After conservative darling Dr. Ben Carson made his head-shaking comments that Obamacare was “the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery,” Roland Martin got a chance to confront him on Martin’s NewsOne radio show yesterday.
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Posted Monday, October 21st 2013 at 9:08PM
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The Board of Trustees of Knoxville College voted on Wednesday, October 9, 2013 to accept the resignation of Dr. Horace Judson as president of Knoxville College effective December 31, 2013.
The letter sent to Dr. Judson for Chairmen Reese stated i ...
Posted Monday, October 21st 2013 at 7:05PM
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Created Equal: America’s Civil Rights Struggle Film to be Screened at TSU’s
Robert J. Terry Library
To mark the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s March on Washington, and to introduce four documentaries with riveting new footage illustrat ...
Posted Monday, October 21st 2013 at 4:26PM
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POLICING THE POLICE: AN EXAMINATION OF THE HOUSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT AND THEIR ROLE, REPUTATION AND EFFICACY IN THE COMMUNITY
The Earl Carl Institute for Legal & Social Policy Inc., Texas Southern University’s Barbara Jordan-Mickey Leland School of ...
Posted Monday, October 21st 2013 at 3:20PM
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Why aren’t the best and brightest minority students landing at elite colleges? A new study suggests we’re asking the wrong question.
In his research on achievement by black males in higher education, University of Pennsylvania Prof. Shaun Harper–d ...
Posted Monday, October 21st 2013 at 12:30PM
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One in every three black males born today can expect to go to prison at some point in their life, compared with one in every six Latino males, and one in every 17 white males, if current incarceration trends continue.
These are among the many piec ...
Posted Monday, October 21st 2013 at 12:26PM
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This exceptional young man deserves every good thing that comes his way. I too had tears in my eyes reading such a wonderful story. Great job raising this young man; kudos to his Mom at a time and place where it's sometimes easier to make bad choices ...
Posted Sunday, October 20th 2013 at 7:19PM
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Whomever is in office deserves respect well said when people are posting him in jail suits or clown faces that almost resembles black face. I remember when the Dixie chicks disrespected Bush everyone was appalled those who voted for him and those who ...
Posted Sunday, October 20th 2013 at 6:02PM
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Regular readers of The Electronic Intifada are familiar with the shocking and escalating racism in Israel against people from countries in Africa.
Our extensive coverage of the incitement and attacks on Africans, thanks in large part to the work o ...
Posted Sunday, October 20th 2013 at 5:44PM
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Melissa Harris-Perry A new generation of African-American elected officials
When Senator-elect Cory Booker goes to “work for people” in Washington, he’ll only be the fourth black person elected to the Senate to do so. In America. Ever. ...
Posted Sunday, October 20th 2013 at 3:52PM
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ALL MEMBERS READ THIS;
YOU seen the showon mtv called ''catfish'' right ?
http://www.mtv.com/shows/catfish/series.jhtml
Where there are people faking to be someone they are not in order to
get to another person weather it be for money sex o ...
Posted Sunday, October 20th 2013 at 4:59AM
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The GOP is a sad, leaderless political party with no moral compass and no direction.
Just how bad was the past two weeks for Republicans? After closing down the government for 16 days and threatening to unleash economic catastrophe on the world, the ...
Posted Sunday, October 20th 2013 at 2:18AM
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(ThyBlackMan.com) I was born in Los Angeles, and as I gazed upon the representation of the shiny new edifices that’s envisioned as the NEW Leimert Park, I was saddened and felt a profound sense of loss. All those impressive and shiny buildings didn’t ...
Posted Saturday, October 19th 2013 at 7:40PM
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Joke of Week: A man comes home and tells his wife the doctor said he just 24 hours to live. He asked if they could have sex before he dies and she said yes. Four hours later he asked again and she said yes. Eight hours later he asked again and still ...
Posted Saturday, October 19th 2013 at 7:34PM
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The University of the Virgin Islands will host the second annual International Colloquium on Black Males in Education at 8 a.m. on Oct. 24-25, in the Administration and Conference Center first floor conference room on the St. Thomas Campus. The them ...
Posted Friday, October 18th 2013 at 5:47PM
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With tens of millions of dollars worth of support from all the bigwigs in tech, a new nonprofit called Code.org wants to bring computer science into schools.
Its first initiative will be a worldwide “Hour of Code” during the second week of December, with materials provided that include coding tut ...
Posted Friday, October 18th 2013 at 5:35PM
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Area Experts Discuss Ways to Increase Access to Healthy Foods
The impact of diet and nutrition on communities in Prince George’s County and around the globe is the focus of the third annual Food Day Symposium at Bowie State University Thursday, Oc ...
Posted Friday, October 18th 2013 at 3:06PM
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BLACK STUDIES IS CURRENTLY FACED WITH THE THREAT OF ERASURE---OOOPS! THERE GOES OUR HISTORY. LET NOT THE STRUGGLES OF THE PAST HAVE BEEN FOUGHT IN VAIN!!
The Battle for Black Studies: The forgotten African-American education-reform movement of the ...
Posted Friday, October 18th 2013 at 2:58PM
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David Johnson Contribution To black history everyday http://youtu.be/Q8wNM6jO38c
SOUL II SOUL BLACK HISTORY REMIX POETRY
www.youtube.com
TO THE DREAM ,THE MARCHER ,THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE GONE BEFORE US TO OUR BLACK ...
Posted Friday, October 18th 2013 at 2:41PM
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DURHAM Every year, more than 12,000 patients in the United States are diagnosed with life-threatening diseases such as leukemia or lymphoma for which a bone-marrow transplant or a transfusion of umbilical cord blood is their best or only hope of a c ...
Posted Friday, October 18th 2013 at 2:39PM
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