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MAULANA KARENGA
MAULANA KARENGA, Dr. Maulana Karenga is professor and chair of Africana Studies at California State University, Long Beach. Dr. Karenga is widely known as the creator of Kwanzaa. An activist-scholar of national and international recognition, Dr. Karenga has had a far-reaching effect on Black intellectual and political culture since the 1960s. Moreover, he is the […]
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MLK parade bomber sentenced to 32 years in prison
A federal judge was not swayed by the last-ditch attempt from an Army veteran with extensive ties to white supremacists to change his guilty plea in a plot to bomb a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade. Kevin Harpham said in court he only agreed to plead guilty to planting a bomb filled with poison-laced […]
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People more likely to lie when texting, study finds
A new paper to be published next year in the Journal of Business Ethics finds that people are more likely to lie via text compared to face-to-face communications, video conferencing or audio chat. The paper is based on a study of 140 students that were grouped into pairs and asked to engage in a […]
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PURUSHA HICKSON
PURUSHA HICKSON: Founder and Director of Stretch for Success, began his yoga training in1975 under Bhakti Yoga master Swamini Turiyasangitanandaji. Swamini is the founder, and spiritual anchor of The Vedantic Center, and Sai Anantam Ashram. Under her direction, Purusha practiced and taught the Integral Yoga method of Swami Satchidananda. In 1985, while teaching at the […]
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Retired Los Angeles judge launches literacy project
At 92, retired Los Angeles Judge James Reese is determined to help urban boys achieve literacy, with help from USC. December 17, 2011 An afternoon with retired Judge James Reese is like a living history lesson — not the textbook, milestone-studded type, but a side-splitting, mind-bending walk through time. Reese, 92, grew up poor in […]
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Presenting the Ten Greediest Americans of 2011
The greediest among us in 2011 probably haven’t been any greedier, as a gang, than any greedy of the recent past. They just seem that way. Why so? We have a whole new frame of reference. This fall’s sudden — and exhilarating — rise of the Occupy movement has helped us remember what we, as […]
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DR. GUTHRY “GUY” RAMSEY
DR. GUTHRY “GUY” RAMSEY, Is from the South Side of Chicago and became a professional musician at eighteen and toured nationally with a variety of bands, gaining experiences that would then shape his own personal style as a musician and as a historian. Dr. Ramsey began his career as a teacher of both elementary and […]
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JACKIE KIMBRAUGH
JACKIE KIMBRAUGH – ZAMBEZI BAZAAR, of the Lemiert Park Village Merchant Association, With many clubs, galleries, restaurants, book stores and other shops, as well as various professional services, Leimert Park remains a relevant and productive center of African American culture and business. People come from all over to attend shows, have a meal or […]
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JAMES FUGATE
JAMES FUGATE – ESOWON BOOKS, President of the Lemiert Park Village Merchant Association, With many clubs, galleries, restaurants, book stores and other shops, as well as various professional services, Leimert Park remains a relevant and productive center of African American culture and business. People come from all over to attend shows, have a meal or shop […]
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Flag-lowering ends controversial U.S. Iraq mission
American troops lowered the flag of command that flew over Baghdad Thursday morning, carefully rolled it, and placed it in a green and gray case, officially ending the controversial United States military mission in Iraq after nearly nine years. The understated ceremony under the bright Iraqi sun was the very opposite of the nighttime […]
