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Analyst foresees 'Google Tunes' January 26, 2006 2:50 PM PST {Excerpted} Bear Stearns analyst Robert Peck predicted on Thursday that Google would roll out More

Color in Stages By Chad Jones insnews.org {Excerpted} "There are all these plays from the 1960s,'70s and into the'80s about being black in America," Young says. "I was tired of them. I wanted to see black actors do something else because I know from my own experience that life isn't just about being black. Like most people, I'm a struggling person with other problems in life that run the gamut." More

By ROGER CATLIN, Courant.com {Excerpted} When he employed DNA testing to find the roots of prominent African Americans for a new genealogy show on PBS for Black History Month, Henry Louis Gates Jr. couldn't resist looking into his own family's past. More

From: Blackenterprise.com {excerpted} Tech Supplier to the Feds Information technology entrepreneur Jacqui Brown offers inspiration to entrepreneurs aspiring to gross millions By Glenn Townes Jacqueline Brown is a people person. This may explain why her company, People Processing Information, based in Silver Spring, Maryland, had revenues of More

Below, you will find a few excerpts from articles that I have gathered from around the net that explains some of the details of the welfare system here in America. I may comment from time to time, but as usual you will be provided links to the full article. More

By all accounts it appears that Hamas has officially become the ruling political party of the Palestinian people. I will be adding some More

First, the news... Al Sharpton Criticizes 'Boondocks AP NEW YORK -- The Rev. Al Sharpton has asked for an apology from Cartoon Network for an episode of edgy animated series "The Boondocks" that shows the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. saying the n-word. More

First, the news... According to District 10 supervisor candidate Charlie Walker of San Francisco, this is the only solution to ensure blacks are getting the best education availiable: District 10 supervisor candidate Charlie Walker yesterday called for creation of a separate San Francisco school system for African Americans. More

I know I am somewhat late on this one, but it is still worth the mention. 'Chicago Defender' Say It's Profitable for First Time in Two Decades By Mark Fitzgerald CHICAGO Despite a tumultuous year in which an editor More

I am working over in the World column today where I have made two postings of great importance. I'll add other postings throughout the day. More

First, the news... Another one that goes unnoticed by black and mainstream media. 'I have a dream' becomes Castro's nightmare {Excerpted} In the latest exchange in the US-Cuban cultural war, the electronic tickertape mounted on the fifth floor of the US Interests Section in Havana began beaming King's quotes in 2,7 metre-high red letters. The passages were interspersed with sections from the Universal Declaration More

E-mailed to blackinformant.com and other members of The Conservative Brotherhood by ethiopundit ===== Below is a link to a letter smuggled out of jail by Ms. Bertukan Mideksa, one of the 131 members of the Ethiopian opposition who are on trial for their lives for alleged genocide and treason. More

I am planning to do an in-depth posting on illegal immigration here in the United States. In the meantime, after watching a politician begging for more money to better educate non-English speaking students, I had to ask the question "What percentage of non-English speaking students 'legal US citizens?'" The following article does not answer that question directly, but it does give us a good idea of what that number could ...More