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The Cosby Affair: Is Smug The New Uppity?
Columnist doesn't buy the line that the stories about the allegations against Cosby are a result of Burress's comments[Comment]Part One People ask me what I as a psychiatrist think about Bill Cosby.My...
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After Ferguson And Staten Island: The United States, Still Separate And Unequal
Eric Garner and Michael Brown -- victims of exrajudicial police execution In his celebrated speech at the 2004 Democratic Party Convention then senator Barack Obama said, “There is not a Black America...
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Ferguson And Staten Island Protests: Stop Mass Incarceration Network...
NYPD Officer Pantaleo strangles unarmed Eric Garner for allegedly selling loose cigarettes[Op-Ed]The Stop Mass Incarceration Network To Announce Week of Outrage Actions Leading Up to Millions March NYC...
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New York Attorney General Wants Powers To Prosecute Cops Who Shoot Unarmed...
Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman Broad Coalition Calls On Governor To Act ImmediatelyNew York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman has asked Governor Andrew Cuomo to issue an interim executive...
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COURT DROPS CASE AGAINST KENYAN PREZ LINKED TO POST- ELECTION KILLING SPREE
Dec. 8 (GIN) - As activists in the U.S. demand justice for murders for which no one has been punished, Kenyans are reeling from a similar judgment that finds no one accountable for a few months of...
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UK DYSFUNCTION SLOWS EBOLA CLEANUP, SIERRA LEONEANS SAY
Dec. 8 (GIN) – An investigative news report has confirmed suspicions among some Sierra Leoneans that the UK is failing to get a handle on an effective response to Ebola while new infections are rising...
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ENERGY COMPANIES SET SIGHTS ON WAR-TORN SOMALIA FOR NEXT BIG DIG
Dec. 8 (GIN) – It may not be clear who is running Somalia these days but energy companies appear to know who to call as they conduct onshore and offshore seismic surveys which could make the Horn of...
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MALAWI LEADERS BACK OFF BIG RAISES AMIDST WIDENING LABOR UNREST
Dec. 8 (GIN) – A misguided effort to quietly hike up the paychecks of Malawi’s President Peter Mutharika and his VP roundly backfired, forcing them to cancel the generous gift to themselves “until a...
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SOUTH AFRICAN HOSTAGE KILLED BY SPECIAL OPS IN RESCUE MIX-UP
Dec. 8 (GIN) – A South African teacher was killed by U.S. Special Forces in a botched raid on an Al Qaeda hideout just hours before his release in a swap brokered by the South African charity Gift of...
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The Beginnings of Civil Rights Movement Against Police Criminality And...
Taking it to the next level ...This time it could be different.The Michael Brown and Eric Garner travesties could be the sparks to ignite a Civil Rights Movement against police criminality and...
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Mayor De Blasio Hosts Prince William At Tech Center
De Blasio with Prince William MAYOR DE BLASIO DELIVERS REMARKS AT SHUTTERSTOCK HEADQUARTERS WITH THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGEMayor Bill de Blasio: Well, I have to say, your Royal Highness, I want to welcome...
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New York Attorney General Wants To Take Police Shooting Cases From Prosecutors
Pantaleo's chokehold led to Eric Garner's deathThe public has lost confidence in District Attorneys to prosecute police shooting cases.This lack of public trust now drives New York’s highest...
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Music: #MaydayBlackAmerica
Lenny Harold[Music]This powerful and inspiring anthem of hope, MAYDAY, written and performed by, New Jersey native, Lenny Harold, was recently released online on December 3, 2014.It has been making...
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Stop Mass Incarceration's #WeekOfOutrage Kicks Off
They all can't breathe[Justice For Michael Brown And Eric Garner And Others]The Stop Mass Incarceration Network Kicks Off Week of Outrage Actions #WeekofOutrageFollowing an emergency meeting Sunday...
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Even With Domestic And Global Challenges U.S. Remains Hope's Beacon
Black Star columnist former Congressman Lee H. Hamilton says U.S. always adapts We are one glum country.Trust in the federal government is at historic lows, according to Gallup. More than half of the...
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Greg Palast Wins Sidney Award -- Exposed Software's Danger To Voters Of Color
Investigative reporter Greg Palast Greg Palast has won the December Sidney Award for “Jim Crow Returns,” and “Challenging Crosscheck,” a two-part Al Jazeera America exposé that shows how millions of...
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Monroe College Recognized As Leader In Graduating Ethnic Minorities
[Education: Focus On]Monroe College, a national leader in urban and international education is ranked among the top higher education schools in the country for graduating minority students, according...
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NYC Rally for a Global Climate Treaty that Protects Human Rights
File PhotoCall To World Leaders Meeting in Peru on Climate ChangeHundreds of climate change activists observed International Human Rights Day by rallying at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza to demand that the...
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The Missing Photos From the Senate Report on CIA Torture
By Michael Meurer,Truthout| News AnalysisA slender but welcome ray of light has been shone on the darkened chambers of CIA torture with the December 9, 2014, release of a report on the agency's...
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18th Annual Rainbow PUSH WSP Economic Summit
Rev. Jesse Jackson[Business]“Where Wall Street, Main Street & Silicon Valley Converge”Speakers to include Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, Black Enterprise CEO Earl G. (Butch) Graves, Jr. &...
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