Things To Avoid In An Online Meeting
Making Online meetings more productive With the advancement of videoconferencing and telecommuting, there are many businesses that are beginning to host online meetings for their employees. This can...
View ArticleBenefits to Building Your Very Own Electronic Library
Digital and printed books will continue to co-existWhile the argument on whether digital or printed books are best is likely to continue for many years to come, the fact is that both mediums are...
View ArticleFrom Authoritarianism To Democracy: Students Can Play A Role In Non-Violent...
Students helped chase South Korean strongman Syngman RheeThe role of students in UgandaFor three days in November 2013, Ugandans from home and in the Diaspora including youth and students met in The...
View ArticleEric Holder's Tribute To Emmett Till
Emmett Till Thank you all, and especially Senator [Susan] Collins, Senator [Thad] Cochran, Senator [Roger] Wicker, Stephen Ayers, and my good friend Janet Langhart Cohen, for the opportunity to be here...
View ArticleSt. Louis D-Day: Will Darren Wilson, Murderous Ferguson Police Officer,Walk?
Darren Wilson, Ferguson's accused killer cop[Speaking Truth To Power]Very shortly the St. Louis, MO., grand jury, charged with deciding whether or not to indict Officer Darren Wilson for the killing of...
View ArticleFerguson: Revolt Versus Revolution And The Fire Next Time
Justice for Michael Brown?As Americans anxiously await the decision from the St. Louis grand jury – nine White and three Black- it is anticipated that it will return a “no bill” or decision not to...
View ArticleThe Schomburg Lecture: Black Morocco
Wednesday, November 19, 2014, 2 p.m.Program Locations:Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, American Negro Theatre (Map and directions) Free - Reservation required at...
View ArticleSentenced Over 25 Years Ago For Rape, Colorado Man Identified By Victim...
‘Bringing what was done in the dark into the light’DENVER– A Colorado man who has spent more than a quarter-century in prison for a rape in which the victim claimed her attacker’s identity came to her...
View ArticleWith Eye Towards Mayweather, Could Pacquiao Destroy Algieri?
Pacquiao may plan a stellar performance to put pressure on Mayweather[BoxingGlove Notes]There is always the often used cliché, “He sold me the Brooklyn Bridge, and I bought it”.Well, at yesterday’s...
View ArticleKENYAN CATHOLIC CLERICS ATTACK UNICEF’S TETANUS SHOT PROGRAM – SEEK SHUTDOWN
Nov. 17 (GIN) – Leaders of Kenya’s Catholic Church are attempting to derail a vaccination campaign that would protect 2.5 million women from a life-threatening nerve disease.Calling it a stealth birth...
View ArticleBURKINA FASO’S ARMY PICK TO FILL OUSTED PRESIDENT’S SEAT
Nov. 17 (GIN) – Political and military leaders in the West African nation of Burkina Faso have settled on a former foreign minister, Michel Kafando, to oversee a year-long transition to elections. The...
View ArticleMAASAI HOMELAND TO BE SOLD TO DUBAI ROYALS FOR HUNTING RESERVE
Nov. 17 (GIN) – Some 40,000 Maasai shepherds will lose their ancestral lands in a deal brokered by the government of Tanzania with the Royal Family of Dubai. The Maasai have been told to leave their...
View Article‘ZMAPP’ DRUG FAILS TO SAVE SIERRA LEONE DOCTOR FROM EBOLA
Nov. 17 (GIN) – One of the promising new drugs being tested against the deadly Ebola virus failed this week to save a surgeon from Sierra Leone, flown in for treatment at a Nebraska hospital.Dr....
View ArticleFERGUSON, MISSOURI: DÉJÀ VU, OVER AND OVER AGAIN
Michael Brown -- shot at least seven times, including a bullet in the right eye and apex of his head[Ferguson In Perspective]Jim Crow LivesThe August 9, 2014 tragedy -- the “legal” vigilante slaying of...
View ArticleSharpton And Senator Rand Paul Discuss Criminal Justice Reform
The Rev. Al Sharpton and Senator Rand Paul met in Washington, D.C., this morning to discus reform of the criminal justice system and President Obama's impending executive action on immigration.“We...
View ArticleCUNY: Remaking Our Great American Dream Machine
Chancellor Milliken[Education]Increasing emphasis on STEM educationRemarks by Chancellor James B. MillikenSpeaking at a meeting of the Association for a Better New York, Chancellor James B. Milliken...
View ArticleDemocrats Lost By Running Away From Record of Success
Mary Landrieu Senator from Louisiana faces tough run-off and could be last Democrat to fallNow that the political pundits, analysts and campaign consultants have had their say, let me offer a...
View ArticleNYC Tests Mali Traveler For Ebola
[Health]November 20, 2014 – An individual who traveled to the United States from Mali, a country with limited Ebola transmission, was taken to HHC Bellevue Hospital Center today and an Ebola test was...
View ArticleNAN's Sharpton Praises Obama Immigration Action And Says POTUS Had No Choice
The National Action Network's president Rev. Al Sharpton in a statement this evening says President Obama had no choice when he took "swift executive action to address immigration reform within his...
View ArticleObama: Lawfully Fixing America's Broken Immigration System
President ObamaREMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT IN ADDRESS TO THE NATION ON IMMIGRATIONMy fellow Americans, tonight, I’d like to talk with you about immigration.For more than 200 years, our tradition of...
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