God willing, this Sunday, December 28, 2014 at 8:00 p.m. EST please join your Marriage and Relationship Servants, Brother Marcus and Sister Cecelia, and the powerful Student Representatives of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan as we collectively address our last show of 2014! This week we will ...
Posted Sunday, December 28th 2014 at 7:09AM
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TEXAS CITY - The last time Kathey Kelley saw her son, Carlton “Chimmy” Smith, he was surrounded by friends and family celebrating Christmas at her brother’s house in La Marque.
But a few hours later, her 20-year-old son, who friends and f ...
Posted Saturday, December 27th 2014 at 3:34PM
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In anticipation of The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan's desire to lead the Muslim community to Mecca for Hajj (Pilgrimage) in the near future. Here's a Photo to Inspire Us.
Here we see a smiling Minister Farrakhan with his delegation in Mecca ...
Posted Thursday, December 25th 2014 at 4:10PM
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The Beginning
The original God-Men of the Nile, Kemetians, Canaanites, Hittites and Moabites were the world’s first Astronomers. They recorded the exact timing and beginning of the four seasons within a calendar year. “Solstice”, pronounced ...
Posted Wednesday, December 24th 2014 at 6:06PM
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The little book that could, Sojourn to Honduras Sojourn to Healing, says chickpeas, an alkaline legume, is one of the best food sources, far healthier than beans and rice, white rice, which is what is eaten in Cuba now. To send more is a travesty of ...
Posted Sunday, December 21st 2014 at 6:14PM
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Woodbury, New York - On November 13, 2014 at the Crest Hollow Country Club, Woodbury, New York two LIAACC Attorneys received the Prestigious Leadership in Law Award presented by Long Island Business News. LIAACC members Sacha Comrie of Martin Molina ...
Posted Friday, December 19th 2014 at 7:57AM
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What’s next for Assata Shakur? With Havana’s humanitarian release of American Alan Gross—A USAID worker who had been imprisoned in Cuba for five years on accusations of espionage—President Obama announced a resumption in relations between the ...
Posted Thursday, December 18th 2014 at 5:23PM
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On December 17, 2008, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan was invited by Reverend Dr. Michael Pfleger of The Faith Community of St. Sabina, to deliver remarks at an emotional anti-violence rally at the Illinois State Building in downtown Chicago. ...
Posted Thursday, December 18th 2014 at 1:52PM
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President and Michelle Obama personally identify with everyday experiences of racial bias in America that have underpinned recent protests across the country, they told People magazine in an interview to be released Friday.
“Barack Obama was a ...
Posted Thursday, December 18th 2014 at 1:31PM
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BATON ROUGE--Mychal Bell, who made national headlines a few years ago as part of the ‘Jena Six,’ has graduated from Southern University.
According to a graduate list supplied by the school, Bell received a bachelor’s degree in interdisciplin ...
Posted Thursday, December 18th 2014 at 1:25PM
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
#GETCOVERED BY 11:59pm (TONIGHT!)
Thursday 12/18 is deadline to apply or renew for health coverage & financial help starting 1/1.
Be Sure To Finish Enrolling for Your Health Insurance Plan Now!!
Find free local ...
Posted Thursday, December 18th 2014 at 9:39AM
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Westbury, New York - On December 10, 2014 the Long Island African American Chamber of Commerce, Inc.(LIAACC) held its Annual Holiday Celebration, Awards Ceremony, and Toy Drive at NYCB Theatre of Westbury, LIAACC's members and small business owners ...
Posted Saturday, December 13th 2014 at 11:28PM
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HOT OFF THE PRESS!
Enjoy your copy of the last Issue of 2014 LOP Community Newsletter. We'll Be Back in January 2015!
Pres. Obama speaks About Women In STEM, Meeting with Exports Council, Immigration Town Hall, and Early Education Grant Inform ...
Posted Saturday, December 13th 2014 at 11:23AM
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PORTLAND, OREGON--Mariann Hyland made a vow 10 years ago, after Portland Police fatally shot 21-year-old Kendra James during a routine traffic stop.
Hyland, a Portland lawyer who is African American, promised to teach young black people how to su ...
Posted Wednesday, December 10th 2014 at 12:05PM
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CHICAGO--DuPage County sheriff’s records allege that 911 received a frantic call from the boy’s dad, Michael Cattron Sr., 46, stating his son had been shot and was laying in a pool of blood. When investigators arrived on the scene, the boy was no ...
Posted Wednesday, December 10th 2014 at 11:59AM
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Researchers working with Brockington Cultural Resources Consulting believe they have found the remnants of Gadsden’s Wharf in South Carolina, where an estimated 100,000 enslaved Africans arrived in America.
“It is the place of arrival for a hu ...
Posted Wednesday, December 10th 2014 at 11:37AM
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The AUDELCO Awards began promptly at 7:00 p.m. at the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre at Symphony Space located at 2537 Broadway at 95th Street in New York City. The theme for this year’s 42nd Annual Vivian Robinson/AUDELCO Recognition Awards for Excellenc ...
Posted Monday, December 8th 2014 at 8:39AM
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In recent weeks, the list of celebrities who have publicly defended Bill Cosby against his multiple sexual abuse accusations have included from Jill Scott, Whoopi Goldberg, and Cee Lo Green. And now longtime Cosby associate, Debbie Allen has shared h ...
Posted Sunday, December 7th 2014 at 8:02PM
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A letter to our African-American sons
Emma McElvaney Talbott, Special to The Courier-Journal 12:07 a.m. EST December 6, 2014
Dear African-American sons:
What just played out in Ferguson, Mo., and in Sanford, Fla., is nothing new. These stori ...
Posted Sunday, December 7th 2014 at 7:48PM
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In life, Marion Barry Jr. was known for his entrances, his sense of when to step into a room, light up a crowd and put himself at the center of the action — often conspicuously late.
In death, Barry delivered a remarkable exit, a three-day spec ...
Posted Saturday, December 6th 2014 at 8:05PM
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Autopsy Shows Mentally Ill Man Shot From Behind and Above, 14 Times
December 3, 2014
BreakingBrown reported in October that the officer who killed Dontre Hamilton had been fired from the Milwaukee Police Department. Now an autopsy confirms that t ...
Posted Saturday, December 6th 2014 at 2:56PM
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'Why did you have to shoot him?' Devastated girl, 9, writes letter to Phoenix cop who killed her father
Dec 4th 2014 5:26PM
By RYAN GORMAN
The young daughter of an unarmed black male gunned down by a white Phoenix cop this week has written a ...
Posted Saturday, December 6th 2014 at 2:46PM
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