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Arts & Culture
IS "LIFT EVERY VOICE AND SING" RACIST?
By Liane Membis, CNN
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AA Boomer Musician Brings Vibrant
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BY Kevin A. Stanley
The sweet sounds of American jazz, soul, hip hop and rhythm & blues garner new fans wherever they are played....
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An AABoomer Tribute
TEDDY PENDERGRASS
“The Teddy Bear”
March 26, 1950 – January 13, 2010
By: Lois Ann Clark - Publisher
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Book Reviews
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Mass Incarceration In The Age Of Colorblindness
BY: Kam Williams
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AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN
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Activate Your Faith, Achieve Your Dreams
Increase Your Favor By Joel Osteen
Review By: Lois Ann Clark
Like millions of others, I watch televangelist Joel Osteen weekly ...
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Sugar of the Crop:
My Journey to Find the Children of Slaves by Sana Butler
The Lyons Press
Hardcover, $24.95
256 pages
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Careers
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BY: James Ridgeway
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Emmitt Smith is on a journey to discover his ancestors, who they were and what it all means...
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BY: Cynthia Rose Lane
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Chicago, IL (BlackNews.com) - Recently, I had the privilege of attending a screening of a documentary...
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BY: KEVIN A. STANLEY
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CATHY HUGHES
The TV One Interview
with Kam Williams
Catherine Elizabeth Woods Hughes was born in Omaha, Nebraska where she attended Creighton University and the University of Nebraska. But before graduating, she began working at KOWH, a local...
Finance
Help Is On The Way
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By Carlos C. Johnson III, President/CEO GoldCorp Financial Group
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BY: Senior Journal
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BUT THRIVE IN THE CURRENT ECONOMIC CLIMATE
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GoldCorp Financial Group
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IRS to Negotiate Less
On Tax Settlements
BY Stephen Ohlemacher - Assoc. Press
WASHINGTON — IRS agents will be more flexible with taxpayers who have seen their incomes drop during the recession.
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Health & Wellness
DR. MAYA ANGELOU ASKS AFRICAN AMERICANS TO PARTICIPATE
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Review By: BLACKDOCTOR.ORG
The importance of annual physical exams for African American adults cannot be stressed enough....
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MICHELLE OBAMA
TAKES ON OBESITY
BY Nancy Benac, Associated Press
First lady Michelle Obama framed her national campaign against childhood obesity in intensely personal terms Thursday, relating that her own daughters were starting...
Lifestyles
Fredricksburg, Maryland
By: Debert Cook, CMP, Publisher ,
African American Golfers Digest
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McCARTNEY JOKED THAT PRESIDENT MIGHT "PUNCH HIM OUT" AFTER SINGING ROMANTIC LYRICS TO FIRST LADY!
BY: Nancy Benac, AP
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A REPORT BY
DOUG PIBEL
March 4, 2010
We've made meaningful progress towards embracing our cultural diversity in the United States...
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BY KEVIN STANLEY
A recent study stated that there were 79,874 reported cases of domestic violence in the United States in 2009, up over 7,000 cases from the previous year, and up 13,000 cases from 2007. The profile of a victim of domestic violence—traditionally...
Politics
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THE OTHER GUY BLINKED
By Lois-Ann Clark,
Publisher AABoomers.com
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AN INTROSPECTIVE LOOK AT ACCOUNTABILITY IN POLITICS
BY: Walter Melton
LA Garment & Citizen
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TIME TO HOLD THE GOP ACCOUNTABLE
INCLUDING TEA PARTY REPUBLICANS
This has to STOP
You've probably heard about Tea Party members shouting "Nigger!" at Black Congressmen during a protest...
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Topic of the Day
HELP PRESIDENT OBAMA CELEBRATE HIS BIRTHDAY
By Deankinphi (at) comcast (dot) net
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FOR YOU?
BY Dr. KC Kelly - Fort Lauderdale Mental Health Examiner
"There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement." E. B. White...
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Transitions
KATRINA PAIN INDEX 2010 NEW ORLEANS
By Bill Quigley, Davida Finger, Lance Hill
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New York Collector Purchases Slave Memorabilia
BY: Nicole Norfleet
Yahoo! News ( AP)
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ON AGING
BY: Cynthia Rose Lane
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PRISCILLA'S HOMECOMING
LEAVES AN ENDURING LEGACY
BY Andrew Jenner
Editor’s note: This is the final story in a three-part series about Priscilla’s Homecoming, the story
of a slave girl...
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Carolina Woman Visits Sierra Leone with Her Ancestor In Spirit
The road to Dunkegba – a small village on the coast of Sierra Leone – was lined with school children. Dressed in green uniforms, dozens of them welcomed Thomalind Polite with a song:
Travel
OAK BLUFFS
By: The African American Heritage Trail of Martha's Vineyard
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Edited By Lois-Ann Clark, Publisher - AA Boomers
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