Danforth Center’s “Conversations” Series Continues

From Uganda to the U.S. Heartland: a Look at Global Food Security Panel to include Ugandan Minister of Agriculture and Chancellor of University of Missouri

The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center will host its quarterly “Conversations” Series sponsored by Boeing on Thursday, October 25, 2012 from 5:15 – 7:00 p.m. at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, 975 N. Warson Road. The program will feature the Honorable Zerubabel Mjumbi Nyiira, Ph.D

BLACK CLASSIC PRESS RELEASES SEARING COLLECTION CRITICIZING PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING BOOK ON MALCOLM X ~

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  ~ Black Classic Press (BCP) announced today the release of A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable's Malcolm X. The new collection of essays is a critical response to Manning Marable's biography, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, which was controversially acclaimed as the late scholar's "magnum opus" and awarded a Pulitzer Prize this past spring. Though lauded by many, Mara

TV’s legend, T’Keyah Crystal Keymah, L.A. stars rocked at Saint Sabina

School’s Fine Arts program named in her honor

By Chinta Strausberg

Helen Dumas, principal of the Saint Sabina Academy, presented TV’s legend T’Keyah Crystal Keymah with a bouquet of flowers then shocked her by naming the school’s Fine Arts program in her honor during a fundraiser held late Saturday night for the school.

A part of Hollywood came to Saint Sabina Academy, 7801 S. Throop Street, late last night where Fox sitcom, “Li

Gardner launches innovative hiring program

Pushes entrepreneurialism

 By Chinta Strausberg

In an effort to create jobs for those who may have criminal backgrounds, former Soft Sheen CEO icon Ed Gardner Friday unveiled a plan that can help motivate young black men and women to start their own business by selling rolls of toilet paper on the streets of Chicago.

Mr. Gardner will talk more about his innovative employment program today, Saturday, October 13, 2012, at BJ’s Market & Bakery, 8734 South Sto

Brian is asleep.  He has worked the last ten nights straight.  He has also spent his days working on his part-time job.  Most of you know our situation.  He can’t pay child support.  We have a child.  I can’t get an apartment in a safe and decent neighborhood.  We have made a decision to share a place until things change or until our Sarah Bear goes off to college.  Either way, this thing of ours has an expiration date.  How we spend this time of incarceration is up to us.  It’s our choice to do

A first time visitor to Egypt who wants a classical (pharaonic antiquities) experience would do well to book a Nile cruise. Of course modern airlines shuttle tourists to the southern region of Egypt, but historically the Nile cruise was really the only way to visit the temples and tombs located along this stretch of the river. It is still a popular means of visiting upper Egypt and has many advantages to other means of travel.

First of all, it is very nice to unpack once and have your hotel trave

Day trip to luxor from safaga port . Its unspoiled beaches and stiff breezes made it the ideal venue for the 1993 World Windsurfing Championships. Day trips to Tobia Island or Mons Claudianus in the Red Sea Mountains can be arranged with local guides.

This area is really dominated by the Luxor/Karnak/Thebes open-air museum, filled with awe inspiring monuments of ancient civilization as well as some of the best preserved As Weset it was the capital of Egypt during the New Kingdom; as Thebes it was

New book on the African origins of Civilisation.

Kindle version available at:

www.amazon.com-Black-Sumer-African-Civilisation-ebook/dp/b009MRLVLY/

  According to mainstream historians the Sumerians of ancient southern Iraq founded the world's first civilization. They are supposed to have spoken a language which is not genetically related to any known language. This is known as the Sumerian Problem. This book represents the greatest discovery in ancient history for the last hundred years. It demonst

Grant writers are employed by many types of organizations.  Although they are usually employed, or work as independent contractors for non-profit organizations, you’ll find a demand for these services in many industries.

Groups seeking funding vary from youth organizations, churches, community programs, as well as, universities, government agencies, businesses and corporations.

Their main function is to successfully secure funding for the employing entity.  This is done through grant research (inc

by Gloria Dulan-Wilson

  ~ Okay, so it's about 4:30 in the morning, and I'm working on a project, when this piece from RSN (Reader Supported New) comes across my computer screen:  "The New New Romney Is a New Kind of Mendacious Liar,"  by Charles Pierce, Esquire (which probably means the writer is a lawyer).

As I'm reading the piece, and the comments that ensued, I realized that this is yet another reason we have to stop just reading the Post, Daily News, New York Times, and other meanstream pu

By Gloria Dulan Wilson

By Gloria Dulan-Wilson  
     
Hey You Guys!!!!!
You know, my good friend Jack D. sent these to me, and I tried to send them out to everybody via regular email; but apparently they didn't come through as I had intended.

So I guess this is truly a bloggable moment that could not be denied.

Most of the middle class, as well as those who are economically challenged, have grown up on Sesame Street.  We know and love Bert & Ernie; Big Bird and Grover, Oscar the Grouch, The C

North American Africans Transcend White Supremacy

According to one health professional, neural placidity only occurs when we change our environment, only then can our brain cells free themselves of toxic elements and we can then set out on the road to recovery from any addiction. The new environment frees us, especially a natural setting wherein we are able to regain our mental equilibrium by being in harmony with all things, especially living things such as air, water, trees, land, animals, bird