An article in The New York Times this week quoted a prosecutor in Detroit as saying that race relations seemed more troubled than ever: “I think when the president was elected it became much more overt.” Is she right?
Have racial tensions in the U ...
Posted Friday, November 29th 2013 at 7:25PM
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Breaking News! Marissa Alexander is free from jail in time to spend Thanksgiving with family she has not seen for much of the last three years.
The Florida woman – who had been serving a 20-year sentence for firing what she described as a warning ...
Posted Friday, November 29th 2013 at 3:59AM
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A Star, More Than Just a Voice, Is Back Onstage With Her Magnetism Intact
Lauryn Hill Re-Emerges at the Bowery Ballroom
It wasn’t just a club date and the start of a tour; it was also a video shoot. When Lauryn Hill performed at the Bowery Ballro ...
Posted Friday, November 29th 2013 at 3:53AM
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Karma isn't fate. Nor is it a punishment imposed on us by some external agent. We create our own karma. Karma is the result of the choices that we make every moment of every day.
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Posted Thursday, November 28th 2013 at 5:59PM
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The Best Man Holiday was beyond a good movie. It truly exposed real love,friendship, loyalty, empathy and compassion. The message in the movie was indeed heart felt.
T,HOWARD was a fool ! ...
Posted Thursday, November 28th 2013 at 5:48PM
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Last night marked the premiere of Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s original PBS documentary "The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross."
The introspective, six-part, six-hour series, hosted by the Harvard scholar, social critic and filmmaker, examines th ...
Posted Thursday, November 28th 2013 at 4:35PM
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People have crossed to many lines and have destroyed trust which has lead to back biting and conflict ,,,could even lead to a serious beat down or murder ,,,
Seems to me there are a few people that want to see the site grow you know the ones that ...
Posted Thursday, November 28th 2013 at 5:10AM
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Do you love to read just as much as I do?
In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizen ...
Posted Thursday, November 28th 2013 at 12:05AM
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Educated Black People like foreign cars.You know I got that 750 li 2012 ,its a sweet ride but did you know my girl /wife got that 550 MSB sedan amg Something about the undergraduate degree just makes American made cars inadequate. Now, the type of B ...
Posted Wednesday, November 27th 2013 at 11:51PM
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Africans from all walks of life must identify and learn basic events that have been grossly misrepresented. World history began at the heart of Africa and spread throughout the continent. The main method of development was its waterways of the Nile, ...
Posted Wednesday, November 27th 2013 at 4:54PM
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This is not Obama’s Katrina
The Cycle’s Toure explains why his “false equivalency of the year” award goes to the idea that the Obamacare rollout is the president’s Katrina moment ...
Posted Tuesday, November 19th 2013 at 10:43PM
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STAMFORD, Conn. – After white supremacist Craig Cobb learned that he was 14% black while in front of a live studio audience for the Trisha Goddard Show, he decided to “end the humiliation” by lynching himself, according to members in attendance.
“I ...
Posted Tuesday, November 19th 2013 at 6:24PM
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Well here we go…a white writer recently wrote this post and it was read on New York radio station by CBS broadcaster, Dee Lee. It’s an interesting article in the vein of the Willie Lynch letter that was written years ago but sadly some of it rings tr ...
Posted Tuesday, November 19th 2013 at 2:59AM
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Dashboard camera video shows a Tennessee woman and her 14-year-old son fighting with police during a traffic stop that turned into a high speed chase in October. The video was released by KRQE on Friday and has since gone viral.
Oriana Ferrell an ...
Posted Tuesday, November 19th 2013 at 1:37AM
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Whoopi Goldberg makes a great point early in this clip about racial diversity on television and in movies, and then one man steps up to the mic and totally blows her away. ...
Posted Monday, November 18th 2013 at 8:26PM
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Documentary producer Glenn Towery of Fairy Godbrother Productions is totally through with Charles Barkely and Shaquille O’Neal.
And why is that you ask? Because, during a discussion on TNT post game show Thursday night, while discussing the Matt Bar ...
Posted Monday, November 18th 2013 at 7:47PM
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When Oprah speaks people listen.
And you can count on one of those listening being Rush Limbaugh.
Well somebody had to say it and Oprah went there!!
Oprah said "Obama is disrespected because he's black"
read more http://bit.ly/1bV4koJ
now Rus ...
Posted Monday, November 18th 2013 at 6:48PM
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That’s why they were called “knights” after the night or darkness of their skin.
An African king named Gormund ruled Ireland during the Anglo-Saxon period in England reports the medieval historian Geoffrey of Monmouth.
Halfdan the Black was ...
Posted Monday, November 18th 2013 at 6:26PM
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With her toothless grin, floppy hat and tell-it-like-it-is persona, Moms Mabley may be one of the most influential comedians you don’t know. She rose to fame in the early decades of the 20th century on the chitlins circuit — the collection of stages ...
Posted Sunday, November 17th 2013 at 8:02PM
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INTERRACIAL RELATIONSHIP IN THE MAYORS OFFICE ,,,WHITE MAN ,,BLACK WIFE BLACK CHILDREN ,,,I THINK THIS IS GOOD FOR THE COUNTRY ,,,WHAT DO YOU THINK ! ...
Posted Sunday, November 17th 2013 at 6:18PM
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SUNDAY JOKE OF THE DAY IS ,,YACOB SAINT JAKES GOT SUNDAY JOKES
REAL CHILDISH ,,,NEED TO GROW ,,,,UP ! ...
Posted Sunday, November 17th 2013 at 5:25PM
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