BET, George Foreman Grills and Dark & Lovely No Lye Relaxer have a commonality: They're not as black as you think. For the confused, theBVX ( which like Black Voices is NOT black-owned) has compiled a shocking list of 10 things you thought were black owned but actually aren't.
10. Black Entertainment Television
If black is in the name, it must be black owned, right? The network was founded by an African American, Robert Johnson, in the '80s, but in 2003, BET was sold to Viacom, which ...
Posted Monday, May 24th 2010 at 2:42PM
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Christ's Mother, "The Black Madonna" is worshiped throughout Europe, of all places.
The most sacred icons of the Catholic Church are the Black Madonna and Christ child, which are found in Europe's most venerated shrines and cathedrals. Each year, ...
Posted Sunday, May 23rd 2010 at 4:07PM
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During her elementary school years in this rural Mississippi town, Addreal Harness, a competitive teenager with plans to be a doctor, said her classes had about the same numbers of white and black students. It was a fact she took little note of until ...
Posted Tuesday, May 11th 2010 at 9:02AM
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YONKERS — A prejudiced pooch that reportedly disliked minorities was slashed last night by a black man who had grown tired of the dog's incessant barking at him, police said.
The German Shepherd lost an eye, and the alleged slasher — who worke ...
Posted Wednesday, April 7th 2010 at 11:45AM
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This ain't an April Fool's joke folks.
It's a BIG F%@KING DEAL!!!
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Posted Thursday, April 1st 2010 at 12:23PM
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Who knew a school cafeteria could be so much fun?
A space where hundreds of Philadelphia charter school students have been eating their lunches during mundane weekdays has been doubling in its off-hours as nightclub, offering dancing and drinking ...
Posted Thursday, April 1st 2010 at 11:49AM
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Now that the President has passed a health care bill, he may be coming up with a new plan for the homeless soon that will get them off the streets. As he looks over the reports coming across his desk for the costs of homeless shelters throughout Ame ...
Posted Saturday, March 27th 2010 at 6:09PM
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From Global Research.com
March 25, 2010
An October 2009 report released by the National Center for Education Statistics says 59.8 percent of blacks, 62.2 percent of Hispanics, and 61.2 percent of American Indians graduated from public high school ...
Posted Friday, March 26th 2010 at 12:34PM
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From GlobalResearch.com
March 23, 2010
At a time of such great international turmoil economically and politically, it is increasingly important to identify and understand the social dynamics of crisis. A global social crisis has long preceded the ...
Posted Wednesday, March 24th 2010 at 1:06PM
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From GlobalResearch.com
March 6, 2010
March 4 was historic. It will be remembered as the day that people began to fight back against the destruction of public education. The student and teacher led offensive took place in cities across the countr ...
Posted Sunday, March 7th 2010 at 6:19PM
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1. Cleveland, Ohio
Residents of the Mistake by the Lake endure brutal winters, high crime and a tortured sports history. They are voting with their feet as the net migration out of the metro area was 71,000 over the past five years.
2. Stockt ...
Posted Friday, February 26th 2010 at 1:11PM
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His request approved, the CNN news photographer quickly used a cell phone to call the local airport to charter a flight. He was told a twin-engine plane would be waiting for him at the airport.
Arriving at the airfield, he spotted a plane warming ...
Posted Wednesday, February 24th 2010 at 6:20PM
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Over the years the states have collected over $96 billion in court-ordered child support that would have typically have gone unpaid each year. Every year since 1998 this has increased from $15 billion to $22 billion with the success rate increasing from 23 percent to 51 percent. ...
Posted Tuesday, February 9th 2010 at 1:13PM
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From Newsweek.com
February 8, 2010
America’s schools are more segregated now than they were in the late 1960s. More than 50 years after Brown v. Board of Education, we need to radically rethink the meaning of “school choice.”
So much dep ...
Posted Monday, February 8th 2010 at 6:28PM
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A Washington state soldier is accused of holding his 4-year-old daughter's head under the water in the kitchen sink mock "waterboard-style" because she would not recite the alphabet, The News-Tribune reports.
The Tacoma newspaper says Thurston Cou ...
Posted Monday, February 8th 2010 at 6:22PM
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NEW ORLEANS — Frustrated by term-limited Mayor Ray Nagin’s leadership of New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina, voters elected Louisiana Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu to succeed him Saturday, turning to a political scion to speed up the city’s recovery ...
Posted Sunday, February 7th 2010 at 8:41PM
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Six Rutgers sorority girls -- including one from The Bronx -- have been charged with putting pledges through a horrific eight-day nightmare of beatings and starvation, authorities said yesterday.
The university suspended the Rutgers chapter of Si ...
Posted Thursday, January 28th 2010 at 2:35PM
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Peace Family,
I was in a discussion with a sister in the NOI on the power of the language, how it started was when her son got into an argument with his employer and said to her what his "boss" told her. The sister stopped her son there and told ...
Posted Tuesday, January 26th 2010 at 4:48PM
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