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3828564771?profile=originalIf you want to kill your sex life, keep eating salt (if you’re a man) or feeding your man salt. This topic and many other salt related diseases are reported in a new book, Salt: Black America’s Silent Killer by heart surgeon Dr. Surender Neravetla.

Studies have indicated that one out of every three men over the age of 50 have erectile dysfunction (ED) and up to 40 percent of all men over age 40 will experience ED at some time in their lives. No wonder tens of millions of men are now spending up

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[by Terry Stanfield] Buying gifts for new mothers is very difficult as most people don't know what the new mother needs - unless you have been a new mother yourself. Buying gifts for mom is hard and buying gifts for a new mother is doubly difficult. Remember, the new mom will probably receive many gifts from many people therefore extra though needs to be given prior to purchasing a gift.

You need to ensure that the gift you give stands out from all the others. It's important to put yourself in t

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IS U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL ERIC HOLDER AND THE WHITE HOUSE ADMINISTRATION STILL UPHOLDING THE LEGACY OF FUNDING RACISM?

 :By Rev. Dr. Clenard H. Childress, Jr.

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  The words of Dr. Martin Luther King still ring true and their relevancy has not diminished, for in fact: they have never been more relevant! We are presently witnessing for the first time in our history, the church must find favor in the courts in order to remain a practicing Christian. Religious persecution is no

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687093-e?max=400LIBREVILLE, Gabon, May 20, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- The world's first African Citizens' Summit will be held on the first day of The New York Forum AFRICA, the world's foremost African business forum, in Libreville, GabonMay 23-25. Over 1,000 business and political leaders from around the world will participate in this third edition of The New York Forum AFRICA.

The African Citizens' Summit focuses on opportunities for the generation of students that will shortly be entering the workforce. The sum

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Chicago-Midwest
  • Father Pfleger backs new candidate for 17th ward race
  • Seeks “new norm, greater vision”
[By Chinta Strausberg] At a press conference held at the Chicago Park District Ogden Park Field house 6500 South Racine, Father Michael L. Pfleger Monday announced his support for 50-year-old Glenda Franklin who is a member of his church and a candidate he says will bring a “new norm” into the 17th Ward.
Flanked by dozens of older and younger supporters, Glenda Franklin, 50, director for the musical grants for th
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“If we can learn to be bold enough to restore the value of truth in our society, then we will have justice. Without truth, we cannot have justice” - Jerry Rawlings, ex-President of Ghana

“And without Justice and Truth, we cannot have a Democracy” – my own humble addition.

When the late ex-President Umar Yar’ Adua was in incommunicado and invisible, due to his failing or failed health for many months, probably even dead, and his wife and so-called kitchen cabinet were doing all they could to pull t

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Corruption: Synonyms - Sleaze, dishonesty, exploitation, bribery, fraud, venality, vice.

Many of us think we know what corruption looks or is like – a state governor dipping his dirty fingers in the treasury and amassing ill-gotten wealth; an illicit deal carried out by politician; a government official or civil servant taking a cut in a deal; a policeman on the road harassing drivers, demanding and collecting bribes or a senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria collecting bribes to push in a b

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DC93389LOGO?max=400LOS ANGELESMay 15, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The top three public charter school systems in the running for the 2014 Broad Prize for Public Charter Schools are Achievement First, KIPP Foundation and IDEA Public Schools, The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation announced today. The three charter systems are up for the top prize of $250,000 for college-readiness efforts for their students.

The Broad (rhymes with "road") Prize for Public Charter Schools is an annual award to honor the urban publ

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60th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education Desegregation Decision Commemorated
Jim Crow Banished, But Failing Public Schools a Crisis for Many Black Youth
Vouchers and Other Alternatives to Failing Public Schools Needed for Full Equality of Opportunity

Washington, DC - On the 60th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education ruling that mandated desegregation in American public schools, members of theProject 21 black leadership network commend the necessary desegregation

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3828564271?profile=originalThe beauty industry involves black women from all corners of the world as customers, stylists, clinicians, models, manufacturers, spokespersons and more. The ethnic beauty business is a $15 billion business that consists of a 96% African-American customer base, but roughly only 3% of the retailers are African-American.

There has been talk in salons, on talk shows, at events and classrooms on what should be done about the disparities and discriminations in the industry. Some say boycott hair prod

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Susan Williams Smith, an author, ordained minister, and former mentee of Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., presents an honorable and comprehensive picture of Wright as a man, an African American, a patriot, scholar, and pastor in her new book - The Book of Jeremiah: The Life and Ministry of Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr.

Smith first met Wright when she was a student at Yale Divinity School. She had heard him preach a stirring sermon, but it was at a dinner with him and the president of Yale that evening that sh

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Flashpoint in Ukraine provides insight into today's gravest
geopolitical crisis since WW II. Possible global war looms.  

Viewed from the perspective of Western mainstream media, the
crisis arose due to pro-democracy activists overturning a brutal
dictatorship, which led swiftly to Russian incursion into Ukraine and
annexation of Crimea.  

Viewed from the perspective of the 20 highly-credentialed analysts
who have contributed to this anthology, it’s an entirely different
story.  Obama's pivot i
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TV white space technology further demonstrates social and economic impact and commercial feasibility. MSFTLOGO?max=400

ACCRA, GhanaMay 13, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Tuesday at the Dynamic Spectrum Alliance Global Summit in Accra, Microsoft Corp. announced new TV white space partnerships and projects on four continents, including its newest partnership with SpectraLink Wireless and Facebook to provide low-cost wireless connectivity to students and faculty at universities in Koforidua, Ghana. Globally, Microsoft is

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Today: Trayvon Martin Infuses 2014 Chicago Youth Film Festivalasn_reellook2014_slider.pngTeens Release Violence "Intervention" Films At Youth Film Festival, "A Reel Look At Their Neighborhoods"

CHICAGO, May 12, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --

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As Trayvon Martin's father calls for a renewed civil rights movement leading up to the one year anniversary of the trial that acquitted George Zimmerman, Chicago high school students are using film as a platform to galvanize the nation's languishing civil rights progre

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While shifting property as well as moving with a brand-new location, a vey important point is always to discover the most effective packers along with movers.

Though the thinking behind creating the latest residence may well noise thrilling, the actual getting ready to the similar frequently positions the dampener about the nature. There may be products for being shifted, things that you're placed on and possesses particular emotional worth, next obviously there exists ones important the far east

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New film tells the story of Lt. Col. Alexander Jefferson (USAF Ret.), who was imprisoned in a Nazi P.O.W. camp and lived to tell about it. 

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FERNDALE, Mich.May 8, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- In many ways, retired Lt. Col. Alexander Jefferson (USAF) was fighting a fierce battle before, during and after his days as a fighter pilot in World War II. Jefferson, 92, was shot down during a mission and spent nine months in Stalag Luft III, a Nazi P.O.W. camp and location of "The Great Escape."

It's a fascinatin

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New Music and Arts Festival at High Noon Saloon in Madison
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Performances from local women musicians, DJs, dancers, aerialists and a poet to benefit incarcerated women in the Wisconsin prison system, Sun., Jun 1.

Madison, WI, May 08, 2014 --(PR.com)-- Alert: Musically stunning story and photo opportunity

Who: First Annual Madison Womyn's Music & Arts Festival is pleased to announce a dynamic mix of performances from Terra Incognita Aerial Dance, Mami Wata African Drum Troupe, DJ Steph Stringer, DJ

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Four State Lawmakers Caught in Government Bribery Sting; Accused of Taking Cash to Influence Actions on Government Contracts and Voter ID

State's Attorney General Declines to Prosecute, Apparently Because Lawmakers are Black and Liberal

"It appears that Attorney General Kane picks and chooses the laws she will defend and the crimes she will prosecute based on a political litmus test," says Project 21's Episcopal Missionary Church Bishop Council Nedd II, a Pennsylvanian



Washington, DC -
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Hubert Harrison

Keep Alive the Struggles and Memory of this Giant of Black History

 by Jeffrey B. Perry

Hubert H. Harrison (1883-1927) is one of the truly important figures of twentieth-century history. A brilliant writer, orator, educator, critic, and political activist, he was described by the historian Joel A. Rogers, in World’s Great Men of Color as “the foremost Afro-American intellect of his time.” This extraordinary praise came amid chapters on Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, William

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