LITTLE ROCK, Ark. Jefferson Thomas, who as a teenager was among nine black students to integrate a Little Rock high school in the nation's first major battle over school segregation, has died. He was 68.
Thomas died Sunday in Ohio of pancreatic ...
Posted Monday, September 6th 2010 at 6:21PM
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A homeless Bellevue, Wash., couple, who prosecutors say starved their infant daughter because they feared the baby would become too fat, were given a suspended sentence Friday that will allow them to avoid jail time.
King County Superior Court Jud ...
Posted Saturday, September 4th 2010 at 8:35PM
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The Los Angeles County sheriff has escalated his war of words against California medical marijuana dispensaries, saying as many as 97 percent operate as criminal enterprises.
Some of the pot shops get marijuana from Mexican drug cartels, and most ...
Posted Saturday, September 4th 2010 at 8:31PM
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Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan said Thursday an Islamic community center and mosque planned near ground zero should be built because Muslims were among those of many faiths who died in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
"Why then should a m ...
Posted Saturday, September 4th 2010 at 8:25PM
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As-Salaam Alaikum (Peace Be Unto You):
THROUGHOUT THE EARTH the female has and continues to suffer the abuse of men and the abuse of societies that have not clearly understood the extreme importance and tremendous value of the female.
In man ...
Posted Friday, September 3rd 2010 at 2:11PM
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) Unlike the blast that led to the massive BP spill, the latest oil platform fire in the Gulf of Mexico killed no one and sent no crude gushing into the water.
The Mariner Energy-owned platform that erupted in flames Thursday was ...
Posted Friday, September 3rd 2010 at 1:53PM
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As the month of September brings ovarian cancer into focus, itfs time to increase public understanding about the disease, including its prevalence, approaches to screening and prevention, treatment options, and resources that offer updated ovarian c ...
Posted Tuesday, August 31st 2010 at 2:18PM
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Is eighth grade class president white? Check. Is the vice president black? Check. Is the seventh grade president white? Check. Is the treasury secretary black? Check.
Feel like you're in a time machine? We do.
Students at Nettleton Middle Sch ...
Posted Tuesday, August 31st 2010 at 2:04PM
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People who wrongly believe President Obama is Muslim are "psychopaths", according to a sermon from Rev. Jeremiah Wright on Sunday in Little Rock, Ark.
The president's controversial former pastor told the congregation at New Millenium Church that O ...
Posted Monday, August 30th 2010 at 12:41PM
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This sign was posted outside a club in New Orleans where a lot of college students hang out. Is this DISCRIMINATION or what? (Click on photo to enlarge and check out the hair rule)... ...
Posted Saturday, August 28th 2010 at 6:20PM
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There are times when quoting rap verses are apropos, then there are times when they are not. Dr. Tyrone Hayes, a biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, opted for the latter, finding himself under an ethics investigation for sending taun ...
Posted Tuesday, August 24th 2010 at 1:31PM
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) A startling number of Gulf coast area children displaced by Hurricane Katrina still have serious emotional or behavioral problems five years later, a new study found.
More than one in three children studied those forced to fle ...
Posted Tuesday, August 24th 2010 at 1:26PM
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Harold Dow has died unexpectedly, according to CBS.
The veteran CBS News correspondent died Saturday. He was 62.
Dow leaves behind a wife, Kathy, and three children, Danica, Joelle, and David.
His career at CBS spanned almost 40 years. A Fi ...
Posted Saturday, August 21st 2010 at 9:08PM
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The ESSENCE Music Festival is here, well on TV One that is. Star-studded, two-hour special produced in conjunction with ESSENCE includes performances by Janet Jackson, Mary J. Blige, LL Cool J, Earth, Wind & Fire, Jill Scott, Trey Songz, Gladys Knigh ...
Posted Saturday, August 21st 2010 at 8:45PM
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A Louisville family filed a lawsuit Monday against Wal-Mart, claiming they found a dead mouse in a milk container they had been drinking from for three days.
The lawsuit, filed in Jefferson Circuit Court, alleges that Robert and Rosalind Grant as ...
Posted Tuesday, August 17th 2010 at 5:34PM
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From TheHuffingtonPost
August 16, 2010
In the trigger-happy post-9/11 world, the favoured way to instigate a war is to demand that the designated evildoer prove a negative.
Iraq was invaded because it couldnt prove that it didnt have WMDs ...
Posted Tuesday, August 17th 2010 at 11:15AM
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From The Huffington Post
August 16, 2010
Where can the Muslim Community Center be built in NYC?
To me, the answer is the same as if you asked me where a church, a synagogue, a Sikh temple or any place of worship in the US can be built. To para ...
Posted Monday, August 16th 2010 at 1:35PM
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