Posted to Communal Matters on July 20 2011
What do you do if your child disobeys you when you say “no”? How should you react when your child complains to you about his teacher? How do you handle a child of yours who's not up to the standards of yo ...
Posted Thursday, July 21st 2011 at 11:33AM
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Music mogul Dirty Diddy Money is to roll up his sleeves and help out volunteers at an adventure playground in central London.
The rapper, who used to be known as P Diddy, will be at Toffee Park Adventure Playground and Youth Centre in Clerkenwell ...
Posted Monday, July 11th 2011 at 12:33PM
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by Dr. Boyce Watkins.
In a recent Your Black World survey, readers were asked to ascertain the racial implications of the case of Casey Anthony, a mother who was recently exonerated in the death of her two year old daughter, Caylee. After the surprising not guilty verdict, people across the nation ...
Posted Friday, July 8th 2011 at 5:59PM
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by Ayvaunn Penn, Your Black World
In South Africa, Oprah Winfrey opened the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in 2007. She speaks often of how she “loves her girls” referring to them as her daughters. Now she is taking her relationship with her girls to a new level — teacher to student. ...
Posted Friday, July 8th 2011 at 5:50PM
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(Clickz) Eight percent of adult U.S. Internet users now use Twitter, representing six percent of the overall U.S. population, according to research conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project.
The survey, the results of ...
Posted Friday, July 8th 2011 at 3:52PM
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New Orleans, LA (June 30, 2011)–UNCF–the United Negro College Fund–the nation’s largest and most effective minority education organization, today announced actor Brian White and TV producers Monique Jackson and Kita Williams will headline the 2011-20 ...
Posted Thursday, June 30th 2011 at 8:00PM
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Civil and Human Rights Coalition Applauds U.S. Sentencing Commission for Extending the Fair Sentencing Act to Individuals Serving Unfairly Long Sentences for Crack Cocaine Offenses
Wade Henderson, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference ...
Posted Thursday, June 30th 2011 at 7:53PM
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(WASHINGTON, DC) – The American Civil Liberties Union will join the NAACP and several others for a teleconference Thursday, June 30 at 3 p.m. EDT following a vote in the United States Sentencing Commission (USSC) to determine whether the recently pa ...
Posted Thursday, June 30th 2011 at 1:51PM
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SAVE THE DATE: Summer Exhibition
Mark Your Calendar!
We are proud to announce that Premier Art has partnered with Zucot Gallery, The National Black Arts Festival, and The Tom Joyner Foundation for a very special exhibition next month in Atla ...
Posted Wednesday, June 29th 2011 at 12:06PM
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National awareness campaign highlights need for more bone marrow donors during
July’s African American Bone Marrow Awareness Month
MINNEAPOLIS – June 28, 2011 – Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins rose to fame as an actress, singer and member of the popular 90s musical group TLC – all while quietly battli ...
Posted Tuesday, June 28th 2011 at 4:31PM
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CALLING ALL PROGLIDE BELIEVERS:
Have a friend still using an old Gillette razor? Challenge him to put a Gillette Fusion ProGlide up against his old razor. Capture it on video. Submit. Get votes. Each week the 3 most popular videos will be entered into the Gillette Young Guns' Invasion of the Week ...
Posted Monday, June 13th 2011 at 12:44PM
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I sat down with the men of Central State University’s Alpha Phi Alpha Inc. Delta Xi chapter, Saeed Harris and Chris Brown. Saeed Harris, a graduating senior, studying sociology with a minor in human growth and development and Chris Brown in his junior year is studying criminal justice with a minor i ...
Posted Monday, June 13th 2011 at 11:47AM
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By Abbey Doyle The Herald Bulletin
Bright-eyed and energetic, the 10 students lined up on the steps at Anderson Elementary all say, without a doubt, they will graduate from high school. The children — hopefuls in the classes of 2021, 2022 and 20 ...
Posted Sunday, May 29th 2011 at 4:46PM
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Dennis Dillon Sporting News
Jets wide receiver Braylon Edwards is a man of his word. And because he is, 100 students are going to college on his dime.
In 2007, Edwards promised 100 Cleveland high school students that he would pay for their col ...
Posted Friday, May 27th 2011 at 1:54PM
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