USATODAY.com--If you haven’t been to West Columbia, South Carolina odds are you may not have heard of the Mexican restaurant Taco Cid.
On its website the restaurant states, “We’re not national, we’re not fancy.”
But after Corey Hutchins, a re ...
Posted Tuesday, January 8th 2013 at 2:51PM
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By: Henry Louis Gates Jr.|Posted: January 7, 2013 at 12:24 AM
(The Root) -- Amazing Fact About the Negro No. 13: What happened to the "40 acres and a mule" that former slaves were promised?
We've all heard the story of the "40 acres and a mul ...
Posted Tuesday, January 8th 2013 at 2:34PM
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Coca-cola recommended as 'medical cure' for stomach blockages
10:41AM GMT 07 Jan 2013
The bubbles and chemical make-up of coca-cola makes the beverage an effective cure for getting rid of stomach blockages, a medical study has revealed, with doct ...
Posted Monday, January 7th 2013 at 11:02AM
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In this April 16, 2008 photo, Mamie J. Rearden, poses with her daughters Martha O. Reardon, left, and Mary R. McCain in Edgefield, S.C.
ABCNews.com--A 114-year-old South Carolina woman who was the oldest living U.S. citizen has died, two of her d ...
Posted Sunday, January 6th 2013 at 6:06PM
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by Ronald Roach
January 1, 2013
Dr. Ibram H. Rogers says he is “serious and passionate about using the lessons of the past to strive for a better present and future as it relates to race relations on campus.”
In the award-winning book, The Bla ...
Posted Sunday, January 6th 2013 at 5:09PM
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PHILADELPHIA--A math teacher at an exclusive Philadelphia prep school claims in a racial-discrimination suit that he was fired without cause after school officials alleged he sent inappropriate text messages to a female student.
Attorneys for Arth ...
Posted Sunday, January 6th 2013 at 3:06PM
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Very rarely does a book come with a money-back guarantee. But that is precisely the case when you invest in Slaves with Swag by Daryl T. Hinmon, a riveting read which endeavors to fill in some of the blanks in black history.
For, it is the aut ...
Posted Saturday, January 5th 2013 at 4:32PM
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Re-education of the Negro
By Kirsten West Savali
Posted 1/1/2013 9:12 am
This letter is part of our "Letters to Our Ancestors" project. In celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, we've asked members of our communit ...
Posted Saturday, January 5th 2013 at 3:58PM
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12-year-old business owner Maya Penn penned advice to budding entrepreneurs on how to run a start-up. Penn is the owner of Maya’s Ideas, a virtual store that sells 100% eco-friendly, environmentally sustainable, fashionable accessories and clothi ...
Posted Saturday, January 5th 2013 at 2:30PM
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COLUMBUS, Ohio --The Columbus homeless man whose silky voice made him a web phenomenon in 2011 is now using his past to help others who are struggling like he once was.
Ted Williams, the so-called "Golden Voice" now has a contract with Kraft Maca ...
Posted Saturday, January 5th 2013 at 2:18PM
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CHICAGO, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- Seven candidates have filed petitions in Illinois to run for Jesse Jackson Jr.'s vacated congressional seat, officials said.
Candidates were allowed to begin filing with the Illinois State Board of Elections Thursday for ...
Posted Friday, January 4th 2013 at 11:32PM
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The Ethnic Cleansing of Historically Black Colleges and Universities
by Jahi Issa, Ph.D.
January 1, 2013
Despite the long and loud verbal commitment of the Black Misleadership class to HBCUs, the deference and dependence of black leadership t ...
Posted Friday, January 4th 2013 at 11:39AM
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Angela Davis, a retired professor, political activist and the third woman ever named to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list, will be in Grand Forks Feb. 6 as a diversity speaker selected by the UND University Program Council.
Davis will be part of UN ...
Posted Thursday, January 3rd 2013 at 4:09PM
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Tami Roman has entered 2013 with two major accomplishments including a new commercial with NV Clinical. Roman's ad with the dietary supplement company debuted Monday, Dec. 31 and showcases her tremendous weight loss.
"I've tried to lose weight so ...
Posted Thursday, January 3rd 2013 at 3:53PM
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Fantasia has been the center of controversy because she dated and subsequently had a baby with a married man. However, she may not have handled the criticism well at times and sometime even appeared depressed during the taping of her reality TV show ...
Posted Thursday, January 3rd 2013 at 3:46PM
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Why Are Dogs Racist? Canine Experts Speak
Hamilton Nolan
Dogs: why are they so racist? You know the type: prancing along as merry as can be until a human of a certain skin tone walks by, and then—bang!—all the barking and snarling and biting. I ...
Posted Thursday, January 3rd 2013 at 2:29PM
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A ninth-grade student in western Wisconsin has been suspended for placing “some kind of KKK symbol” and a macramé noose on a black student’s desk.
Baldwin-Woodville High School Principal Eric Russell suspended the boy, who is white, on Dec. 14 af ...
Posted Thursday, January 3rd 2013 at 2:24PM
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Julian Marley, raves about India's energetic audience and its abundance of love
INDIA--He has his father's dreadlocks and Rastafari spirit, and Julian Marley - Bob Marley's son with Lucy Pounder - says that just like his legendary father's music, ...
Posted Thursday, January 3rd 2013 at 2:21PM
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