From GlobalResearch.com
June 22, 2011
Crescent City is far north in California, about 20 miles from the Oregon border. In 1989, 275 acres of dense forest near there were chopped down to build the $277.5 million Pelican Bay State Prison (PBSP). To ...
Posted Thursday, June 23rd 2011 at 12:35PM
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Community activist Rev. Al Sharpton and noted educator Dr. Cornell West will engage in a debate on June 24 during the annual convention of the National Newspapers Publishers Association.
The convention is being held in Chicago and the debate, acco ...
Posted Thursday, June 23rd 2011 at 12:28PM
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Last month, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers decided to blow holes in the levee in eastern Missouri's Birds Point. This month, reported the Kansas City Star, a small African-American town is suffering for it.
The small village of Pinhook, Mo. had ...
Posted Wednesday, June 22nd 2011 at 11:37AM
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NEW YORK--Prosecutors say a New York City woman beat her 5-year-old son to death because he broke the television while playing a Nintendo Wii video game.
Kim Crawford was charged with murder and manslaughter in Bronx Criminal Court on Tuesday. Sh ...
Posted Tuesday, June 21st 2011 at 12:27PM
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Anthony Weiner's resignation following the sexting scandal is number one news with all of the mainstream media today. But believe it or not, Weiner stepping down is not the most important news you need to know. As US military intervention in Liby ...
Posted Tuesday, June 21st 2011 at 12:07PM
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LOUISIANA--On June 1, a week past her 31st birthday, civil rights activist Catrina Wallace was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
This was the first arrest for Wallace, a single mother who became politically active when her brother was arrested in ...
Posted Tuesday, June 21st 2011 at 11:57AM
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FREEDOM OR FREE
By Sister Siebra Muhammad
Freedom or free are ideas to consider
Both has its might and splendor
One you have and one you are
Yet the one you are is the greatest by far
Freedom or free which do I prefer to have or be
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Posted Sunday, June 19th 2011 at 3:41PM
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The following is excerpted from one of several Father's Day speeches by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan.
THE HONORABLE MINISTER LOUIS FARRAKHAN:
As-Salaam Alaikum (Peace Be Unto You),
There is a scripture in the Bible that reads, “Fo ...
Posted Sunday, June 19th 2011 at 3:34PM
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MY LOVE, MY HEAVEN
My Brother
You are our love
You are our heaven
Our heaven right here on earth.
You are all that I want, need and adore
And there is nothing I want more.
You are
A love supreme
A beautiful black flower
You know y ...
Posted Sunday, June 19th 2011 at 3:19PM
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CHICAGO (FinalCall.com) - The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan told hundreds gathered for a town hall meeting here that those who resist the enemy and fight for justice should be supported and defended, and Black institutions should remain controll ...
Posted Saturday, June 18th 2011 at 5:58PM
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By Ranard Morris
June 13, 2011
As cities across our nation gear up for this year's annual Juneteenth celebration, the oldest known commemoration of the ending of slavery in America, I often wonder what freedom meant to the black men, women and c ...
Posted Tuesday, June 14th 2011 at 11:06AM
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MediaTakeout.com--Making the Twitter rounds on a super-sized scale today is this obviously fake sign that’s allegedly in a McDonald’s restaurant. It claims that “African-American customers are now required to pay an additional fee of $1.50 per transa ...
Posted Monday, June 13th 2011 at 10:22AM
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(FinalCall.com) - The war raging in Libya since February is getting progressively worse as NATO forces engage in regime change and worse, an objective to kill Muammar Gadhafi to eradicate his vision of a United Africa with a single currency backed by ...
Posted Monday, June 13th 2011 at 10:17AM
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DENVER--A pastor who wants to light a fire under the men in his congregation knew just the firebrand to help him do it.
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., one of the most respected and provocative preachers in black church life, jolted Shorter Communit ...
Posted Monday, June 13th 2011 at 10:10AM
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Here's a man's take on what they look for in a woman:
10. Independence: No man wants a woman they have to baby-sit. Once in a while, like if she's had a rough day at work, it's great to be her shoulder to cry on, but if she can't seem to wipe her ...
Posted Sunday, June 12th 2011 at 4:26PM
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If African Americans ever needed another reason to be politically engaged, here's one: The Ku Klux Klan says it's giving up cross burnings in favor of the ballot box.
Pastor Travis Pierce, national membership director for the Ku Klux Klan, LLC, to ...
Posted Sunday, June 12th 2011 at 2:13PM
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Tom Joyner says he’s just the talent, not the business guy.
The popular radio host of the Tom Joyner Morning Show, which boasts more than 8 million listeners each week, says he “knows enough to be dangerous.’’ And enough to be successful: Joyner i ...
Posted Sunday, June 12th 2011 at 1:58PM
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Story link: MyFoxHOUSTON.com
Check out what happened AFTER the debate:
The Radicalization of American Muslims - The Discussion After the Debate from Bob Price on Vimeo. ...
Posted Friday, June 10th 2011 at 11:29AM
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BET.com--Remember that racist anti-choice billboard in New York City that misused a stock photo of a 6-year-old black girl, Anissa Fraizer, to sell the slogan, “The most dangerous place for an African American is in the womb”?
Well, according to s ...
Posted Friday, June 10th 2011 at 11:25AM
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NEW YORK--Malcolm X's youngest daughter pleaded guilty Thursday to ripping off the 70-year-old widow of one of her father's bodyguards by running up $55,000 on credit cards taken out in the woman's name.
Malikah Shabazz will be sentenced to five y ...
Posted Friday, June 10th 2011 at 11:10AM
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