Africa’s richest man, Alhaji Aliko Dangote has pledged to spend up to $15 billion pursuing investment opportunities around the continent in the next 4-5 years.
Speaking at the sidelines of the town hall meeting hosted by US President, Barack Obama ...
Posted Friday, July 5th 2013 at 8:26PM
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Food4Thought:
If we as a people can find it in our hearts to forgive the white man for all of the injustice that they have inflicted upon us and our ancestor's as a people, then surely we can find it in our hearts to forgive each other, thoughts any ...
Posted Friday, July 5th 2013 at 8:17PM
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Please allow us the opportunity to share with you the Historic Lecture Series that is being conducted in 2013, by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, "The Time and What Must Be Done". A new video is released every Saturday at 6:00 p.m. CST. on th ...
Posted Friday, July 5th 2013 at 1:14PM
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NEW ORLEANS--The sound of Frankie Beverly & Maze's "Before I Let Go" could be heard from Canal Street as Essence Fest 2013 got under way Thursday at Woldenberg Park during the 19th annual event's first-ever Family Reunion Day on the riverfront.
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Paula Deen is still bleeding money from lost endorsement deals after the racist comments she made to an employee but, if it’s any consolation, she still has people rooting for her. One of them is the controversial O.J. Simpson, now serving time behin ...
Posted Friday, July 5th 2013 at 11:40AM
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4 July 2013
By Ray Blount
I am an African American male and recent high school graduate. Throughout the duration of my high school career, I gained a great deal of knowledge as to what the key factors are that drag us to the depths of society.
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Posted Friday, July 5th 2013 at 11:30AM
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CLINGMAN: Stop Spending and Start Producing
James Clingman | 7/2/2013
“Stop that! I’m not going to tell you again.” I am sure many of you have heard your parents say those words more than once. Why? Because you always repeated what they told you ...
Posted Wednesday, July 3rd 2013 at 11:03AM
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There is no me without you! “When both the Black Male and Black Female take up the struggle for JUSTICE against White Supremacy, they are endowed with the strongest possible insurance that they will remain UNITED. By specifically fighting White Supre ...
Posted Tuesday, July 2nd 2013 at 3:22AM
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Show this sista' some love! We NEED this in our community!
I like and understand what you're doing in this program but our ppl have a tendency to tune out because your panel appears to have form of college education which to them is just a white m ...
Posted Tuesday, July 2nd 2013 at 3:10AM
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Life goes by entirely too fast. Jim Kelly, the martial artist and actor who played a memorable role in the film “Enter the Dragon,” has died at the age of 67. Kelly died of cancer at his home in San Diego, according to his wife, Marilyn Dishman.
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(The Root) -- When Coming to America premiered 25 years ago, on June 29, 1988, it was an instant classic -- and the third-highest-grossing film of the year. The Eddie Murphy comedy, about a prince from a fictional African country who comes to the U.S ...
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CAPE TOWN — In the foreword to Nelson Mandela’s 2010 book of letters, President Obama wrote that “even when little sunlight shined into that Robben Island cell, he could see a better future — one worthy of sacrifice.”
On Sunday, Mr. Obama stood i ...
Posted Sunday, June 30th 2013 at 5:25PM
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Farrakhan: ‘We are not perfect,’ support Jackson family
BY JAMES SCALZITTI Staff Reporter/jscaliztti@suntimes.com
June 29, 2013 12:00PM
Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan made a public show of support for Jesse Jackson Jr., his wife Sandi ...
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I've finally had the opportunity to review the complaint filed against Paula Deen. For one, many people have been making this incident about the "N" word only, but it's much more than that. I personally find it to be offensive whenever someone from a ...
Posted Saturday, June 29th 2013 at 10:37PM
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July 8th is the date that Lauryn Hill has to report to prison. The singer will be doing three months behind bars for tax evasion.
Clearly, the legendary rapper has a lot on her mind. And yesterday Lauryn did some venting, writing a lengthy piece o ...
Posted Saturday, June 29th 2013 at 3:50PM
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FOLLOW THE LINKS TO THE END !
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The New Jim Crow, legal scholar Michelle Alexander’s breakthrough book about the rise of mass incarceration in America. Alexander agues that …http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Nv2lZh6NqCY/0.jpg
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There are more blacks in prison then slaves in slavery !
n the 1980s Communist Romania under the most brutal eastern european dictator, Nicolae Ceausescu locked up 71,000 of its own citizens or 1 in every 300. Today the USA, the world's oldest dem ...
Posted Saturday, June 29th 2013 at 3:36PM
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BOOKD profiles, The New Jim Crow, legal scholar Michelle Alexander’s breakthrough book about the rise of mass incarceration in America. Alexander agues that …http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Nv2lZh6NqCY/0.jpg
There's a pretty large infrastructure and financi ...
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A woman with close ties to George Zimmerman and his family told investigators that members of Zimmerman’s family were boastfully proud racists and that for more than a decade Zimmerman sexually molested her.
“It started when I was six,” the woman ...
Posted Saturday, June 29th 2013 at 3:19PM
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From the author of The Everything Pages, The Everything Else Pages, The Everything Page, The Everything Clips, The Chemtrails Questionnaire and The Waiting Game.
America’s Most Shocking Film Ever! This is the last documentary you’ll ever need to ...
Posted Friday, June 28th 2013 at 7:46PM
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Are private schools benefiting African American children?
By Admiria Cooper
June 26, 2013
Recent visits from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s nephew Dr. Derek King have many Fort Wayne residents thinking about justice and racial equality in Fort Wa ...
Posted Friday, June 28th 2013 at 11:32AM
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