it is not a coincidence that destructive music with a toxic message has taken over the airwaves of most black communities across America: A black man with a bottle in his hand is not nearly as intimidating as a black man holding a book – The first m ...
Posted Wednesday, January 16th 2013 at 10:47PM
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The National Rifle Association blasted out an urgent fundraising appeal by Executive Director Wayne LaPierre Tuesday night, hours ahead of President Barack Obama's announcement of 23 executive actions on gun control.
"I warned you this day was com ...
Posted Wednesday, January 16th 2013 at 7:05PM
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hey Family of Advocates!
Happy New Year!
With that having been said, it's time to grind our wheels for REAL about the senseless killings due to the reckless use of guns! Please support the Gun Control Plan that Vice President Joe Biden worked ...
Posted Wednesday, January 16th 2013 at 3:26PM
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Following a day in which President Obama dominated the news cycle by holding the last news conference of his first term, the headlines this morning are focusing on two major White House agenda points: the debt ceiling and gun control. Yesterday, the ...
Posted Tuesday, January 15th 2013 at 2:29PM
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President Obama presses Congress on debt limit
President Obama said today in a White House press conference that he won’t negotiate with Republicans on the federal debt ceiling. Post economic policy reporter Zachary Goldfarb stops by to explain wh ...
Posted Monday, January 14th 2013 at 11:13PM
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That was President Barack Obama's response Monday to critics who have questioned why his second-term cabinet nominees have all been white males.
"I would just suggest that everybody kind of wait until they've seen all my appointments, ...
Posted Monday, January 14th 2013 at 10:45PM
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Dear Black Men,
I have never really been the type to write love letters because I was always told “when a word is spoken, you can feel the emotions in it” but today I woke up feeling very inspired, and what was the cause of this inspiration you ...
Posted Monday, January 14th 2013 at 6:40PM
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KANYE WEST: KEEP MY KID AWAY FROM THE KARDASHIANS!
Word on the street says Kanye is not interested in his kid being raised by the Kardashians, in particular momma Kris. I don’t know if they fight a lot, but it seems like there is some ongoing beef t ...
Posted Monday, January 14th 2013 at 6:22PM
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THIS FOOL NEEDS TO BE SLAP !
BURLINGTON, N.C. -- Police in North Carolina say a deaf man was stabbed several times after his sign language was mistaken for gang signs by another man.
Burlington Police Sgt. Mark Yancey said 45-year-old Terrance Er ...
Posted Monday, January 14th 2013 at 4:52PM
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SOME PEOPLE NEED TO BE SLAP ,,,,THIS IS DUMB !
A major gun advocate is promoting his pro-firearms stance by saying that had African Americans been given the right to bear arms, "slavery might not have been a chapter in our history."
Larry Ward, ...
Posted Monday, January 14th 2013 at 4:49PM
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I suddenly find myself concerned about my blackness.
It had never occurred to me to worry about it before. Then came the incident last month on ESPN’s First Take program that initially got commentator Rob Parker suspended and then, last week, fire ...
Posted Monday, January 14th 2013 at 4:13PM
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With just about every post on this site announcing the production of a movie centered around stories of slavery in the United States, the inevitable question asked by readers, comes in the form of something like: what's the deal with all these slave- ...
Posted Monday, January 14th 2013 at 12:01PM
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During a Sunday morning appearance on NBC’s Meet the Press, former Secretary of State Colin Powell criticized his fellow Republicans for making racially-charged attacks against President Barack Obama, and warned that there is “a dark vein of intolera ...
Posted Monday, January 14th 2013 at 11:57AM
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MSNBC yesterday reported a huge increase in their overall ratings, a 20% increase, in 2012, no doubt due to the 2012 Presidential campaign, but also due to a another major factor - Black viewership. The network announced an incredible increase in the ...
Posted Monday, January 14th 2013 at 11:54AM
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WE DONT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT ANYMORE HIJACKED THREADS / BLOGS. POST .BEING DONE BY HARRY ,,,THANK GOODNESS BECAUSE AFTER 6,7,8,YEARS AND NO FOLLOWERS YOU WOULD THINK ,,,ITS NOT WORKING ! ...
Posted Monday, January 14th 2013 at 11:45AM
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It’s very curious that they chose to highlight black men, and not the entire race. Or even other minority races, for that matter. I suppose the stereotype of a black man is the most pronounced — you know, scary gangster, super athlete, lazy, among ot ...
Posted Monday, January 14th 2013 at 1:18AM
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Why do whites hate, demonize, fear and look down on blacks?
I am no scientist or scholar, but here is I how I currently think about it. This post is very much a work in progress.
There are plenty of things that keep white racist thinking in pl ...
Posted Monday, January 14th 2013 at 1:03AM
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BOBBY SEALE
One of the founders of the Black Panthers, in Oakland, California, in 1966, Bobby Seale helped formulate the organization’s charter. Although the official Ten Points of the Black Panthers’s Platform and Program have been published and ar ...
Posted Sunday, January 13th 2013 at 11:11PM
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America’s second largest city, Chicago, had a population in the 1960s of 3.5 million, not counting the suburbs. Beginning with the first “great migration” of black southerners to the North during the World War I years, by the 1960s the “Windy City” ...
Posted Sunday, January 13th 2013 at 11:08PM
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1964: FREEDOM SUMMER, DEADLY SUMMER
Philadelphia means “city of brotherly love.” The town of Philadelphia, Mississippi, however, was anything but a city of brotherly love in 1964. It became instead a city of civil rights activity, Ku Klux Klan react ...
Posted Sunday, January 13th 2013 at 11:06PM
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http://www.history.com/videos/the-kkk
How could anyone possibly assume they have the right to get rid of whoever they want to as though the choice of keeping one alive holds in their hands? This is the most veritable case of such a fitting idleness ...
Posted Sunday, January 13th 2013 at 11:00PM
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What is all the hype about ,,it was a real good movie ,,almost a love story about slavery
and Jamie foxx got with this bounty hunter to capture these guys that was killing and robbing stagecoaches ,,,,,you need to go see it it was long 2;45 min lo ...
Posted Sunday, January 13th 2013 at 10:18PM
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