Decades before delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton would represent her district as a congresswoman on Capitol Hill, she worked as one of the original organizers for the March on Washington. Fifty years later, Holmes Norton reflects with Gwen Ifill on her ...
Posted Friday, August 23rd 2013 at 7:24PM
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Months before Martin Luther King Jr. declared "I Have a Dream" to galvanize a crowd of thousands, Bayard Rustin was planning all the essential details to make the 1963 March on Washington a success
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Posted Friday, August 23rd 2013 at 7:19PM
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Numerous exhibits and programs in the nation's capital will allow visitors to retrace the historic steps of the 1963 March on Washington 50 years later
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Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell speaks at the White House in Washington, DC, July 18, 2011, after an education roundtable with business leaders and US President Barack Obama. (Photo by Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images)
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Posted Friday, August 23rd 2013 at 7:11PM
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Wednesday, August 28th marks the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, a touchstone of the American Civil Rights Movement. The march, which had religious leaders, labor organizers and celebrities joining a sea of demonstr ...
Posted Friday, August 23rd 2013 at 6:53PM
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AFRICANGLOBE – The global north is unable to feed itself. This explains the “land acquisition” (sounds better than land grab) for food crops in Africa. The UN body, the ‘Food and Agricultural Organisation’ (FAO) published a report on this trend in De ...
Posted Friday, August 23rd 2013 at 5:49PM
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THATS GOOD KAMISHA, ITS A SCIENTIFIC FACT, DONE BY (GOOD WHITE FOLKS) THAT BLACK GENES ARE DOMINANT, AND WHITE GENES ARE RECESSIVE. SO SHE'S NOT RACIST. I LIKE TO CALL IT FACTS, THE TRUTH, THE OPPOSITE OF A LIE, NOT A THEORY NOT A CONSPIRACY, BUT THE ...
Posted Friday, August 23rd 2013 at 4:33PM
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Well Deserved Recognition!
President Barack Obama called Antoinette Tuff, the woman who talked down an armed 20-year-old who entered & threatened to shoot up an Atlanta-area elementary school with an AK 47. In a recent interview he said "Here is s ...
Posted Friday, August 23rd 2013 at 4:22PM
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The White entertainment industry is the main tool used to negatively characterize Black people, most of this industry is Jewish-owned
AFRICANGLOBE – African American Lewis Latimer invented the filament for the light bulb that illuminates our hom ...
Posted Friday, August 23rd 2013 at 4:18PM
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What did the march on Washington really achieved?
African Americans are increasingly pessimistic that progress is being made toward achieving the vision of racial equality outlined by Martin Luther King Jr. 50 years ago, according to a survey rele ...
Posted Friday, August 23rd 2013 at 4:14PM
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Robin Thicke "Got to Give it up" and MORE than 6 figures
Marvin Gayes family rejected a six figure offer in an attempt to stop an infringement court showdown this fall. Well it seems like the Song of the Summer will be the Big Court Case of the Fa ...
Posted Friday, August 23rd 2013 at 3:51PM
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When a Bloomberg television host opened her segment with Spike Lee on his Kickstarter campaign, saying that the famed directed was under fire over his financing approach, he didn’t take it too well.
Trish Regan of “Street Smart” started off the segm ...
Posted Thursday, August 22nd 2013 at 3:16AM
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See my pastor and the church i go to ! this is tooo much
As previously reported by NewsOne, the series, set to premiere in the fall of 2013, the “docu-series” stars Bishop Noel Jones, Deitrick Haddon,Bishop Clarence McClendon, Pastor Wayne Chaney ...
Posted Thursday, August 22nd 2013 at 3:06AM
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n a move straight from the Stupidest Criminals In The World files, Brooklyn rapper, Matthew Best, 26, stage name Neno Best, took to Instagram and posted pictures of guns and cash, leading the NYPD to make the largest gun bust in New York City history ...
Posted Thursday, August 22nd 2013 at 2:27AM
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This Day in Black History: Aug. 20, 1942 - Singer Isaac Hayes was born in Covington, Tennessee. http://bet.us/16YEnSs ...
Posted Tuesday, August 20th 2013 at 4:15PM
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The inaugural induction into the Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame should have been an event without a hint of controversy; the black-tie affair should have been a tribute to greatness, a toast to the men who made boxing in Nevada so memorable for most of t ...
Posted Tuesday, August 20th 2013 at 4:14PM
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Stacey Dash Slams Oprah Winfrey for Trayvon Martin Comment - Doesn't like Winfrey's comparison of Martin to Emmitt Till. http://bet.us/19GBM5D ...
Posted Tuesday, August 20th 2013 at 4:10PM
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JOHANNESBURG (AP) - The speaker, one of the world's most recognizable black leaders, was addressing a joint session of the U.S. Congress when he quoted America's top civil rights leader: "Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty we are free at ...
Posted Tuesday, August 20th 2013 at 4:04PM
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Al Sharpton fired back at Bill O’Reilly in an interview on Friday, saying that the Fox News host needs to “man up and grow up.”
Sharpton’s comments came after O’Reilly revealed that he had once donated $25,000 to Sharpton’s charity in Harlem. O’Re ...
Posted Monday, August 19th 2013 at 5:11PM
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Much ink has been spilled on the epidemic of Black fathers who abandon their children. But in Bea Hinton’s case, she grew up as the Black child of a missing White father—a legacy that has defined her life.
To this day, I don’t know what my father ...
Posted Monday, August 19th 2013 at 2:29PM
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