It's very important that we teach our youth the true of our past! We can't sugar coat the past anymore. They are obligated to know the good and the bad of the African Diaspora History! Like Nas said "If the truth is told, the youth can grow"
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Posted Saturday, November 30th 2013 at 12:17AM
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by: Samori Swygert
It’s imperative that we pick up the baton and carry the torch that was carried by our ancestors. Our posterity and future is completely dependent on what we do now. Our elders are dying, and our legacy, heritage, and tradition ...
Posted Friday, November 29th 2013 at 10:44PM
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My Young Black Brother,
I hope all is well with you. I’m writing you in genuine concern and interest for your well being. You possess tremendous amounts of untapped potential and greatness that you have yet to discover about yourself. I’ve been ...
Posted Friday, November 29th 2013 at 10:31PM
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Eastern Christianity Western Christianity and ISLAM !
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Posted Friday, November 29th 2013 at 9:59PM
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An article in The New York Times this week quoted a prosecutor in Detroit as saying that race relations seemed more troubled than ever: “I think when the president was elected it became much more overt.” Is she right?
Have racial tensions in the U ...
Posted Friday, November 29th 2013 at 7:25PM
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Breaking News! Marissa Alexander is free from jail in time to spend Thanksgiving with family she has not seen for much of the last three years.
The Florida woman – who had been serving a 20-year sentence for firing what she described as a warning ...
Posted Friday, November 29th 2013 at 3:59AM
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A Star, More Than Just a Voice, Is Back Onstage With Her Magnetism Intact
Lauryn Hill Re-Emerges at the Bowery Ballroom
It wasn’t just a club date and the start of a tour; it was also a video shoot. When Lauryn Hill performed at the Bowery Ballro ...
Posted Friday, November 29th 2013 at 3:53AM
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Karma isn't fate. Nor is it a punishment imposed on us by some external agent. We create our own karma. Karma is the result of the choices that we make every moment of every day.
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Posted Thursday, November 28th 2013 at 5:59PM
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The Best Man Holiday was beyond a good movie. It truly exposed real love,friendship, loyalty, empathy and compassion. The message in the movie was indeed heart felt.
T,HOWARD was a fool ! ...
Posted Thursday, November 28th 2013 at 5:48PM
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Last night marked the premiere of Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s original PBS documentary "The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross."
The introspective, six-part, six-hour series, hosted by the Harvard scholar, social critic and filmmaker, examines th ...
Posted Thursday, November 28th 2013 at 4:35PM
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People have crossed to many lines and have destroyed trust which has lead to back biting and conflict ,,,could even lead to a serious beat down or murder ,,,
Seems to me there are a few people that want to see the site grow you know the ones that ...
Posted Thursday, November 28th 2013 at 5:10AM
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Do you love to read just as much as I do?
In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizen ...
Posted Thursday, November 28th 2013 at 12:05AM
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Educated Black People Like Facebook. This is the social networking site of choice for most EBP. Not the Facebook of today, but the Facebook, pre-2005, when only college students aka “educated people” could join and there weren’t all those new applica ...
Posted Wednesday, November 27th 2013 at 11:56PM
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Educated Black People like foreign cars.You know I got that 750 li 2012 ,its a sweet ride but did you know my girl /wife got that 550 MSB sedan amg Something about the undergraduate degree just makes American made cars inadequate. Now, the type of B ...
Posted Wednesday, November 27th 2013 at 11:51PM
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A team from Oakwood's Bradford-Cleveland-Brooks Leadership Center (BCBLC) recently returned from Ghana's Valley View University, where they responded to a request to assist in the establishment of the first denominationally sponsored leadership cente ...
Posted Wednesday, November 27th 2013 at 6:25PM
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Africans from all walks of life must identify and learn basic events that have been grossly misrepresented. World history began at the heart of Africa and spread throughout the continent. The main method of development was its waterways of the Nile, ...
Posted Wednesday, November 27th 2013 at 4:54PM
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With fall commencement just around the corner, Grambling State University is proud to announce a familiar and prominent person as commencement speaker, Birdex Copeland.
“Dr. Copeland is a respected educator, an accomplished businessman and a dedi ...
Posted Tuesday, November 26th 2013 at 5:57PM
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Posted: 11/25/2013 5:56 pm EST
There have been plenty of fancy December covers, including Oprah's glam turn in Vera Wang for O magazine and Jessica Chastain glowing in marigold for Vogue. But our favorite so far is Ladies' Home Journal, which got ...
Posted Tuesday, November 26th 2013 at 4:15PM
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Ooh it's so exciting! What a perfect night to
watch Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer!
Don't miss this classic TV. Grab your kids and
a cup of Hot Cocoa and snuggle up to the show!
What time you ask? Get the deets here: http://www.tvguide.com/tvsho ...
Posted Tuesday, November 26th 2013 at 3:57PM
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Posted Tuesday, November 26th 2013 at 12:53PM
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Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip celebrate their 66th wedding anniversary on Wednesday, having married on Nov. 20, 1947. Here’s a look back at the happy couple through the years: http://o.canada.com/uncategorized/queen-elizabeth-and-prince-philip-ce ...
Posted Tuesday, November 26th 2013 at 11:48AM
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Posted Monday, November 25th 2013 at 5:08PM
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Posted Monday, November 25th 2013 at 4:44PM
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