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As the men of Alpha Phi Alpha were concluding their centennial celebration in 2006, thousands of men in crimson and cream and purple and gold were gearing up for theirs in 2011.  By the end of July 2011, two other historically black fraternities, Kappa Alpha Psi and Omega Psi Phi, would have hosted their centennial [...]

Download Video or MP3 -Iamnotarapperispit.com Their efforts began in North Carolina where they funded an effort to resegregate schools in an award winning school district. Using the same language as Gov. George Wallace in the 60s, Koch-supported school board members attempted to make “segregation always” a policy for tens of thousands of families. While David [...]

An overlooked corner of the dropout problem became more visible Thursday when state officials for the first time released the dropout rate for eighth-graders.   Statewide, about 3.5% of eighth-graders – 17,257 in all – left school and didn’t return for ninth grade, according to the state count now available with a system for tracking [...]

Killin’ Them Softly is easily one of HBO’s best comedy specials, catching star Dave Chappelle at a career high in 2000 and with an abundance of hysterical, highly polished material. Taking his time, stretching concepts and bits like a master, Chappelle plunges into a wealth of anecdotes and observations about the influx of white people [...]

http://www.pharmacy-technician.net/employment-outlook Look around Pharmacy Technician.net for this and more The median expected salary for a typical Pharmacy Technician I in the United States is $32,439. This basic market pricing report was prepared using our Certified Compensation Professionals‘ analysis of survey data collected from thousands of HR departments at employers of all sizes, industries and geographies. [...]

Black Star Project, a Chicago-based organization that launched the Million Father March, which encourages fathers to escort their children to school on the first day of class, now wants fathers to make an additional commitment to their children‘s education. “We are asking fathers and other significant male figures, uncles, cousins, older brothers, to volunteer 10 [...]

Mubarak In the Dock [col. writ. 8/3/11]  ’11 Mumia Abu-Jamal The spectacle was so without precedent that it seemed surreal. An Egyptian ex-President, in power for almost 3 decades, is wheeled into court atop a gurney in a cage, and facing charges from the violent chaos that rocked Tahrir Square in the Spring (and also [...]

The nation cheered members of SEAL Team 6 when they finally delivered justice to Osama bin Laden three months ago. Now the nation mourns the loss of 30 American military personnel in Afghanistan, the largest death toll in a single incident in the 10-year war. Among the dead are 22 Navy SEAL commandos. SEAL Team 6 [...]

AIG has filed a $10 billion lawsuit against Bank of America over allegations of mortgage-backed securities (MBS) fraud. AIG claims that Bank of America and several of its acquisitions, including Merrill Lynch and Countrywide, of misrepresenting the quality of the mortgages that went into bundled securities, costing AIG approximately $28 billion in losses. The suit was filed the [...]

Via: That’s according to NPR, which polled a number of industry experts to determine the real cost behind a top-charting hit. In this case, it was Rihanna’s recently-created “Man Down,” a big-budget, blockbuster-style blowout that remains unproven. Seem ridiculous?  Indeed, the cost includes a small army of writers (an ‘all-star writing camp’), costs related to [...]

The day after my twenty-seventh birthday, I am sitting here thinking life is moving fast around me and I am stuck in my ways. I see people I went to high school with, co-workers; shoot even people younger than me are getting married. This train of thought isn’t about marriage but it has me thinking, [...]

Inmates in at least a third of California’s prisons are believed to be refusing meals in solidarity with maximum-security prisoners at Pelican Bay. Inmates in at least 11 of California‘s 33 prisons are refusing meals in solidarity with a hunger strike staged by prisoners in one of the system’s special maximum-security units, officials said Tuesday. [...]