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Milton Allimadi
June 19,2013
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 Gen. Sejusa A top Ugandan general has suggested in an interview with the BBC that his boss, Gen. Yoweri Museveni, who's ruled for almost 30 years and with whom he's had a falling out could be "removed" from power. Implying that Gen. Museveni had abrogated and subverted the constitution he said he could be resisted by "all means necessary... |
Special To The Black Star News
June 19,2013
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 Maria Salazer [On Media] CPJ launches 2012-2013 Journalists in Exile special report Fifty-five journalists from 21 countries fled their homes due to violence, imprisonment, and death threats in the past year, according to a new report from the Committee to Protect Journalists. The annual survey, marking World Refugee Day on June 20, spotlights the plight of journalists who have been forced into exile... |
Special To The Black Star News
June 19,2013
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 [Education] Touro College’s Division of Graduate Studies held commencement ceremonies for the nearly 2,000 candidates for master’s degrees or advanced certificates from six graduate schools on June 13 in Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. The audience of approximately 2,700 included parents, well-wishers, Touro administrators, faculty and staff, and the degree candidates from the graduate schools of business, education, Jewish studies, psychology, social work... |
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Special To The Black Star News
June 18,2013
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 Zulay Henao, Metta World Peace, Caryn Ross and Craig Ross [Movies] Celebrities turned out in Hollywood yesterday for a VIP screening of "WORLD WAR Z," starring Brad Pitt at Paramount Pictures. It was the ultimate screening experience as stars, including LA Lakers star Metta World Peace and his son Ron Jr., placed their 3D glasses on for the action thrill ride of their lives. After screening WORLD WAR Z, celebrity guests... |
Patrick Delices
June 18,2013
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 [Education: History] On June 15, 2013, Dr. Leonard Kweku Jeffries, the co-founder and vice-president of World African Diaspora Union (WADU) gave an excellent allocution on “Zumbi dos Palmares and the Global African Revolution” at the Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center in Washington Heights. Prior to Dr. Jeffries’ delivery, the Peoples Survival Program, Universal Zulu Nation, and the Kemetic Masters of the Martial Arts showed the... |
Donald H. Smith and Sam Anderson
June 18,2013
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 Carter G. Woodson penned a timeless classic on mis-education [On Education] Common Core State Standards created by the Council of State School Officers and the National Governors Association are inadequate for all American school children. Now adopted by 45 states, the District of Columbia and four territories, the Standards are demeaning and particularly unacceptable for students of African descent. While there is presently... |
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Special To The Black Star News
June 18,2013
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 [Books]
PAPERBACK EDITION "This is the book to read for those who want to understand the agenda that is bringing the West to its knees." THE FAILURE OF LAISSEZ FAIRE CAPITALISM and the Economic Dissolution of the West: Towards a New Economics for a Full Worldby PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS available in US/Canada and Overseas "In his inimitable way, Roberts describes how the rhetorical patter talk about free-... |
Colin Benjamin
June 18,2013
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 Hamster's brain? We take Holder over Lupica any day [Speaking Truth To Power] Historically, in this country, many have seen the police in a favorable light. But in the Black community the police are seen very different: as an occupying force sent there to criminalize, brutalize, and even kill Black folks. This thinking has, usually, been viewed with derision by Whites who either have no idea of the dissimilar policing methods... |
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Special To The Black Star News
April 10,2013
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[Policing The Police] Commissioner Ray Kelly shown in picture. NLOA Chairman Anthony Miranda will join a distinguished panel of speakers to discuss Police Misconduct and Civil Liability at CUNY School of Law in Queens. We invite you to attend. Location: The City University of New York, CUNY SCHOOL of LAW. Law in the Service of Human Needs. Thursday, April 11, 2013 at 5:30 p.m: Room 1-202 at the CUNY School of Law; 2 Court... |
Special To The Black Star News
April 06,2013
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The US Department of Labor Reports that Blacks have the lowest median family income the highest unemployment rate, as well as the highest consumer debt of all ethnic groups in America. At the same time African Americans spend as much as $1 Trillion dollars annually. Where Is The Money Going? Don’t Miss this very important community Forum. "Turning Black Spending Into Real Power," with Dr. Claud Anderson The Powernomics Plan To... |
Special To The Black Star News
March 23,2013
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On March 22, 2013, as thousands of Swedish citizens of Eritrean origin were demonstrating in Stockholm, Sweden to condemn the criminal and cowardly acts of terrorism that burned three of their community centers, Eritrean Americans across the United States visited the Swedish Embassy in Washington DC and Swedish Consular offices throughout the United States. The message that was delivered to Swedish officials condemned the heinous crime that were committed the night of February 25,... |
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Marian Wright Edelman
April 01,2013
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Why is the National Rifle Association so afraid of the truth? There are many misconceptions about guns and gun violence swirling around in Americans’ minds—and in many cases, this misinformation is no accident. For years the NRA has blocked the truth and actively fought against and prevented research in the causes and costs of gun violence because they don’t want Americans to know the truth about guns, how to prevent gun violence, and how to make themselves and their children safer.... |
Milton Allimadi
March 15,2013
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 [Editorial Comment] Jumaane D. Williams is a responsible young New York City Councilmember who represents the 45th District in Brooklyn where Kimani Gray was shot to death by New York Police last Saturday. Gray died when he was struck by seven bullets fired by two undercover officers of the New York Police Department (NYPD) under disputed circumstances. A witness who spoke to The Village Voice contradicted the NYPD's claim that 16-year old Kimani... |
Special To The Black Star News
May 13,2013
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 TWO EXCITING PANELS FOCUSED ON AFRICA AND THE AFRICAN DIASPORA PRESENTED BY AFROBEATRADIO AND WBAI 99.5 FM PACIFICA FROM JUNE 7TH TO 9TH, 2013 AT THE LEFT FORUM, PACE UNIVERSITY, CUNY, NYC. Our Panel opens up on forth coming discussions and events on Africa this year and into 2014 culminating in a conference on Africa. With a starting inquiry about what pan-Africanism for the 21st century could mean. The answer started out simply enough, that Pan-Africanism ought to be... |
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Special To The Black Star News
April 01,2013
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Earvin "Magic" Johnson teamed with OraSure and recently launched a nationwide awareness campaign to encourage everyone to learn their HIV status. OraSure Technologies, Inc., is the maker of the OraQuick In-Home HIV Test. The awareness campaign is part of an integrated national marketing program that includes events, as well as national and local radio, outdoor advertising, television, print and digital advertising. Johnson has been sharing his story of knowing, and encouraging others... |
Milton Allimadi
March 22,2013
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CHINUA ACHEBE, the father of OKONKWO, one of the greatest characters created in literature, has died. Although Achebe wrote several books he will forever be remembered as the author of "Things Fall Apart" which was his first book published in 1958. It went on to become a classic and is now found in bookstores and universities all over the world. Achebe was 82 and died this morning following an illness and hospital... |
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Special To The Black Star News
June 18,2013
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Zulay Henao, Metta World Peace, Caryn Ross and Craig Ross [Movies] Celebrities turned out in Hollywood yesterday for a VIP screening of "WORLD WAR Z," starring Brad Pitt at Paramount Pictures. It was the ultimate screening experience as stars, including LA Lakers star Metta World Peace and his son Ron Jr., placed their 3D glasses on for the action thrill ride of their lives. After screening WORLD WAR Z, celebrity guests... |
Special To The Black Star News
March 21,2013
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On Monday, April 8, 2013, Ballet Hispanico will celebrate the legacy of its School of Dance, and proudly honor Randy Falco, President & CEO of Univision Communications, with its Civic Inspiration Award at the annual Spring Gala in The Plaza Hotel's Grand Ballroom. Cocktails begin at 7pm and dinner will commence at 7:45pm. Attire is black tie. To purchase tickets, a table, a journal advertisement, or for more information, please contact Emma Epstein, Events Manager, at (212) 362-... |
Vincent Magombe
May 28,2013
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 Ugandan president Gen. Yoweri K. Museveni and his feared Police Commander, General Kale Kayihura have ordered the police forces to teargas and beat up Ugandan journalists and media freedom-campaigners who were protesting the continued closure of the country's main independent newspaper, the Daily Monitor and other other media outlets. Several journalists are reported injured, as the stand-off between the... |
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Special To The Black Star News
May 09,2013
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 Malcolm Shabazz, the grandson of Malcolm X was killed in Tijuana, Mexico, today The Black Star News has confirmed from a person in touch with his mother. Shabazz was the son of Malcolm’s X’s daughter Qubilah. "The mother is very distraught right now," a person in contact with the mother says. No details were provided; one report says he was thrown from the roof of a building by robbers. In 1997, when he was 12, Shabazz was charged in the arson death of his... |
Theodore T. Hodge
April 01,2013
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[Books] Picture shows author Nvasekie N. Konneh at book signing Many of us remember the bloody Liberian civil war at its height -- when it seemed that some of the worse gruesome atrocities that became a signature part of the conflict would never end. Liberia, like Sierra Leone which also witnessed appalling killings, maiming, and rapes during its war, is now relatively very peaceful. The Land of My Father’s... |
Colin Benjamin
January 28,2013
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 On Thursday, California Senator Dianne Feinstein along with other Congressional Democrats reintroduced an assault weapons ban bill that faces stiff opposition from Republicans—and even some Democrats. Given this influence the NRA has on Capitol Hill—and the regressive recalcitrance of Republicans—is it possible any new gun control legislation can be passed? Speaking on the Hill, Senator Feinstein introduced a bill targeting banning assault weapons—like the Bushmaster assault... |
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Special To The Black Star News
May 17,2013
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 Mohamad Saleh, third from left, with his poster presentation that took second place at the 21st Annual Statewide CSTEP Conference. [Education] Mohamad Saleh, a student at Touro College of Pharmacy, recently took second place for a poster presentation in biochemistry at the 21st Annual Statewide CSTEP Conference held at Sagamore on the Lake in Bolton Landing, New York. Mr. Saleh’s research, titled “Synthesis of IAPP (12-18)... |
Special To The Black Star News
April 28,2013
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 The NAACP has created a new award to honor Bill Lynch, the star political strategist and the Chairman and Founder of Bill Lynch Associates, LLC, the premier Black owned and operated political consulting firm in New York city— for his exemplary career as one of the top political minds in the country. “I’m thrilled to have an award named in my honor,” Lynch said. “To be recognized for what I love to do is humbling. My commitment to my work and to mentoring young people has come easy for... |
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