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Police Brutality, Staten Island Protest And Bill Bratton's "Broken Windows"
De Blasio. New Yorkers rejected stop-and-frisk under Bloomberg. Time to repudiate "broken windows" under Bratton and this mayorYesterday thousands of people peacefully marched on Staten Island to...
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CPJ Welcomes Release of US Freelance Journalist Peter Theo Curtis
The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the release of American freelance journalist Peter Theo Curtis, who was held captive by the al-Qaeda affiliate Jabhat al-Nusra since October 2012,...
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United Nations: United African Congress, U.S.-based Group And Give Them A...
World Health Organization's chief Dr. Margaret Chansays poor health infrastructure aids Ebola spreadAlarmed by the looming and fast moving Ebola crisis in a number of African countries, the United...
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Ferguson Police Chief's Immoral 'Defense' Strategy: Playing The Race Card
Ferguson Police Chief Jackson's priority was playing the race card after Michael Brown was summarily killedOn Aug. 9, police in Ferguson, Missouri shot Michael Brown to death, an unarmed Black...
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Ferguson Residents Must Say 'We're Sick And Tired of Being Sick And Tired'
Best way to honor Michael Brown is to exercise political power I’m Gonna Make A Change,For Once In My LifeIt’s Gonna Feel Real Good,Gonna Make A DifferenceGonna Make It Right…I’m Starting With The Man...
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Why President Obama Should Use Executive Action On Immigration Now
President Obama should use the power of his pen immigration groups say Many agree with our assessment that President Obama should use his existing legal authority to act on immigration, knowing that...
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Sen. Schumer To Introduce Legislation Okaying Top Medal For Sgt. Johnson,...
Sen. Schumer with image of War Hero Sgt. Johnson U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer announced that U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel has recommended that late World War I hero Sgt. Henry Johnson...
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CAMEROON SOCCER STAR FELLED BY STONES HURLED IN STADIUM – WAS IT RACE?
Aug. 25 (GIN) – Soccer star Albert Ebosse Bodjongo of Cameroon was killed almost instantly by a stone lobbed from the bleachers in the Tizi Ouzou stadium of north-central Algeria this weekend. He had...
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EBOLA COULD SINK ‘AFRICA RISING’ DREAMS
Aug. 25 (GIN) – An airlift of emergency supplies needed for those treating Liberians with the virus Ebola was launched this weekend by the U.N. children’s fund – known as Unicef.“The largest component...
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HUNDREDS HEAD TOWARDS SOCIAL MEDIA CONFAB IN SOUTH AFRICA
Aug. 25 (GIN) – Some 400 delegates from 36 African countries are expected to fill the halls at the 18th annual Highway Africa conference for media activism which takes place Sept. 7-8 at Rhodes...
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Uganda: Remembering Archbishop Luwum, Martyr
Archbishop Luwum's portrait. Source: dioceseofnorthernuganda.blogspot.com[Commentary] This commentary on some possible ways to honor the late Archbishop Janani Luwum a Ugandan martyr murder by Gen. Idi...
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How Young Entreprenuers Founded A Magazine
Magazine founders Amanda Nicole Abrams on the left, Fatiah Rebbekkahfar right, with a friend in the middleThe Black Star News speaks with the two founders of The Morgan Magazine. The official launch...
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Student Debt Is More Serious Than Brookings Suggests
Student debt burden. Photo source mortgage.infoThe Brookings Institution, looking at data from 2010, has issued a report claiming the student debt issue isn't as bad as people think.Using Federal...
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ESSENCE'S First-ever Street Style Block Party & Awards
Tracee Ellis RossESSENCE has announced its first-ever Street Style Block Party & Awards; celebrating real women with great style during New York Fashion Week.The day-long extravaganza—fusing music,...
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Militarized Police Forces And The War Against Black America
The new police state in Ferguson Michael Brown has now been laid to rest, over two weeks after his August 9 execution-style killing by Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson, which sparked mass protests...
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New Slavery: The Prison Industrial Complex
The prison-industrial complex – or PIC – may sound like a relatively innocuous term. It is generally defined as “the rapid expansion of the U.S. inmate population due to the political influence of...
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Poem: EXPRESSION!
[Poetry]Close not the Mic!Silence is Injustice!Just Imagine?"Genesis" without the word?Creation without the word?Open the vocals!Streams of live!To every wordWisdom abound!Find the purpose!Freedom of...
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Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana At Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts
[Dance]Friday, November 14, 2014 at 8pmBrooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College continues its 60th Anniversary Season on Friday, November 14, 2014 at 8pm with Flamenco Vivo Carlota...
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Analysis: Why Uganda’s Court Rejected Museveni Appointee And Rebuked The...
Jutsice Odoki -- he and Gen. Museveni were up to political and judicial mischief. More commentary is warranted regarding the ruling a few weeks ago by Uganda’s Constitutional Court.I'm not referring to...
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On The Ebola Frontline In Sierra Leone: Another Hero Falls
Dr. Sarh RogersYet again, we’ve lost another hero to the fight against Ebola in Sierra Leone.Liberia and Guinea are also combating the disease, also detected in Nigeria and Congo.Rest in peace Dr. Sarh...
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