By Professor Damon L. Fordham, MA
December 24, 2013
Most non historians’ knowledge of blacks during the 1800s tends to be an incomplete understanding of slavery as a time of complete illiteracy and ignorance for African Americans. It may surpri ...
Posted Thursday, December 26th 2013 at 7:08PM
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I can knit, mostly winter hats and scarves, which just sits up in one of my closets. I have no plans to sell my hats or scarves (I'm so proud of them because they are the first things I made when I learned to knit LOL).
I also do the cross-stitch ...
Posted Monday, December 23rd 2013 at 4:15PM
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Paul Mooney says it all. Hate it, love it, or despise it, this is the American justice system, and in some way, this goes on every day.
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Posted Sunday, December 22nd 2013 at 7:23PM
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The Top 10 Reasons Why I Don't Celebrate Christmas
Christmas is a hugely popular holiday celebrated by some 2 billion people worldwide. It's become such an ingrained part of modern culture that even people in nations with little or no Christian hi ...
Posted Sunday, December 22nd 2013 at 5:04PM
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Polaroid & Apartheid: Inside the Beginnings of the Boycott, Divestment Movement Against South Africa
From DemocracyNow.org
We look back at how African-American workers at Polaroid in Massachusetts helped launch the divestment movement agains ...
Posted Saturday, December 21st 2013 at 6:57PM
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OREGON CITY – A jury rejected most of a racially charged lawsuit Friday against the Oregon Liquor Control Commission after a state lawyer argued the black employee who filed it was disliked but not discriminated against.
The 12-member jury valid ...
Posted Saturday, December 21st 2013 at 6:10PM
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CNN--Phil Robertson's anti-gay comments aren't the only part of his interview with GQ causing controversy.
The 67-year-old "Duck Dynasty" star was suspended by A&E Wednesday for calling homosexuality sinful — and putting gay people in same categ ...
Posted Saturday, December 21st 2013 at 6:00PM
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The Ivy-League educated half-brother of President Obama is publishing his autobiography in which he makes the shocking claim their father dished out alcohol-fueled beatings to him and his mother and in one terrifying instance held a knife to her thro ...
Posted Thursday, December 19th 2013 at 12:23PM
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NEW ORLEANS--High rates of incarceration and criminalization of communities affected by poverty and racial discrimination are increasingly common problems in America, social justice activist Angela Davis said during a speech in McAlister Auditorium o ...
Posted Wednesday, December 18th 2013 at 11:58AM
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In what's being called a medical record in India, a 28-year-old woman in Madhya Pradesh miscarried 10 babies in one night this week.
The Indo-Asian News Service reports that Anju Kushwaha delivered nine of the babies late Sunday night before she arrived at a hospital, where she delivered the 10t ...
Posted Wednesday, December 18th 2013 at 11:39AM
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A family is struggling with the painful decision of whether or not to take their daughter off life support after the young teen was left brain dead following routine tonsil surgery. To make matters worse, the family said they feel that the hospital i ...
Posted Monday, December 16th 2013 at 4:13PM
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40-year-old fetus found in 82-year-old woman: report
VIA THE TELEGRAPH
A 82-year-old woman went to the hospital with stomach pain and doctors discovered something astounding: she was carrying a 40-year-old fetus.
The dead, calcified fetus i ...
Posted Saturday, December 14th 2013 at 5:18PM
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CROSS THE RIVER JORDAN
The River Jordan
is chilly and cold
Reach the other side
and God warms up your soul
You've got to do the work
He sent you here to do
And you will get there
so long before I do
Righteousness is the rule
as t ...
Posted Saturday, December 14th 2013 at 5:10PM
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Nia Long REQUESTED her love interest be changed to a white actor despite the story being written with a Black actor in mind. Obviously she can care less about Black actors needing work.
Nia Long chooses poorly when it comes to men in her personal ...
Posted Friday, December 13th 2013 at 1:08PM
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After two days of deliberations, 12 jurors reached a verdict in the retrial of a former New Orleans police officer David Warren.
The jury found Warren not guilty on charges of violating Henry Glover's civil rights and using a weapon in a violent c ...
Posted Thursday, December 12th 2013 at 12:18PM
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(FinalCall.com) - As the world mourned the passing of Nelson Mandela, the great freedom fighter, remembrances poured in from all sides.
Rabbi Dana Evan Kaplan, writing for the Jewish Daily Forward, gave a nod to those tributes. “But there is ano ...
Posted Thursday, December 12th 2013 at 12:13PM
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ST. CLAIR COUNTY • A woman whom prosecutors called the ringleader in the kidnapping and murder of an elderly Belleville woman in 2011 after she left a bingo game was sentenced Tuesday to the maximum penalty of 60 years in prison.
LaTosha Cunning ...
Posted Wednesday, December 11th 2013 at 3:48PM
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The first time I gave birth, my midwife thoughtfully held up my placenta and asked me: “Jill, do you want me to pack this up for you so that you can take it home?” I looked at her like she had two heads and yelled “Ughhh! Get that thing away fr ...
Posted Monday, December 9th 2013 at 5:11PM
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