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Navy Allows Women On Submarines In 2011
The United States Navy will let women serve on submarines starting in 2011. Female officers will start training for submarine duty next year, but will still not be allowed on attack submarines. According to the... 
created by Annina Bergman | 9 wks ago | updated 9 wks ago
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1263 views | 17 recommendations | 14 comments
Michael Steele: Opposing a radical political agenda is not racist
Chairman of the Republican National Committee, Michael Steele, knows what racism is and, according to him, opposing a radical political agenda or voicing opposition to President Obama's policy proposals is not... 
created by Rhonda J Mangus | 12 wks ago | updated 12 wks ago
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220 views | 43 recommendations | 11 comments
"Whites-Only" PA Pool Draws Protesters, International Criticism
The Washington Post today is focusing attention on a pool in Pennsylvania that told Black children they couldn't swim there because . . . they're Black. Although lawsuits are certainly an option in this case, I actually think that the protests these children are... 
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An Apology on the Eve of Juneteenth 2009
On June 19, 1865, Major General Gordon Granger rode into Galveston, Texas on horseback, accompanied by 2,000 Union soldiers and read General Order 3 to those assembled, including the 250,000 enslaved persons of... 
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Has the afrosphere Been Infiltrated by CIA Agents and/or Assets?
Cross-posted at The Truth About Kos (DailyKos), the Francis L. Holland Blog and Pam'sHouseBlend.This post is in response to a post I read over at Jack and Jill Politics, entitled, "Jill [Contee] is Headed to Blogging While Brown on Friday."I'd be really interested to know... 100 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
" My Report for Black History Month is on ....
I can see it now .... all across the United States of America and around the world, where Black History Month is celebrated in February, teachers informing their students that not everyone can do a report on... 1246 views | 45 recommendations | 17 comments
Special Invitations to Obama Inauguration Extended to Legendary Tuskegee Airmen
From the New York Times: "The election of Barack Obama was like a culmination of a struggle that we were going through, wanting to be pilots,” said William M. Wheeler, 85, a retired Tuskegee combat fighter...
created by Karen Hatter | 1 year ago | updated 50 wks ago
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970 views | 20 recommendations | 4 comments
Michelle Obama: A Distant Daughter of Slavery
Michelle Obama, born in 1964, will be America's next first lady. When she moves into the White House in January, a mansion built partially by slaves, "she will embark upon a life her great-great-grandfather, who...
created by Rhonda J Mangus | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
1274 views | 50 recommendations | 38 comments
1274 views | 50 recommendations | 38 comments
U.S. Congress Apologizes for Slavery
On Tuesday evening, July 29, 2008, House Resolution 194 was passed by voice vote. This bill represents the first time the federal government has apologized for slavery or segregation.
The bill was first...
created by Karen Hatter | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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2242 views | 58 recommendations | 18 comments
Being brown in a city of black and white
" DETROIT - In a city that would become famous for segregation, Linda Hutcherson’s early memories of her household in Detroit are of carefree times amid a pastiche of skin colors. She had loving parents — a...
created by sweet east pearl | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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141 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Ticket sales suspended at Rovers
It seems ridicluous that there are empty seats and people willing to pay for them, but the fooball league won't allow it." Ticket sales suspended at Rovers Leeds fans have...
" Living in America ....
.... Eye to eye
Station to station ...."
So go the first few lines in the chorus of that song by the late Soul Brother #1, the Godfather of Soul, James Brown, in his hit song of the same...
created by Karen Hatter | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
1840 views | 44 recommendations | 13 comments
1840 views | 44 recommendations | 13 comments
Part of My American Story
The Sankofa bird is an Akan symbol, representing the African adage : "Always remember the past for therein lies the future, if forgotten ...." In my family, my generation,...
created by Karen Hatter | 2 years ago | updated 1 year ago
3491 views | 43 recommendations | 14 comments
3491 views | 43 recommendations | 14 comments
White America is Crazy for Obama
"Freedom Rider: White America is Crazy for Obama by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley "Obama supporters want him to be their man, even when he tells them that he isn't." ObamaShirtsleeveNHjpg Barack Obama drives white people crazy, some because of love and...
Black Crackers, Elite Giants and Wolves -- A Look Back at Negro Leagues Baseball
The National Baseball Hall of Fame opened in 1939 in Cooperstown, New York. Over half a century later -- in the early 1990s -- a group of business leaders, historians and ex baseball players founded the Negro...
created by denseatoms | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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1146 views | 20 recommendations | 6 comments
