THE SUGARHILL GANG ~ HISTORY
The Sugarhill Gang is an American hip hop group, known mostly for its 1979 hit "Rapper's Delight," the first hip hop single to become a Top 40 hit. The song uses an interpolation of the instrumental track from the ...
Posted Monday, June 4th 2012 at 10:52AM
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SAN LEANDRO, Calif. -- Authorities say an African American bank robber is in custody after disguising himself as an elderly white man and holding up several banks across Northern California.
San Leandro Police Lt. Jeff Tudor says 34-year-old Deron ...
Posted Sunday, June 3rd 2012 at 4:25PM
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The following is a video lecture of Minister Ava Muhammad, the national spokesperson for the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, speaking in Brooklyn, New York
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Posted Saturday, June 2nd 2012 at 4:16PM
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THE FIVE STAIRSTEPS ~ HISTORY
The Five Stairsteps, known as "The First Family of Soul", were an American Chicago soul group made up of five of Betty and Clarence Burke Sr.'s six children: Alohe Jean, Clarence Jr., James, Dennis, and Kenneth "K ...
Posted Saturday, June 2nd 2012 at 3:05PM
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - An internationally acclaimed Turkish classical pianist is to stand trial on charges of insulting Muslim religious values in comments posted on Twitter, an Istanbul court ruled on Friday.
Fazil Say has performed with the New Yo ...
Posted Friday, June 1st 2012 at 12:24PM
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LIFT EVERY VOICE AND SING ~HISTORY
"Lift Every Voice and Sing" was publicly performed first as a poem as part of a celebration of Lincoln's Birthday on February 12, 1900 by 500 school children at the segregated Stanton School. Its principal, J ...
Posted Friday, June 1st 2012 at 12:19PM
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Beyonce will play Queen Tara in the 20th Century Fox Animation and Blue Sky Studios’ Epic.
From the creators of Ice Age and Rio, Epic tells the story of an ongoing battle deep in the forest between the forces of good and the forces of evil.
Wh ...
Posted Friday, June 1st 2012 at 12:04PM
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By Mary Foster, Associated Press
May 30, 2012
They marched out of cotton and cane fields, away from the kitchens, the laundries and the rows of cabins standing behind white-columned plantations. In May 1862, the fall of New Orleans to Union force ...
Posted Thursday, May 31st 2012 at 10:29AM
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NEW ORLEANS - New Orleans police are looking for suspects Wednesday morning in a series of shootings which, even by New Orleans standards, constituted an especially violent day.
There were four brazen shootings across the Crescent City Tuesday ...
Posted Wednesday, May 30th 2012 at 11:52AM
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VIRGINIA--Poet and activist Nikki Giovanni urged the older generation at Lynchburg College’s annual Conference on Aging to “write your story down.”
“We should not have to be apologizing for our age,” said 68-year-old Giovanni Tuesday afternoon to ...
Posted Tuesday, May 29th 2012 at 12:28PM
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT)- Boston University researchers found that sarcoidosis accounts for 25 percent of deaths among women in the Black Women’s Health Study who have the disease.
Sarcoidosis causes inflammation in the lungs, lymph nodes, liver, ...
Posted Tuesday, May 29th 2012 at 12:18PM
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TheRoot.com--Three years before the commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic called on Union veterans’ organizations to decorate the graves of dead soldiers, blacks in Charleston, South Carolina in 1865 launched the first Decoration Day i ...
Posted Monday, May 28th 2012 at 5:20PM
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From Global Research.com
May 27, 2012
They came as slaves; vast human cargo transported on tall British ships bound for the Americas. They were shipped by the hundreds of thousands and included men, women, and even the youngest of children.
W ...
Posted Monday, May 28th 2012 at 4:49PM
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Give it up for our sister Sakeena Powers from Poughkeepsie, NY, who received her Hospital and Healthcare Degree from Dutchess Community College on May 25, 2012.
CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR LOVELY MUSLIM SISTER!!!
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Posted Sunday, May 27th 2012 at 5:18PM
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Peace,
The following article appeared in a Jamaican Newspaper this week. A copy of this letter was forwarded to my inbox this morning. Two words: MISEDUCATION and SELF HATRED. Read on:
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Sir:
Afrocentrism is a radical b ...
Posted Saturday, May 26th 2012 at 6:21PM
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LOS ANGELES--Brian Banks logged onto Facebook last year, and a new friend request startled him.
It was the woman who, nearly a decade ago, accused him of rape when they were both students at Long Beach Poly High School.
Banks had recently ended ...
Posted Friday, May 25th 2012 at 12:16PM
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Coming Soon in Print - The explosive movie script based on the life of Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam. Farrakhan, The Movie is now playing In Print. Go to Amazon.com for an Ebook or Paperback copy. ...
Posted Thursday, May 24th 2012 at 12:40PM
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LAS VEGAS--O.J. Simpson wants out of prison.
The former football star hired a new lawyer, who filed an appeal for a new trial this week, on the grounds that Simpson was misrepresented by his previous legal counsel. Simpson, has been incarcerated ...
Posted Wednesday, May 23rd 2012 at 12:25PM
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Chicago Sun Times--Chicago Police in riot gear battled with angry “Black Bloc” protesters at Michigan and Cermak on Sunday, with officers raining down baton blows, pushing taunting protesters back and leaving some bloody.
A sea of blue-helmeted po ...
Posted Tuesday, May 22nd 2012 at 12:50PM
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TheLookout.com--What if it cost $17 to make a 15-minute phone call in the U.S.? How often would you call home?
That's the dilemma facing many inmates who must rely on the prison phone service and pay sky-high rates.
A bipartisan group of prison ...
Posted Sunday, May 20th 2012 at 4:29PM
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