From TruthOut.org
January 4, 2014
JAISAL NOOR, TRNN PRODUCER: Welcome to The Real News Network. I'm Jaisal Noor in Baltimore.
On Wednesday, vigils marked the fifth-year anniversary of the killing of Oscar Grant, a 22-year-old African-Ameri ...
Posted Saturday, January 4th 2014 at 5:57PM
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MSNBC host says she never meant to make fun of interracial families
on January 4, 2014 1 hour ago
Melissa Harris-Perry broke into tears on Saturday while apologizing to Mitt Romney and his family for comments made on her MSNBC show about the form ...
Posted Saturday, January 4th 2014 at 4:30PM
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LONDON--Awarding-winning crossing guard, Jon Seymour, was sent home by Camden Council after he likened one of its black staff to the giant movie ape during a row.
Seymour, who is African American and a native of Trinidad, has worked at Carlton Pr ...
Posted Saturday, January 4th 2014 at 4:24PM
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Top 10 Scholarships For African American Students With Deadlines In January 2014
Nationwide - The new year is here, and it's time for students to get back to work. This year, more than $50 billion dollars will be given away in scholarships, and ma ...
Posted Saturday, January 4th 2014 at 4:12PM
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CHICAGO (FinalCall.com) - One of the most recognizable figures on the Earth is Muhammad Ali. While many have heard his name and been told of his exploits in the ring, do you truly know his story?
You may know that he suffers from Parkinson’s disea ...
Posted Saturday, January 4th 2014 at 4:01PM
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Juanita Moore, the actress who shattered racial barriers when she was nominated for an Oscar for her role in 1959′s “Imitation of Life” died Tuesday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 99-years-old.
Moore received a supporting actress no ...
Posted Thursday, January 2nd 2014 at 7:13PM
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(AllHipHop News) Karrine Steffans is best known as the former video model tagged as “Superhead” and the author of the Hip Hop tell-all book Confessions of a Video Vixen.
Now the 35-year-old businesswomen is looking to cross over into television w ...
Posted Tuesday, December 31st 2013 at 7:11PM
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Peace,
As we say goodbye to 2013 and welcome 2014, let's find a way to be grateful for all the great things we have (and had) the opportunity to experience. Let's critically look at the year before, analyze, extract wisdom from the lessons of the ...
Posted Tuesday, December 31st 2013 at 6:57PM
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Three Muslim workers at a well-known eatery in a suburb of Toronto, Canada have been awarded around $93,000 in a discrimination case. The men claim they were forced to eat pork, which is prohibited for them to consume due to their religious practices ...
Posted Monday, December 30th 2013 at 5:15PM
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The year 2013 marks the centenary of the reported founding of the Canaanite Temple in Newark, N.J. That was the very earliest form of an indigenous African-American Islam, one completely distinct from normative Islam, the 1,400-year-old religion from ...
Posted Monday, December 30th 2013 at 5:08PM
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MSNBC.com--A church nativity scene featuring a bleeding Trayvon Martin is stirring up controversy in southern California.
The outdoor display at the Claremont United Methodist Church spotlights a black-hooded dummy—in place of where baby Jesus wou ...
Posted Monday, December 30th 2013 at 4:56PM
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No Scrubs: How to Know if Your New Man Has a Future.
December 28, 2013 by Dr. Boyce Watkins
(ThyBlackMan.com) I speak to my daughters regularly about how to choose a good man. Of course, their preferences often differ from my own, and I accept ...
Posted Sunday, December 29th 2013 at 7:40PM
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The Testimony of Pastor Hagins' Transition from Christianity to Afrikan Consciousness
by Brother Ray Hagins
Hotep (Peace) Brothers & Sisters,
My (birth) name is Ray Hagins. My spiritual name is Sa Ra Ankh Hotep Maakheru Setep En Ra (which ...
Posted Saturday, December 28th 2013 at 6:55PM
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From Houston Forward Times
December 26, 2013
In a story that the Houston Forward Times (HFT) has been extensively covering, we have learned that the preliminary autopsy performed on Alfred Wright that showed that he was not a victim of homicide h ...
Posted Saturday, December 28th 2013 at 6:39PM
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CHICAGO (FinalCall.com) - The year 2013 saw George Zimmerman tried for the killing of unarmed teen Trayvon Martin and the case kept the country riveted. However, when Mr. Zimmerman was found not guilty, a wave of grief and anger swept over Black Amer ...
Posted Saturday, December 28th 2013 at 6:10PM
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WASHINGTON--A bullet fired during what was described as a running gun battle Thursday night on the plaza of the African American Civil War Memorial and Museum on U Street Northwest damaged a panel listing names of black soldiers who fought for the Un ...
Posted Friday, December 27th 2013 at 9:58PM
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By Professor Damon L. Fordham, MA
December 24, 2013
Most non historians’ knowledge of blacks during the 1800s tends to be an incomplete understanding of slavery as a time of complete illiteracy and ignorance for African Americans. It may surprise ...
Posted Thursday, December 26th 2013 at 7:08PM
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I can knit, mostly winter hats and scarves, which just sits up in one of my closets. I have no plans to sell my hats or scarves (I'm so proud of them because they are the first things I made when I learned to knit LOL).
I also do the cross-stitch ...
Posted Monday, December 23rd 2013 at 4:15PM
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Paul Mooney says it all. Hate it, love it, or despise it, this is the American justice system, and in some way, this goes on every day.
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Posted Sunday, December 22nd 2013 at 7:23PM
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The Top 10 Reasons Why I Don't Celebrate Christmas
Christmas is a hugely popular holiday celebrated by some 2 billion people worldwide. It's become such an ingrained part of modern culture that even people in nations with little or no Christian hi ...
Posted Sunday, December 22nd 2013 at 5:04PM
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Polaroid & Apartheid: Inside the Beginnings of the Boycott, Divestment Movement Against South Africa
From DemocracyNow.org
We look back at how African-American workers at Polaroid in Massachusetts helped launch the divestment movement agains ...
Posted Saturday, December 21st 2013 at 6:57PM
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