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Bishop Eddie Long may have just wrought the end to his Atlanta mega-congregation, the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church. A source within New Birth says that the consequences of the Long sex scandal have amounted to ...
Posted Monday, August 19th 2013 at 1:29AM
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I am an 84-year-old angry Black man. I am Mississippi born, Mississippi bred and Mississippi fled. I am the son of former slaves. My parents and I rode in the back of the bus. We rode in the front of the trains. We drank from water fountains designat ...
Posted Saturday, August 17th 2013 at 5:19PM
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''I'm not non-violent, when my mama had me..she didn't have me non-violently, a nine pound baby don't come out non-violently....Because it's not natural.''
-Dr. Yosef Ben Yochannon see video ! ...
Posted Saturday, August 17th 2013 at 3:32AM
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Three wise men...
We cannot save ourselves and decide where we are going until we understand where we have been and where we are. With history unfolding before us, we've got to become astute in asking and answering the question: Where are we in re ...
Posted Saturday, August 17th 2013 at 3:23AM
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Shined a Light on Abuse of Black WomenThe rape of Recy Taylor, became a national example of Southern injustice.
Recy Taylor was abducted and raped at gunpoint by seven white men in Abbeville, Ala., on Sept. 3, 1944. Her attack, one of uncounted nu ...
Posted Saturday, August 17th 2013 at 3:09AM
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Posted Saturday, August 17th 2013 at 2:54AM
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LOOK AT PICS ! ...''HBCU'' //BLACK IS Beautiful .
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Posted Saturday, August 17th 2013 at 2:27AM
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"From homeless to Howard" might sound like the title of a movie, but for 19-year-old James Ward, this is his reality -- though it still feels like a dream.
"It's surreal. I can't believe after everything that's happened I'm going to be leaving to ...
Posted Wednesday, August 14th 2013 at 6:47PM
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UPDATE: Judge sentences Jackson wife to 12 months in federal prison.
WASHINGTON – Former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. was sentenced today to 30 months in prison plus three years of supervised release for misspending about $750,000 in campaign funds.
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Posted Wednesday, August 14th 2013 at 2:22PM
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Remember the March on Washington? August 28, 1963. Tens of thousands of activists on the National Mall. A preacher's son from Atlanta talking about his dream for the country.
We don't need a history lesson. Even if we weren't at the March itself - ...
Posted Wednesday, August 14th 2013 at 3:20AM
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Detroit residents beat a man they suspected of raping a teen girl after they say police didn't act quickly enough. http://on.cnn.com/17MBDXi ...
Posted Wednesday, August 14th 2013 at 2:32AM
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The first Americans were descendants from Australian aborigines, according to evidence in a BBC documentary series called Ancient Voices. Where did they come from? When did they first arrive here? The documentary also answers those questions.
The ...
Posted Wednesday, August 14th 2013 at 2:22AM
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Child Support Judge Lu Ann Ballew took matters into her own hands when two parents with a dispute over their child’s last name appeared in her Cocke County Tennessee court. Not only did she change the child’s last name, Ballew decided to change the f ...
Posted Monday, August 12th 2013 at 11:12PM
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Jersey City, N.J. – A disturbing report is being circulated among various news outlets that a Black man was found hanging from a tree in a Jersey City, New Jersey park.
The lifeless body of the unidentified man, who appeared to be in his 60’s, was ...
Posted Monday, August 12th 2013 at 10:23PM
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http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/
* More on this from Dylan Matthews, Aliyah Frumin, and Greg Sargent.
* Stop and frisk: "The New York Police Department's 'stop and frisk' tactic, under which millions of mostly black and Hispanic people have been qu ...
Posted Monday, August 12th 2013 at 9:56PM
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By ASSOCIATED PRESS | 8/12/13 8:23 PM EDT
North Carolina’s governor signed sweeping voting reforms into law on Monday, approving a package of changes that drew stinging criticism from the NAACP and other groups that swiftly responded with legal chal ...
Posted Monday, August 12th 2013 at 9:52PM
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On Monday morning, Attorney General Eric Holder announced that he would seek to abolish mandatory minimum sentencing for non-violent, low-level drug offenders; Holder sited high incarceration costs, disproportional conviction rates and unfair targeti ...
Posted Monday, August 12th 2013 at 9:44PM
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The president and first lady depart the White House en route to Joint Base Andrews in Washington, DC.
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Posted Monday, August 12th 2013 at 6:27PM
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Holder said mandatory minimum sentences "breed disrespect for the system ... they do not serve public safety. Photograph: Matt Rourke/AP
The US government took the first tentative steps toward tackling its 1.5m-strong prison population on Monday by ...
Posted Monday, August 12th 2013 at 5:06PM
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