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Jamaican national hero, Paul Bogle, leads a successful protest march to the Morant Bay Courthouse (1865). The elevator as well as safety devices for elevators where invented by Alexander Miles, Patent # 371,207 (1887). C.O. Bailiff patented the shampoo headrest (1898). NAACP organizes the Education Fund and Legal Defense (1939) Prison uprising, Washington, D.C., jail […]
More than 30,000 weddings are planned today across the country, according to Brides Magazine and online registries. Many couples chose the date on purpose — all the better to remember their anniversary, right?
Week 5 NFL Scores and results for 2010 Regular Season.
African-American support for the Democratic Party hovers around 90 percent. This qualifies as monolithic, even though black Americans are increasingly diverse — economically, socially, culturally and geographically. There are millions of affluent black suburban households who fit the demographic profile of independents or Republicans. There has been an unprecedented influx of black immigrants from Africa […]
The Grammy Award winner fell ill on a flight from Los Angeles to Amsterdam, Dutch TV channel RTL reported.
SINCE its introduction in 1964, America’s food stamp program has helped millions of struggling Americans put food on their tables in difficult times. During the recent economic downturn, the number of people in New York City receiving this assistance has grown more than 35 percent. Recipients, however, aren’t allowed to buy everything a grocery store […]
Fueled by hate for homosexuals, a sick crew of Bronx gang members went on a wave of sadistic violence that included forcing a teen to burn his gay lover with cigarettes, cops said Friday.
As one of the keynote speakers here Friday at a state convention billed as the largest Tea Party event ever, Virginia Thomas gave the throng of more than 2,000 activists a full-throated call to arms for conservative principles.
One year has passed since President Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Television’s most boring show, on television’s most boring station, got an unexpected injection of hot excitement, when a 90-year-old phoned into C-SPAN‘s ‘Washington Journal,’ to voice her opinion on race relations in these United States, and, in the process, blew. our. minds.
The ex-wife of Bishop Eddie Long, Dabara S. Houston, claimed in court documents that Long abused her during their marriage. Houston said that Long physically abused her when she was seven-and-a-half months’ pregnant with their child.
A pastor at a church in South Carolina says that he is going to have a rally at the state capitol in Atlanta to demand that Bishop Eddie Long resign as pastor of the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church.