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The Boston-bombing suspects show that it’s time the media and the public redefined their view of Islam. By Edward Wyckoff Williams, theRoot.com The American story has too long been told through…
Read More >By HILLEL ITALIE, Huffington Post Novelist Toni Morrison, speaking Wednesday to dozens of Google employees holding laptops and smartphones, shared her vision for how she would turn the search engine leader…
Read More >From the Huffington Post, Black Voices [T]he Grammy Award-winner is making headlines once again for his cameo on Future’s recently leaked track titled, “Karate Chop.” The song which is set to…
Read More >By Sarah Muller, The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell, MSNBC.com The Oscar-nominated film Lincoln starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Sally Field details the political maneuvering behind the passage of the 13th Amendment to the…
Read More >By Thom Hartmann, Truthout The real reason the Second Amendment was ratified…was to preserve the slave patrol militias in the southern states, which was necessary to get Virginia’s vote. Founders Patrick Henry,…
Read More >By Sarah Parnass, ABC News “An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics,” Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker tweeted Sunday night, not knowing that his…
Read More >By Joshua R. Weaver, theRoot.com Even in today’s not-so-post-racial landscape, skin color plays a large and political role. From medicine to social sciences, our skin color has arguably become an essential…
Read More >From Wikipedia.com Today is the birthday of Vivien Theodore Thomas (August 29, 1910 – November 26, 1985), the African-American surgical technician who developed the procedures used to treat blue baby syndrome in the 1940s. He…
Read More >By Robert Futrell and Pete Simi for the New York Times THE shooting rampage on Sunday that killed six people and wounded three others at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin…
Read More >From the African American Registry The lives of Ellen and William Craft are celebrated on this date. They were two African-American abolitionists who were known for William’s autobiographical slave narrative…
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