By Jennifer Rubin
February 27, 2012
Is Rick Santorum gloomy? Or “one angry dude”? If you look at the past few days, his increasingly erratic performance reminds you of a basketball team trailing by single digits at the beginning of the fourth qua ...
Posted Monday, February 27th 2012 at 12:00PM
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WASHINGTON--Pentagon wants $100 million extra to be prepared for a war with Iran. The money, requested from the Congress, is to beef up US military presence in the Persian Gulf and rapidly upgrade weapons to more effectively combat Iranian armed forc ...
Posted Monday, February 27th 2012 at 11:51AM
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Donna Farrakhan, daughter of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, spoke to young women at the MGT-GCC (Muslim Girls Training & General Civilization Course) Saturday in Rosemont, Illinois as part of the 2012 Saviours’ Day weekend activities.
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Posted Sunday, February 26th 2012 at 8:26PM
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By Princeton Irvin Parker
February 26, 2012
As we come to the close of Black History month, many people are reflecting on the achievements and the progressive story of African Americans. It is not a novel idea, however, to note that while African ...
Posted Sunday, February 26th 2012 at 2:16PM
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Happy Saviours' Day To The Members Of The NOI,
And The Followers of The Teachings Of The NOI.
I Wish All Of You Many, Many More To Come!!!
As-Salaam Alaikum!!!
Love 2 Live & Live 2 Love,
Siebra
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Posted Sunday, February 26th 2012 at 2:05PM
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Henry Thomas Sampson, Jr. (born in Jackson, Mississippi in 1934) is an African American inventor of the cellular telephone.
Sampson graduated from high school in 1951 from Lanier High School in Jackson, Mississippi. He then attended Morehouse Coll ...
Posted Sunday, February 26th 2012 at 1:33PM
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CHICAGO (FinalCall.com) - Anticipation and excitement is growing as final preparations are being made for Saviours’ Day 2012 marking 82 years of the Nation of Islam’s existence in North America.
Each year, to commemorate the birth of its founder M ...
Posted Saturday, February 25th 2012 at 5:28PM
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By M. Alex Johnson, msnbc.com
St. Louis residents expressed outrage this week over a "Battle of the Complexions" contest scheduled for Friday night, but the event's promoters said they organized it to honor African-American women and regretted any ...
Posted Saturday, February 25th 2012 at 5:05PM
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Sarah Boone was one of the first African-American women to receive a United States patent for a reversible ironing board.
Although little is known about her life, Boone's application indicates that she lived in the vicinity of New Haven, Connecti ...
Posted Saturday, February 25th 2012 at 4:59PM
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Born George Speck in 1822 in Saratoga Lake, New York, Crum was the son of an African American father and Native American mother, a member of the Huron tribe. He professionally adopted the name "Crum" as it was the name his father used in his career a ...
Posted Friday, February 24th 2012 at 12:46PM
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Peace,
Peeped the National Enquirer cover photo of Whitney Houston lying in her casket...and let me say it doesn't take no Yale education to realize the casket photo is just another way for the tabloids to try and boost sales.
Plus Rihanna (ye ...
Posted Friday, February 24th 2012 at 12:21PM
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Mediaite.com--Don Imus lit in to GOP frontrunner Rick Santorum during his Fox Business Network broadcast today, saying he has first-hand knowledge of how bad a person Santorum is thanks to his wife’s experience working on an anti-autism bill with him ...
Posted Friday, February 24th 2012 at 11:51AM
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ATLANTA--It’s not the kind of place one expects to see the R & B singer Usher, yet there he was, holding forth on leadership yesterday at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School in Atlanta. The keynote speaker at the twelfth annual Undergraduate ...
Posted Friday, February 24th 2012 at 11:30AM
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Rebecca Lee Crumpler was born in 1833 in Richmond, Virginia. She was raised in Pennsylvania by her aunt. Her aunt spent a great deal of time caring for the sick in her community. She was probably Crumpler's greatest inspiration for becoming a doctor. ...
Posted Friday, February 24th 2012 at 11:20AM
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Get ready, world: Tyra Banks now has her business school diploma.
The mogul and "America's Next Top Model" host posted a bunch of photos to her Twitter today announcing her big graduation from Harvard Business School's Executive Education program; ...
Posted Thursday, February 23rd 2012 at 6:15PM
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William Edward Burghardt DuBois was one of this country's most distinguished educators. Born in a small village in Massachusetts in 1868, DuBois first came face to face with the realities of racism in 19th century America while attending Fisk Univers ...
Posted Thursday, February 23rd 2012 at 6:04PM
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Four years ago, Bobby Brown, planned to sell a tell-all book about his life with Whitney Houston. Although the book was never published, some say Bobby is once again trying to make it happen.
“Back in 2008, the interest in a book on Whitney Housto ...
Posted Wednesday, February 22nd 2012 at 11:54AM
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One of the most fascinating stories about the effects of evolution on human relations is the story of Ota Benga, a pygmy who was put on display in a zoo as an example of an evolutionarily inferior race. The incident clearly reveals the racism of evol ...
Posted Wednesday, February 22nd 2012 at 11:21AM
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Heney Blair was born in Glen Ross, Maryland, United States in 1807. His first invention was the Seed-Planter, patented October 14, 1834, which allowed farmers to plant more corn using less labor in a smaller amount of time.
On August 31, 1836. he ...
Posted Monday, February 20th 2012 at 4:15PM
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FAME CLAIMS WHITNEY HOUSTON
Fame has claimed another life,
with Whitney's tragic death,
Forty eight is far too young
to have taken her last breath.
Being in the public eye
with cameras always clicking,
Takes a toll on family life
with ...
Posted Sunday, February 19th 2012 at 6:11PM
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