Centuries before Ebola, Cotton Mather faced down another global epidemic with a health tactic from abroad.
Cotton Mather’s successful smallpox campaign was based on inoculation advice he received from a slave named Onesimus.
The spread of E ...
Posted Saturday, October 25th 2014 at 3:40PM
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DETROIT (WXYZ) - The State of Michigan is ordering a Detroit man to pay tens of thousands of dollars, or go to prison. The reason? He owes back child support for a child that everyone agrees is not his.
"I feel like I’m standing in front of a b ...
Posted Saturday, October 25th 2014 at 2:28PM
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New York (CNN) -- A Doctors Without Borders physician who recently returned to New York from West Africa has tested positive for the Ebola virus, becoming the first diagnosed case in the city, a law enforcement official briefed on the matter told CNN ...
Posted Thursday, October 23rd 2014 at 8:46PM
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St. Louis (CNN) -- Activist and Princeton University professor Cornel West was among an estimated 10 people arrested at the "Moral Monday" march in Ferguson, Missouri, event organizer Andrew Kling said.
A photo from CNN affiliate KMOV-TV in St. L ...
Posted Monday, October 13th 2014 at 3:34PM
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Doug Stanglin, USA TODAY 5:03 p.m. EDT
October 9, 2014
Angry protests erupted Wednesday night in the Shaw neighborhood of St. Louis after an off-duty white police officer shot and killed an African-American teenager who, police said, had fired t ...
Posted Thursday, October 9th 2014 at 6:04PM
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Doug Stanglin, USA TODAY 5:03 p.m. EDT
October 9, 2014
Angry protests erupted Wednesday night in the Shaw neighborhood of St. Louis after an off-duty white police officer shot and killed an African-American teenager who, police said, had fired t ...
Posted Thursday, October 9th 2014 at 6:03PM
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Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States, died Tuesday morning, the hospital said.
Duncan may have contracted the virus in Liberia while taking a deathly ill neighbor in Liberia to the hospital in a taxi. He ...
Posted Wednesday, October 8th 2014 at 11:36AM
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October 3, 2014
The Liberian taxi driver who drove Texas Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan with his sick pregnant friend said the lady was so sick, “she was not able to walk by herself.” It is believed Duncan contracted the deadly virus during ...
Posted Saturday, October 4th 2014 at 6:27PM
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American White Supremacy and Racial Domestic Abuse
By Robert Muhammad -Guest Columnist- | Last updated: Oct 2, 2014 - 8:08:48 PM
(FinalCall.com) Doesn’t it seem rather strange that during a time when Black people (especially Black males) are b ...
Posted Saturday, October 4th 2014 at 5:15PM
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From AlterNet.org
October 1, 2014
We look at the incredible story of how a 16-year-old high school sophomore from the Bronx ended up spending nearly three years locked up at the Rikers jail in New York City after he says he was falsely accus ...
Posted Friday, October 3rd 2014 at 11:55AM
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Nation of Islam Leader Louis Farrakhan: Ebola Was Manufactured to Kill Blacks
by Warner Todd Huston 2 Oct 2014
Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation if Islam, is warning his acolytes that Ebola and AIDS were created by the US government to ...
Posted Friday, October 3rd 2014 at 10:44AM
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Gina and Pat Neely, the stars of Food Network's popular cooking show "Down Home With The Neelys," are getting divorced after two decades of marriage.
The duo, whose empire consists of a TV show, cookbooks and a restaurant, released a joint statem ...
Posted Tuesday, September 30th 2014 at 9:23AM
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DALLAS (RNN) - A patient is being evaluated for “potential Ebola Virus disease … based on the patient's symptoms and recent travel history,” a Texas hospital said Monday.
Texas Health Presbyterian in Dallas issued a statement saying the pat ...
Posted Tuesday, September 30th 2014 at 8:59AM
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Cameron Tillman, a high school freshman, was shot dead around 5:40 p.m. Tuesday after police responded to an abandoned house in Houma, in Terrebonne Parish. Three others were arrested and one person escaped. It's unclear if Tillman was armed, but a w ...
Posted Sunday, September 28th 2014 at 5:05PM
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CNN--Starting next year, the Confederate flag will no longer be available for sale or on display at government agencies in California. Governor Jerry Brown has signed a new law that prohibits selling or displaying items that have the flag on it.
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Posted Sunday, September 28th 2014 at 4:30PM
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An NYPD officer was caught on a disturbing video tackling a clearly pregnant woman and riding her to the ground early Saturday in Brooklyn.
The recordi ...
Posted Wednesday, September 24th 2014 at 10:27AM
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(CNN) -- Police say a Savannah, Georgia, police officer killed a handcuffed, armed man Thursday as the man tried to break out of a patrol car, a shooting that stirred up citizens and prompted the mayor to acknowledge that the community has "many ques ...
Posted Monday, September 22nd 2014 at 7:00PM
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KINGSTON, Jamaica - Leaders and officials who met with a Nation of Islam delegation embraced the movement, its mission and its leader during a visit to this Caribbean nation to officially announce the Oct. 19 commemoration of the 2014 anniversary of ...
Posted Monday, September 22nd 2014 at 5:39PM
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On October 16th, 1995 close to two million Black men answered the call of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan to be present at the Million Man March in Washington D.C. The purpose of this monumental event was for Black men to:
1.Recommit themselves to being better fathers, husbands, brothers, so ...
Posted Thursday, September 11th 2014 at 11:37AM
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Birmingham, Ala.--U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan told a group of African-American students Tuesday that adults are letting them down and asked what he and President Barack Obama can do to provide better support systems and help them achieve ...
Posted Wednesday, September 10th 2014 at 10:47AM
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At least one person seems to think Ray Rice is getting a raw deal.
Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. told reporters on Tuesday that the NFL should've stuck to the initial two-game ban that was announced after the Baltimore Ravens running back was arrest ...
Posted Wednesday, September 10th 2014 at 10:16AM
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MILWAUKEE - A local woman has accused Police Chief Ed Flynn of pushing her down to the ground, and causing injury to her arm. It's an allegation that stems from an ugly confrontation between police officers and supporters of Dontre Hamilton. But the ...
Posted Saturday, September 6th 2014 at 9:15PM
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