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Miami NBA Champions 2013 With James' Spectacular Plays
The Miami Heat are back-to-back NBA champions with the team's 95-88 victory last night over the San Antonio Spurs.There were times towards the waning minutes of Game 7 of the NBA Finals when you held...
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Interracial Relationships: The Delusion of Post-Racial World
I often hear the phrase,“I don’t see color, I only see people” or“love is colorless” or “you can’t help who you love” or“in a few years we are all going to be mixed and it would be one world [ie. mix...
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Southern Secession II: Obama As Buchanan or Lincoln?
of the people by the people for the people... [States Of Disunion]This Saturday will mark the 50th anniversary of the March to Freedom down Woodward Avenue in Detroit.The UAW will be there, as they...
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Belafonte, Schultz, Bloomberg Honored At Abyssinian's Harlem Renaissance Day
Actor-activist and champion of human rights globally Harry Belafonte, a recipient of the Harlem Renaissance Award presented by Abyssinian Development Corporation shown with Rev. Dr. Calvin O. Butts,...
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Friends Of WBAI: Come To Screening of "Dear Mandela"
Dear Friends and Family of South Africa and Listener-supported WBAI 99.5 FM NYC PACIFICA RADIOPlease join us for a screening of the powerful and moving documentary "Dear Mandela" on Sunday, June 23,...
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Homegoings: Christine Turner's Film On Isaiah Owens To Die For?
Isaiah Washington[Film]When you watch "Homegoings" and hear Isaiah Owens the mortician describe death and funerals, suddenly you're not afraid to die any more. In fact, for a split second, you may even...
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My View On Immigration: We Must Share These Ill-gotten Gains
Mitt Romney's solution was "self deportation." He said it with straight face[Immigration]Immigration is a hot-button topic these days and there are many people dead set against allowing anyone else...
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Paula Deen And Our N-word Paradox
[Pardon My Rant]Paula Deen a Caucasian celebrity becomes unemployed for using racial slurs.But we have seen this before. Paula is not the first to have been caught candidly in such a negative light. In...
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Ode To Motherhood: Most Valuable Profession in Our Society
[Beneath The Spin]'We’re currently paying a severe price for our bigoted attitude towards women...'The primary reason that our society is falling apart is because we’ve devalued the most important...
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The Yunus Method: Let's Not Give Up On Fighting Poverty
[The Children's Corner]When he was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal this spring my friend, and visionary, Dr. Muhammad Yunus said:“We can change the world --- Let’s believe in it; let’s make it...
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In Fighting Workplace Discrimination Supreme Court's Vance And Nassar Ruling...
Justice Ginsburg[The Supreme Court: Op-Ed]The Supreme Court’s decisions today in Vance v. Ball State University and University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center v. Nassar show continuing...
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Supreme Court: Diversity Is Important In Higher Education
[The Supreme Court: Op-Ed]In a 7-1 decision in Fisher v. University of Texas, the U.S. Supreme Court considered but did not resolve the constitutionality of the admissions program at the University of...
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Solution: Class-Based Affirmative Action For Colleges?
Lani Guinier[Supreme Court: Op-Ed]Affirmative action occupies a telling place in a nation painfully aware of its racial inequities yet painfully divided over how to solve them.Great numbers of...
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African Education: Sankofa Academy Students At Gullah Festival
Ollie McClean, far right, shown with some of her students[Education]Sankofa International Academy is located in the heart of Bedford Stuyvesant, a community with a bleak educational forecast because...
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Supreme Court Castrates Voting Rights Act
Lyndon Johnson shown with Dr. King after signing Voting Rights ActNothing now stands in the way of Voter ID Laws, except new resistanceThe U.S. Supreme Court didn't kill the Voting Rights Act but...
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Senator Coons Slams Gen. Museveni's Media Clampdown
[Global: Africa]U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.), chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on African Affairs, issued the following statement Tuesday condemning the Ugandan government’s...
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With Racial Justice For Some
[Law Of The Land]Trayvon Martin’s parents seek justice for a son killed for walking while Black.The Court gutted Voting Rights. Paula Deen is caught using racial slurs. Yet, the U.S. Supreme Court...
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In Africa Obama Message Should Be: Democracy, Youth, Women, And Enterprise
[Publisher's Comment]President Barack Obama is traveling to Africa at a time when media reports show that Nelson Mandela's health is fading. The development has cast a thick cloud over the president's...
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Nelson Mandela In Harlem In 1990
1990 Town Hall meeting in Harlem. Nelson Mandela. Authentic Hero. Mandela took Ted Koppel to school that night.Listen to his wit and intelligence. Select Category: Global PoliticsAfricaTags: Nelson...
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Young South Africans Will Honor Mandela's Legacy And Continue The Struggle
[Black Star Editorial]Part of the concern about freedom fighter Nelson Mandela's delicate condition is that many people allover the world wonder what will happen next in South Africa.Even president...
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