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USA: 18,270 Children and teens killed or injured by guns each year
In January President Obama signed executive order to reduce gun violence -- we need Congress to act.Photo credit: Carolyn Kaster/AP[The Children's Corner]Nearly 2,000 people attended Molly Conley’s...
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Cornel West: Verbal "Shock-And-Race Baiter"
Have you ever noticed that nearly every public pronouncement that spews from the mouth of Cornel West is literally dripping with racial innuendo?His latest racist slander is that MSNBC is the "Rent a...
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Great Lakes Peace Comes When Wars Of Impunity Sponsored By Rwanda Are Ended...
Gen. Paul Kagame of Rwanda[Africa: Op-Ed]In a US Department of State Daily Press Briefing issued in Washington, D.C. on 23 July 2013, Spokesperson Jen Psaki stated that "we believe there is a credible...
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Doo Wop Ain’t Dead: Teens bring quartet style gospel to the streets of Harlem
On a hot sticky early Monday afternoon, five young men sang their hearts out on the corner of 125th street and Lenox, and drew a joyful hand-clapping, Lord-praising crowd. They were promoting their...
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15th Annual Dr. John Henrik Clarke Tribute
[Community News/Announcement]15th Annual Dr. John Henrik Clarke Tribute: "FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION"Date July 28, 2013 Doors open at 2:00 PMPlace: Boys and Girls High School, 1700 Fulton Street,...
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Major Stores Increase Tracking Consumers Via Their Cell Phones, Senator...
Major national retailers are increasingly using sophisticated monitoring software to track every movement shoppers make while in their stores, and then often times save that data in perpetuity, U.S....
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IMPRISONMENT OF VICTOIRE INGABIRE VIOLATES RWANDA'S OWN CONSTITUTION
[Global: Africa] The hearings of the trial against Mrs. Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza before the Supreme Court resumed on July 22, 2013 with responses of Mrs. Ingabire’s defense counsel comprising lawyers...
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George Zimmerman Travesty: Why Florida Boycott Could Change Things There And...
December 12 Movement's Omowale Clay. Photo credit: The Black Star News[Black Star News Editorial]Boycotts are legitimate forms of fighting injustice, especially laws that discriminate against people...
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Candidate Bill Thompson: Trayvon Died Because He Was Black
[Op-Ed]Bill Thompson Delivered his Remarks at Abundant Life Church, Sunday, July 28, 2013.The Book of Proverbs promises that “Out in the open, wisdom calls aloud, she raises her voice in the public...
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DEMONIZING FOR THE KILL: Trayvon Martin and the Racial Profiling of Blacks
Tracy Martin shown with Trayvon[Speaking Truth To Power]Last week, the father of slain Florida teenager Trayvon Martin spoke before members of Congress about his son and the topic that has resulted in...
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The Racists Who Gang Up On Cecile Kyenge And Italy's National Shame
[Black Star News Editorial]The racist reaction of some Italians to the appointment in April of a woman of African descent as a minister in the government has brought international shame to that...
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Mississippi: If You Hate ObamaCare Why Not Try BryantCare?
Gov. Phil Bryant[Pardon My Rant]Phil Bryant holds the fate of more than half a million Mississippians in the palm of his hands as key health care policy decisions hang in the balance. He is the...
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Honor Trayvon's Memory: Direct The $1Trillion Black Consumer Spending To...
[Notes From Bob Law]The Zimmerman verdict demands that we raise the right questions.It was not simply the Stand Your Ground law that was responsible for Trayvons death, and Zimmerman’s...
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Listen ExxonMobil: Climate Change Is Serious Global Issue
Roy Tillerson, the CEO of ExxonMobil -- Climate change? Get over it..[Witness for Justice]Every two years the membership of the United Church of Christ gathers. As people of faith we stop to reflect on...
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We Can Regulate Toy Guns, Not Real Ones
Imagine your kindergartner is visiting a new friend’s house. During the hour they are running around together they’ll pick up and play with all three of the following things, but only two of them have...
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Race Talk: Wealth In Black And White in America
[Race Talk]If we talk about what ails us that will make it better. When will Black Americans stop getting short shrift?Here lately the Supreme Court’s invalidation of valuable parts of the Voting...
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A Letter To The Black Man: Wake Up Or Extinction Looms
[Beneath The Spin]I was in Los Angeles on the corner of Vernon and Central the other day, just after school let out. If it hadn't been for the fact that I grew up in that area and recognized my...
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Xenophobia: "So You Too Are Trayvon"
[LAW OF THE LAND]The issue is beyond race and Florida’s "Stand Your Ground" law. George Zimmerman’s fear of Trayvon Martin led to murder and his acquittal. Since fear for his life, even if...
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U.S. DEPUTY DEFENSE SECRETARY SECURES ONGOING USE OF UGANDAN TROOPS
KPFA Radio News, 08.04.2013KPFA Evening News Anchor Anthony Fest: At the end of July, the Pentagon Press Secretary reported that Deputy Defense Secretary Ash Carter was visiting Uganda to meet with...
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CWA Local 1182 Taps Jackson For Boro President
Robert Jackson[NYC Politics 2013]Adding to his growing labor support, the CWA 1182 has formally announced its endorsement of Councilman Robert Jackson for Manhattan Borough President. Unions...
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