Aug 18, 2014
While most of the nation’s attention has been focused on the police shooting deaths of unarmed African Americans around the country — most notably Michael Brown and Ezell Ford — one story managed to slip under the media’s rad ...
Posted Tuesday, August 19th 2014 at 9:58PM
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MONROVIA, Liberia - Liberian officials fear Ebola could soon spread through the capital's largest slum after residents raided a quarantine center for suspected patients and took items including bloody sheets and mattresses.
The violence in the Wes ...
Posted Monday, August 18th 2014 at 10:51AM
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Tennessee v. Garner, 471 U.S. 1 (1985), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that under the Fourth Amendment, when a law enforcement officer is pursuing a fleeing suspect, he or she may use deadly force to prevent escape on ...
Posted Monday, August 18th 2014 at 10:39AM
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From GlobalResearch.com
August 14, 2014
The United States of America is not for black people. We know this, and then we put it out of our minds, and then something happens to remind us. Saturday, in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, Mo., somethin ...
Posted Friday, August 15th 2014 at 10:50AM
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A chemical that has been linked to cancer cell growth is being used by millions of Americans in toothpaste every day, it has emerged.
The company behind Colgate Total insists that triclosan, which it uses to stave off gum disease, is safe to use b ...
Posted Friday, August 15th 2014 at 10:38AM
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KTLA.com--A 24-year-old man has died after being shot by police during an encounter in the Florence neighborhood of South Los Angeles, officials said Tuesday.
The incident began at 8:12 p.m. Monday when officers responded to a report of a shootin ...
Posted Tuesday, August 12th 2014 at 10:13PM
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A word of warning is going out across the internet to those in Atlanta, Georgia, be VERY CAREFUL with your drinking water if the source is recycled water via the Atlanta sewage system. According to this brand new report from The Watchers, ebola virus ...
Posted Sunday, August 10th 2014 at 4:37PM
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Steve Harvey, the Daytime Emmy nominated host, comedian, top syndicated radio personality and best-selling author, came back to his Dallas ranch for his 6th annual Father’s Day Weekend. He hosted over 100 teenage boys without fathers at his yearly ...
Posted Friday, August 8th 2014 at 11:08AM
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NY1.com--A woman seen on cell phone video being arrested is now speaking out about the incident. She says police were in the wrong. NY1's Dean Meminger filed the following exclusive report.
Repeatedly breaking down in tears, Denise Stewart tells ...
Posted Tuesday, August 5th 2014 at 10:30AM
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MINNESOTA--Activist Al Flowers says he was visited by Minneapolis police on July 26 and then viciously beaten, all because he asked to see an officer’s warrant.
Flowers, 55, is a critic of the Minneapolis Police Department and said, speaking thr ...
Posted Friday, August 1st 2014 at 12:59PM
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CHICAGO (FinalCall.com) - New thinking and new strategies patterned after the mind of God are required in order to bring in a new world and a new level of consciousness, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan told those gathered in Chicago for the an ...
Posted Thursday, July 31st 2014 at 10:28AM
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DETROIT - A suburban Detroit man who killed an unarmed woman on his porch immediately suggested to police it was an accident and that he didn’t know his shotgun was loaded, according to recorded remarks played in court on July 24.
Theodore Wafer ...
Posted Thursday, July 31st 2014 at 10:24AM
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ALBUQUERQUE--Donovan Smith is an expert at crafting donuts, pies, popsicles and cupcakes. But be warned: His seemingly mouth-watering creations should stay clear of any hungry mouths -- they're made out of soap.
Donovan, 11, is the youngest vendor ...
Posted Monday, July 21st 2014 at 11:16AM
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NEW ORLEANS —Former New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin, the businessman-turned-politician who became the worldwide face of the city after Hurricane Katrina, was sentenced to 10 years in prison Wednesday.
Nagin, 58, was found guilty Feb. 12 of fraud, br ...
Posted Wednesday, July 9th 2014 at 11:37AM
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NEW YORK--A video has recorded a violent altercation erupting between a man on a New York City subway and police officers, who apparently arrested him for the crime of nodding off while commuting home for work.
The incident occurs at the 57th stre ...
Posted Sunday, July 6th 2014 at 7:01PM
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BENTON COUNTY, Miss. – Instead of celebrating America’s birth, a family in Benton County is mourning the death of a loved one.
“You shouldn’t take something you can’t give back,” said Betty Thomas, the victim’s cousin.
Someone bru ...
Posted Friday, July 4th 2014 at 6:23PM
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Peace,
This is not an Islamic-based post per se or limited to any one school of thought. However, there are some people on this very forum that this post very much applies to.
In the Qur'an, God tells the story of the creation of Adam. When the ...
Posted Friday, July 4th 2014 at 6:15PM
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NEW ORLEANS--Ever since the release of her debut album in 2000, neo-soul singer Jill Scott has elaborated on the question posed by its title: "Who Is Jill Scott?" In brief, she's a singer, songwriter, actress, poet and businesswoman, someone who both ...
Posted Thursday, July 3rd 2014 at 12:23PM
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"What To The American Slave Is Your '4th of July?'"
FREDERICK DOUGLASS SPEECH
July 5, 1852
Independence Day Speech at Rochester, NY
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Fellow citizens, pardon me, allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak here today? What ha ...
Posted Thursday, July 3rd 2014 at 11:31AM
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NEWARK, N.J. - Police in Newark, N.J. are trying to identify potential witnesses after a 17-year-old girl was shot and killed, just days after she graduated high school, reports CBS New York.
Investigators say Cheyanne Bond was walking along a str ...
Posted Thursday, July 3rd 2014 at 11:17AM
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