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(brazzilmag.com) A rumor that the Cuban athletes participating in the Pan American Games in Brazil were planning a spectacular mass defection, apparently, was the reason behind the sudden and unexpected departure of the Cuban delegation from Brazil. They returned home leaving behind at least a medal to receive and without taking part in the closing ceremonies. According to the Brazilian press, Raul Castro, Cuba's acting president, was the one who ...More
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Sorry for the delay with this post :( . In an effort to not sound like a broken record on the issue of how Blacks spend money and what should be done, I am just going to provide links to old posts that addresses this issue further than I care to at this time. Are they taking over or did we give them the keys?: This talks about how the Black community ...More
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(bizjournals.com) A $476,000 grant will allow one of the nation's oldest newspapers for African-American readers to open its 115-year-old archives to the public and create an internship focused on handling and processing historical materials. The archives of the Afro-American Newspapers, a Baltimore-based weekly paper, contains the work of notable black writers and journalists, including Langston Hughes, William Worthy and J. Saunder Redding. The paper will use the grant, awarded Monday by the ...More
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(chron.com) Over the last decade, Vu and her husband, Duong Phuc, Radio Saigon Houston KREH 900 AM co-owners, have taken a strong foothold in the Houston Vietnamese media market with programming that mixes talk shows with news and music. The station's presence is also credited with helping spur Vietnamese migration from the West Coast to the Houston area. The station's growth with the Vietnamese-language radio format also illustrates a thriving and ...More
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Heading West Was Part of Black History, Too Commentary by Furman University President David E. Shi History obscures as much as it reveals. The American West has long been viewed as a land of opportunity and freedom, but people rarely associate the settlement of the Great Plains with black history. Yet when federal efforts to “reconstruct” the South after the Civil War collapsed in the face of Klan violence and ...More
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From the commercials, it looked like Soul Plane 2. I kept saying to myself during Hot Ghetto Mess "Man, it looks like folks picked the wrong thing to protest against." Anyway, here is blacktalentnews.com's take on the movie "Who's Your Caddy?" America wasn't laughing this weekend. "Who's Your Caddy?" the much anticipated first film from Our Stories Films (a partnership between BET founder Bob Johnson and the Weinstein Bros. ...More
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(nytimes.com) In February, the New York City Council attracted national attention when it approved a symbolic resolution banning the use of the racial slur called the N-word. Now, a new proposal is before the Council, this one to adopt a “symbolic moratorium” on the use of the words “bitch” and “ho,” on the grounds that both words are insulting, hateful and degrading to women. The one-line resolution is preceded by 11 “whereas” ...More
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RICHMOND, Va., July 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In observance of National Minority Donor Awareness Day, Donate Life America calls attention to the 49,000 minority individuals that account for 51 percent of the United States transplant waiting list. There are nearly 100,000 people of all ages, races, and religions in desperate need of life-saving organ transplants that may not come in time. Hundreds of thousands more are in need of tissue transplants to restore ...More
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(usnews.com) As moderate Democrats assembled over a long weekend at the Democratic Leadership Council's "National Conversation" in Nashville, eight familiar faces were missing—those of all of the party's presidential contenders. The closest thing to a candidate was a spouse. Former President Bill Clinton appeared before the group of more than 300 moderate lawmakers and other supporters Monday, but his wife was nowhere to be found even though she spoke at last ...More
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