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Methadone and buprenorphine can change lives. Around the globe, that message is what we hear time and again: the gold standard in drug treatment, these medications guarantee a stability that allows drug users to reestablish family ties, hold down steady jobs, and look after their health. To start anew.  And in Ukraine, for instance, this [...]

Troy Anthony Davis (born October 9, 1968) was convicted of the August 19, 1989, murder of Savannah, Georgia, USA police officer Mark MacPhail. MacPhail was working as a security guard at a Burger King when he intervened in an argument between several men in a nearby parking lot. He was shot in the heart and [...]

As bad as the last recession has been for Blacks in America, recovery might be worse. In the absence of federal policy interventions and without an effective “trickle-up” stimulus plan, Blacks will not only have lost ground during this recession, they will also continue to lose ground during and after the recovery. Whether Black America [...]

Bruce Lee – The “Lost” Interview (The Pierre Berton Show – 9 December 1971) An unedited 25 minute interview with Bruce Lee (1940-1973) on the Pierre Berton Show. Recorded on 9th December 1971 in Hong Kong, Bruce Lee is seen being himself, speaking candidly and informally about his life, his martial art beliefs and philosophy. [...]

So, this week I really didn’t feel like writing about anything in particular; so I am going to share a few things that have been on my mind lately. Here are a few things that grinds my gears, a little list I like to call my “Shut the f*ck up” list.   Women who sobs [...]

…The End. That’s how our relationship ended. Bloody, screaming, and violently. Before he walked out the front door he turned to me while I was lying in my own pool of blood and he said to me, “*Koff* Ya was the second woman I ever loved, Bunni. Did ya know that? *Koff*” The beautiful words [...]

Hip-hop artist Talib Kweli was one of the first musicians to get into Turntable.fm, the still-in-beta service that lets users spin tunes in avatar-filled chatrooms. Now he has his very own avatar — and Turntable’s first verified account. Turntable.fm posted a video of Kweli at the startup’s office, as well as pictures of his cap-wearing [...]

What’s going on in the headlines today? Well, in Philadelphia children under eighteen have a curfew because of flash riots. The mortgage crisis in United States is still a major problem but financial institutions are fine. There are 13.9 million unemployed U.S. citizens today. London is burning because of Police brutality against a young man [...]

This Redux version is for YOU, those single mothers out there working, going to school, juggling quality time with kids, working on home work, and preparing dinner. This is for those lovely women that are so ambitious, they’re paying their way through college with their big goals at the end of it all. This is [...]

In a shocking illustration of how the man-made climate change establishment has seized control of the scientific process, physicists at the CERN lab in Geneva were gagged from drawing conclusions about data that seeks to replicate studies which prove the sun is the main driver of climate change, after their boss told them that such [...]

Posted on March 22, 2011 by theblackmancan A significant body of empirical research has demonstrated that Black male students academically underperform all students throughout the educational pipeline (Hawkins, 2010; Jackson, 2003). One has to wonder how this can be a reality when there are so many successful Black men in America. Unfortunately, many Black men [...]

delivered 12 April 1999, Washington, D.C. [AUTHENTICITY CERTIFIED: Text version below transcribed directly from audio.] Mr. President, Mrs. Clinton, members of Congress, Ambassador Holbrooke, Excellencies, friends: Fifty-four years ago to the day, a young Jewish boy from a small town in the Carpathian Mountains woke up, not far from Goethe’s beloved Weimar, in a place [...]