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Alvin Ailey Gala Kicks Off New Season
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's Rachael McLaren. Photo by Andrew EcclesOn December 2nd, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater will kick off a five-week holiday season with a star-studded gala benefit...
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Chicago Style Cover-up: Van Dyke's Execution Of Laquan McDonald
Van Dyke--he and City of Chicago had concealed his execution of Laquan McDonald[Speaking Truth To power]This weeks belated arrest of Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke for the cold-blooded summary...
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Uganda: Mbabazi Former PM Vows To Mammoth Crowd He'll Stop Gen. Museveni From...
Over for Gen. Museveni? Papal-sized turnout for Mbabazi in GuluGULU--Presidential candidate and former prime minister Amama Mbabazi vowed to a mammoth crowd in the city of Gulu that he would work with...
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Free Thanksgiving Dinner At National Action Network
Join Rev. Al Sharpton, Marc Morial, family, and friends for Thanksgiving dinner at NANREV. AL SHARPTON & NATIONAL ACTION NETWORK (NAN) TO FEED THE HUNGRY ON THANKSGIVING DAY ALONG WITH SPECIAL...
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Does Turkey's Erdogan And His Saudi Allies Really Want Defeat of ISIS in Syria?
Is Turkey's Erdogan really a foe of ISIS? [Editorial]Poor Syria -- pawn in a civil war driven primarily by outsiders who want conflict in order to fulfill their own agenda.All peoples have a right to...
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Uganda: Can Pope Francis Get Opposition Leaders Besigye And Mbabazi To Form...
Mbabazi and Besigye at Papal mass in Uganda-- the annointed ones?While in the U.S. Pope Francis famously touched John Boehner's hands and the obstructionist Republican Speaker of Congress wept and...
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RWANDA CONSCRIPTS BURUNDIAN REFUGEES INTO NEW "REBEL ARMY," AN INTERVIEW WITH...
Rwanda's Mahama Refugee Camp, near the Rwandan Burundian borderWestern press and officials now warn that the Rwandan massacres of 1994 are close to a replay in Rwanda’s neighbor Burundi, which shares...
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Some Republican Candidates Seem To Blame The Victim-- Planned Parenthood
Mike HuckabeeTwo days after the deadly shootings outside a Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Republican candidates are finally breaking their silence. Up until now only Democratic...
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More than Calling - What Video Conferencing Can Do for Your Business
[Business]Communication is a ubiquitous fact of business – but just as it is ever-present, it also comes in many forms.A big part of deciding the budget is figuring out what kind of money should be...
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At Fifth African Diaspora Awards, Knowledge Transfer Were Buzzwords
Political strategist Thione Niang receiving the TRANSFAST Advocate of the Year Awards, co founder and president of Akon Lighting Africa [Diaspora Awards]Thione Niang, president and co-founder of The...
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Kabila's Speech to the Nation: A path to President for Life in the Congo?
In less than one year (November 2016), the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is scheduled to hold presidential and legislative elections. However, a tremendous amount of uncertainty surrounds the...
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Rosa Parks's Singular Courage Helped Change America -- Obama
Rosa Parks held no elected office.She was not born into wealth or power. Yet sixty years ago today, Rosa Parks changed America. Refusing to give up a seat on a segregated bus was the simplest of...
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Ted Cruz Revives Romney's "Self Deportation" As His Immigration Policy
Ted CruzIn a recent interview with NBC’s Kasie Hunt, Ted Cruz was reluctant to specify what constitutes “amnesty” since he’s been trying to pin the A-word on his opponent Marco Rubio.Finally, he...
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Today: Rev. Al Sharpton And Spike Lee Lead Anti-Gun Violence March After...
Filmmaker Spike Lee shown with SharptonSpike Lee’s new film Chi-Raq calls attention to the gun violence crisis in Chicago and nationwide; premieres at the Ziegfeld Theatre tonight.Following the...
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Policing: We Must Bring Down Blue Walls of Silence Starting In Chicago --...
Rep. JeffriesLast night on the House floor, U.S. Representative Hakeem Jeffries (NY-08), a member of the House Judiciary Committee and Whip of the Congressional Black Caucus, assailed the Chicago...
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WORLD AIDS DAY SEES SETBACK AS DEATHS SOAR AMONG TEENS
Nov. 30 (GIN) – In an alarming new report by the children’s rights agency Unicef, AIDS was called the number one killer of adolescents in Africa and the second leading cause of death among teens...
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IN VISIT TO NAIROBI SLUMS, POPE DECRIES GREED OF THE ELITES
Nov. 30 (GIN) –The head of the Catholic Church, making a historic trip to three countries in Africa, stopped in Nairobi’s Kangemi “informal settlement”, one of the city’s 12 enormous slums where...
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WORLD BANK UNVEILS AMBITIOUS CLIMATE BUSINESS PLAN FOR AFRICA
Nov. 30 (GIN) "Africans had the least responsibility for putting carbon in the air and yet they're feeling the brunt of climate change."That was the view expressed by World Bank President Jim Yong Kim...
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SPIKE LEE PREMIERES NEW FILM TO MESSAGE OF ENDING GUN VIOLENCE
Rev. Al Sharpton & Filmmaker Spike Lee rally for march at Tuesday night's screening of Chi-raq Director Spike Lee donned the color of orange at the New York City screening of his latest "joint,"...
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On Parental Involvement, STEM Education And U.S. National Security
Author sees danger unless there's significant increase in U.S. STEM education[Education: Commentary]Since last year, Black and Latino children attained majority status in our nation's public school...
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