Posted by Duane On August - 15 - 2005ADD COMMENTS
Newswise — The site of the first U.S. town founded by an African American, New Philadelphia, Illinois, has been added to the National Register of Historic Places – the nation’s official list of cultural resources worthy of preservation. A former slave founded New Philadelphia in 1836 as a bi-racial community 25 miles from the slave trade along the Mississippi River. The community survived into the twentieth century, and an archaeological team ...More
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Posted by Duane On August - 15 - 2005ADD COMMENTS
Two questions to be answered here: #1. Will this move curb the suicide attacks by by Palestinian terrorists? #2. If it doesn't will those who have made this assumption own up to their miscalculation? GAN OR, Gaza Thousands of Israeli police officers and soldiers moved to surround the Israeli settlements of Gaza on Monday, warning residents that they had until early Wednesday to leave before they are pulled out of their homes. More
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Posted by Duane On August - 15 - 2005ADD COMMENTS
When the effects of the Depression reached Russia, it created a very bleak and hopeless situation for most of that nation because it depended greatly on imports from Europe who in turn relied heavily on the United States. The combination of little food, lost wars, and a leader (Nicholas II--represented by Mr. Jones in the story) who was unable to change the economic situation of his country partly because ...More
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Posted by Duane On August - 15 - 2005ADD COMMENTS
If you think that this is a case to encourage black folk to join the Republican party, (insert laugh here) you are dead wrong. The goal of this piece is to provide some history to a political ideology that has been a part of the black community for numbers of years. Prior to the Civil Rights era, most blacks favored the Conservative political view personified by the Republican party. However, ...More
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