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Minnie Minoso's Quintessential American Story -- Obama
Minnie Minoso For South Siders and Sox fans all across the country, including me, Minnie Minoso is and will always be “Mr. White Sox.”The first Black Major Leaguer in Chicago, Minnie came to the United...
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The New Plantation: Incarceration Of Black America
Photo: Southercoalition.orgFor forty years the United States has hidden the consequence of its tragic racial history at the center of the War on Drugs.That historical consequence has now hardened into...
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Here We Go…Again
Some things simply transcend sports....occurrences that demand for you to stop in your tracks and not give a second thought to who your favorite sport, team or player is. When the news came that...
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Honoring The Women Who Give
Oseola McCarty[FUNdraising Good Times]It's women’s history month and time to highlight women’s role as philanthropists and fundraisers:“Women rock!”, “Women rule!”, “If you want something done, ask a...
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Harlem EatUp! Showcases Hot Cuisine And Culture Spots
Mariecar Frias, weekend producer for The Today Show, Derek Fleming, and Red Rooster founder Marcus SamuelssonThe brand new Harlem EatUp!, Festival aims to highlight the food, culture and renewed spirit...
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Self-Determination: Dare to Demand a Black Plebiscite
Viola PlummerOn the 50th anniversary of the assassination of revolutionary Black nationalist, El Hajj Malik El Shabazz, Malcolm X, the December 12th Movement launched the Campaign for a Plebiscite for...
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Debt Burden: Beware Of Deals That Seem Too Good To Be True
Chris KuklaA new report by the New York Federal Reserve Bank seems to be saying that America’s household credit and debt are about as uneven as the nation’s economic recovery.A new economic analysis...
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Ten Reasons Why I Wouldn't Attend Benjamin Netanyahu's Speech If I Was A...
Benjamin Netanyahu[Black Star News Editorial]There are many reasons but these are the 10 primary reasons why I wouldn't attend Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech before the U.S....
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Advocates Ask De Blasio and Council To Adopt Obama's Report Including...
President Obama backs independent prosecutors in police killings of unarmed civiliansIn response to the President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing recommending that police officers be required to...
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Coalition Of Human Rights Organizations Condemn "Broken Windows" Policing --...
Strong anti-Broken Windows message to NYPD Police Commissioner William Bratton Community groups from across New York City testified at a City Council Public Safety Committee hearing to challenge the...
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MOVE Commemorates 30th Anniversary Of Bombing Attack In Philly
Devastated buildings after Philadelphia police dropped bomb from helicopter on MOVE headquarters -- May 13, 1985-- killing 11 people including five children, wounding scores and destroying 65 homes....
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House Approves Homeland Security Department Funding
Defeat for Boehner and gain for Obama Administration The U.S. House of Representatives by a vote of 257 to 167, including 75 Republicans, passed a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security for...
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Nuclear Weapons Proliferation -- U.S. And Israeli Hypocrisy
Benjamin Netanyahu -- Assemblyman calls speech "hypocrisy"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to the U.S. congress was a blatant exercise of hypocrisy.The United States and Israel lack...
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Participatory Democracy Starts With: "What Can I Do About It?"
Lee Hamilton[Commentary]The question usually comes toward the end of a public meeting. Some knotty problem is being discussed, and someone in the audience will raise his or her hand and ask, “Okay, so...
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Guilty Until Proven Innocent: Why Cops Kill Black Males
Charley Saturmin Robinet -- he was "no angel"; now he's deadBlack males, especially those from low-income background are in constant danger from death at the hands of police.Now the second day story is...
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NAMIBIA’S PRESIDENT TAPPED FOR LEADERSHIP PRIZE
Mar. 3 (GIN) – A five million dollar prize for exemplary leadership, good governance and defending human rights has been awarded to the president of Namibia, it was announced this week.President...
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CAMEROON IN LINE OF FIRE AS KIDNAPS RISE
Mar. 2 (GIN) – With kidnappings and violent attacks almost a daily occurrence in Nigeria, the disappearance of an American missionary appears to have stirred a new wave of outrage among the...
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POPULAR LAWYER GUNNED DOWN IN MOZAMBIQUE
Mar. 2 (GIN) – As billions pour into Mozambique from foreign investors scooping up fields of coal and natural gas, the signs of new-found wealth are impossible to miss.Expensive European-style bars and...
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BURUNDI-WATCHERS SEE EROSION OF HUMAN RIGHTS
Mar 3 (GIN) – The bad old days of the 1980s and 1990s when Burundi was widely considered a police state may be making a comeback.Some 300,000 people lost their lives in the country’s civil war from the...
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U.S. Justice Department Rips The Ferguson Police Plantation
Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson[Speaking Truth To Power]A Corrupt Cesspool of Racism This week, the Justice Department in a report found that the Ferguson Police Department engaged in a “pattern of...
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