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 awar ...
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 human ...
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 tw ...
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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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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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 — the ...
Posted Tuesday, June 17th 2014 at 11:18AM
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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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