Los Angeles (CNN) -- Michael Jackson died on June 25, 2009, in a desperate search for sleep as he prepared for a comeback tour that he hoped would pull him out of deep debt and restore his reputation as the world's top entertainer.
Events of the p ...
Posted Wednesday, June 25th 2014 at 10:22AM
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The original story was that an officer told Denzell to kneel down, and several witnesses say he was then shot in the back.
The police have now come out and said, Denzell was shot in the head, not in the back, and there is no evidence that the offi ...
Posted Wednesday, June 25th 2014 at 10:05AM
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NEW YORK--Spike Lee's new one has bite.
Brooklyn's best known independent filmmaker was in attendance Sunday at New York's SVA Theater in Chelsea, wearing a summer straw hat and Team USA World Cup jersey, debuting his latest flick "Da Sweet Blood ...
Posted Wednesday, June 25th 2014 at 9:58AM
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KUALA LUMPUR, June 23, 2014
Malaysia’s top court on Monday upheld a government ban forbidding non-Muslims from using “Allah” to refer to God.
The government says Allah should be reserved exclusively for Muslims who make up nearly two-thi ...
Posted Tuesday, June 24th 2014 at 11:08AM
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AUSTIN--The number of black-owned businesses in Texas is growing but the firms remain small in comparison to other Texas businesses, and their owners face barriers to growth and profitability, according to a new report from the Bureau of Business Res ...
Posted Sunday, June 22nd 2014 at 4:49PM
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A rare oil painting of an African slave from circa 1733 has been acquired by Virginia’s Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, which runs the history museums at the Jamestown Settlement and Yorktown Victory Center. The portrait is one of a pair of painting ...
Posted Sunday, June 22nd 2014 at 4:36PM
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VIRGINIA--At 111-years-old Lela Babb Burden has proven that it’s never too late to get your education. Burden was awarded an honorary high school diploma from Booker T. Washington High School. Norfolk Public Schools superintendent Samuel T. King aw ...
Posted Saturday, June 21st 2014 at 5:40PM
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From theguardian.com
Thursday 19 June 2014
Speaking at a burial ground for hundreds African slaves in New York in commemoration of Juneteenth – the day in 1865 when Texas learned that the civil war had ended – Ilyasah Shabazz, daughter of hu ...
Posted Friday, June 20th 2014 at 12:18PM
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TEXAS--The activist Dallas group Mothers Against Police Brutality slammed officers’ fatal shooting of a mentally ill man during the weekend.
Police said Saturday that Jason Harrison, 38, charged at officers with a screwdriver in hand, prompting ...
Posted Friday, June 20th 2014 at 9:36AM
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JACKSONVILLE--It took them a while to get with the times. Now they're paying the price.
A Florida school that has long been named after a Confederate general who was the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan is finally taking down signs with his ...
Posted Friday, June 20th 2014 at 9:32AM
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By Richard B. Muhammad
Jun 17, 2014
Since the 1960s and 1970s in what would today be called urban novels and movies, the persona of the pimp was presented as a model for Black males in the ghetto.
From Max Julian in the 1973 movie “The Mack ...
Posted Friday, June 20th 2014 at 9:22AM
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June 16, 2014
As-Salaam Alaikum (Peace Be Unto You)
Another great one has passed into the pantheon of our ancestry. It is with great sorrow that we mourn the loss of Ruby Dee, a woman who was passionately concerned about the condition of her people and the condition of the world. Although she ...
Posted Friday, June 20th 2014 at 9:17AM
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Bought a new laptop recently (a Gateway which runs on Windows 8) and the Norton anti-virus protection expired. I downloaded Microsoft Security Essentials to my computer and now EVERY TIME I go from page to page all of these different pop-up ads appea ...
Posted Friday, June 13th 2014 at 5:33PM
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From National Public Radio
June 12, 2014
Rashema Melson lives in the D.C. General homeless shelter with her mother and two brothers. "Because you live in a shelter — that's not who you are, that's just where you reside at for the moment," she s ...
Posted Thursday, June 12th 2014 at 8:50PM
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RUBY DEE LEGENDARY ACTRESS AND CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST DIES AT 89
47 MINUTES AGO BY TMZ STAFF
Ruby Dee -- one of the legendary actresses in Hollywood and on Broadway -- died Wednesday night ... TMZ has learned.
Ruby was at home in New Rochelle, ...
Posted Thursday, June 12th 2014 at 12:56PM
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DES MOINES--An Iowa mother said this week that the Des Moines school board may have gone easy on a white teacher who told her black son to call him “master.”
Roosevelt High School student Jabre White, 17, recalled to The Des Moines Register th ...
Posted Tuesday, June 10th 2014 at 12:00PM
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DISCLAIMER: This is the last speech that Dr. King wrote, He was planning to deliver that speech during a Sunday sermon on April 7, 1968. he was shot and killed before he had a chance to deliver this speech. Dr Michael Eric Dyson has researched Dr. Ki ...
Posted Tuesday, June 10th 2014 at 10:32AM
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NEW ORLEANS -- Herman Cain, who ended his 2012 presidential campaign amid allegations of multiple affairs, said Saturday that he might run for president again in 2016.
Cain, in a speech at the Republican Leadership Conference here, brought up the ...
Posted Monday, June 9th 2014 at 6:09PM
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The Huffington Post--The last few years have been tough for Rachel Jeantel. After the death of her friend, Trayvon Martin, she not only had to serve as a witness at his shooter's trial, but she was also subjected to public criticism and ridicule. But the young woman refused to be held down, keeping ...
Posted Monday, June 9th 2014 at 6:04PM
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