What Are Wordsworth’s Words Worth? Pure Gold, Baby!
[Helese TALKS!]Arlene’s Grocery Wednesday Night Line Up lit it UP!Arriving at Arlene’s Grocery store on Wednesday July 3rd, soaked in rainwater but still having a smile on my face, I beamed as I looked...
View ArticleVancouver Canucks' Roberto Luongo returns to the World Series of Poker
[Sports] Roberto Luongo of the Vancouver Canucks is one of the most celebrated hockey players to swap the ice for the felt table, having participated in last year's World Series of Poker Main Event at...
View ArticleEgypt's Military Should Restore Morsi, Elected President
Coup leader Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Sissi,[Black Star News Editorial]Now Egypt is torn with bloody confrontations between supporters of the duly elected president who was ousted and those who back the...
View ArticleGamal Abdel Nasser And Muslim Brotherhood
Egypt had endured autocracy for decades. It was Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein who first suppressed The Muslim Brotherhood, which was reactionary and opposed his land reforms and modernization plans, in...
View ArticleMugabe Film Screening; Campaign To Rescue Lynn Stewart; Haiti Crisis Brought...
[Community News And Announcements]1. On Sunday July 14th at 2:00 PM CEMOTAP will show the award winning film, "Mugabe Villain or Hero" at CEMOTAP CENTER located at 135-05 Rockaway Boulevard, South...
View ArticleHow Media Abandoned Real Story In "Search" For Snowden
[Op-Ed]The Spinning Of Corporate Media I stopped watching any news about the NSA leaks.Why? Well no one seemed to be reporting on the original story anymore. Instead I watched for 30 minutes as CNN...
View ArticleRoberts' Supreme Court's conservative assault on Civil Rights
Ever since the first 20 and some odd African “indentured servants” disembarked from that Dutch man of war in Jamestown, VA in 1619, Africans in America and later African Americans have been engaged in...
View ArticleArrival of First Enslaved Africans in Virginia Commemorated
[History And Legacy]August 17th and 20th, honor the First Africans who arrived in America on British occupied territory at Point Comfort (Fort Monroe) at the Third annual African Landing Day...
View ArticleWhat Does 'Patriotism' Mean To You?
[Pardon My Rant]The ideas of “Patriotism” and “Dissent” should never be at odds with each other.However, many times when we celebrate July 4th - the independence of our country- we glorify one and...
View ArticleJoe Turner's Come And Gone, And Other Plays
JOE TURNER'S COME AND GONE July 15 - 7pmBrecht Forum451 West StreetNew York, NY 10004 XTIGONE August 5 South Oxford SpaceHAVING OUR SAY September 25 South Oxford Space GYPSY AND...
View ArticleMetropolitan Opera Summer Recital Series.
Tuesday July 16, 2013THE METROPOLITAN OPERA Summer Recital SeriesAt SummerStage presented by AT&T FREE SHOW at Central Park, ManhattanRecommended Arrival Time: 6:30pmShowtime: 8:00 PM -...
View ArticleNYC Girl Scouts on Path to Entrepreneurship
NEW PROGRAM PUTS OVER 50 NYC GIRLS SCOUTS ON PATH TO BECOME CITY’S NEXT ENTREPRENEURSNew Girls Scouts of Greater NY Initiative, in Partnership with Barnard College’s Athena Center, Gives Girls Unique...
View Articlecheck us out dance festival
ChEck Us OuT Dance Festival:A Celebration of Female Choreographers Saturday, July 13, 2013, 5pm in Central ParkPLEASE JOIN US:Saturday, July 13, 2013 at 5pm ChEckiT!Dance presents the third annual...
View ArticleFOX News And Cornel West Mourn For Black Folk
Prof. Cornel West. Wonder what he'd be saying if he'd been invited to 2009 inauguration?[Beneath The Spin] This time Fox News is trumpeting that Cornel West is proclaiming that under Barack Obama Black...
View ArticleAsylum: Venezuela Awaits Snowden's Response
The Foreign Affairs MinisterElías Jaua, Venezuela’s Foreign Minister, declared on Saturday that the country has yet to receive a response from Edward Snowden regarding President Nicolás Maduro’s offer...
View ArticleLetter To African American Adolescents: Time To Get Serious
Ray Blount[Op-Ed]I am an African American male and recent high school graduate.Throughout the duration of my high school career, I gained a great deal of knowledge as to what the key factors are that...
View ArticleSupporters Of Muslim Brotherhood Reportedly Killed Monday By Egypt's Army
Text From The New York Times'website:In the clip, an unidentified man who appears to be a medic, said that the soldiers had attacked people while they were praying. “This was a massacre,” he said,...
View ArticleAnger, Jealousy, Plus Easy Gun, Equals Death
[The Children's Corner]“My heart was shattered while I was working at 60 Minutes when my only sister was shot and killed by her husband. There was a restraining order that stopped nothing.” “She called...
View ArticleAl-Sisi, Killer Of Egypt's Democracy, Is No Gamal Nasser
Gen. al-Sisi. He killed Egypt's democracy-in-progress and more than 50 Egyptians in the process, so far[Black Star News Editorial]Don't you like how corporate media is trying to pivot away from the...
View ArticleSyrian War Hits Beirut
JULY 9, 2013. DAHIYEH,BEIRUT, Lebanon--This observer’s neighbors seemed to believe, especially over the past year, as most of us did, that the war in Syria would, in one form or another, spill into our...
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