Archive for ‘August 15th, 2005’

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Aug15

Earliest U.S. Black-Founded Town Designated National Historic Site (newswise.com)

by Duane on August 15th, 2005 at 3:15 pm
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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 [...]

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Aug15

Gaza settlers prepare to leave their settlement

by Duane on August 15th, 2005 at 2:56 pm
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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 [...]

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Aug15

Tracing the roots of black Liberalism in the US (part II)

by Duane on August 15th, 2005 at 11:29 am
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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 [...]

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Aug15

Tracing the roots of black Liberalism in the US (part I)

by Duane on August 15th, 2005 at 4:44 am
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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 [...]

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