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ARETHA FRANKLIN PLAYS RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL
The Legend: Aretha Franklin[Music]ARETHA FRANKLIN RETURNS TO RADIO CITY MUSIC HALLFRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 2014 @ 8:00PM & SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 2014 @ 8:00PMTICKETS ON SALE FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2013 @...
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National Recovery: Boosting Employment Is More Important Than Protecting The...
This summer, everyone celebrated the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and the address of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., in which he described a new, refined American Dream.On Nov. 22, we...
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A US Congress Aiming To Under-Achieve
House Speaker John BoehnerCongressional budget negotiators are moving to meet a December 13 deadline to produce, well, something. For weeks, we’ve been told to keep expectations low. There’ll be no...
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OBAMA: How Increasing Inequality And Declining Mobility Threatens America
Over the last two months, Washington has been dominated by some pretty contentious debates -- I think that’s fair to say. And between a reckless shutdown by congressional Republicans in an effort to...
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Act Quickly To Any Signs Of Stroke
Image: Webmd.comIt's important to recognize the signs of a stroke and get to a hospital fast.Time is brain: the longer the gap between the start of stroke symptoms and treatment, the more brain cells...
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Black Men Raised By Single Parent And High Blood Pressure
High blood pressure and hypertension are conditions especially endemic among the Black population in the US. Societal disadvantage, proliferation of fast food restaurants in predominantly Black...
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NO Martin BASHIR, Instead Of Consuming Fecal Matter, Sarah Palin Should See...
Sarah Palin[Black Star News Editorial]Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin recently compared the U.S. debt to slavery.She was harshly blasted by MSNBC host Martin Bashir on his show.Bashir apologized for...
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Play: Welcome Home Sonny T
Nestor Carrillo, Richard Pryor Jr., Kadeem Harris. Photo by Jonathan Slaff.[Theater]In a neighborhood torn by gun violence between black and Mexican youth, a prominent black minister, haunted by the...
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Immigration: New Fasters Join Campaign For Comprehensive Reform
[Immigration: Commentary]After 22 days of a water-only fast on the National Mall, four long-term fasters of the “Fast for Families” announced an expansion of the action as they passed the fast on to a...
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As Expected de Blasio Taps Bratton To Head NYPD; Charles Barron Vows Protest
Charles and Inez Barron. Photo Black Star News[New York]Within hours of Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio's announcement that he was appointing Bill Bratton as New York Police Commissioner Councilmember...
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NELSON MANDELA, MOST ILLUSTRIOUS OF ALL, Now SUPS WITH AFRICA'S LEGENDS
Madiba[Black Star News Editorial]NELSON MANDELA now sups and keeps company with Africa's Greatest Ancestors.And he is the most illustrious of them all.Look at the honor guard as he walks through the...
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TRIBUTES: NELSON MANDELA
Roslyn Brock, Chairman of the NAACP Board of Directors:“The Honorable Nelson Mandela embodied the hopes, dreams, aspirations and values of all who seek justice against tremendous odds. He responded to...
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Obama:Mandela bent the arc of the moral universe toward justice
At his trial in 1964, Nelson Mandela closed his statement from the dock saying: “I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a...
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Mandela The Boxer: He Was A 'Contender'
Hevyweight-Nelson Rolhlahla MandelaPhotograph by Drum photographer © Baileys ArchiveThe last good man of good men who refused to bend to racial inhuman cruelties inflicted by so-called other “humans”,...
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National Civil Rights Museum's Growing Success
Beverly Robertson[FUNdraising Good Times]This is the biblical quote Beverly Robertson, president of the National Civil Rights Museum used to begin our conversation: “To everything there is a season and...
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Fearing Gag, Kenya's press takes to the streets against Draconian bill
A banner tied to the gates of Parliament protests a media bill under review. (CPJ/Tom Rhodes)[On The Media]"Mr. President, you gagged us!" said a banner tied to the gates of Parliament.Kenya's Editors...
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ICC: Assembly of State Parties Creates one Law for the Poor, another for...
Kenyatta and Ruto. No immunity but may defer some ICC appearances[Comment]Prior to the Assembly of States Parties, the African Union (AU) and Kenya consistently advocated for immunity from prosecution...
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Freedom Fighter Madiba: Let's Not Forget The Mandela Who Prepared To Defeat...
Mandela knew defeating Apartheid was no tea party. In 1962 he received brief military training in Algeria and in Ethiopia[Tribute To A Freedom Fighter]Former South African President Mandela has...
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MADIBA: HOMEWARD BOUND
[Tribute] Open your arms, Dear Lord!We shout today,For your messenger of justiceis on his way. It was like nothing we’d everseen before,when he left to meet youat Heaven’s door.Deep in the night,as the...
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Paulie Malignaggi Vs Zab Judah: The Battle Of Brooklyn
It's On! Judah vs Malignani[BoxingGlove Notes]After many years of talks, agreements, disagreements, finally Brooklyn’s 2 favorite sons former world champs, Paulie “The Magic Man” Malignaggi and Zab...
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