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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The characteristics of a virtuous woman have been explored in religious texts and in the works of philosophers throughout the ages. While each source can vary on the exact details, there are a few common principles that most great thinkers agree on. If you are aiming to be a v ...
Posted Friday, June 20th 2014 at 11:38AM
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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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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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As a Veterans Affairs Employee, I am part of a diverse team serving America's heroes.
At the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), employees and interns from all nationalities and backgrounds work together to improve Veterans' lives - in an environ ...
Posted Wednesday, June 18th 2014 at 10:59AM
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Today is a new day — and a new day is a new opportunity for God to do something amazing in your life.
You don’t have to wait for tomorrow, for next week, for next month or for next year...
Favor, blessings, healing, breakthrough, increase ...
Posted Tuesday, June 17th 2014 at 11:18AM
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By AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE | June 17, 2014
LONDON, June 17- Queen Elizabeth II welcomed Chinese Premier Li Keqiang to Windsor Castle on Tuesday on a visit to Britain which aims to repair strained relations between London and Beijing.
Dozens of Ch ...
Posted Tuesday, June 17th 2014 at 10:53AM
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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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At NCCU, we're proud of our past, but we measure our success today by our students' achievements. This is what makes us "happy." ...
Posted Monday, June 16th 2014 at 11:24AM
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Angelina Jolie can add royal recognition to Hollywood stardom. The Oscar-winning actress has been named an honorary dame — the female version of a knight — by Britain's Queen Elizabeth II.
Jolie, a United Nations special envoy, received the honor on Friday for her work combating sexual violence i ...
Posted Saturday, June 14th 2014 at 11:35AM
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Father's Day is here and what better way to honor the man of the house than by looking, and smelling brand new! To get your gorgeous on for the Special day, head to the nearest Target
store or log on to: http://www.carolsdaughter.com
Invest in y ...
Posted Saturday, June 14th 2014 at 8:02AM
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This evening I attended a recruitment event for an information technology behemoth that was organized by HBCU CONNECT, one of the first online media companies to focus on HBCUs. Within five minutes after the presentations began, I knew with the absolute ce ...
Posted Friday, June 13th 2014 at 10:49PM
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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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Marriage can be really hard. And I don’t say that lightly. Marriage can be and often is really, really hard.
Do you ever ask yourself why?
You may be thinking, “I know why! It’s that man I’m married to!”
Ahem… I’ve been there.
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Posted Friday, June 13th 2014 at 5:00PM
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