footage from last year’s festival. There a ...
Posted Friday, August 30th 2013 at 6:40PM
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I’ve always respected Jamie Foxx. Not only is he extremely talented in a multitude of arenas, he also understands the depth of personal power that celebrities have at their fingertips. From what I’ve heard both in public and behind the scenes, I c ...
Posted Friday, August 30th 2013 at 4:39PM
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God willing, on this Sunday September 1, 2013 at 8:00 p.m. EST. please join your Relationship Servants, Brother Marcus and Sister Cecelia, as we address the topic of, “Why does Disunity and Estrangement dominate so many of our Marriages and Relations ...
Posted Friday, August 30th 2013 at 1:40PM
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TENNESSEE--Dr. Robert Sidonio Jr., a hematologist, diagnosed four babies with vitamin K deficiency bleeding.
A bleeding disorder in babies so rare that it typically affects fewer than one in 100,000 is becoming more common in Tennessee because pa ...
Posted Thursday, August 29th 2013 at 12:09PM
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Thousands of marchers gathered on Washington's national mall on Wednesday to commemorate civil rights leader Martin Luther King's famous "I have a dream" speech 50 years ago as activists said his goal of racial harmony remains elusive.
Remarks fro ...
Posted Wednesday, August 28th 2013 at 4:05PM
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It was August 1963 in Hartford, Connecticut. I was 24 years old. I was a mom. I was white. I had heard about the March—everyone had—and I knew I had to go. I wanted to be part of the movement, I wanted to help make a statement.
The morning of Augu ...
Posted Wednesday, August 28th 2013 at 3:57PM
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NO EXCUSES!!!!!!
Develop economic empowerment strategies.
PRACTICAL #SOLUTIONS FOR THE #BLACK COMMUNITY
A. Spend money with Black businesses
http://www.blackownedbiz.com/directory - Black Business Directory
http://aroundthewayapp.com/ - Black ...
Posted Wednesday, August 28th 2013 at 4:48AM
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What's the polar opposite of a smash and grab?
Surveillance video from a recently opened store on Route 23 is making the rounds after a group of young men entered after closing time, taking a number of goods before — well, paying for them and leav ...
Posted Wednesday, August 28th 2013 at 12:53AM
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This was the "Question Of The Day" on a hip hop radio station. It went something like this:
"My husband and father of my 3 children and I have been married for 4 years. At a bad point in our relationship he cheated and the woman had twin boys and ...
Posted Tuesday, August 27th 2013 at 9:38PM
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PLEASE PASS THIS MESSAGE ALONG!!!
IF YOU USE FACEBOOK, TWITTER, INSTAGRAM, ETC., WHEN YOU LEAVE YOUR HOME, DO NOT TELL PEOPLE ON THOSE SOCIAL NETWORKS THAT YOU HAVE LEFT YOUR HOME. I KNOW TWO BROTHERS WHO POSTED "AT THE MOVIES," AND "AT THE HOSPIT ...
Posted Tuesday, August 27th 2013 at 9:30PM
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Fighting for the rights of Detroiters
Brother or sister:
We've all heard bits and pieces about what's going on in Detroit from the mainstream media. Every major news outlet has been buzzing over the past 2 weeks about the bankruptcy filing in Det ...
Posted Tuesday, August 27th 2013 at 11:47AM
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United States intelligence officials are convinced the Syrian regime used chemical weapons against rebels last week, and are building their case for military action without putting troops on the ground. NBC's Richard Engel reports.
By Jim Miklaszews ...
Posted Tuesday, August 27th 2013 at 11:32AM
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Peace,
The March on Washington to promote Civil Rights and economic equality remains one of the most famous events in American history. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. offered a transcendent vision of racial harmony for our future with his "I Have a D ...
Posted Tuesday, August 27th 2013 at 10:42AM
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I had a great day today 14 Large Mouth Bass on our private lake around the block from my house ... I've been to this lake 3 times for a total of 53 bass... had to share this picture a basket full of fish! Yes I am enjoying life ! ...
Posted Tuesday, August 27th 2013 at 3:18AM
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The following article contains a distillation of the hour-long message delivered by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan as Part 27 of his 52-week Lecture Series “The Time and What Must Be Done.” This message originally aired on Saturday, July 13, ...
Posted Monday, August 26th 2013 at 12:02PM
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TAFT
The All-Black town now known as Taft started as the community of Twine, which had a post office by 1902. Taft, located eight miles west of Muskogee, in Muskogee County is one of more than fifty All-Black towns of Oklahoma and one of only thir ...
Posted Sunday, August 25th 2013 at 11:05PM
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The Heart of a Queen...
Life has taught us the meaning of hard ship and pain, struggle and triumph, challenge and victory, but life is still working on us, we are the constant recipients of an aggravated existence, coexisting in a world that has lit ...
Posted Sunday, August 25th 2013 at 5:28AM
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Invoking the legacy of the bloody assault he endured in Selma, Ala., Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) used the 50th anniversary celebration of the March on Washington to call upon Congress to fix the provisions of the Voting Rights Act invalidated earlier this ...
Posted Saturday, August 24th 2013 at 5:59PM
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Once again we are witnessing the true power of social media. You are hearing about this story because one man posted about his experience on Facebook at a Wild Wing Cafe in North Charleston, SC, where his friends and family suffered some “1960′ ...
Posted Saturday, August 24th 2013 at 5:54PM
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Rep. John Lewis threatened "to march through the South like Sherman" before he was persuaded to tone down his remarks. ...
Posted Saturday, August 24th 2013 at 5:46PM
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