With the recent suicide of Lee Thompson Young, The Famous Jett Jackson star, who most recently played Detective Barry Frost on TNT’s Rizzoli & Isles, I felt compelled to write this post. He was 29. Young black men are dying at such an alarm rate from ...
Posted Sunday, September 29th 2013 at 1:24PM
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FOR THE NAMES SEE PIC AND FOLLOW THE LINK
http://jecarter4.tumblr.com/post/62446946046/33-members-of-congress-who-have-benefited-from-farm ...
Posted Friday, September 27th 2013 at 11:11PM
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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT!........POWERFUL!!
Slavery by Another ( this is the full program )
http://video.pbs.org/video/2176766758/
Slavery by Another Name is a 90-minute documentary that challenges one of Americans’ most cherished assumptions: th ...
Posted Friday, September 27th 2013 at 1:59PM
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It’s no secret that the United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world or that the population of our prisons has literally exploded since the 1980′s when Ronald Reagan first declared the “war on drugs.” What might not be as we ...
Posted Friday, September 27th 2013 at 1:56PM
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Plan to join your fellow alumni at the Washington Square campus on Saturday, October 19, 2013. Register by October 1 to receive a discounted registration fee of $10 (the fee will be $15 after October 1). Your registration fee includes:
A contine ...
Posted Friday, September 27th 2013 at 1:50PM
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WBLS 107.5
Is this a good idea?
The New Harlem East Merchants Association wants to pay the homeless to clean up trash-strewn stretch of filthy E. 125th St. The merchants group has started raising money for the unconventional plan, which will invo ...
Posted Friday, September 27th 2013 at 1:42PM
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Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has welcomed a new addition to the Romney clan.
On Friday he tweeted, “Our 22nd grandchild was officially adopted today: Kieran James Romney,” alongside a photograph of a cute African-American b ...
Posted Thursday, September 26th 2013 at 11:24PM
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,convicted of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon for firing a gun over the head of her husband in order to stop physical abuse, has been granted a new trial.
The Florida mother was sentenced to 20 years in prison in May 2012. Alexander testif ...
Posted Thursday, September 26th 2013 at 10:34PM
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HIV Among Youth - HIV/AIDS is a serious issue among young African-Americans. http://bet.us/1b60OZ8 ...
Posted Thursday, September 26th 2013 at 12:49PM
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Can Historically Black Colleges and Universities Be Saved? - George Cooper discusses HBCU fiscal challenges. http://bet.us/18qdfwx ...
Posted Thursday, September 26th 2013 at 12:48PM
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