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Twenty five of the finest wines to come out of the world-renown wine regions of Stellenbosch, Paarl & Robertson Valley, South Africa will be showcased at the 7th annual South African Food & Wine Festival, September 8th & 9th 2012 at Grayhaven Winery, Gum Spring, Virginia. The festival is a celebration of the culture, food, wine and music of South Africa.


South African Wines, Music and Cuisine Showcased at the South African Food & Wine Festival

 Twenty five of the finest wines to come out of the world-renown wine regions of Stellenbosch, Paarl & Robertson Valley, South Africa will be
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Egyptology study tours

Kemet Travel understands Egypt and has worked successfully to develop special touches, cultural experiences, new and creative programming just for you. Our permanent offices in Cairo, Luxor and Aswan, combined with our professional and knowledgeable staff of Egyptologist – Guides are only two of the reasons that have made Kemet Travel one of premiere tour operators in the fabled land of the Pharaohs.
Our Egyptology study tours from the awesome temples of Luxor and Aswan to the marvel of the Pyra

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Nisa Ra's Black Love Lives rocks Oakland

Nisa Ra's Black Love Lives rocks Oakland

Photo: Black Love Lives in the Bay! Sunday 8/26, 7-9pm Screening + post screening discussion with filmmaker Nisa Ra and panel on black love.

Nisa Ra's short film Black Love Lives, rocked the small crowd at Oakland's Uptown Apartments Screening Room Sunday evening. This documentary about black loving couples was a positive approach to the trauma of black relationships. More than half black marriages end in divorce, but Nisa's film attempts to increase the longevity of black relationships by depicting couples telling how to do it right, no selfishness, no thyself first. One husband probably said
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By Gloria Dulan-Wilson

With all the lies being swirled about by the meanstream press, Mitt-twits, Ryan, Akin, and others in an effort to undermine President Obama, I would be totally remiss if I let this day end without sending this wonderful message to the President via Joel and Victoria Osteen.

Everybody needs a boost every once and a while, and that is as true of President Obama as any of the rest of us. And since I know that Blacks in America are praying for him every day, I thought I'

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WE NEED ALL OF YOUR SUPPORT ON THIS,WE DO NOT CARE WHAT PART OF THE WORLD YOUR FROM PLEASE CALL IN WITH A OUTRAGE. WE ARE TRYING TO GET OUR HIP HOP MUSEUM HERE IN THE BRONX AT THIS PLACE AS WELL AS FOOD STORES CENTERS,AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMS FOR YOUTH AND MANY MORE AND THE BRONX PRESIDENT WANTS TO PUT A HOCKEY RING,WHICH THE COMMUNITY DOES NOT NEED AND THIS WILL BE A PLACE WHERE ALL PEOPLE FROM THE WORLD COULD COME TO AND ENJOY BUT IF THEY PUT UP A HOCKEY RING ,THEN THERE BE NONE OF T
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At a time when public trust in our Public Servants is at an all time low, at a time when so many of our Bronx politicians have been tainted; Public confidence in our Democracy requires the greatest level of transparency.

Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr’s decision to publicly support the one of the two developers seeking to redevelop the Kingsbridge Armory without first holding Borough-wide Public Hearings should not go unquestioned and unchallenged.

 

~Kwasi Akyeampong

 

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From Art painter and Creative writer/ Educator ASYLA TEN HOLT

RECENTLY I CAME TO ACKNOWLEDGE HOW BEST TO EXPLAIN MY PAINTINGS - IT'S A NARRATIVE IMAGERY CONCEPT COMBINED WITH LYRICAL OR PROSAIC-STYLE. THIS WAY OF EXPRESSING I KEPT SOMEWHAT  UN –INTENTIONALLY HDDEN NOT TO  LOOK AT IT LITERATELY ENOUGH EXCEPT I'D  SCRIBBLED DOWN SOMEWHAT RHYTHMICALLY (FEW BOOKLETS IN PAST THROUGH INSTINCT) AND  USE AS ILLUSTRATION FOR MY  PAINTING.  A MORE PROFESSIONAL APPROACH TO THE LITERATE ARTICULATION GIVES A

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by Gloria Dulan-Wilson ~

   I am not a religious person, but I do have a deep and abiding faith in God the Living Spirit Almighty.  And you know, you just gotta give God a lot of praise because he just keeps handing us these monumental gifts, signs and wonders, despite the fact that we keep squandering them, and then begging for mercy for our errors. 

First, He gives us President Barack Obama</span> to lead us out of the mess that the Bush administration and his predatory supporters put us in,

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It Is What It Is - New Release On Amazon

511I2MxUUCL._SL500_AA280_.jpg?width=350Music Preview: Itunes New Release: It Is What It Is. Produced And Performed By Gansta Marcus. This Is The First Release From The Up And Coming Cd "Broken Glass"

Take A Listen Below By Clicking The Link And Scrolling Half Way Down The Amazon Page And Pressing Play Sample
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008YFPIK0/ref=cm_cr_error

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sagging-pants.jpg?width=402 Forget about drugs, gang initiation rituals and criminal activity as causes of so called Black on Black homicide. It is becoming clearer and clearer that much of this killing is over women. So now we are to blame the black woman for the death of young black men? Yet it is clear to police nationwide that sexual improprieties are the root cause of young men killing each other.

We hear of a national program to reach out to gang members about male/female relations, to instruct young black men that
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The African-Origins website at Emory University, launched last year with the names of 10,000 Africans who were liberated from the slave trade in the 19thcentury, has added the names of more than 80,000 African captives to the site, making it the largest and most comprehensive record of the identity of individuals caught up in the slave trade to the Americas.

With this latest information now accessible, researchers again are inviting those who might recognize African names "to tell us which

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Save Electricity Bill Using LED Lights

There is no gainsaying in the fact that our excessive dependence on energy and electricity has contributed significantly to uplift their price. They are also expected to be costly in near future given their huge and uncontrollable way of consumption. Whereas energy from natural sources such as cola and fossils are too costly to afford, the alternative fossil fuels are not environmentally suitable to household uses. There are also people who believe that solar panels are ideal recourse to obtain

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Romney’s Lack of Blacks

By Raynard Jackson ~

  Just over a month ago Mitt Romney addressed the NAACP during their national convention.  I thought Romney’s speech was horrible and quite a waste of time because he said nothing that would be of any interest to the Black community.  You can read that column at:  http://blackpressusa.com/romney-and-the-naacp-a-missed-opportunity/.

This column set off a firestorm of reactions from across the country.  Most people, of all political stripes, thought my analysis was right on the

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Led light bulbs, also known as, light-emitting diodes, have gained worldwide prominence because of many key benefits involved. In contrast to incandescent and fluorescent lights with components like glass-caged filaments or gaseous bulbs, the LEDs, on the other hand, are functional because of tiny chips in small capsules or lenses. These components make led lights energy-efficient and so they are one of the most fundamental household needs today.

Some of the other remarkable benefits of led light

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Do We Deserve The Black Leadership We Vote For?

Black African Americans should be ashamed of President Obama and other Black Leaders, when they examine the conditions of Black African Americans as a group. President Obama and other Black Elected Leaders and their surrogates take pride in telling Black Folks without shame, that he's not the President of Black Americans, but all Americans. Is that a verbal slap in the face? It is for that reason, that I still believe in the Change part of his old m

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The Demotion of General Ward?

General Kip Ward the current head of Africom is to be demoted and have his retirement benefits reduced according to Al Jazeera.

He allegedly spent department of defense funds for personal use and used military personnel to drive his wife around on personal errands.  The secretary of defense Leon Panetta is still investigating these allegations.

It is very possible that he was getting to close to his ecowas counterparts and the department of defense wants to replace him with somebody who will be le

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IS SEEKING ESTEEM AND FREEDOM RADICAL?

When Blacks make waves against unfair, civic laws, White folks call us radical.

When Blacks dispute Whites, White folks call us radical.

When Blacks tout being Black and Proud, White folks call us radical.

When Blacks show concern for their own well-being, White folks call us radical.

When Blacks demonstrate for racial justice, White folks call us radical.

When Blacks want representation in this society, White folks call us radical.

When Blacks want equal rights,

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BY GLORIA DULAN-WILSON


As you know, I'm a big proponent of NACA.  Just wanted to alert you to the fact that they are in New York, aat Suffolk County Community College's Brentwood Campus, in Long Island, from today, August 15, through Sunday, August 19, at the Health, Sports and Education Center - 1001 Crooked Hill Road.  You can take the Long Island Railroad from either Manhattan or Brooklyn, on the Ronkonkoma line to Brentwood.  You would then transfer to one of the local buses (call 631.852.52

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The joint statement below by the AFL-CIO, CLC (Canada) and UNT (Mexico) calls for including pro-worker and pro-environment provisions in the new Trans-Pacific Partnership Free Trade Agreement, so that the TPP "does not become another NAFTA." But the TPP, by its very nature, is an agreement aimed at lowering labor costs, promoting privatization and deregulation -- and as such it is all about destroying jobs, collective-bargaining agreements and labor standards, as well as environmental protection
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DON'T MESS WITH BILL (COSBY)

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by Gloria Dulan-Wilson

It's 3:00 AM, and I'm going through my emails – something, being a night owl, I do routinely, in preparation for writing, or researching for my blog or a news article – when I see Bill Cosby's name in the subject line of an email. So, of course I zoom in on it because, anything about Cosby I'm going to read. He's one of my heroes.

What I read made me sad, then disappointed, and finally angry. It was an online response to an article that has been circulating the intern
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