Mary J. Blige's foundation just caught a $200,000 break on a defaulted loan, TMZ reports. TD Bank reached a settlement with Blige and entertainment bigwig Steve Stoute's Foundation for the Advancement of Women Now (FFAWN), agreeing to knock down the ...
Posted Monday, September 30th 2013 at 2:57PM
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Friends --
This has gone too far...!!
House Republicans are threatening to shut down the government -- and potentially default on our bills for the first time in history -- because they want to sabotage the Affordable Care Act.
Well let ...
Posted Monday, September 30th 2013 at 2:22PM
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by Barry Burch Jr.
A full four years has passed since the official end to the recession, but you wouldn’t know it by reading the results of a recent poll conducted by Gallup.
The poll shows that a great many people, 1 in 5 actually, are having ...
Posted Sunday, September 29th 2013 at 1:27PM
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With the recent suicide of Lee Thompson Young, The Famous Jett Jackson star, who most recently played Detective Barry Frost on TNT’s Rizzoli & Isles, I felt compelled to write this post. He was 29. Young black men are dying at such an alarm rate from ...
Posted Sunday, September 29th 2013 at 1:24PM
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(by Phil Galewitz; Celebrity Interviews & Gossip, September 24, 2013)
You've heard people arguing about Obamacare (officially known as The Affordable Care Act or ACA) for months... but you may have tuned it all out, because it’s all so co ...
Posted Saturday, September 28th 2013 at 1:26PM
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FOR THE NAMES SEE PIC AND FOLLOW THE LINK
http://jecarter4.tumblr.com/post/62446946046/33-members-of-congress-who-have-benefited-from-farm ...
Posted Friday, September 27th 2013 at 11:11PM
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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT!........POWERFUL!!
Slavery by Another ( this is the full program )
http://video.pbs.org/video/2176766758/
Slavery by Another Name is a 90-minute documentary that challenges one of Americans’ most cherished assumptions: th ...
Posted Friday, September 27th 2013 at 1:59PM
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It’s no secret that the United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world or that the population of our prisons has literally exploded since the 1980′s when Ronald Reagan first declared the “war on drugs.” What might not be as we ...
Posted Friday, September 27th 2013 at 1:56PM
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Plan to join your fellow alumni at the Washington Square campus on Saturday, October 19, 2013. Register by October 1 to receive a discounted registration fee of $10 (the fee will be $15 after October 1). Your registration fee includes:
A contine ...
Posted Friday, September 27th 2013 at 1:50PM
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WBLS 107.5
Is this a good idea?
The New Harlem East Merchants Association wants to pay the homeless to clean up trash-strewn stretch of filthy E. 125th St. The merchants group has started raising money for the unconventional plan, which will invo ...
Posted Friday, September 27th 2013 at 1:42PM
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