What’s next for Assata Shakur? With Havana’s humanitarian release of American Alan Gross—A USAID worker who had been imprisoned in Cuba for five years on accusations of espionage—President Obama announced a resumption in relations between the two cou ...
Posted Thursday, December 18th 2014 at 5:23PM
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On December 17, 2008, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan was invited by Reverend Dr. Michael Pfleger of The Faith Community of St. Sabina, to deliver remarks at an emotional anti-violence rally at the Illinois State Building in downtown Chicago. ...
Posted Thursday, December 18th 2014 at 1:52PM
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President and Michelle Obama personally identify with everyday experiences of racial bias in America that have underpinned recent protests across the country, they told People magazine in an interview to be released Friday.
“Barack Obama was a bl ...
Posted Thursday, December 18th 2014 at 1:31PM
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BATON ROUGE--Mychal Bell, who made national headlines a few years ago as part of the ‘Jena Six,’ has graduated from Southern University.
According to a graduate list supplied by the school, Bell received a bachelor’s degree in interdisciplinary st ...
Posted Thursday, December 18th 2014 at 1:25PM
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PORTLAND, OREGON--Mariann Hyland made a vow 10 years ago, after Portland Police fatally shot 21-year-old Kendra James during a routine traffic stop.
Hyland, a Portland lawyer who is African American, promised to teach young black people how to su ...
Posted Wednesday, December 10th 2014 at 12:05PM
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CHICAGO--DuPage County sheriff’s records allege that 911 received a frantic call from the boy’s dad, Michael Cattron Sr., 46, stating his son had been shot and was laying in a pool of blood. When investigators arrived on the scene, the boy was not br ...
Posted Wednesday, December 10th 2014 at 11:59AM
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Researchers working with Brockington Cultural Resources Consulting believe they have found the remnants of Gadsden’s Wharf in South Carolina, where an estimated 100,000 enslaved Africans arrived in America.
“It is the place of arrival for a huge p ...
Posted Wednesday, December 10th 2014 at 11:37AM
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In recent weeks, the list of celebrities who have publicly defended Bill Cosby against his multiple sexual abuse accusations have included from Jill Scott, Whoopi Goldberg, and Cee Lo Green. And now longtime Cosby associate, Debbie Allen has shared h ...
Posted Sunday, December 7th 2014 at 8:02PM
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A letter to our African-American sons
Emma McElvaney Talbott, Special to The Courier-Journal 12:07 a.m. EST December 6, 2014
Dear African-American sons:
What just played out in Ferguson, Mo., and in Sanford, Fla., is nothing new. These stori ...
Posted Sunday, December 7th 2014 at 7:48PM
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