From WorldSocialist.com
May 16, 2012
The number of homeless people living on the streets of New York City increased by 23 percent in one year according to an annual survey conducted by the city’s Department of Homeless Services.
On January 30, ...
Posted Thursday, May 17th 2012 at 12:25PM
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By Michelle Crouch From The Funeral Consumers Alliance
May 15, 2012
1. Go ahead and plan your funeral, but think twice before paying in advance. You risk losing everything if the funeral home goes out of business. Instead, keep your money in a pa ...
Posted Wednesday, May 16th 2012 at 12:52PM
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Washington (CNN) -- William Henderson Foote was a lawman of the highest order in his small town of Yazoo City, Mississippi, when he died in the line of duty more than a century ago.
He'd once been the town's constable, town marshal and circuit cle ...
Posted Wednesday, May 16th 2012 at 12:47PM
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Albuquerque, NM – New Mexico's prisons are seeing a rise in white supremacist gang memberships as some white inmates seek protection from largely Latino gangs, state officials say.
Membership in white supremacist gangs has nearly doubled in state ...
Posted Tuesday, May 15th 2012 at 12:24PM
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by Kris Balderston
May 10, 2012
Kris M. Balderston serves as the Special Representative for Global Partnerships.
In the last week, I've travelled from Johannesburg to Cape Town to Addis Ababa. Along the way, I've been struck over and over aga ...
Posted Tuesday, May 15th 2012 at 12:10PM
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Nationwide (May 14, 2012) -- Professional racecar driver Tia Norfleet has visions of giving to a community that supports her. As the first, youngest and only African-American female driver on the NASCAR circuit, Tia Norfleet has set the stage to open ...
Posted Monday, May 14th 2012 at 1:28PM
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NOTE: The following are excerpts from a Special Mother's Day Message delivered by The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan entitled "The Immeasurable, Limitless Value and Beauty of a Woman" delivered at Mosque Maryam in Chicago, Illinois.
THE HONORA ...
Posted Sunday, May 13th 2012 at 3:47PM
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Peace,
I would like to wish all the sisters of this forum a Happy Mother's Day! Often we hear stories about mothers and their children, however rarely about the do good mothers and even rarer still the adoptive mothers. However I would like to me ...
Posted Saturday, May 12th 2012 at 5:24PM
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BEAUTIFUL MOTHERS
Your appearance
is so divine
Your fragrance
is so fine
A mothers hug
is all you need
To feel safe,
loved, and warm
A mothers advice is
what helps you through life
She is an angel
sent from above for all to ...
Posted Saturday, May 12th 2012 at 5:19PM
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By Karen Swallow Prior
May 10, 2012
In 1981, more than a century after America ended slavery with the Thirteenth Amendment to the U. S. Constitution, the West African nation of Mauritania abolished slavery, the last country in the world to do so. ...
Posted Friday, May 11th 2012 at 12:49PM
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Happy Birthday to one of the greatest men ever produced from our people here in America.
A true elder of our community who is still putting in the work!!!
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Posted Friday, May 11th 2012 at 12:45PM
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Cow Tom
Creek Nation history cannot be written without the name of Cow Tom. To do so is to negate the presence of the very man upon whom the leaders of the Muskogee Nation depended. His name will be omitted in many circles because of his African a ...
Posted Thursday, May 10th 2012 at 11:49AM
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