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Civil Rights Hero,Pioneer,And Much-Loved Leader,Dr. Benjamin Hooks,85, Dies

April 15, 2010

Civil Rights leader Dr. Benjamin Hooks has died today in his Nashville,Tennessee home,at the age of 85, after battling a long illness. Dr. Hooks served a 15-year tenure atop the NAACP,which was 1 million dollars in debt and its membership was down to 200,000 – less than half its total from a decade earlier,when he took […]

Racial Slurs Spark Racial Tension in S. Africa After Slaying Of White Separatist Leader Eugene Terre Blanche…Offending Words Blamed!!!

April 9, 2010

….I wonder what would the reaction be to Jigaboo Jones minstrel show in South Africa today, based on this recent wave of racial intolerance that is sweeping the African nation, and is being blamed on some words in a song that have been considered racial epitaphs,just like the word “Nigger” that so many want to […]

President Obama Accepts Nobel Peace Prize Today

December 10, 2009

President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama were in Oslo today to accept his Nobel Peace Prize award. President Obama stated that  he is humbled by the award and receives it with an ‘acute sense’ of the cost of war. [picapp align=”left” wrap=”true” link=”term=*nobel+peace+prize&iid=7354351″ src=”5/f/6/4/Demonstrators_Protest_President_1154.jpg?adImageId=8207127&imageId=7354351″ width=”234″ height=”150″ /]In doing so, he also delivered a speech and  […]

Chicago Man Charged With Terrorism In Mumbia,India Attack

December 7, 2009

A man in Chicago has been formerly charged with terrorism for his role in planning an attack on a Danish newspaper that had run a series of cartoons that many in the Muslim world felt disrespected their deity Allah, as well as charged Monday with conducting surveillance on potential targets in the Indian city of […]

Neocon Republican Terrorist Politicians Boycott the last day of the President’s Cup Golf Tournament in Protest of the President’s Nobel Peace Prize Win 2009

October 11, 2009

Stockholm Syndrome sufferer Republican National Committee head Michael Steele is bristling with outrage, saying in a letter that Obama won the prize “for his awesomeness.” He goes on to insinuate that now that a black man, like himself has won the award, it is obviously tarnished by our blackness, and thus insignificant…much like his lack of power as the […]