19May2013
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Obama’s Morehouse Visit Shines Spotlight On HBCUs
ATLANTA (AP) — When President Barack Obama addresses graduates at Morehouse College on Sunday, he’ll also be speaking to the broader community of historically black colleges and universities — a proud corner of higher education that has struggled more than most during the last few years of economic ...
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Happy Birthday, El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X)
May 19, 1925, in Omaha, Nebraska, the man we would come to know as Malcolm X burst into the world.
As he evolved away from his past as Detroit Red, he transformed himself first, into a loyal protégé of the ...
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Black Empowerment ‘At Last’ – or Last?
Julianne Malveaux
When Beyonce Knowles sang the Etta James song “At Last” at President Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration, the song could have had several meanings. At last we have an African-American president? At last, the muscle of the Black vote has been flexed? At last, there is some hope for our country to come together with the mantra “Yes, We Can”. Watching the President and First Lady Michelle Obama slow dance to the romantic standard reminded us that...
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Read moreCleveland’s Charles Ramsey: Hood or Hero?
George Curry
When some of us saw the first video of Charles Ramsey, the colorful Black dishwasher in Cleveland who is being celebrated as a hero for rescuing three White women captives from horrid conditions in a Cleveland house, we had a flashback to Antoine Dodson, who became a flamboyant Internet sensation after saving his sister from a would-be rapist in their Huntsville, Ala., housing apartment, and Sweet Brown, who barely escaped a fire in her Oklahoma...
05-14-2013
Read moreSouth Africa’s Best Kept Secret
George Curry
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – When Nelson Mandela and his African National Congress comrades were plotting to overthrow the White minority-rule apartheid regime in South Africa, Lilies Farm in Rivonia, just north of Johannesburg, served as their secret hideout. Today, 19 years after South Africa made a bloodless transition to a democracy with the election of Mandela as its first Black president, the picturesque land, now called Liliesleaf, is South Africa’s best kept secret. Arthur Goldreich and Harold...
05-07-2013
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Home Sick Braves Return After 10-Game Road Trip
For the Atlanta Braves it felt good to be home again. Atlanta tooks its series opener against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Turner Field Friday night, after spending 27 of the last 37 games on the road.
The win came in come-from-behind fashion, in large part thanks to Justin Upton, who launched his thir...
Atlanta Dream Waives Swanier, Alverson
The Atlanta Dream announced this week that guard Ketia Swanier and guard/forward Blanche Alverson have been waived from the team. The Dream training camp roster now stands at 14 players.
Swanier averaged 2.2 points and 1.9 assists per game in her only season with the Dream in 2012. She played in all ...
Business
Apple's iTunes Store Hits 50 Billion Downloads
(CNN) -- At 4:54 pm ET on Wednesday, someone downloaded the 50 billionth app from Apple's online App Store.
Apple will give the lucky downloader a $10,000 iTunes gift card. The next 50 people to download an app after that will each receive a $500 gift card.
There was no immediate word from Apple on wh...
Google Unveils 41 New Google Plus Features
(CNN) -- Google is working hard to make you love Google+, its growing but still often-overlooked social network.
How hard? The tech titan introduced 41 new Google+ features Wednesday, including a spiffy design, a Hangouts mobile chat feature and more tools for editing your photo library.
With some 360...
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Class of 2013: Courage, Choice and Compassion
“Raise your eyes now, and look from the place where you are…for all the land that you see I will give to you.” Genesis 13: 14-15
University commencement season is a time of high hopes and great celebration. I was again reminded of that when I delivered the commencement address at Huston-Tillotson (HT)...
Al is Sharp, Ben’s Not Jealous
Dudley Randall’s poem, “It seems to me, said Booker T, I disagree, said W.E.B.” points out an issue that has plagued Black folks for generations. During Booker T’s time, some Blacks said he was working “for the man” as he tried to build an economic foundation for his people via education, industrial...
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Pentecost Sunday in Scripture
Pentecost commemorates the Descent of the Holy Ghost upon the Apostles, fifty days after the Resurrection of Christ, on the ancient Jewish festival called the “feast of weeks” or Pentecost (Exodus 34:22; Deuteronomy 16:10). Whitsunday is so called from the white garments which were worn by...
R&B Divas’ Keke Wyatt: God Heads My Family
They used to be your favorite soul singers. Now they’re yet another group of reality show stars, reuniting for a tour of fabulous vocalists and for Season 2 of “ R&B Divas” a show that chronicles the personal and professional struggles of singers Angie Stone, Faith Evans, Monifah Carter, Syl...
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