By SUSAN DONALDSON JAMES
May 5, 2011
Doctors said 2-year-old Cash Hyde would likely die after they found a stage 4 brain tumor surrounding his optic nerve just a year ago this week.
And he nearly did. After being subjected to seven different c ...
Posted Sunday, July 17th 2011 at 7:03PM
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Sarah Hussein Obama, grandmother of U.S. Democratic president Barack Obama, sits in the living room of her house in the village of Kogelo, near the shores of Lake Victoria, Kenya, Feb. 5, 2008. (AP Photo) date
By BRIAN ROSS (@brianross) and DANA ...
Posted Sunday, July 17th 2011 at 6:47PM
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I am not a follower. Now that presents a problem. I have to follow something, because by merely existing on this planet one is biologically wired to follow something, Be it a food trail, shelter, warmth or thirst. And that trail has to lead to satisf ...
Posted Sunday, July 17th 2011 at 6:26PM
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Yesterday morning President Obama met with His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama in the Map Room of the White House. Here's the statement from the Press Secretary on their meeting:
The President reiterated his strong support for the preservation of ...
Posted Sunday, July 17th 2011 at 6:07PM
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http://www.birthplacemag.com/2011/07/brooklyn-hip-hop-festival/ or http://tiny.cc/2u5uc
Yes today was the iconic Hip Hop Festival..but somehow the o.g's were sitting this one out preferring to lounge at the beach.
We're talking 1980's here wh ...
Posted Saturday, July 16th 2011 at 10:17PM
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On Not Being Black Enough
Re posted from :http://morenas-bohio.blogspot.com/
This here is another case of not being "Black" enough for the African-Americans and not being "Spanish" enough for the Latino's. I discovered this at one of the colleg ...
Posted Saturday, July 16th 2011 at 10:07PM
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http://pleasecutthecrap.typepad.com/main/what-has-obama-done-since-january-20-2009.html
People are keeping tabs..don't get left out in the ignorant pen. Keep in mind a lot of folks did NOT want to get off the plantation when slavery ended. ...
Posted Saturday, July 16th 2011 at 9:32PM
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Promoting the professional well-being of African American physicists and physics students within the international scientific community and within society at large.
http://www.nsbp.org/
Someone asked for my friendship here and they had all thes ...
Posted Saturday, July 16th 2011 at 9:15PM
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http://www.blackmediajungle.com/exclusive-video-inside-monicas-big-wedding-day/
All I have to say, is may they be filled with love, good health and wisdom.
What a wonderful treat for family and friends..
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Posted Friday, July 15th 2011 at 12:03AM
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NEW YORK TIMES HIRES FIRST AFRICAN FEMALE AS MANAGING EDITOR (210 hits)
We cannot have 200 of us walking around misinformed. Ms. Abramson is not African American and she is the First Executive female Director. ...
Posted Thursday, July 14th 2011 at 9:54PM
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Well, he's over at facebook , "tagging" people's photos, including dudes!!! As in tagged in this photo wearing Louboutin..I have been leery of facebook, twitter, and any "standard" social site that has millions of pictures & members. On Linkedin, one ...
Posted Tuesday, July 12th 2011 at 11:33PM
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http://thenextweb.com/apple/2011/05/25/apple-sued-for-racial-discrimination-by-customers-of-nyc-store/
The Republican or Repuglican as I tweet, party has been hijacked by Christian right wing fundamentalists. A lot of Civil rights will be eroded ...
Posted Monday, July 11th 2011 at 10:03PM
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Black Woman Has Hair Searched by TSA, Claims Racial Profiling
July 11, 2011 12:47 PM
Black woman has hair searched by TSA By Alexis Garrett Stodghill
It seems as though almost everyday there is a new complaint about how the TSA has search ...
Posted Monday, July 11th 2011 at 6:57PM
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Arizona State Rep. Points Her ‘Raspberry-Pink’ Loaded Gun At Journalist | It’s 2011, the year that Republicans point their guns at the media. First came Maine state Rep. Frederick Ladd Wintle (R) who threatened to shoot a photographer in a Dunk ...
Posted Monday, July 11th 2011 at 6:40PM
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http://newsreel.org/video/NEGROES-WITH-GUNS
Ask yourself how much has changed and how much has remained the same. Cuba and China gave him shelter. Then he turned on the Chinese govt and sold out to the FBI- because he was homesick. How strong was ...
Posted Sunday, July 10th 2011 at 1:03PM
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/10/magazine/long-live-aretha-the-queen-of-soul.html?pagewanted=1&seid=auto&smid=tw-nytimes
My understanding is that there is only one Queen Ree? that would be about right. This is how I like to hear the range in Ms. ...
Posted Sunday, July 10th 2011 at 11:36AM
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Th vultures are swirling, it's is to be expected.
July 10 (Bloomberg) -- The Republic of South Sudan became the world's 193rd nation yesterday, with its president saying that after 50 years of rebellion against the Muslim north it's time to fight ...
Posted Sunday, July 10th 2011 at 9:22AM
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Mia says:
July 9, 2011 at 12:45 pm
Beyoncé is getting really stupid lately, being naked all the time. Even in her new video, it’s really disturbing..
About the covers across the world, it is so strange that they all use the 6 sign.. internati ...
Posted Saturday, July 9th 2011 at 3:55PM
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Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail by Malika Oufkir
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
I found the book in my favorite American Thrift store. Like you I saw the name Oukfir and in my case immediately knew that I had been acquainted with the General ...
Posted Thursday, July 7th 2011 at 2:14PM
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Slave Testimony: Two Centuries of Letters, Speeches, Interviews, and Autobiographies by John W. Blassingame
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Despite my 40 years of reading, I had never read any of the testimonies from the slaves themselves, nor was I acut ...
Posted Thursday, July 7th 2011 at 1:19PM
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A few days ago I blogged on the error rate that medical personnel is averaging. This perhaps may be the answer. I question my doctors, whose response is to negate all my suggestions. This video give me the courage to believe in my self and my abili ...
Posted Thursday, June 30th 2011 at 8:45PM
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Get a taste of what your ancestors have been doing for 300 years and yes people are braver when they are in a mob Glenn Beck it's called KKK.
Apparently blue eyed Americans don't think people with brown eyes have feelings. He really thinks it's b ...
Posted Wednesday, June 29th 2011 at 4:27PM
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http://tiny.cc/6oghv
Here is a lawyer who only did research for the IRS, and that is in a narrow slot. Never litigated, never clerked and I doubt if she was a member of the bar.
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Posted Wednesday, June 29th 2011 at 2:39PM
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