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2 hrs ago | WTKR-TV Norfolk

Va university seeks to note site of black church

As Radford University celebrates its 100th birthday over the next year, the school's president has promised that the contributions of the area's black residents won't be forgotten.

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Related Topix: Radford University, Radford, VA, Montgomery County, VA

6 hrs ago | WVEC

Despite pact, few blacks at Coast Guard school

Eight years after the U.S. Coast Guard and the NAACP signed a voluntary agreement to work together to boost the number of African-Americans at its 1,000-cadet service academy, the annual enrollment and graduation figures for blacks remain in single digits.

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Related Topix: US Coast Guard, US Military, US News, US Politics, James Oberstar, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Elijah Cummings

10 hrs ago | Centre Daily Times

Filmmaker Tyler Perry donates $1M to NAACP

Filmmaker Tyler Perry has donated $1 million to the NAACP to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the civil rights organization.

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Related Topix: Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All By Myself, Tyler Perry

14 hrs ago | Free Press

Review: Bill Cosby rap album packs powerful message, but lacks special spark

In this CD cover image released by Turtle Head Recordings, Bill Cosby's "Bill Cosby Presents the Cosnarati: State of Emergency" is shown.

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Related Topix: Black Entertainment, Bill Cosby

18 hrs ago | New America Media

More Latinos and African Americans Value Higher Education

A higher percentage of Latinos and African Americans in California value college education as a necessary path to success in today's work world, compared to their Asian and white counterparts, according to a recent survey.

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Related Topix: California, California Government, Sweden, World News, Japan, University of Southern California

23 hrs ago | Newswise

Racial Disparity in Colon Cancer Survival Not Easily Explained

A new study by University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers shows that body-mass index and co-existing medical conditions do not explain the decreased survival observed among African-Americans compared to Caucasians who also have colon cancer.

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Related Topix: Colorectal Health, Colon Cancer, Health, University of Alabama

Mon Nov 23, 2009

Chicago Sun-Times

Property owner sued for refusing to rent to blacks

A south suburban rental agent who allegedly refused to rent properties to African-Americans was sued in federal court Monday, the U.S. Attorney's Office and Justice Department Civil Rights Division announced.

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HometownAnnapolis

Wright urges unity in NAACP speech

The Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright last night urged several hundred people at the NAACP Freedom Fund Banquet that Americans must learn to work past their differences.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama, Glen Burnie, MD, Gibson Island, MD

Sun Nov 22, 2009

Lincoln Tribune

Black power has arrived _ with some new challenges

Black lawmakers face unexpected challenges now that they have seized unprecedented power Ten months after Democrats took over the Capitol and the first African-American president moved into the White House, black lawmakers are in control of some of the most powerful positions in Congress - and face new challenges to using their long-sought ...

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Related Topix: US News

www.todaysdrum.com | TodaysDrum

FBI asks for help in probing civil rights era racial murders with some cash rewards

While as many as 108 cases remain open with the FBI, they can use the public's help in identifying the victim's next of kin in 33 cases.

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Related Topix: US News

www.blacknews.com | Know4life

Virtue Today Magazine Provides a Healing for Women

There is a saying that claims, "There is no such thing as a no good woman...if so, she was made by a no good man." Well, the publisher of Virtue Today Magazine , feels that both men and women are wounded souls that cause "hurting people to hurt people." The new issue of Virtue Today ordained the "healing issue," provides a healing for just about ...

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Sat Nov 21, 2009

Politico

Black Caucus blocks Wall St. vote

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus threatened to oppose a key financial regulatory reform bill Thursday over unrelated economic concerns, forcing Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank to yank his bill before a final committee vote.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Barney Frank, Democrat

Fri Nov 20, 2009

www.finalcall.com | Know4life

The Psychological and Genetic Roots of Violence (Part II)

Marijuana, music and video games are potentially Mind Controlling agents. Mind control is also referred to as brainwashing, coercive persuasion, and thought reform. It refers to a broad range of psychological methods and processes thought to subvert an individual's control of his or her own thoughts, behaviors, emotions, or decision-making. Brainwashing and mind control theories originally developed to explain how the enemy indoctrinated their people using mind control techniques. Drugs and chemicals were also experimented with. The Nazis were heavily involved in such methods. Ecstasy was routinely given to the soldiers to keep them overly violent. What is not widely known is the fact that following the war, Nazi scientists infiltrated the American Psychiatric community, many becoming leaders.

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Related Topix: Drugs, Video Games

www.finalcall.com | Know4life

Farrakhan: Black America must change to survive

The leader of the Nation of Islam began a major lecture series, a oeThe Time and What Must Be Done,a by using scripture, current events, social conditions and, at times humor, in a poignant warning about the need to change to avoid divine chastisement as an old world goes out and a new reality begins to come into existence.

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Related Topix: Religion, Islam

Thu Nov 19, 2009

www.eurweb.com | TheNewsMan

Father executes son for inappropriate touching of 3-year-old half sister.

*Highland Park, MI. -- A 37-year-old man was arraigned today in 30th District Court after being accused of shooting his teenage son execution-style while the boy pleaded for his life.

Jamar Pinkney Sr. faces one count of first-degree murder, three counts of felonious assault and one count of felony firearm.

Judge Bridgette Officer today in court ordered Pinkney Sr. to be held without bond as he awaits a preliminary exam on Dec. 1.

The courtroom was packed with emotional family members, including one who broke down and was escorted out of the room. Click over to read more and link to full story.

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Related Topix: Violent Crime

www.eurthisnthat.com | TheNewsMan

Gil Scott-Heron Is Back!

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! Nooooo it’s the Heron! Gil Scott-Heron that is!

The man that had been long thought dead has arisen and is back with a new album that has only been whispered about as legend in smoky after hour joints for years.

He’s come out of the shadows to grace the stage and preach once again.

Gil Scott-Heron, in case you’re not familiar as you should be, set the stage for hip-hop. The poetry and verse that he’s given us, like “The Revolution Won’t Be Televized”, gave Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five their Message.

Heron was one of the first to lay the truth on track and pave the way for the beginning of the rap game.

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Related Topix: Arts, Poetry, Rap, Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five

www.latimes.com | Inisa Love

Army Corps of Engineers Blamed For Hurricane Katrina Levee Breaches

Reporting from Atlanta - In a ruling that could leave the government open to billions of dollars in claims from Hurricane Katrina victims, a federal judge said late Wednesday that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had displayed "gross negligence" in failing to maintain a navigation channel -- resulting in levee breaches that flooded large swaths of greater New Orleans.

U.S. District Judge Stanwood R. Duval peppered his 156-page decision, issued in New Orleans, with harsh criticism of the Army corps, at one point citing its "insouciance, myopia and shortsightedness" in failing to maintain the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet, known locally as MRGO.

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Related Topix: New Orleans, LA, Natural Disasters, Flood, Hurricane

Wed Nov 18, 2009

www.presstv.com | Know4life

Australia rapped for violating aborigine rights

Irene Khan meets members of the Alyawarr language group. Amnesty International has slammed the Australian government's inability to tackle the poverty the country's aborigines are facing. The London-based organization's visiting Secretary-General Irene Khan said on Wednesday that the conditions aboriginals are facing are deeply disturbing and require a new approach. "In the heart of the First World, I saw scenes more reminiscent of the Third World - of countries torn by war, dominated by repressive regimes or racked by corruption," AP quoted Khan, a Bangladesh-born lawyer, as saying. She underlined that the aborigines are suffering from the violation of their basic human rights.

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Related Topix: Activism, Amnesty International, Charitable Organizations

www.linktv.org | Know4life

Bro'Town - Season 2 - Watch Online! | Link TV

The boys are back and better than ever in a new series! All your favorite characters are back along with appearances from a whole bunch of A-list celebrities, like Rove, Keisha Castle-Hughes, famous New Zealand fashion designers Denise L'Estrange-Corbet and Francis Hooper, Kate Sylvester and Karen Walker, as well as Michael Jones, Nathan Rarere, Teuila Blakely, John Campbell and Carol Hirschfeld, and even Prince Charles! New Zealand's first adult-targeted animated series – often compared to The Simpsons or South Park – Bro’Town follows five teenagers through the “mean streets” of Auckland, New Zealand. Set amongst the country’s growing Pacific Islander community, the series is based on the performance of the local four-man group The Naked Samoans. Of course, the boys get up to all sorts of antics in the second series. They attend Morningside Fashion Week, get lost in the bush, adopt a baby and convince their dad to buy a racehorse. All episodes of Bro'Town, Season 2 are now available in their entirety online for viewers in the U.S.!

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Related Topix: New Zealand

www.kwqc.com | ADalton

Black power has arrived _ with some new challenges

Ten months after Democrats took over the Capitol and the first African-American president moved into the White House, black lawmakers are in control of some of the most powerful positions in Congress - and face new challenges to using their long-sought influence.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama, University of Pennsylvania, US House of Representatives, James Clyburn, Democrat

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