I recieved an email last night from a dear friend informing that Sister Gertrude Ross had passed away at her home in Seattle. The email was sent to me at 10:15 pm Monday. They said the cause of death has not yet been determined.
Sister Gertrude w ...
Posted Tuesday, June 4th 2013 at 12:11PM
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Sharanda Jones has been in prison for the last 13 years. She was given a sentence of life in prison with no chance for parole in an alleged conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine. The 45-year old mother and her family are pleading for the public’s ...
Posted Saturday, June 1st 2013 at 2:06AM
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This year marks the 50th anniversary of the great March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. It was there, at one of the largest rallies for human rights, that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech.
On Aug. 28, 196 ...
Posted Saturday, June 1st 2013 at 12:22AM
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Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) accused Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) on Wednesday of being complicit in the terror attacks on the U.S. diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya last year and the deaths of four Americans, including the late Ambassador Chris Stevens. ...
Posted Friday, May 31st 2013 at 8:38PM
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God willing, on this Sunday June 2, 2013 at 8:00 p.m. EST. please join Relationship specialists, Brother Marcus and Sister Cecelia, as we address the topic of, “What not to do in your Marriage and R ...
Posted Friday, May 31st 2013 at 2:32PM
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CHICAGO (FinalCall.com) - The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan typically speaks to standing room only crowds in large arenas and auditoriums, with his words beamed across the globe via Internet webcast.
Although he had just finished speaking sev ...
Posted Friday, May 31st 2013 at 12:45PM
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MARYLAND--Cornell Harvey, 26, and Eddie Tarver, 20, have been charged with first- and second-degree murder in the death of 16-month-old Carter Scott, reports the Baltimore Sun.
The child’s father, Rashaw Scott, 22, who was critically injured in th ...
Posted Friday, May 31st 2013 at 12:41PM
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Kelvin Doe, aka DJ Focus, is a 16 year old kid from Sierre Leone. He has taught himself to build electronics from parts he's found in trashcans. He made his own FM radio transmitter and radio station.
Kelvin Doe, who has recently signed $100,000 s ...
Posted Friday, May 31st 2013 at 2:07AM
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It is important that the leadership of our struggle come from among our own people,
just as it is crucial that we build the necessary machinery that will develop this
leadership. The problem of leadership has always been a vexing one for Black ...
Posted Thursday, May 30th 2013 at 10:14PM
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Two Florida Papa John's employees were fired after accidentally leaving a racist voicemail on the machine of a customer who allegedly tipped him poorly.
On May 19, a black Papa John's customer from Sanford, Fla., received a message on his iPho ...
Posted Thursday, May 30th 2013 at 12:07PM
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VIRGINIA--An altercation between an off-duty Arlington County Sheriff's deputy and a man in Alexandria Wednesday morning left a 22-year-old man shot to death, police say.
The incident happened shortly after 12:45 Wednesday morning in the 100 block ...
Posted Thursday, May 30th 2013 at 11:29AM
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JERUSALEM--Alice Walker, author of 'The Color Purple' calls on R&B musician to cancel her Tel Aviv summer performance and visit Gaza instead.
"It would grieve me to know you are putting yourself in danger (soul danger) by performing in an aparth ...
Posted Thursday, May 30th 2013 at 10:44AM
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by Agyei Tyehimba
As an educator and activist, I constantly search for ways to empower through teaching. Many of our most effective and inspired leaders addressed how ignorance perpetuates our own victimization and powerlessness. One way to addr ...
Posted Thursday, May 30th 2013 at 10:17AM
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Frequent heartburn is positively associated with cancers of the throat and vocal cord among nonsmokers and nondrinkers, a new study has found.
According to the study, the use of antacids, but not prescription medications, had a protective effect.
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Posted Thursday, May 30th 2013 at 9:35AM
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I have argued that George Zimmerman is a murderer, one motivated by racism, an over-identification with Whiteness and White Authority, as well as a fetish for playing cop, to kill a person who was guilty of walking while Black in the “wrong” neighbo ...
Posted Wednesday, May 29th 2013 at 8:26PM
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ATLANTA--Instead of hitting national stages with his 1995 “This Is How We Do It,” Montell Jordan is performing from the pulpit now.
During a recent interview with LA Weekly, the singer revealed that he’s currently a pastor at a megachurch in Atla ...
Posted Wednesday, May 29th 2013 at 12:08PM
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May 28, 2013 (CHICAGO) (WLS) -- A Chicago man accused of killing a 6-month-old girl in a shooting that also wounded her father was seeking revenge for the theft of a video game console, authorities said Monday.
Koman Willis, 33, of the 7800-block ...
Posted Tuesday, May 28th 2013 at 12:09PM
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Nearly 65 years later, not much has changed about Republicans, eh???
On October 13th, 1948, President Harry Truman made an appearance in St. Paul, Minnesota, on behalf of both his own re-election campaign and a bid by the mayor of Minneapolis, fel ...
Posted Tuesday, May 28th 2013 at 11:54AM
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SYRIA (The Borowitz Report)—During a meeting yesterday with Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona), Syrian rebels told the senator that he still seemed “really bitter” about losing the 2008 election to President Obama and advised him to “get over it.”
After ...
Posted Tuesday, May 28th 2013 at 11:49AM
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THE "educated Negroes" have the attitude of contempt toward their own people because in their own as well as in their mixed schools Negroes are taught to admire the Hebrew, the Greek, the Latin and the Teuton and to despise the African. Of the hundre ...
Posted Monday, May 27th 2013 at 1:52PM
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see pic before reading story !
While they likely were asked to stand there on the log to take the picture, this is not a photograph from a movie production. It is an accurate and fair depiction on what life looked like for enslaved Africans and th ...
Posted Monday, May 27th 2013 at 1:48PM
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