Archive for ‘June 21st, 2007’

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Jun21

Awww, come one! Black Cubans just don’t know how good they have it

by Duane on June 21st, 2007 at 12:27 pm
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More info you will not hear Castro sympathizers (especially the Black ones) mention.
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(miamiherald.com) HAVANA — Six-foot-two, brown skinned and with semi-curly hair, Denny walked confidently into a government warehouse for a recent job interview. Sitting across from the white manager, he rattled off his qualifications: high school diploma, courses in tourism, hard worker.
They weren’t good [...]

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Jun21

Pastor speaks his mind

by Duane on June 21st, 2007 at 10:04 am
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Neil Brown
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I wonder why people often hold me to a greater level of responsibility in this walk, when we all have to walk? I wonder why people get disappointed in me when I don’t live to certain expectations. After all, whose expectations am I supposed to meet— theirs or God’s? And when I become disappointed [...]

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Jun21

Inc.’s top 100 inner-city companies

by Duane on June 21st, 2007 at 9:18 am
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From Inc.com:
What Is an Inner City Company?
The Initiative for a Competitive Inner City defines inner cities as core urban areas with higher unemployment and poverty rates and lower median incomes than surrounding metropolitan statistical areas. Candidates for the 2007 Inner City 100 must:
1. Be independent, for-profit corporations, partnerships, or proprietorships
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Jun21

Black Hebrews

by Duane on June 21st, 2007 at 8:58 am
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For many, these are the people that you see standing in front of the train station or street corner declaring their gospel message. However there is little known about this sect beyond that for most folks as Simona Kogan for israel21c.org reports:
(www.israel21c.org) Deep in the heart of Israel’s Negev desert, where you would expect to [...]

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Jun21

First Jefferson, now this

by Duane on June 21st, 2007 at 8:18 am
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(hattiesburgamerican.com) NEW ORLEANS – A former New Orleans school board president who ran as a corruption fighter pleaded guilty Wednesday to taking more than $100,000 in bribes to help an unidentified businessman win school contracts for his employer.
Ellenese Brooks-Simms, 67, was charged Wednesday in a federal bill of information with conspiracy to commit bribery. She [...]

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