NEW YORK--Spike Lee's new one has bite.
Brooklyn's best known independent filmmaker was in attendance Sunday at New York's SVA Theater in Chelsea, wearing a summer straw hat and Team USA World Cup jersey, debuting his latest flick "Da Sweet Blood ...
Posted Wednesday, June 25th 2014 at 9:58AM
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KUALA LUMPUR, June 23, 2014
Malaysia’s top court on Monday upheld a government ban forbidding non-Muslims from using “Allah” to refer to God.
The government says Allah should be reserved exclusively for Muslims who make up nearly two-thi ...
Posted Tuesday, June 24th 2014 at 11:08AM
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IT's LOP LIVE!
Watch the video and learn more about the White House Working Families Summit, USDE 2014 Presidential Scholars and Maryland Developmental Disability Council Accepting LISS Grant Applications...
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Posted Monday, June 23rd 2014 at 3:35PM
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IT's LOP LIVE!
Watch the video and learn more about the White House Working Families Summit, USDE 2014 Presidential Scholars and Maryland Developmental Disability Council Accepting LISS Grant Applications...
Participate, Join the conversations, ...
Posted Monday, June 23rd 2014 at 3:35PM
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AUSTIN--The number of black-owned businesses in Texas is growing but the firms remain small in comparison to other Texas businesses, and their owners face barriers to growth and profitability, according to a new report from the Bureau of Business Res ...
Posted Sunday, June 22nd 2014 at 4:49PM
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A rare oil painting of an African slave from circa 1733 has been acquired by Virginia’s Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, which runs the history museums at the Jamestown Settlement and Yorktown Victory Center. The portrait is one of a pair of painting ...
Posted Sunday, June 22nd 2014 at 4:36PM
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VIRGINIA--At 111-years-old Lela Babb Burden has proven that it’s never too late to get your education. Burden was awarded an honorary high school diploma from Booker T. Washington High School. Norfolk Public Schools superintendent Samuel T. King aw ...
Posted Saturday, June 21st 2014 at 5:40PM
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From theguardian.com
Thursday 19 June 2014
Speaking at a burial ground for hundreds African slaves in New York in commemoration of Juneteenth – the day in 1865 when Texas learned that the civil war had ended – Ilyasah Shabazz, daughter of hu ...
Posted Friday, June 20th 2014 at 12:18PM
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TEXAS--The activist Dallas group Mothers Against Police Brutality slammed officers’ fatal shooting of a mentally ill man during the weekend.
Police said Saturday that Jason Harrison, 38, charged at officers with a screwdriver in hand, prompting ...
Posted Friday, June 20th 2014 at 9:36AM
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JACKSONVILLE--It took them a while to get with the times. Now they're paying the price.
A Florida school that has long been named after a Confederate general who was the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan is finally taking down signs with his ...
Posted Friday, June 20th 2014 at 9:32AM
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By Richard B. Muhammad
Jun 17, 2014
Since the 1960s and 1970s in what would today be called urban novels and movies, the persona of the pimp was presented as a model for Black males in the ghetto.
From Max Julian in the 1973 movie “The Mack ...
Posted Friday, June 20th 2014 at 9:22AM
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June 16, 2014
As-Salaam Alaikum (Peace Be Unto You)
Another great one has passed into the pantheon of our ancestry. It is with great sorrow that we mourn the loss of Ruby Dee, a woman who was passionately concerned about the condition of her people and the condition of the world. Although she ...
Posted Friday, June 20th 2014 at 9:17AM
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God willing, this Sunday, June 22, 2014 at 8:00 p.m. EST. please join your Marriage and Relationship Servants, Brother Marcus and Sister Cecelia, as we discuss the topic, “Why do men continue to struggle to express our love to our wives in 2014?” ...
Posted Friday, June 20th 2014 at 12:46AM
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Hot off the Press!
Learn about why Immigration Reform is an urgent matter from President Obama;
US Internship Applications Being Accepted;
Learn how successful the WHIEEAA was at Laney College;
Are you ready to be a NAMI Smart Advocate? ...
Posted Wednesday, June 18th 2014 at 7:42PM
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IT'S LOP LIVE!
Watch the video and learn more about Canon Flag Day Celebration in North Dakota with President Obam, Indian tribes;
The WHIEEAA at Laney College a GREAT Success; were you there?
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Posted Monday, June 16th 2014 at 8:15PM
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Bought a new laptop recently (a Gateway which runs on Windows 8) and the Norton anti-virus protection expired. I downloaded Microsoft Security Essentials to my computer and now EVERY TIME I go from page to page all of these different pop-up ads appea ...
Posted Friday, June 13th 2014 at 5:33PM
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Happy Father's Day to all of our brothers and the men who sacrifice everything to be the Fathers and Husbands and examples that their families and our community so desperately need! God willing, this Sunday, June 15, 2014 at 8:00 p.m. EST. please joi ...
Posted Friday, June 13th 2014 at 12:21PM
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TODAY at 6 p.m., Pacific, the White House Initiative for Ed. Ex. for African-Americans is at Laney College, Oakland, CA:
Register if you plan to attend and read more about it at http://www.laney.edu/wp/
Don't forget to share with your fr ...
Posted Friday, June 13th 2014 at 10:57AM
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From National Public Radio
June 12, 2014
Rashema Melson lives in the D.C. General homeless shelter with her mother and two brothers. "Because you live in a shelter — that's not who you are, that's just where you reside at for the moment," she s ...
Posted Thursday, June 12th 2014 at 8:50PM
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RUBY DEE LEGENDARY ACTRESS AND CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST DIES AT 89
47 MINUTES AGO BY TMZ STAFF
Ruby Dee -- one of the legendary actresses in Hollywood and on Broadway -- died Wednesday night ... TMZ has learned.
Ruby was at home in New Rochelle, ...
Posted Thursday, June 12th 2014 at 12:56PM
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