Delight yourself by learning your royal lineage:)
Sunni Ali Ber
King of Songhay 1464 to 1492
When Sunni Ali Ber came to power, Songhay was a small kingdom in the western Sudan. But during his twenty-eight-year reign, it grew into the largest, ...
Posted Sunday, September 30th 2012 at 5:06PM
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A fight broke out backstage at the BET Hip Hop Awards tonight between Rick Ross and Young Jeezy that resulted in shots being fired .. sources at the awards tell TMZ.
According to our sources, Ross and Jeezy exchanged words backstage and started p ...
Posted Saturday, September 29th 2012 at 11:34PM
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look at how black is beautiful ,,,,
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Posted Saturday, September 29th 2012 at 8:49PM
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I painted my living room ,ok i had it done ....
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Posted Saturday, September 29th 2012 at 8:22PM
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"I've been on many stages, been around the world, but nothing feels like tonight," Jay-Z told the crowd Friday night during his inaugural blow-out at Brooklyn's Barclays Center. He reeled off a few of the other noted houses he's rocked: the Grammys, ...
Posted Saturday, September 29th 2012 at 8:05PM
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Have you noticed lately that everyone else is getting credit for the president being in the lead except President Obama? It was the cohesive Democratic message at the convention -- it was Bill Clinton bringing it home -- it was Mitt Romney being ton ...
Posted Saturday, September 29th 2012 at 6:20PM
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Earlier this week, the Census Bureau released its latest income and poverty data for the year 2011. The major headline in most newspapers and media outlets was the notion that the national poverty rate remained virtually unchanged from the previous y ...
Posted Saturday, September 29th 2012 at 6:14PM
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random pics of blackness
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Posted Saturday, September 29th 2012 at 6:09PM
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Sixteen-year-old Gabrielle Douglas cemented her spot in history last week, as the first African American to win the all-around women’s gold medal in Olympic gymnastics. But in addition to her newfound fame, Douglas is also taking home a hefty tax bur ...
Posted Saturday, September 29th 2012 at 1:32PM
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n a bit of political satire in Politico, Paul Ryan is now calling Mitt Romney “The Stench”, as in stench of defeat, and Team Romney refers to Paul Ryan as “Gilligan”. While it may be just humor, it has the air of hitting pretty close to the mark. R ...
Posted Friday, September 28th 2012 at 7:01PM
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Mitt Romney tried to gather some enthusiasm for his fledgling campaign during at a stop in Ohio this week. After the crowd can be heard clapping and cheering for Romney’s running mate Paul Ryan, Romney tried to get a piece of the action by getting th ...
Posted Friday, September 28th 2012 at 5:20PM
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Ann Coulter brought her controversial topics to The View in order to promote her new book “Mugged”. About a minute into the conversation Whoopi interrupts her with, “Oh you know what, hold up Ms. Coulter, please stop. Please stop. If you are going to ...
Posted Friday, September 28th 2012 at 5:14PM
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Why are HBCUs struggling to survive and thrive today? It’s a question some really smart people within and outside the academy wrestle with perennially. There are a host of explanations, most of which inevitably tie back into arguments about historical and continued underfunding ...
Posted Friday, September 28th 2012 at 1:23PM
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NEW YORK – The NAACP Legal Defense Fund filed a complaint Thursday charging that an admissions test given to students at eight elite New York City high schools discriminates against blacks and Latinos.
The complaint filed with the U.S. Department ...
Posted Friday, September 28th 2012 at 1:20PM
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As top college administrators gather in Washington this week for the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s 42nd annual Legislative Conference and next week’s White House Initiative on Black Colleges conference, the networking conversations about th ...
Posted Friday, September 28th 2012 at 1:18PM
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As of this week, anti-Islamic ads reading, “In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad” are legally being displayed in subways across New York City.
The ads are funded by the Ameri ...
Posted Thursday, September 27th 2012 at 3:49PM
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He may have risked his life and career fighting against segregation in the United States alongside the likes of Martin Luther King, but at 85, Harry Belafonte is still vocal about social injustice.
Speaking to an NYU journalism class last Monday — the anniversary of Occupy Wall Street — Belafonte ...
Posted Thursday, September 27th 2012 at 3:47PM
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We could turn the tables on the many problems in our nation if we placed God as a real priority in our lives. It is not a time to be a Closet Christian, a 007 Secret Agent Saint, or any other type Holy Undercover Operative. It is time for the real ch ...
Posted Thursday, September 27th 2012 at 12:36PM
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In a normal election, a stagnant economy and global unrest would be pretty tricky things for an incumbent president to campaign with, but for Barack Obama they're a walk in the park. Why? Because Mitt Romney keeps messing up all the freakin' time.
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Posted Thursday, September 27th 2012 at 12:21PM
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Eddie Murphy’s ex-wife Nicole Murphy is shunning rumors that she broke-up with her fiance, ex-NFL star Michael Strahan. The rumors began when a source revealed that Nicole and Michael were engaged in a heated argument over some steamy text messages f ...
Posted Thursday, September 27th 2012 at 12:16PM
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