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Top news stories personally selected by the publishers for their relevance to the BlackAmerican community.
October 2007 - Posts
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The chief of the Justice Department's voting rights division apologized Tuesday for saying that aging is not a problem with black voters because they die before they become elderly, unlike whites. Still, some Democrats said they want him fired. "I want Read More...
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Megan Williams displays scars on her leg at her home in Charleston, W.Va. The NAACP said Tuesday it does not support a hate crime awareness march that will raise money for a black woman who says she was tortured by six whites. Local and national NAACP Read More...
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Barack Obama Praise and protest marked the "Embrace the Change" gospel fund-raising concert series in Columbia, SC that culminated the "40 Days of Faith and Family" campaign designed to court value-voters for presidential hopeful, Senator Barack Obama. Read More...
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A third man has decided to take a plea deal and testify against O.J. Simpson and two other men accused of confronting two sports memorabilia dealers in a Las Vegas hotel room. Michael McClinton, 49, of Las Vegas, told Justice of the Peace Joe M. Bonaventure Read More...
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Genarlow Wilson After hitting up several of the TV morning shows on Monday, 21-year-old Genarlow Wilson gave Essence.com the first print interview since his release from prison on Friday. In 2003, the then 17-year-old was videotaped receiving consensual Read More...
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Stanley O'Neal Merrill Lynch & Co. said Tuesday that chairman and CEO Stanley O'Neal has left the firm, less than a week after it stunned Wall Street by revealing an $8 billion hit from a bet on subprime mortgages. Merrill ( Charts , Fortune 500 ) Read More...
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AP Photo: Colombo crime family captain Gregory Scarpa Sr. appears at a New York news conference in... The FBI used mob muscle to solve the 1964 disappearance of three civil rights volunteers in Mississippi , a gangster's ex-girlfriend testified Monday, Read More...
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Oprah Winfrey made a second trip to her South African all-girls school in recent weeks to apologize to parents following allegations of sexual and physical abuse there. Here, she attends the Jan. 2 opening of the school. The New York Daily News reports Read More...
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Stanley O'Neal attended a one-room schoolhouse set up by his grandfather until he was 13 "Not a lot of people looked like me," Stan O'Neal once recalled when describing his peers at Harvard Business School in the late 1970s. Merrill in turmoil as chief Read More...
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THE REV. KEVIN D. BARNES SR. of Abyssinian Missionary Baptist Church in Oakland discusses his hopes for Oakland and why he wrote the book Successfully Raising Young Black Men. The Rev. Kevin Barnes got tired of conducting funerals for young men. Oakland's Read More...
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Jam Master Jay, a.k.a. Jason Mizell, a member of hip hop pioneers Run-DMC, is seen in Los Angeles in this Feb. 25, 2002, file photo. Five years after his death, the people who brazenly pumped a bullet into the rap icon remain on the street. The mother Read More...
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Barack Obama, the press is supposed to say, is a hope-monger. He mongers hope. In a tight stump speech, it's hard for Obama to describe the content of the hope he sells. It roughly entails a complete transformation of the political system, one where deeply Read More...
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Jesse Jackson Fed Chairman Bernanke Civil-rights activist Jesse Jackson will meet with Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke next week to discuss proposals to help homeowners struggling with mortgages they can't afford. The meeting was arranged by Read More...
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Hillary's strong African-American support highlights the challenges faced by rival Barack Obama. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and her husband staged a “homecoming” at Harlem’s powerful Abyssinian Baptist Church today at which she showed off the political Read More...
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Hakeem Jeffries Behemoth record label Universal Music Group must change the name of rapper Nas’s new album, “***,” or risk losing $84 million in state investments, a Fort Greene assemblyman said this week. “[They are] profiting from a racial slur that Read More...
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Denzel From homicidal to inspirational. Denzel Washington goes far afield from the violent, drug-addled arena of heroin kingpin Frank Lucas for his next film, The Great Debaters, which he co-stars in and directed. Due in December, it recounts the true, Read More...
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Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Saturday lashed out at rival Hillary Rodham Clinton, accusing her of dodging tough questions about Social Security . Obama, campaigning at a senior center in Des Moines, said all the presidential candidates Read More...
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Rev. Al Sharpton "When the news broke last week that the rapper Nas intended to use a racial epithet for the title of his next album, it was no shock that a television reporter immediately thrust a microphone toward the Rev. Al Sharpton. ... In its recent Read More...
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Richard Parsons Time Warner Inc., the world’s largest media and entertainment company with $42.9 billion in revenues in 2006, may be seeing a change in leadership sooner than expected. Speculation has increased about the early departure of Richard Parsons, Read More...
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"I've got a new life," Genarlow Wilson tells reporters after being released Friday. Genarlow Wilson was released from prison Friday, after spending more than two years behind bars for a teen sex conviction. "At times I dealt with adversity ... my family Read More...
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The beauty shop. For many black women, it's like their home away from home. On any given day of the week (except Monday - when most salons are closed) you will find a room full of African-American women of all shapes, sizes and hues getting relaxers, Read More...
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ALAN BERNER / THE SEATTLE TIMES Samuel Snow, 84, right, is one of only two men still alive who were convicted in 1944. In 2002, Maj. Gen. James Collins Jr. invited Snow to return to Fort Lawton for a visit. For more than a half-century, the convictions Read More...
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The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan sent a delegation consisting of Attorney Abdul Arif Muhammad, editor-in-chief of The Final Call newspaper, Student in the Ministry Abdul Khadir Muhammad of Washington, D.C. and Final Call Contributing Writer Ashahed Read More...
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T.I. arrives at the 2007 pre-BET Awards dinner and party in Los Angeles in this... With all the questions swirling around Clifford "T.I." Harris Jr. since his arrest on federal weapons charges, perhaps the most pointed came from the judge who is hearing Read More...
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James Watson James Watson, the Nobel laureate who sparked an international furor last week with comments about intelligence levels among blacks, has retired from his post at a prestigious research institution. Watson, 79, and the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Read More...
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Queen Latifah "Beauty is not just a white girl. It's so many different flavors and shades," the 37-year-old rapper-actress tells People magazine in its latest issue. "It's good for regular girls because the meter (for beauty) has been a slim white girl." Read More...
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Last week JBHE reported that Irwin D. Reid, president of Wayne State University, will retire at the end of this academic year. This January, Dr. Reid’s wife, Pamela Trotman Reid, will become president of Saint Joseph College in West Hartford, Connecticut. Read More...
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A group of Atlanta University Center students are enlisting college students from across the country to help push for the ouster of the district attorney in Jena, La. The students, who attend Morehouse College and Clark Atlanta University, are circulating Read More...
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The Women in Entertainment Empowerment Network (WEEN) kicked off its official launch of the organization in style, converting trendy SoHo furniture store, Bo Concept, into a passionate and informative celebration dedicated to the positive portrayal of Read More...
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Rapper Foxy Brown has received 76 days in punitive segregation after she scuffled with another inmate at Rikers Island jail, authorities said Tuesday. Brown was separated from other inmates on Oct. 16, said Stephen Morello, deputy commissioner for public Read More...
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by Sikivu Hutchinson South Carolina is generally viewed as the first "Black" stop on the presidential primary trail, with African Americans comprising about half the Democratic electorate. A majority of those Black votes are female, and the Obama and Read More...
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Morgan Stanley has agreed to settle a bias suit filed on behalf of African-American and Latino brokers in northern California for $16 million. As part of the proposed settlement, the New York retail brokerage firm agreed to institute programs to improve Read More...
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Donnie McClurkin Barack Obama is being pressured by a gay rights group to remove gospel star Donnie McClurkin from his fund-raising tour because of the singer's views on homosexuality. The artist, who has spoken openly about his belief that sexual preference Read More...
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Jersey City and to a lesser degree, Hoboken, are classifying too many black students as special education students, and should work harder to keep them in general education, according to the state Department of Education. Jersey City is one of 21 state Read More...
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Running back Austin Scott faces charges of rape, sexual assault, indecent assault and simple assault in Philadelphia, and the team's star isn't happy with his treatment from coach Joe Paterno. A day before a Centre County judge imposed a gag order in Read More...
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Hillary Clinton In the race for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, New York Senator Hillary Clinton has surged ahead of Illinois Senator Barack Obama among likely African American voters. According to a poll released this past Wednesday by Read More...
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Martin Lee Anderson The Florida State Conference NAACP is mobilizing thousands of people from across the state and nation to support the "Justice for Martin Lee Anderson" march and rally Tuesday to demand justice in the death of Anderson, a black 14-year-old, Read More...
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A coalition of major American media companies filed a 1st Amendment petition Monday seeking to open to public scrutiny the criminal trial of Mychal Bell, one of the teenage defendants in the controversial Jena 6 case in Louisiana. The legal motion, filed Read More...
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Media Credit: Neal Santos "It's a new day!" nearly 50 men shouted in unison. People gathered in the lobby of the Liacouras Center last Monday, Oct. 15, to hear several speakers discuss an action plan for the "survival of the African-American community." Read More...
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Speaking to a packed audience of mostly African American students at North Carolina Central University on Oct. 18, Louis Scott, lead attorney for Mychal Bell of the Jena 6, said that the struggle to free the Six was far from over. Reverend William Barber, Read More...
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Tyler Perry Tyler Perry debunked the Hollywood myth that movies and television shows about family, relationships and God were too narrow and folksy to resonate with a large audience. His latest film, "Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married?" has pulled in Read More...
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Tupac An ex-bodyguard for Tupac Shakur claims to have been an undercover FBI agent during the four years he was employed by Death Row. During a Q&A screening for the new DVD, "Tupac Assassination - Conspiracy or Revenge?" Kevin Hackie revealed for Read More...
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I once knew a proud man. He was called "black" or "Negro" - or worse. This man worked long hours to provide for his wife and five children. Rain or shine, he rose early and went to his job at the docks. It was a tough job, a thankless job. He didn't mind Read More...
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Award-winning Kansas City Star columnist Jason Whitlock brings his thought-provoking style to FOXSports.com on a weekly basis. You get one NFL Truth today. Watching Chad Johnson and Larry Johnson undermine their respective head coaches, Marvin Lewis and Read More...
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In a Sunday sermon that excoriated police misconduct, the Rev. Al Sharpton directed some of his sharpest words at other African-American preachers. To publicize his call for a civilian review board for police complaints, Sharpton vowed to pick a date Read More...
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Ward Connerly Having conquered California a decade ago and Michigan last year, affirmative action critic Ward Connerly now has his sights set on the Show-Me State. The former University of California regent was a key force behind that state's successful Read More...
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Few things in life are free, but some products and services can be bought at significantly discounted prices if you're willing to make a sacrifice or two. Electronics Savings: Planning to buy a new television, computer, or other electronics? Many stores Read More...
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Skylar McCormick, 20, with the Rev. Al Sharpton Thursday on Staten Island. Two men were arrested and charged last night with assault as a hate crime in connection with an attack on Staten Island on Tuesday night, the authorities said. The men, identified Read More...
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NAS Apparently Fox news got it all wrong when they reported that the powers that be at Def Jam said the label was not releasing Nas' new project named after the N-word. Def Jam head, LA Reid, told MTV that he has no problem with the project whatsoever. Read More...
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In a rare public appearance, Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan urged black Americans to separate from mainstream culture to establish and support their own community. Nearly eight months after delivering what was thought to be his farewell speech, Read More...
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Presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., waves goodbye after speaking Friday, Oct. 19, 2007 at... Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama said Friday the head of the Justice Department's voting rights division should be fired for saying Read More...
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Wait a minute, didn’t Jay-Z say he was retiring TWO albums ago? “I want to never say that again,” the 37-year-old rap mogul says in XXL magazine’s new issue. “Just make the albums, man. And if one day people wake up and it’s four years later, and you Read More...
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ATLANTa--Michael Vick has put his $4.5 million Georgia home on the market. The home is located in the Sugarloaf Country Club in Duluth on Darlington Run. A listing on Realtor.com says the house has seven bedrooms, 8.5 bathrooms and an estimated monthly Read More...
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James Watson, the 79-year-old scientific icon and Nobel laureate made famous by his work on DNA, apologized Thursday for comments attributed to him that black are less intelligent than whites. "I am mortified about what has happened," Watson said through Read More...
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Nas' 'N-Word' Album Still on the Way To some, it's a hurtful racial epithet. For Nas, it's an album title. The rapper told MTV News that he would indeed be naming his new album after the N-word. And he denied earlier reports that the album's title would Read More...
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Martin says Obama must address issues important to black voters if he hopes to succeed in South Carolina. If the advisers around Sen. Barack Obama want to continue to delude themselves into thinking they have lots of time for black voters to get around Read More...
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Former Dallas Cowboys players Everson Walls, left, and Ron Springs served as honorary captains for the Cowboys' season opener against the New York Giants. Former Dallas Cowboys running back Ron Springs has been hospitalized in Dallas in a coma, more than Read More...
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AFP/File Photo: A young man wears his pants at "half-mast" in this file photo in Washington, DC.... Bans on low-hanging trousers that display parts of underwear are hitting already alienated black US teens below the belt, African-American experts say Read More...
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Sen. Hillary Clinton is the top choice of African-American Democrats, a new poll suggests. Sen. Hillary Clinton's lead over Sen. Barack Obama, her chief rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, is growing among African-American voters who are Read More...
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Eddie Murphy may be married by the end of the year according to a new report. Tracey Edmonds, fiancée of the “Dreamgirls" star told People that the couple is moving toward their nuptials. “We’re coming close,” Edmonds said. “It’ll be before the end of Read More...
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