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No Uncertain Terms
Since roughly week 12 or 13 of the regular season, I had been having a rough time seeing anybody beat the Seattle Seahawks….the team I didn’t factor into the equation, was the Seahawks themselves! A...
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Demand That Mauritania Release Anti-Slavery Activists
Biram Ould Dah Ould AbeidMauritania is one of the few countries in the world where forms of slavery still exist today that look exactly as they did a hundred years ago.In this West African nation,...
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Nigeria: The Challenge of Change – A Burden of Choice
Wole Soyinka weighs in on Nigeria's "choices"What makes our situation especially galling is the fervid intrusion of some opportunistic sanitizers who bear direct, sometimes even originating...
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Sovereignty And Decoloniality -- From The United States To Western Sahara
Morocco's King Mohammed VI-- maintains colonial dominance over Western Sahara Western Sahara is the last remaining colony in Africa; and here in the United States, African-Americans are still a...
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Debate: Who is the Greater, Malcolm X or Dr. Martin Luther King?
Greys, left and Clay, right[Community Announcement]Clarke House Debate #2 Topic: “Who is the Greater, Malcolm X or Dr. Martin Luther King, Sunday, February 8th 3:P.M.Two renowned activists, Omawole...
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Black History Is American History: Tribute To Chicago’s Harold Washington
Mayor Harold Washington[Tribute: Harold Washington]Black history is and will always be American history – and the work we do every day honors and builds upon the work of those who have toiled, fought...
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How Reader Of This Column Raised $75,000 For Carnegie Hall Concert
Classical composer Earnestine Rodgers Robinson[FUNdraising Good Times]Part one of a two-part seriesWe were recently caught off guard when Dr. Todd Robinson, a FUNdraising Good Times reader, shared with...
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UPBEAT: Obama Delivers On Promise Of Six Years Ago To Restore American Economy
President Obama Unleashed His Six Years Defies G.O.P Sabotage AttemptsUnder the headline "Job Market Looks Ripe for Liftoff," and sub-header "Best Stretch of Hiring Since 1997 Suggests Stronger Wage...
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In support of "Rwanda's Untold Story" and the BBC
A call for truth and justice in the African Great Lakes Region(Published here for the signatories by Ann Garrison and the Black Star News.) On Oct. 1, 2014, BBC2 broadcast a documentary, “Rwanda’s...
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Cancel Invitation: Boehner's And Netanyahu's Bridge Over Troubled Waters
Misled: Speaker Boehner is in way over his pay gradeBrother John Boehner, you've done it again.This is another fine mess you've allowed the fringe members of your party to get you into. Your recently...
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Black Footnotes: Documentary Play At Nuyorican Poets Cafe
Rebel Theater Company and the Nuyorican Poets Cafe present the world premiere production of Black Footnotes, a documentary play with music that chronicles the lives and achievements of...
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New York’s First Black Female CPA Dies
Iralma Pozo, president of the NYSSCPA's Manhattan Bronx Chapter and J. Michael Kirkland, the NYSSCPA's immediate past president, present Gines with a lifetime achievement award in September. Services...
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OUTRAGE WIDENS IN NIGERIA OVER POSTPONEMENT OF ELECTIONS
Feb. 9 (GIN) - In a mounting chorus of voices, Nigerians from north to south, from the diaspora and at home, both Christian and Muslim flooded Facebook, blogs, and Twitter, while turning out in street...
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AS EBOLA OUTBREAK SLOWS, WORLD HEALTH BODY SHIFTS FOCUS
Feb. 8 (GIN) – For the first time since the end of June 2014, there have been fewer than 100 new cases of Ebola reported in a week in the three most affected countries.That was the positive news from...
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EXPOSE HAUNTS BANKING GIANT THAT HELPED HIDE AFRICAN BILLIONS
Feb. 9 (GIN) – In an unusual collaborative effort, a team of journalists from 45 countries has produced a blistering expose of a billionaires’ bank in Switzerland which was helping to place huge sums...
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Akai Gurley: Activists Welcome Peter Laing's Indictment But Caution...
Young marchers have been demanding for justice in several police-killing-of-unarmed Black men casesSeveral elected officials and activists welcomed today's report that Peter Liang the NYPD officer who...
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Return Of Prodigal Champ Klitschko: Columnist Sees KO Victory By Round Five
Wladimir KlitschkoLike a soldier away from home for a long time, or Ulysses, Heavyweight Champion Wladimir Klitschko, 63-3, 54 knockouts recently announced his return.Also known as Dr. Steel Hammer,...
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Lehman Center Celebrates Valentine’s Day with Orquesta Sinfónica del Estado...
With Valentine’s Day on the horizon, the cost of flowers and candy will go higher. People will look to take their love ones out to a nice dinner. Babysitters will be called so married couples can...
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Uganda: Federalism As Lifeblood Of Democracy And Antidote To Dictatorship
Democracy Uganda-style: Government of Museveni, by Museveni, for MuseveniAt the heart of most of the major crises in Africa is the excessive concentration of power in the central government in general...
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Malcolm X to El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz: Metamorphosis of a Militant
El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz[Black History Month Tribute]In a letter from Mecca, April 1964, Malcolm X wrote: “You may be shocked by these words coming from me. But on this pilgrimage, what I have seen,...
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