From Ebony Magazine
January 3, 2012
Finally, there will be one last Teena Marie album.
The Ivory Queen of Soul singer died suddenly back in 2010, and her 21-year-old daughter Alia Rose completed the album and will release it this month. At the ...
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LOUISIANA--On New Year's morning in New Orleans in 2009, 22-year-old Adolph Grimes III was killed by nine undercover police officers in a shooting just down the block from his grandmother's house. Grimes was shot at 48 times and hit 14 times. Twelve ...
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My prayers for each one of you as you strive to fulfill and concur your struggles and huddles for the coming year.
I truly believe that 2013 will be your year to shine and reveled what you been holding on inside of you, let go and let God show out in you.
I can’t wait to see the result in 20 ...
Posted Monday, December 31st 2012 at 8:14PM
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Fontella Bass, a gospel, blues and soul singer known to most of the music world as a one-hit wonder for "Rescue Me," died Wednesday of complications from an earlier heart attack. She was 72.
She had been in declining health in recent years, thoug ...
Posted Monday, December 31st 2012 at 5:42PM
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LOS ANGELES, Calif. — It turns out Spike Lee isn’t the only one angry with director Quentin Tarantino over his use of the “N-word” in “Django Unchained.”
Troubled comedian Katt Williams has now allegedly threatened to “punch” Tarantino in the ...
Posted Sunday, December 30th 2012 at 7:11PM
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Consider the times in which Laura Ann Scott Cansler, Knoxville's first African-American schoolteacher, lived.
Born in the western North Carolina hills some 15 years before the Civil War began, Cansler was a free black woman. (Her tombstone and 192 ...
Posted Sunday, December 30th 2012 at 6:25PM
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by Scotty Reid
A campaign was launched in November targeting R&B legend Stevie Wonder who planned to perform at a Los Angeles fundraiser for the Israeli Defense Forces who frequently are on the offense against the indigenous people of Palestine sinc ...
Posted Sunday, December 30th 2012 at 6:21PM
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“I was now about twelve years old, and the thought of being a slave for life began to bear heavily upon my heart. Just about this time, I got hold of a book entitled “The Columbian Orator.” Every opportunity I got, I used to read this book. Among muc ...
Posted Saturday, December 29th 2012 at 5:35PM
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RollingOut--Quentin Tarantino’s highly-anticipated Django Unchained hasn’t even hit theaters yet, but it’s already become the most controversial film of the season, with its central theme of slavery being mashed up with the extreme violence and humor ...
Posted Saturday, December 29th 2012 at 4:48PM
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Peace,
There are two questions that the Muslims are always asked, do we believe in Jesus, and what is the difference between Jesus Christ and Jesus?
My answers to the two questions are Yes, we believe in Jesus and all of the Prophets and Messe ...
Posted Saturday, December 29th 2012 at 4:35PM
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Vibe.com--Spike Lee said the film Django Unchained is an insult to blacks who suffered as slaves in the US and therefore he has no plans to see it, the African American director said on Twitter.
The Quentin Tarantino movie starring Jamie Foxx and ...
Posted Wednesday, December 26th 2012 at 12:50PM
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The seven-day festival of Kwanzaa, which celebrates African-American heritage and culture, runs from Wednesday, Dec. 26, to Tuesday, Jan. 1.
Noted on the official Kwanzaa Web site are remarks by founder Maulana Karenga, professor and chair of ...
Posted Wednesday, December 26th 2012 at 12:08PM
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Politicker.com--Former Republican presidential candidate blasted the New York Times on the website of his online TV network today in a column that claimed the paper put on “a white sheet and hood” by publishing an editorial that was critical of black ...
Posted Wednesday, December 26th 2012 at 12:00PM
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By Prof. James F. Tracy, December 20, 2012
Evidence suggests that 2 additional Sandy Hook shooting suspects were apprehended by police in the minutes following 9:35AM when officers were dispatched to the elementary school.
Emerging Contradict ...
Posted Friday, December 21st 2012 at 12:44PM
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NEW ORLEANS -- A New Orleans man faces serious charges after allegedly boarding a school bus with a gun and threatening to shoot students.
The incident took place Friday afternoon – several hours after the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. ...
Posted Thursday, December 20th 2012 at 10:58PM
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