Jane Matilda Bolin was born on April 11, 1908, in Poughkeepsie. N.Y. Her father, Gaius C. Bolin, was the son of an American Indian woman and an African-American man. Her mother, the former Matilda Emery, was a white Englishwoman.
Mr. Bolin, who wa ...
Posted Tuesday, March 26th 2013 at 12:04PM
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Peace,
This Friday marks what most of our brothers and sisters believe to be Good Friday, the day marking the crucifixion of Jesus (the Friday before what is called Easter Sunday). However, there is absolutely nothing "GOOD'' about the day that m ...
Posted Sunday, March 24th 2013 at 1:00PM
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Chicago Tribune reporters
10:27 p.m. CDT, March 22, 2013
Chicago aldermen representing the neighborhoods hit by dozens of school closings were channeling Yogi Berra on Friday, vowing it ain't over till it's over as they work to get some of the cl ...
Posted Saturday, March 23rd 2013 at 5:43PM
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TUSKEGEE, Ala. — Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan said Friday that the Montgomery-based Southern Poverty Law Center is wrong when it says he leads a hate organization.
Farrakhan told high school and college students Friday at Tuskegee Univ ...
Posted Saturday, March 23rd 2013 at 5:21PM
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Ray J has a couple of hits under his belt, and on Thursday night, the "Sexy Can I" singer added a few more smashes after he got into a scuffle at Club Nokia in Los Angeles.
The incident, like another of Ray J's famous exploits, was caught on tape, ...
Posted Saturday, March 23rd 2013 at 5:14PM
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Peace,
We begin with the birth of Jesus some 2,000 years ago according to the writings of the Bible.
Matthew Chapter 1:18-19
"Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his Mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came tog ...
Posted Saturday, March 23rd 2013 at 5:03PM
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Born in Chicago June 22, 1909, and raised in Joliet, Illinois, Katherine Dunham did not begin formal dance training until her late teens. In Chicago she studied with Ludmilla Speranzeva and Mark Turbyfill, and danced her first leading role in Ruth Pa ...
Posted Friday, March 22nd 2013 at 12:38PM
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Donald Trump’s hit reality show “All-Star Apprentice,” which currently stars, among others, singer/actress LaToya Jackson and reality star villainess, Omarosa Manigault, has taken quite a nasty turn.
The two women went at it on Sunday night ...
Posted Thursday, March 21st 2013 at 11:34AM
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What Lil Wayne and Malcolm Little Both Have in Common
by Dr. Boyce Watkins March 17th, 2013 @ 1:15pm
I love and respect the creative ability of Lil Wayne, even if I am concerned about the content of his music. The brother is going through some d ...
Posted Thursday, March 21st 2013 at 11:29AM
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Jennifer Hudson and Octavia Spencer will be sharing the screen in the soon-to-premiere Lifetime original movie event Call Me Crazy: A Five Film.
The Oscar Award-winning actresses are joining an all-star cast for the project, which is a remake to ...
Posted Thursday, March 21st 2013 at 11:12AM
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Justice for Kimani Gray!
By Fight Back! Editors | March 17, 2013
We stand with Carol Gray, the mother of Kimani Gray, in demanding his murderers be taken off the streets of New York City before they take another young life. Police who murder nee ...
Posted Wednesday, March 20th 2013 at 10:34AM
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WWNO FM Radio--The University of New Orleans welcomed back some of the first African-American students to attend the school when it became desegregated in 1958. Despite the 55 years that have passed since that time, many recalled vivid details of a p ...
Posted Wednesday, March 20th 2013 at 10:30AM
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Enolia Pettigen McMillan, (October 20, 1904 – October 24, 2006) an educator, civil rights activist, and community leader was born in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania.
At the age of three, her family moved in search of improved educational opportuniti ...
Posted Wednesday, March 20th 2013 at 10:25AM
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Nassau, Bahamas — Nation of Islam leader in America, Minister Louis Farrakhan, has instructed his lawyer, Keod Smith, to proceed with legal action against The Tribune.
The morning daily, in an attempt to distort and misrepresent the visit by M ...
Posted Monday, March 18th 2013 at 7:20PM
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Mary Jane Patterson was born September 12, 1840, in Raleigh, North Carolina. She was the first African American woman to receive a B.A degree. She was the oldest of Henry Irving Patterson and Emeline Eliza (Taylor) Patterson's children. There is conf ...
Posted Wednesday, March 13th 2013 at 11:14AM
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