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Theater for the New City: "155 Thru the Roof"
Lily Field (Cam Kornman) and her spiritual guide, The Ancient Mariner (T.D. White).Photo: Jonathan Slaff[Theater]"155 Thru the Roof," a fanciful comedy with music, will be presented by Theater for the...
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President's Year Of Action: Obama To Promote College Opportunity and Graduation
President Obama[The White House]Today at an event with the First Lady at Coral Reef High School in Miami, President Obama will lay out additional details of his plan to equip all Americans with the...
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CEMOTAP: Bob Brown On Kwame Ture; And Hugh Hamilton Speaks
The late Kwame Ture[COMMUNITY EVENTS/ANNOUNCEMENTS]1. BROTHER BOB BROWN ON KWAME TUREOn Sunday, March 9th at 3:00 PM, Brother Bob Brown of AAPRP will speak on the topic. "Countering the War to Destroy,...
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Against All: Children's Defense Fund Celebrate Young People Struggling To...
Marian Wright Edelman; doing the good work for childrenSeventeen-year-old Theresa Tran is one of this year’s winners of the Children’s Defense Fund-Ohio’s Beat the Odds scholarships after overcoming...
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My Audacious Prediction: Why Angulo Will Knock Out Alvarez
Boxing writer believes Angulo will prevail[BoxingGlove Notes]Many times you don’t get what you want in a fight or who you want to see fight whom.We've had to settle for Saul “El Canelo” Alvarez...
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Simple: Black Folk Don't Support Republicans Because They're Not Suicidal
Columnist says Obama's achievements deliberately under-rated[Beneath The Spin]It’s Time to Deal in Facts: Are Black People Fools For the Democrats? Nonsense.A Prominent Republican talking point -...
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Now That Katanga And Lubanga Convicted, ICC Must Focus On Gen. Museveni and...
Uganda's Gen. Museveni [Publisher's Commentary]Uganda-trained Congo warlord Germain Katanga has been convicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on four counts of war crimes and one count of...
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White Zimbabwean: 'We Must Earn The Right To Be Called Africans'
Eddie Cross[Commentary]I was asked to take part in a panel discussion the other day on a local radio station with the subject being the role and behaviour of the local white community. They had asked...
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Ouch: Canelo Exorcises Mayweather Demons By Pulverizing A Game Angulo
Canelo is back![BoxingGlove Notes]Okay so I picked the wrong horse.On Saturday night at the MGM Grand Arena & Casino, in Las Vegas, Saul “El Canelo” Alvarez, 42-1-1, 31 knockouts, from the very...
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President Obama's Ukraine Foreign Policy And The Audacity Of Reckless...
Dick Cheney of Iraq disaster is dispensing advice on Ukraine[Black Star News Editorial]Some of the same folk who took the U.S. into an illegal war on Iraq, using fake and "sexed" up data are now...
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In Race For Congress Espaillat Wins Karim Camara Endorsement
Espaillat, right, receiving Camara's endorsement; also show is Ydanis Rodriguez[Politics 2014]Lauds Espaillat’s Record of Forging Multi-Racial CoalitionsAssemblyman Karim Camara (AD-43) announced his...
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Year 44: Voza Rivers At Gala By Woodie King Jr.'s New Federal Theatre
Voza Rivers[Theater]Harry Belafonte and Mayor David N. Dinkins are Honorary Co-Chairs.Danny Glover and Debbi Morgan To Host Gala at Tribeca Center for the Performing ArtsWoodie King, Jr.’s New Federal...
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Michael Gordon’s “Rushes,” and David Del Tredici’s “Bullycide”
The Shanghai QuartetTwo works, each unique in its individual power––Michael Gordon’s “Rushes,” created for seven bassoons, and David Del Tredici’s “Bullycide,” written to commemorate the suicides of...
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The Browning Of America And The Xenophobic Reaction -- Domestic Terrorism
George Zimmerman: many more like him out thereZimmerman, Dunn, And Domestic Terrorism"You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been...
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We Can’t Build Strong Economy On Weak Minimum Wage
Gina Schaefer [On Economic Recovery]It didn’t take long after my husband and I opened our first hardware store in 2003 for people to start coming in and asking us to open in their neighborhood, too.By...
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Pie Face For Pi At Charter School
Pi[Education]Whipped cream or shaving cream? That’s what some middle school students will be asking before they throw a pie in their teacher’s face as part of Uncommon School’s annual Pi Day...
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New York City Offers Health Insurance Enrolment Event
Dr. Mary Bassett [Health]Health Department to Host Free Health Insurance Enrollment Event on Friday at CUNY School of Public Health at Hunter CollegeSign up on-site from 3pm-8pm on Friday, March 14th –...
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Mayor De Blasio Appoints Corrections Commissioner and Fills Other Top...
Joseph Ponte[City Hall]Mayor Bill de Blasio has announced four key criminal justice appointments to his administration, continuing to build on his promise to assemble a progressive, effective and...
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New Campaign By Tobacco Industry Correcting Past Misleading Ads Ignores...
[Commentary]More than 15-years ago, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against the nation’s major cigarette manufacturers for their gross misrepresentation of the hazards of smoking to the...
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President Obama Nominates Leslie Joyce Abrams To U.S. District Court
President Obama [The White House]President Barack Obama has nominated Leslie Joyce Abrams to serve on the United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia.“Leslie Joyce Abrams has had a...
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