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AUTHOR REVEALS THE GREATEST STORY NEVER TOLD

-- The Things That Mainstream Society Don't Want People of Color To Know -

3828562291?profile=original Independent researcher, community activist, author and musician Baba Lawrence, who is the principle facilitator of Spearmangroup, has penned an interesting new novel, Melanin: The Basic Guide to Knowledge of Self

Baba Lawrence claims "Even though the topic of Melanin is one of the most studied aspects of biology, neuro science, and anatomy, its investigation is carried out

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Black Activists Blast Congressional Attack on Ballot Protections

New Bill Provides Fraudsters with Opportunity to Steal, Nullify Votes of Law-Abiding Americans ~


  Legal experts with the Project 21 black leadership network are highly critical of new legislation introduced in Congress meant to overturn and pervert reforms to the Voting Rights Act that were instituted by the U.S. Supreme Court just a few months ago.


"This proposal is fundamentally flawed. Instead of explicitly acknowledging the

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Asia

Automatic Parking Space Counting System in India

With the increasing Indian population day by day, people are always in hurry to go offices and to drop somebody or to pick up somebody. People care a lot about their vehicles but due to less parking space and management they park their vehicles everywhere which are doubtful not safe and public face traffic problem. Keeping these things in mind we need more and more parking space facilities to remove parking problem, government and private premises and organizations have installed their own autom

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AFRICAN AMERICAN LANDOWNER FEARS DEVELOPING LAND NO MORE

With the help of REDI Foundation, Susannah Nfonoyim, a landowner in Houston, Texas, has learned that developing land is easy - and very profitable - with just a little hard work.

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At a recent news conference, Richard Michael Abraham, founder of The REDI Foundation announced that one of the main purposes of their 6-Month Online Real Estate Development Mentoring/Certification Program is to provide a step-by-step process for

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Chicago-Midwest

MAYOR, PFLEGER LIGHT UP SOLDIER FIELD IN BLUE PEACE LIGHTS IN HONOR OF DR. KING

Pfleger vows to take blue lights nationwide

Saint Sabina’s Father Michael L. Pfleger lateFriday night proudly stood outside of Soldier Field after joining Chicago’s Mayor Rahm Emanuel in lighting the historic building with blue lights in honor of his mentor, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

It was on July 10, 1966 that Dr. King, Al Raby and other civil rights leaders led the Chicago Freedom Movement, also known as the Chicag

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Conservative Black Americans Available for Comment on Martin Luther King, Jr. Legacy, Holiday Observance

Black conservatives affiliated with the Project 21 leadership network are available for comment about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., his beliefs and his legacy in observance of the upcoming national holiday that bears Dr. King's name. For over 20 years, Project 21 has helped promote black conservatives to highlight the political diversity of the black community.

"Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. emb

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Chicago-Midwest

PASTOR SEEKS UNITY IN FIGHTING FOR RESPECT OF REV. COREY BROOKS INSULTED, MANHANDLED BY CPD AND THROWN OUT OF POLICE STATION

After spending 94 days camped out on the rooftop of a vacant motel that stood in the shadow of the New Beginnings Church to raise $15 million for a new community center and after spending hours more living in a tent on the vacant lot once the motel was demolished to raise funds for Project HOOD needed to fund the center, Rev. Corey Brooks is now in a battle with the Third D
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Europe

Some Insights into Democracy and How it can work in Nigeria.

Democracy promotes the same sets of value no matter where it is practiced. Simple definition implies that government is made up of people, and should serve the people. In order to enjoy the fruits (or as we call it in Nigeria, the dividends) of democracy, all its various components i.e. people and its legal frame work of operation (constitution) will have to work hand in hand. We also want to emphasize that greed, fraud and corruption,

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Obama Civil Rights Nominee Defended Convicted Cop-Killer, Opposed Ballot Safety Measures

Radical Selection Shows Need for Filibuster Protections, Black Conservatives Say

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Washington, DC -
 President Barack Obama's controversial nomination of Debo Adegbile to head the U.S. Department of Justice's civil rights office is being criticized by members of theProject 21 black leadership network. Adegbile's radical resume, Project 21 legal and policy experts say, places him far outside of the mainstream and
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Join with more than 1 million people on the planet during the 12th Annual World Sound Healing Day, founded by sound pioneer Jonathan Goldman. Become a sonic co-creator for personal and planetary peace. The local event is Friday, Feb. 14, 2014, 7 PM, Grace Episcopal Church, 5501 Hamilton Ave., College Hill. Standout Cincinnati musicians will perform. The audience will tone AH - a Sonic Valentine for the Earth and for personal healing.

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Attend a special sound and musical event in Cincinnati that
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Denny's And Tom Joyner Foundation Call 'All Aboard for Education' With Inspirational Educators Contest

Grand prize winner receives trip for two on 2014 Fantastic Voyage

In celebration of African American culture and a partnership spanning more than a decade, Denny's and Tom Joyner, host of the nationally-syndicated "Tom Joyner Morning Show" radio program, this week launched a nationwide "All Aboard for Education" contest to send one deserving teacher and a guest aboard the Tom Joyner Foundation

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Chicago-Midwest

Black Films & Black People

Happy 2014 to you & yours!
I'm sharing an article my husband wrote about Black films and Black support of those films. Enjoy!

Well, Happy Saturday!!! Today, I found myself doing something I RARELY do...read something that is not education-related!!! I LIKE THAT! But, I want say something about what I read...it has made me reflect on something I have talked about among friends over the last few years.
 I picked up the Dec/Jan issue of Ebony, and read the featured article "Men of Honor", featuring F

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Marvin X interview on KPFA and KPOO radio stations about his friend Amiri Baraka

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Marvin X will be interviewed about his friend Amiri Baraka by KPFA's (www.kpfa.org) Greg Bridges, Monday, 8pm. On Tuesday he will be interviewed by Terry Collins  of KPOO (www.kpoo.org radioa bout his 50 year friendship with AB. 
Baraka had invited Marvin X to read at a tribute for poet Jayne Cortez at New York University, Feb 4, 2014. The tribute will go on, we assume with a tribute to Baraka as well. 
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                                               Tech accelerator 88mph has announced that it will invest US1.5 million in a selection of start-ups in Nigeria and will open an accelerator in Lagos. Interestingly they are also looking at raising what they call “baby series A funding” to help more of their start-ups to get out of the starting blocks. I spoke this week to Dan Bowyer, Programme Director at 88mph in Cape Town.

88mph has created two accelerators in Africa: one in Nairobi and the other

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  • System Helps Black Business Obtain Funding

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    Joya O. Johnson, CEO of Positive Minded Sisters (PMS) Financial Services, LLC

Finance experts are elated as Joya O. Johnson, CEO of Positive Minded Sisters (PMS) Financial Services, LLC has finally rolled out her much anticipated Business Finance Suite to help African-American owned businesses obtain funding.

Positive Minded Sisters (PMS) Financial Services, LLC has released a first of its kind ca

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LBJ's "War on Poverty" Hurt Black Americans

Five Decades After: Black Progress Hurt by Expansion in Government, Welfare

Black Activists Criticize Handout Mentality that Destroyed Traditional Families


Fifty years ago today, before a joint session of Congress, President Lyndon Baines Johnson announced an "unconditional war on poverty in America." Today, black activists with the Project 21 leadership network are critical of how that war has been waged. They note the expansion of government and a

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Saafara West African Herbal Teas Crowdfunding Campaign

San Francisco-based Saafara Herbal Teas has launched an Indiegogo.com crowdfunding campaignto gain community support in their goal to become a premier “Brand Recognized” name in the herbal tea market. Saafara seeks to innovate the herbal tea market by providing delicious, caffeine-free herbal teas, from the refreshing and stress-busting Savanna Mint, to the citrusy after-meal soother White Hibiscus and powerful healing superfood Seh-Ha

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DMV

This piece was initially written as an email to two Elders who have often bemoaned the lack of unity that we as African people have demonstrated over these many generations since the Ma'afa (a Twi word meaning "great disaster", used by Pan-Afrikan historians and activists to describe the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, the Arab Slave Trade, the Scramble for Africa and the suffering African people have endured as a result).  I meant it as a helpful response to their question (which was probably rheto

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                                                              From The Ramparts

                                             Junious Ricardo Stanton

                       International Bankers Are the Blame For the US Financial Implosion

 

“The latest stage in the bankruptcy hearings has highlighted the role of the banks in wrecking municipal and family finances across the country. Detroit had one of the highest percentages of subprime loans—many from Countrywide, which was taken over by Bank of Am

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Atlanta Prepares for National African-American History Month Celebration

An annual celebration of black history that brings together people from all over the world. Held in the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr./ Sweet Auburn District a National Historic Landmark located in Atlanta, Georgia.

The city of Atlanta is home to many African-American events, legends, history and most notably home of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. One of the major events that is held in Atlanta is a cultural celebration that encompa

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