A city is looking for answers after a one-year-old New Orleans girl was gunned down in the arms of her babysitter while they were on a walk down a city street late this week.
Little Londyn Samuels was killed after a bullet continued through the ba ...
Posted Sunday, September 1st 2013 at 6:44PM
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TENNESSEE--Dr. Robert Sidonio Jr., a hematologist, diagnosed four babies with vitamin K deficiency bleeding.
A bleeding disorder in babies so rare that it typically affects fewer than one in 100,000 is becoming more common in Tennessee because pa ...
Posted Thursday, August 29th 2013 at 12:09PM
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This was the "Question Of The Day" on a hip hop radio station. It went something like this:
"My husband and father of my 3 children and I have been married for 4 years. At a bad point in our relationship he cheated and the woman had twin boys and ...
Posted Tuesday, August 27th 2013 at 9:38PM
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PLEASE PASS THIS MESSAGE ALONG!!!
IF YOU USE FACEBOOK, TWITTER, INSTAGRAM, ETC., WHEN YOU LEAVE YOUR HOME, DO NOT TELL PEOPLE ON THOSE SOCIAL NETWORKS THAT YOU HAVE LEFT YOUR HOME. I KNOW TWO BROTHERS WHO POSTED "AT THE MOVIES," AND "AT THE HOSPIT ...
Posted Tuesday, August 27th 2013 at 9:30PM
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Fighting for the rights of Detroiters
Brother or sister:
We've all heard bits and pieces about what's going on in Detroit from the mainstream media. Every major news outlet has been buzzing over the past 2 weeks about the bankruptcy filing in Det ...
Posted Tuesday, August 27th 2013 at 11:47AM
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Peace,
The March on Washington to promote Civil Rights and economic equality remains one of the most famous events in American history. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. offered a transcendent vision of racial harmony for our future with his "I Have a D ...
Posted Tuesday, August 27th 2013 at 10:42AM
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The following article contains a distillation of the hour-long message delivered by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan as Part 27 of his 52-week Lecture Series “The Time and What Must Be Done.” This message originally aired on Saturday, July 13, ...
Posted Monday, August 26th 2013 at 12:02PM
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An email popped up a few days ago that caught my eye.
The subject line carried this entry: “What black parents must do this summer.”
I immediately opened it and noticed that it had a lot of helpful information from Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu, an autho ...
Posted Sunday, July 7th 2013 at 4:58PM
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Conservative radio host Michael Savage told his audience on Tuesday that the 911 call made by George Zimmerman on the night he shot and killed Florida teen Trayvon Martin proves that he should not be acquitted. Further, Savage said that the state of ...
Posted Saturday, July 6th 2013 at 4:03PM
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AP--Two leading South Africans have called for an end to a bitter row among members of Nelson Mandela's family over the reburial of three of his children.
Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe said he hoped the public dispute could be resolved in a " ...
Posted Saturday, July 6th 2013 at 3:27PM
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According to recent data from the National Opinion Research Center's General Social Survey, American wives were nearly 40 percent more likely to be cheating on their spouses in 2010 than in 1990. The number of husbands reporting infidelity, meanw ...
Posted Saturday, July 6th 2013 at 2:40PM
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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.
G ...
Posted Friday, July 5th 2013 at 11:59AM
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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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(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 ...
Posted Monday, July 1st 2013 at 12:45PM
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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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