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I am not Catholic, but long live Pope Francis. Alleluia! Alleluia! I think he has been reading my book. Did you read about his recent statements. Check  out this report from News Americas:

His strong condemnation of income inequality and free markets shows that a lot has changed since the cold war.

Pope Francis is once again shaking things up in the Catholic Church. On Tuesday, he issued his first “apostolic exhortation,” declaring a new enemy for the Catholic Church: modern capitalism. “Some peop

The extinct factional “nPDP” says they are amused by the recommendation by the Disciplinary Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the expulsion of the party’s National Secretary, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, along the former National Chairman of the defunct New Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP), Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje, and its Deputy National Chairman, Dr. Sam Sam Jaja, for alleged anti-party activities.

The former National Publicist of the Defunct New PDP Chief Eze Chukwuemeka sa

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The latest World Bank Doing Business report shows South Africa continuing to move up the ranking as one of the best business tax environments on the continent.

With the report now in its 11th year, Doing Business 2014: Understanding Regulations for Small and Medium-Size Ente

In episode #1 she reveals the conversations that she and music legend WHITNEY HOUSTON had about Osama Bin Laden. Kola Boof was his mistress in 1996 and Bin Laden had a serious desire for Whitney Houston. 

• Karen Taylor Bass, PR Expert/Strategist to Celebrities, Talks PR Tips

PR expert Karen Taylor Bass (right) was recently featured on ABC-7 to talk about marketing and PR

According to TheRoot.com - African Americans starting a business grew 3 times the national rate, however, the challenge was staying in business longer than a year. Entrepreneur magazine says, “Karen Taylor Bass, PR Expert, can take a brand from a whisper to a scream.”

“Most of us prepare to launch a business however we don’t creat

PURPOSE OVER PAIN GIVES VALUABLE LESSONS IN LIFE TO YOUTH Teaches basketball skills and mentoring at the ARK By Chinta Strausberg Purpose Over Pain, a group of grieving parents, are using their pain to not only fill avoid in their lives but because each lost a child to gun violence they filled Saint Sabina’s ARK gym up with dozens of energetic children seeking a safe haven toplay and a place to get positive mentoring, basketball skills and good free food all under the same roof. Purpose Over Pai

Brief History and Case Background

On May 21, 1971, two New York City police officers were fatally shot. This shooting occurred within the context of two major national trends: the growth of Black revolutionary groups such as the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense and later its armed wing, the Black Liberation Army; and at the same time, the FBI operation under Director J. Edgar Hoover with the cooperation of the Nixon administration, to destroy leaders and membership of both mainstream civil ri

                             From The Ramparts ~ Junious Ricardo Stanton ~

“The media literally spent years on the case of Chandra Levy and never stopped asking ‘Who killed JonBenét Ramsey?’ They’ve obsessed on Amanda Knox’s convoluted story and eagerly entertained various theories about the death of Princess Diana. And they even jumped headfirst into the feeding frenzy around the murder of J.R. Ewing! On the other hand, when faced with the crime of the 20^th Century—the murder of President Kenne

                                From The Ramparts
                              Junious Ricardo Stanton

 

“Why is Black Friday called “Black Friday”? Seems pretty simple – it’s the day retailers go “into the black,” or turn a profit for the year.  But it turns out the term has a darker, less happy origin. In 1966, Black Friday was the name the Philadelphia Police Department gave to the Friday after Thanksgiving.  The police hated the day — massive traffic jams, overcrowded sidewalks, lots of shopl

Brooklyn, New York City is home of music greats: Lena Horne, Max Roach, Betty Carter, Hubie Blake, Bob Cunningham, Art Blakey, Freddie Hubbard, Randy Weston, and others.  The 15^th Annual Central Brooklyn Jazz Festival, March 28 thru April 30, 2014 has grown from a nine day neighborhood event to a highly anticipated month long borough-wide music series. The backbone of this community based jazz festival are the musicians and venues that keep Brooklyn's jazz scene vibrate and fuel its nightlife ec

All invited to remember Chicago’s first black mayor

~ By Chinta Strausberg ~ At  11:01 a.m., Monday, November 25, 2013,the Harold Washington Legacy Committee, is holding a wreath laying ceremony inhonor of the late Mayor Harold Washington at the Oak Woods Cemetery, 1035 E. 67^thSt., Chicago, IL where he was buried 26-years ago.

The gravesite ceremony will include a gun salute, a color guard ceremony from several high schools, and a host of Harold’s friends and supporters.

It has been 26-years since

After an historic response from supporters, members of the Coalition for the Exoneration of Marcus Garvey delivered more than 10,000 signatures  for the exoneration of the Right Honorable Marcus Garvey to Representative Frederica Wilson's office.

THE PETITION STATES:

We, the undersigned, are requesting the assistance of our representatives in reintroducing the resolution with the following change in the wording: "Expressing the sense of the Congress that the President should exonerate Marcus Mo

• PRESIDENT OBAMA'S FATHERHOOD AND MENTORING INITIATIVE FATHERHOOD BUZZ ENCOURAGES FATHERS TO "TAKE TIME TO BE A HEALTHY DAD TODAY"

      ~ Select Local Barbershops to Host Events and Provide Fathers with Parenting Resources ~

Washington, DC (BlackNews.com) -- As part of President Obama’s Fatherhood and Mentoring Initiative, The National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse (NRFC), funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Children and Families, Office of Fami

~ BY REV. JESSE JACKSON ~Bill De Blasio is garnering national attention for his landslide election in the New York City Mayor’s race. De Blasio campaigned on a populist agenda, highlighting the stark contrast between the poor and the mega-rich in New York’s “tale of two cities.” De Blasio’s analysis is sadly true for cities across the country, which too often feature two worlds, one of privilege and wealth, another of poverty and despair.

In Chicago, for example, the contrasts are stark between t

His blood spilled in Vietnam continues to heal today

~ By Chinta Strausberg ~ On this Veterans Day, I salute all men and women who have and are serving in the U.S. armed services—people who literally gave their lives to protect this nation including and especially my cousin, Milton Lee Olive, III, an18-year-old Englewood Vietnam War hero who paid the ultimate price.

The irony of his brief life is that he went to Lexington, Mississippi to stay with his paternal grandfather and while there joined a