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Is Marcus Garvey Challenging Through Bob Johnson?
BUSINESS EXCHANGE
By William Reed
As African activists celebrated Marcus Garvey’s 121st birthday, Black Entertainment Television founder-turned-billionaire developer Robert Johnson was building a four-star, beachfront resort to open March 2009 near the Liberian capitol of Monrovia.
Most African Americans know little of Liberia. Located on Africa’s west coast, Liberia’s name denotes “liberty” as a result of Black Americans’ colonization in 1822. By 1921, Garvey had the conviction that American Blacks should have a permanent homeland in Africa and sought to develop Liberia. He had intended to build colleges, industrial plants, and railroads as part of an industrial base from which to operate. During the 1980s and 90s, the country was embroiled in a civil war that destroyed its economy and image.
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Power of 50
THE POWER OF 50
Soul Purpose Lifestyle company Founder and CEO makes The Power 50 List in Direct Selling and Network Marketing
 Nadine Abraham Thompson |
 Nadine Thompson at a launch event held in Springfield, Massachusetts, June 2008 |
Exeter, NH (BlackNews.com) - We are very honored and excited today to announce to our Soul Purpose community that our Founder and CEO Nadine Abraham Thompson has been named to the Power 50 List of the 50 Most Influential People in the Direct Selling Industry.
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Black People Learn How to Buy Silver & Gold
AS FINANCIAL CRISIS GETS WORSE, BLACK PEOPLE LEARN HOW TO BUY SILVER & GOLD
Dozens Gather For Tele-Training To Preserve Their Wealth and Savings
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Detroit, MI (BlackNews.com) - Oil prices are at record highs. Gas prices are at record highs. Food prices are rising to record highs. Property values are falling through the floor and there is not a shortage of warnings coming from the Government and Financial wizards stating that the United States economy is facing a MAJOR CRISIS.
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Race and Election Coverage 2008
Race and Election Coverage 2008
May 16, 2008
Minnesota, Part 2
In Minnesota, several controversial bills left over from the 2007 session have big implications for communities of color. Jermaine Toney, a researcher at the Organizing Apprenticeship Program, commonly known as OAP, has been keeping tabs on the developments of several pieces of legislation that were tabled in the 2007 session. One is the Reclaiming Our Children From Detention Act, which, according to Toney, would jumpstart a 12-month pilot project to look at young people of color’s unequal contact with police. “Racial profiling is a problem people in Minnesota have long been aware of, and people are finally trying to move on this,” Toney said. He admits that since its introduction the bill has been watered down significantly.
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Sexual Teens
We’re here. We’re sexual. GET USED TO IT.
AS BEFITTING AN ARTICLE about schools, here’s a pop quiz taken from the sex education website Teenwire.org: In 1937,
studies claimed that nine out of 10 children caught masturbating were: a) severely punished; b) told they would go insane or blind; c) threatened with having their penises cut off or their vaginas sewn closed; or d) all of the above.
The answer? d) all of the above.
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