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Renee says the attraction was all in the packaging, as he
"reinforced the theory that black men are truly blessed." "I
dated the attractive ones," the beautiful artist said. "But
I wanted something else and the first time I dated someone
who wasn't a looker I realised that where God didn't bless
him in the face, he was certainly first in line when
schlongs were being distributed. Since then I've
experimented and realised that nine times out of 10, the
blessings flow the other way." |
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Debunking myths about African-centred schools |
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Black-focused school debate set. As board plans talks,
Premier Dalton McGuinty says he's "not personally
comfortable" with idea |
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The
RCMP has added to its storied history with the appointment
of its first black female commissioned officer. |
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Admitting it is failing some students of colour, the Toronto
public board could open a black-focused school as early as
next fall. |
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The
mother of a psychologically troubled young black man who was
shot four times and killed by police officers in 2004 told
an inquest yesterday her son would probably still be alive
if he were white. |
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Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion says his party is ready to roll
out the welcome mat for Mark Warner, the candidate the
Conservatives dumped from Toronto Centre this week because
he was offside with the party on urban and social issues |
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The Warner case exposes another wilful blind
spot of the Harper Conservatives – race and diversity. |
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She finds it odd that for all the Tories' talk of outreach
to ethnic and cultural communities, they have ousted a black
man, born in Trinidad and Tobago, who immigrated to Canada
as child in the 1960s and went on to attend Osgoode Hall law
school and have a significant career in international trade
law. "I don't want to use this word, but I think there was
some discrimination involved," Harrison said. |
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Remember sometime earlier this year when Malik Shabazz was
denied entry into Canada for a speech? Here is an
interesting article about him.
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The
Real American Gangsters talk.... Frank Lucas and Nicky
Barnes once ruled the drug trade in Harlem. Here is an
excerpt... "I
don’t regret it. I saw this show on CNN, with Anderson
Cooper. Cats were talking about “Don’t snitch, no matter
what happens.” Well, I can’t see how a guy can be considered
strong if he lets a bunch of assholes walk all over him and
he doesn’t respond, just because of some code that a bunch
of idiots have cooked up. Anderson Cooper asked this rapper,
“Suppose a child was molested and you knew who this molester
was. Would you tell the police?” He said, “No.” So that’s
what I’m sayin’—the street guidelines are just moron
bullshit."
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Whatever might be the hopes to eventually have "free
movement of labour" in CARICOM countries, most countries for
now are prepared to keep an eye on the exact number and
whereabouts of those coming from the other territories. |
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"I am
the black sheep elected after being chased," declared the
first black politician to be voted in to the Swiss
parliament in the first interviews following the
elections.... The highly controversial poster from the Swiss
People's Party showing a black sheep being kicked out of
Switzerland by three white sheep gained them headlines at
home, loathing in the foreign press and a substantial
increase in votes and seats at home...."I am red and black.
I like it," the Socialist Party member told the German
language paper Blick, referring to his party colours as well
as his skin. |
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A new neurobiological study has found that a synthetic form
of THC, the active ingredient in cannabis, is an effective
anti-depressant at low doses. However, at higher doses, the
effect reverses itself and can actually worsen depression
and other psychiatric conditions like psychosis. Dr. Gobbi
and her colleagues were prompted to explore cannabis'
potential as an anti-depressant through anecdotal clinical
evidence, she said. "As a psychiatrist, I noticed that
several of my patients suffering from depression used to
smoke cannabis. And in the scientific literature, we had
some evidence that people treated with cannabis for multiple
sclerosis or AIDS showed a big improvement in mood
disorders." |
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The American scientist at the center of a media storm over
comments suggesting that black people were not as
intelligent as whites said Thursday he never meant to imply
that the African continent was genetically inferior, adding
that he was mortified over the attention his words had
drawn.
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A
white woman fired from the predominantly black women’s
shelter where she worked because of alleged racist attitudes
won more than $28,000 in severance pay today for wrongful
dismissal. |
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Do Blacks Have Genetic Weakness to Asthma? |
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Barbados Prime Minister Owen Arthur is calling for an
integrated Caribbean Community (Caricom) health system that
will see each member state specialising in a particular
field of medicine. He stressed that the cost of meeting all
the health care needs of all Caricom countries will spiral
out of the reach of every country if each one "sought to act
individually". |
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***The Hope
and Despair Surrounding HIV/AIDS Research. Despite optimism
brought by the new HIV elite controller study, universal and
equal access to the drugs derived from the research seems
unlikely if history is to serve as a guide.*** |
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On Oct. 10, accomplishments by many Ontarians – particularly
in the Chinese, Black and Jewish communities – are at risk
if voters elect the McGuinty government to another term.
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AN OPEN LETTER TO PREMIER McGUINTY ON HUMAN
RIGHTS: By Dr. Lorne Foster |
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Alpha Oumar Konare, chairman of the African Union (AU)
Commission, continues Monday his visit to Cuba with the aim
of expanding links between that bloc and the island. Konare
expressed gratitude to the Cubans who fought in Angola and
other African countries against apartheid, because, he said,
"nobody will forget their sacrifice in the struggle against
colonialism." |
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Mr. bin Laden gives his most ideological address since the
early 1990s with an assault on capitalism and liberal
democracy loaded with Marxist and socialist terms. Indeed,
this new bin Laden sounds more like Che Guevara, the Marxist
revolutionary, than some of his rifle-toting Al Qaeda
cohorts.
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Ever since 1993 when she became the first African-Canadian
woman elected to Canada's Parliament, Augustine has been
recognized as a leader in championing the cause of women's
rights. |
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A statue of former South African President Nelson Mandela
has been unveiled in London. |
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On Oct. 10, accomplishments by many Ontarians – particularly
in the Chinese, Black and Jewish communities – are at risk
if voters elect the McGuinty government to another term. |
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Diversity initiatives take a blow with ill-advised
terminology Re: Tar Baby story |
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The Hon. Lincoln Alexander comments on the
Tar Baby article |
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Thirty-three community groups will receive a total of
$261,000 in Roots of Freedom grants to tell the little known
story of slavery and abolition in Ontario. |
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The Hamilton Community News published a story
on August 10th in which reporter Kevin Werner used the
phrase 'tar-baby' in referring to local African Canadian
Liberal Candidate Nerene Virgin.
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Is this the
final call for the Nation of Islam? |
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Wells Fargo sued for racial bias in mortgage loans
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At
the time, the disease hit hardest at black people living in
England, because darker skin pigmentation requires greater
sun exposure to create vitamin D....cases of cautious
mothers who were doing everything they thought they should
to keep their infants safe. Their children were breastfed
exclusively and were covered up when exposed to sunlight
using a combination of clothing and high-SPF sunscreens.
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Nova Scotia has moved into the “vanguard” of Afrocentric
education in North America with a $1.8-million investment in
black learning programs, says a U.S. university professor
who is credited with inventing the idea. |
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A new exhibit on Bay Street takes a look at a
dismal but often-ignored part of Ontario's history while
paying homage to the changes that have led to progress in
racial equality. Tuesday, the provincial government unveiled
the Ontario Bicentenary Exhibit, which commemorates the
200th anniversary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act.
The act, enacted in 1807, banned the illegal abduction and
transatlantic transportation of slaves from Africa to
Canada. |
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Check out the
website of a local Toronto fiction author Stacie Marie
Robinson. |
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Giving people with sickle cell anemia hope.
Scarborough family raises money to help their son and others
fight the diseaseSickle cell is more prevalent in people of
African-Canadian descent, which leads to the incorrect
notion that only African-Canadians can have sickle cell. In
fact, the disease can also affect people of Mediterranean,
Caribbean, Arabian and East Indian ancestry. |
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Thirteen-year-old Kamara Dalamba, an African-Canadian, wants
to learn more about his heritage in school. Thanks to an
announcement of a $1.8-million investment in black teachers
by the province on Friday, he may get the chance. Investment
will address shortage of African Nova Scotia content in
courses |
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A Toronto judge has ruled that Canada's pot possession laws
are unconstitutional after a man argued the country's
medicinal marijuana regulations are flawed.
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Nigeria launches seven billion dollar case against Pfizer |
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Wade said the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD),
meant to commit African leaders to promote democracy and
good governance in return for increased Western investment,
trade and debt relief, had proved no more than a talking
shop. |
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Ethiopian scientists said on Tuesday they have discovered
hominid fossil fragments dating from between 3.5 million and
3.8 million years ago in what could fill a crucial gap in
the understanding of human evolution.
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What
is this no-walk list? It requires African Canadian and other
racialized youth to carry identification when walking the
streets of Toronto. It requires them to identify themselves
when approached by a police officer, to provide details
about who they are and to consent to a pat-down search. The
information is then recorded on forms known as 208 cards and
entered into a police computer for future reference. This
no-walk list is officially sanctioned under the buzz name of
community policing
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The CIA released hundreds of pages of internal reports
Tuesday detailing assassination plots against foreign
leaders such as Cuba's Fidel Castro and the secret testing
of mind-and-behavior altering drugs like LSD on unwitting
U.S. citizens. |
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Halifax conference to mark end of slave trade "Slaves were
bought and sold here in Halifax, so slavery is part of Nova
Scotia's history," |
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Manulife acquires Lee-Chin's Berkshire financial advisory
sales organization |
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Influential black leader Stanley G. Grizzle can't believe
Toronto wants to name a park after him.
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Regarding Mandela: Immigration Minister Diane
Finley wouldn't talk to the Star. Her parliamentary
secretary, MP Ed Komarnicki (Souris-Moose Mountain),
reiterated that foreigners could be barred from visiting
Canada for "criminality." |
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The Toronto Star's Thomas Walkom on why
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the ex-wife of South Africa's
first black president, can't get a visa to visit Canada.
"Blood can't always be washed off". |
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The
ex-wife of former South African president Nelson Mandela has
been barred from entering Canada, stranding her at home in
Johannesburg when she had planned to stand in the spotlight
last night at a Toronto gala for an opera that celebrates
her life. Governor General Michaëlle Jean, Ontario
Lieutenant Governor James Bartleman, Ontario Premier Dalton
McGuinty, Toronto Mayor David Miller, former Ontario premier
Bob Rae and Toronto Liberal MP Bill Graham all sent written
declarations of support to be published in the opera's
program. Prime Minister Stephen Harper declined a request to
write a message of support for the show |
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Winnie Madikizela-Mandela learned she had been denied entry
to Canada just hours before she was to be driven to
Johannesburg's OR Tambo International airport to fly to
Toronto |
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Five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor convicted of
infecting about 400 Libyan children with HIV and facing the
death penalty were cleared Sunday of defamation charges in a
related case |
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a tribunal has for the first time declared
racial profiling contrary to the Ontario Human Rights Code
and ordered Peel Region police to pay Nassiah $20,000 |
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Former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan on Tuesday urged
the world's richest nations to atone for the slave trade by
sharing their wealth to lift Africa from poverty. |
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"And
the best available evidence to date suggests that certainly
watching a lot of TV before the age of two is in fact
harmful – harmful in terms of children's attentional
abilities later in life, harmful in terms of their cognitive
development, both of those measured at school entry." |
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High rates of crime and violence in the Caribbean are
undermining growth, threatening human welfare, and impeding
social development, according to a new report published
today by the World Bank and the United Nations Office on
Drugs and Crime (UNODC). |
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Half of
Ontario families raising children have seen their fortunes
stagnate or fall behind compared with a decade ago, while
the incomes of the richest have soared, says a new study on
the growing income gap. |
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Venezuela's Chavez Says Government to End IMF, World Bank
Ties |
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Crackdown urged on firms using temps in Ontario |
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On
Jun. 20, Caribbean leaders will sit down with George W. Bush
for the first full summit meeting with a U.S. president in a
decade |
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UK
slave register published online |
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AN OPEN LETTER TO PREMIER
McGUINTY ON HUMAN RIGHTS: By Dr. Lorne Foster |
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A software problem is to blame for a packing
slip on a couch that read "nigger-brown," according to a
manger at the Chinese computer company that provided the
translation. |
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Despite walking university corridors with Bill Clinton and
Deputy British Prime Minister John Prescott, he now begs for
a living |
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The African Diaspora and Self-Hate |
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Blair blames spate of murders on black culture |
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Diversity in
the black Diaspora |
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Ethiopian and Somali forces may have committed war crimes in battles
against insurgents and European Union countries could be considered
complicit if they do nothing to stop them, according to an EU email
obtained by The Associated Press on Friday. |
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Larry
Devlin was the CIA chief of station in DRCongo in 1960 when the
American president, Dwight D. Eisenhower, authorised the
assassination of the Congolese prime minister, Patrice Lumumba, by
lethal poisoning. Devlin was given the job to kill Lumumba, but his
conscience so smote him that he kept the poisons for so long that
the job was taken from him and given to someone else. |
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Several Georgia lawmakers have opposed efforts to
issue an official state apology for slavery, but they could be
swayed knowing their predecessors authorized the state purchase of
slaves, a legislator said. |
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When the new chocolate-coloured sofa set was delivered to her
Brampton home, Doris Moore was stunned to see packing labels
describing the shade as "Nigger-brown." |
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In Ghana, 21 black Canadians confront the agony of
their ancestors |
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Toronto Star reports on corruption in a prominent church in
Toronto. Where the patrons are black but the (corrupt) Pastors are white and
apparently robbing the people blind. This is regarding the prayer palace church. |
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Canadian victim of CIA experiment in '50s tries
to launch class-action suit against Ottawa |
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The term "tribe" has no consistent meaning. It
carries misleading historical and cultural
assumptions. It blocks accurate views of African
realities.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced plans
Monday to nationalize Venezuela's electrical and
telecommunications companies, pledging to create
a socialist state in a bold move with echoes of
Fidel Castro's Cuban revolution. |
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Eco-tourism in Latin America and the Garifunas.
The Garífunas are descendants of escaped African
slaves who mixed with indigenous Caribs on St.
Vincent Island in the Caribbean Sea. Their
language combines words and grammar of West
Africa with the Caribbean's Arauak dialect, and
some French, English and Spanish. |
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Somali Islamists urged foreign Muslim fighters
on Saturday to join their "holy war" against
Ethiopia as rockets ricocheted for a fifth day
over a frontline between Islamist and pro-Somali
government troops. |
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"All Somalis should take part in this struggle
against Ethiopia," Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys
said from Mogadishu |
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Libya to execute HIV medics, who infected 400
children with HIV |
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New research shows that the active ingredient in marijuana may prevent
the progression of Alzheimer's by preserving levels of an important
neurotransmitter that allows the brain to function. |
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Science And Salvation
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Africa still waiting for life-saving drugs two years after Ottawa passed
`breakthrough' law |
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The provincial government's plan to overhaul the
Ontario Human Rights Commission, derailed over
the summer by an aggressive lobbying campaign,
is back on track, although maybe not for long. |
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Penn Researchers Examine The Effects Of Meditation On Early Cognitive
Impairment |
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Marijuana
Gumballs Known As 'Greenades' Circulating in Some High Schools |
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An AIDS charity set up by former U.S. President Bill Clinton signed a
deal with Nigeria on Monday to make cheap AIDS drugs available to fight
the disease in Africa's most populous nation. |
Remembering the Black Panthers
An example of revolutionary defiance and
militancy |
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Veterans of Kenya's Mau Mau uprising will delay
a lawsuit against Britain and allow London time
to apologise and pay compensation for alleged
colonial-era atrocities, their lawyers have
said. |
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An 18-year-old is in a Quebec jail, charged in
connection with racist threats on the
internet after a police raid on his home
uncovered 20 firearms. |
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Nigeria: The Minister of Finance, Mrs Nenadi
Usman, at the recently concluded IMF/World Bank
meeting verbally protested to the IMF Managing
Director Mr. De Rato, that the figures being
peddled by the IMF and the World Bank were not
the true reflection (position of the Gross
Domestic Product) of the Nigerian economy. |
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A comparison between Venezuela and South
Africa's approach to economics. Social Welfare
vs Neoliberalism |
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Farrakhan near death? Read his latest letter. |
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Rep. Charles Rangel show his true colors as an
Uncle Tom when he defended Bush against Chavez |
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Jamaica: Michael Lee Chin plans to pump $150
million into Medical Associates, the private
hospital he bought earlier this year. |
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Recently, Stephen
Lewis called the WTO agreement which was
intended to allow for the manufacture of generic
HIV/AIDS drugs “entirely flawed”. The UN
Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS
in Africa, said that the fact that no generic
drugs to treat HIV/AIDS have been produced in
Canada so far shows that the WTO “agreement that
was struck internationally doesn’t work”. |
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NIGERIA: Obasanjo orders crackdown to curb oil
region hostage taking |
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Africaville: Expropriating Nova Scotia's blacks |
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Simcoe ran the British backwoods colony of Upper
Canada — later renamed Ontario — from 1791 to
1796, when he established a legislative assembly
in the province, replaced the French civil code
with English common law and introduced one of
the first laws to gradually eliminate slavery,
long before the U.S. or Britain. |
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Study proves that smoking marijuana does not cause cancer and may
protect against cancer.
"We hypothesized that there would be a positive association between
marijuana use and lung cancer, and that the association would be more
positive with heavier use," he said. "What we found instead was no
association at all, and even a suggestion of some protective effect."
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Upper Canada (now Ontario) was the only province
in British North America to legislate against
slavery. The hero of the day was Lt.-Gov. John
Graves Simcoe, a British commander during the
American Revolution. While many Torontonians
didn't know that yesterday's civic holiday is
actually named Simcoe Day — after John Graves
Simcoe |
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f you thought the squabbling over the
administration and funding of Caribana was over,
guess again |
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Thinking about what he'd like to leave as a
legacy, Toronto-born drummer Archie Alleyne
realized his passion for music dovetailed with
his growing concern over one issue: The gun
violence dogging Toronto's black community. |
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What the World Bank and IDB Owe Haiti |
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Antigua Beating U.S. in Internet Gambling Case
at WTO |
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A practical solution to gun violence |
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Stephen Lewis
Calls WTO Agreement on AIDS Drugs "Entirely
Flawed" |
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Jazz legend Oscar Peterson said he is thinking
of moving to the West Indies with his family
after his experiences with racism in Canada |
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Castro hands power to brother during surgery |
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The African National Congress congratulates the
South African Communist Party (SACP) on the
occasion of their 85th anniversary |
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Chávez welcomed at African Union meeting
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Bush says he wants to reach out. Here's what he
could do if he were serious about reaching out.
By Jesse Jackson
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The Coalition of African Canadian Community
Organizations is calling for Prime Minister
Stephen Harper to meet with its leaders and
fulfill his campaign pledge to tackle gun
violence in Toronto. |
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WTO global trade talks collapse. EU trade chief
Peter Mandelson blamed the failure on the United
States. |
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Marcus Garvey's legacy saved in Cape Breton,
Nova Scotia. A landmark of the African Canadian
community of Glace Bay, N.S., has reopened after
being saved from demolition.Close to 100 people
gathered Friday to celebrate the restoration of
the community's Universal Negro Improvement
Association hall. |
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Halifax NS:
Black community applauds master’s program, tuition help |
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Bush to Address NAACP for first time in presidency |
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Text of President Bush ‘s speech at the NAACP‘s annual convention
Thursday in Washington. |
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Mount Saint Vincent University and Council on African Canadian Education
Announce new Initiative for African-Nova Scotian Learners |
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Jamaica's former foreign minister KD Knight says retributions from the
United States were unlikely if Jamaica supports Venezuela for a United
Nation Security Council seat which becomes vacant in January. |
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Dispute over
Nigeria 'explosions' |
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Nigeria: Rights
Activists See Growing Threat Against Free Expression |
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Nearly all the religious leaders serving on a committee created by the
Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund to disburse money to churches destroyed by
Hurricane Katrina have quit their posts, claiming their advice was
ignored. |
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Corporate Toronto has badly failed a much-hyped challenge to create
1,000 jobs for youths from the city's neediest neighborhoods because of
racial stereotypes and boardroom bureaucracy, a Malvern youth employment
worker says. |
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Black pioneer burial grounds commemorated in Otterville with Ontario
Heritage Trust provincial plaque |
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The presidents of Iran and Venezuela took advantage of a summit of
African leaders Saturday to declare solidarity with the impoverished
continent and to lash out at the West, comparing Africa's centuries-old
slave trade to a modern-day struggle for Third World freedom.
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A news commentary
on Katrina and Race. (Some of the comments are unbelievable) |
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The complaint accuses Mayor Danny Crosby of frequently using racial
slurs since his election in 2004. In one instance, the complaint said
Crosby swore in a new police officer on Martin Luther King Day and said,
"Happy James Earl Ray Day," a reference to King's assassin. |
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South African
historians are searching for a gun buried by Nelson Mandela in
Johannesburg before his 1963 arrest. |
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African-American Soldiers Scrubbed by Secret GOP Hit List |
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Psychiatric patients are commonly drugged without their consent and many
suffer long-term damage as a result, the Canadian Alliance for Rights in
Health Care claims in a report released Monday. |
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The World Bank
has been accused of publishing false accounts and wasting money on
ineffective medicines in its malaria treatment programme. |
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Jamaica: Now the market is about to embrace a new entrant, Flow, which
is part-owned by Michael Lee Chin and interests from Barbados. Flow is
expected to provide via fibre optic cables, the services of high
definition cable television, Internet and fixed lines. |
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Slavery is
inextricably intertwined with the history of the countries of the
Caribbean, and a new Sites of Memory on the Slave Route project is
focusing on the African influence in Aruba, Haiti, the Dominican
Republic and Cuba |
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CNN: Congo's Kabila, a former military man, appeared shaken after the
report. He watched it and watched it again, shifting uncomfortably in
his seat each time he heard a victim's horrific story, shaking his head
and narrowing his eyes. |
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Mengistu Haile Mariam, accused of a 17-year reign of terror in Ethiopia,
faces a long-awaited genocide verdict on Tuesday in a sign of Africa's
new resolve to bring ex-leaders to account for past abuses. |
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Stic.man of Dead Prez;
Finding Faith in Martial Arts |
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A veteran Toronto police officer says he supports a call by defence
lawyers for a public inquiry into the Toronto police force because the
force is rife with systemic corruption. |
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'It’s bigger than hip hop' - Interview with Stic.Man of dead prez |
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Harry Jerome Awards |
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"It is no longer a place of suffering," says Lionel Davis, a former
political prisoner, now museum educator, who returned in 1997. "It's a
place of hope and redemption, of forgiving, not forgetting." |
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The
Future of Racism and Anti-Racism in America |
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Caribbean Cultural Committee, which lost its funding from the City of
Toronto to host Caribana this year, is threatening to go to court to
defend what it calls its trademark-protected right to hold the festival.
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“The Business
of Carnival in the 21st Century: Defining the Caribbean Carnival
Product” and it is hosted by the West Indian Canadian Day Association
(WICDA) of Montreal, Quebec, which is spearheaded by Henry Antoine,
president of the WCC. |
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"What is Buddha? A dried shit stick". Such a statement about Mohammed or
Jesus would provoke outrage amongst Muslims or Christians but to the
pious Buddhist who asked the question in T'ang dynasty China, Master
Ummon's reply was a precious teaching. |
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Simon Thon Kuany has survived his first year of university like no other
freshman — literally, with the help of every student at York University. |
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"Today's a sad day for human
rights in the province of
Ontario," said Margaret
Parsons, executive director
of the African Canadian
Legal Clinic. |
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T.O. Caribbean Carnival unveiled. The city reveals the new group who
will take over the festival this year. Caribbean Cultural Committee vows
to fight the take-over saying it violates their intellectual property
rights. |
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Toronto Star: How a `cute'
9mm pistol purchased by a
frightened woman in Florida
ended up in Lawrence Heights
in the hands of a killer |
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IMF wins new powers to
police global economy |
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Confusion reigned at many
polling stations on Friday
as fewer Haitians than hoped
turned out to vote in a
parliamentary election that
will decide if
President-elect Rene Preval
has enough support to govern
the troubled Caribbean
nation |
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Michael Lee Chin's AIC
Barbados sold $741 million
worth of shares in National
Commercial Bank |
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Malcolm X Racist in reverse
speech |
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On March 19, 2006, Min.
Louis Farrakhan led a
twenty-three member
delegation to Havana, Cuba
to study disaster relief
preparedness. |
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Nearly two years after he
was arrested, Orlando Bowen
claims racism caused the two
officers — including one
currently facing his own
cocaine charges — to beat
him up, plant drugs on him,
then charge him. |
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South Africa: The country's
former deputy president,
Jacob Zuma, who aims to
become president, is on
trial for raping an
HIV-positive family friend. |
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Mr. Aristide, presently
exiled in South Africa, was
preparing to return to Haiti
“as soon as possible” while
working out details of his
homecoming with Mr. Preval
and the United Nations |
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Nation of Islam leader Louis
Farrakhan is visiting
communist Cuba to learn
about disaster relief, a
visit prompted by the
failure of the U.S.
government to cope with
Hurricane Katrina, he said
on Monday. |
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Kingston Ont: Accusations of
racial profiling led the
force to become the first in
the country to study just
how colour blind it actually
is. The results are
startling: showing blacks
are three times more likely
and natives one and half
times more likely to be
stopped by Kingston police
than whites. |
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If U.S.
troops go to Africa, it won't be for a humanitarian
intervention; it will be to protect American oil
interests in the troubled Niger Delta. |
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Michael Lee-Chin awarded honorary degree |
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CIBC surprises with Caribbean deal |
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French TV Network Hires Black Anchorman |
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Turning point in Darfur? |
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Long Live the
Haitian People |
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Zimbabwe shares in the dream of Lumumba |
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Toronto Star: Black Canadians |
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Bacteria harvested from Kenya are being used by a global pharmaceutical
company to manufacture a multi-million dollar diabetes drug, although
the country is not making a shilling from the entire enterprise |
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Kenya's biological resources have been illegally acquired by giant
pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms from the West and a University in
Israel in an ongoing international operation that blatantly disregards
the provisions of the international Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). |
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HIV hitting blacks harder |
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JAMAICA's Combined Martial Arts team stamped itself the best team in the
Pan Am region last Sunday night by defeating a star-studded United
States tae kwon do team in the 'Battle at the Boardwalk' |
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KINGSTON, Jamaica, Sat. Feb. 25, 2006: Nearly 4,000
delegates of the ruling Peoples National Party of
Jamaica today voted to select Local Government,
Community Development & Sports Minister, Portia Simpson
Miller as the new president of the party. |
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Haiti's Preval Breaks
His Silence |
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Museveni wins Uganda's first multiparty elections in 25
years |
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Bird flu emerges in Africa |
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The head of Haiti's electoral council fled the country after
opponents threatened his life and burned down his farmhouse
nearly two weeks after disputed elections |
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At the Dancehall, Where Party Meets Performance |
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Jean calls the marginalization of some young people
"disgraceful," which she says leads to isolation and despair |
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Long Live the
Haitian People
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Zimbabwe shares in the dream of Lumumba |
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A group that wants to evict Western oil companies from the
delta of the Niger River threatens to disrupt oil supplies
in Nigeria and the rest of the world. |
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Jamaica to declare Marley home a national monument |
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South Africa, Venezuela reaffirm support for Iran’s nuclear
program |
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Rene Preval was declared the winner of Haiti's presidential
election Thursday under an agreement between the interim
government and electoral council
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"The profits from the slave trade were part of the bedrock
of our country's industrial development," Thomas Butler, the
bishop of Southwark, said in a speech before the vote. "Many
people and institutions in every part of the country were
complicit in the transatlantic slave trade; and I have to
say that this includes the Church of England." |
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Toronto Star: We turned our back on Haiti: Canada is
complicit in region's troubles. |
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Police forge Jamaica-Toronto bond |
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Neville Blythe has neared an agreement with Michael Lee Chin's AIC out of
Barbados to sell a substantial shareholding in his United General Insurance
Company to the Jamaican/Canadian billionaire
|
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AIC's chairman, Michael Lee Chin in his run-up to introducing Bajpai, stressed
that if ever there was a time for investment in the Caribbean region, now is as
opportune as it will ever be. |
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Bolivia's 1st Indian
president takes office in historic ceremony |
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What Rivers got wrong (criticisms of the imported black 'leader') |
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The prospect for greater black representation in Parliament may be downright
bleak. Three GTA candidates are black, all of them running under the NDP banner.
|
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Despite lingering suspicion that Conservatives are racist and anti-immigrant,
the Liberal party no longer has the lock on votes that it has, until now, been
able to take for granted. |
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On January 23, before we
instinctively mark an "x" beside the liberal candidate, let's look at the
effects of some Liberal policies on Black Canadians over the last twelve years. |
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"The idea is to engage the African Canadian community with the upcoming
election, to get their voices and thoughts heard and to ensure different
political parties are addressing our needs,"
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New
explosion at Shell pipeline in Nigeria; production cut by 106,000
|
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Gunmen raid
Shell oil platform in Nigeria, kidnap foreign oil workers
|
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Bolivia's leftist President-elect Evo Morales extended a conciliatory hand to
the United States |
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Venezuela,
having recently helped Argentina to pay off its debt to the International
Monetary Fund, is floating the idea of a new "Bank of the South" that would
offer no-strings loans in competition to the U.S.-backed IMF.
|
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Kingston Jamaica: cop Horace Roberts is due in court today to face charges that he was
the ringleader of an organised crime ring targeting returning residents from
Britain and America.
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CARICOM - newest trade bloc on January 23
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Haitian elections postponed a 4th time as OAS workers kidnapped
|
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The Coalition of African Canadian Community Organizations — made up of more than
30 groups — questioned at a news conference yesterday whether politicians would
have reacted as quickly if a black youth was slain.
|
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Documentary On Jamaican Immigrants In Canada To Premier New Year’s Day |
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Chad's President Idriss
Deby has called on the African Union to move next month's summit from Sudan to
Nigeria. |
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Britain: Schools
still failing Black children |
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China scooping up deals in Africa as US firms hesitate
|
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The ICJ, the principal
judicial organ of the United Nations, ruled on Tuesday that Uganda violated the
sovereignty of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and was responsible for
human rights abuses there. |
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Fostering Solutions At Jane/Finch |
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A former Rwandan mayor accused of participating in the killing of several
thousand people who had sought refuge in a church pleaded guilty Thursday to
charges of murder and extermination related to the 1994 genocide of more than
half a million Rwandans. |
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Washington Post: An African American woman reclaims the sexuality that
history tried to steal from her |
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CRE
claims black doctors suffer the most from racism in Britain |
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a Toronto coalition of 22 black community groups disgusted by gun murders in the
city wants a separate set of rules and institutions for blacks — from a
government department to a diversion program for minor crimes. |
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U.K. led Commission for Africa
report document |
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THE BUDDING LEADERSHIP CAREER OF ROY HERON |
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Teacher accused of sexist,
racist remarks, in Toronto.
"Watch your back; I have a n---- friend who could fight anybody" |
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Premier Dalton McGuinty spoke out yesterday against the idea of a black-focused
school in Toronto, saying he hasn't seen any proof it would improve learning for
black students. |
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(Jane & Finch) More than 300 Toronto police officers raided about 40 residences
across the GTA this morning targeting a violent west end street gang they say is
responsible for gun trafficking and attempted murder. |
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WHERE ARE OUR BLACK LEADERS?
Tavis Smiley |
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If you have room in your home, adopt a family left homeless by Hurricane
Katrina, Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan said in Richmond |
|
WBAI broadcast
audio with Baton Rouge NOI Minister Andrew Muhammad |
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OPERATIVES of the US Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) have searched the US
home of Nigerian Vice President Atiku Abubakar
|
|
Ontario legislature Speaker Alvin Curling resigned his post and his seat Friday
after he was named as one of Canada's 10 newest ambassadors |
|
Jesse Jackson
Says Venezuela No Threat, Praises Venezuelan Government Concerns |
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Pat Robertson Says U.S. Should Kill Venezuela's Chavez, AP Says |
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Venezuela's oil facility initiative for the Caribbean, Petrocaribe, will move
one step closer to implementation today when that country's President Hugo
Chavez arrives in Jamaica for a one-day visit. |
|
Chavez
spoke alongside Cuban President Fidel Castro during his weekly television and
radio show from the western tip of Cuba |
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Councillor tried 'to shock people' with call for police to target black men |
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Michael Thompson says police should be allowed to "target" young black men at
random as part of a crackdown on guns. Thompson, who is black, says a large
percentage of the guns being utilized and a large number of people being killed
are in the black community, so there's a need to target people in the community. |
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For the first time in Toronto policing history, a black officer has been
promoted to the position of deputy chief.
|
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John Johnson broke new ground with positive portrayals of blacks |
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"Whites Only" sign on a bathroom at a Tyson Foods poultry
plant in Ashland, Alabama |
|
Will
Blacks in America loss their right to vote legally? One commentator says that
there is "Good Reason for Voting Rights Act Paranoia" |
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Hugo Chavez said "The [U.S.] DEA
was using the fight against narco-trafficking as a mask to, among other things,
support narco-trafficking, in order to conduct intelligence operations against
the government." |
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The dilemma of Voting Rights Act in the U.S. |
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Nation of Islam
leader Louis Farrakhan plans to ask the governor to pardon Stanley "Tookie"
Williams, the founder of the Crips gang who is now appealing a 1981 death
sentence. |
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Libby
Davies Bill Against racial profiling |
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Republican's Latest Target for Recruitment: Russell Simmons |
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England:
African-Caribbean people are six times more likely to be
sectioned and are disproportionately over-medicated and detained in high
security institutions.
|
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Toronto Star: Kingston race study attacked. Report tracked police arrests.
Critics dispute claim of racial bias
|
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Surprise Surprise!!! Kingston Ontario Police union rejects study alleging racial
profiling |
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Deadlier form of cancer found
in black women |
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Ottawa: He was pulled over for no better reason than being a young black man
driving a luxury car. |
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Policing bias study stirs debate |
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Big Primpin’ : The
world of rap video dancers |
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Toronto Star: Kingston study proves racial bias. Police chief there apologizes
to blacks, aboriginals |
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Support Carol Wall for the presidency of the 3.2-million-member
Canadian Labour Congress |
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Protesting spreads through Africa over India’s proposed law on drug
patents |
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Webmd:
Researchers found that four months of meditation significantly improved
the ability of the blood vessel lining, known as the endothelium, to
expand and contract in a group of black adolescents with high blood
pressure. |
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Toronto Star: "If the police come into the buildings, they'll be targeting the
young black males and females," says Morris, 22, who has lived in 200 Wellesley
St. E. all his life. "I'd feel more unsafe with the police walking the
hallways." |
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Tamara's shooting prompts TTC camera plan |
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Hip
Hop Summit Action Network Chairman, Russell Simmons released the
following response to ADL Director, Abraham Foxman's letter urging
prominent Black leaders to reconsider their support for the upcoming
Millions More Movement |
|
Minister Farrakhan
responds to controversy over reports of Qur’anic desecration at Guantanamo Bay
detention facility |
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Former President Bill Clinton said that he supports the efforts of African
American leaders who are organizing the Million More March, a national gathering
of Blacks scheduled to take place in October in Washington, D.C, a decade after
the Million Man March was convened. |
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Oil giant ChevronTexaco is to rethink its community aid strategies after
acknowledging that some of the policies implemented by its Nigerian subsidiary
in the oil-rich Niger Delta have contributed in fuelling violence in the region. |
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The first-ever meeting of Government and Opposition Leaders of the now almost
32-year-old Caribbean Community and Common Market
|
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Reunion of Black Panthers stirs memories
|
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Is
Corporate America to Blame for Hip-Hop Violence? |
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BBC: Haiti's detained
ex-Prime Minister Yvon Neptune, who is on a hunger strike, has refused to go to
the Dominican Republic for treatment |
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Haiti's
democratically elected legitimate President Aristide calls For His Restoration
to Power in a rare press conference from South Africa. (Video, Audio, Text) |
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Mauritanians protest Israeli ties
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Price
of petroleum from T&T to Barbados could end up before the Caribbean Court of
Justice (CCJ)Trinidad and Tobago is selling petroleum products to the United
States and multi-national companies at a more favourable rate than it does its
fellow CARICOM states |
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Globe and Mail: Defiant Lee-Chin stands his ground |
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Theologist suggests Sept. 11 conspiracy |
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Bush administration 'broke its own embargo to sell arms to Haiti police' |
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CBC: The hiring of Bill Blair as the Toronto next police chief is earning praise
from members of the city's black community. |
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Those who are blessed have a higher responsibility Says AIC's Lee-Chin
while in Toronto April 8th |
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Democracy Now: A more balanced view of the recent Zimbabwe Elections
(Video, Audio & Text) |
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The
Moore Town Maroons, who were better
known for their clever tactics used
in eluding British soldiers in the late 1600s to early 1700s, have
through their unique lifestyle, created one of the most memorable
musical masterpieces, one which earned them the international
recognition |
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"Since I came to Queen's Park in 1988 there is no doubt that Alvin has
been the least competent and least capable of Speakers," NDP's Kormos
told the Toronto Star. |
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Public Enemy's
Chuck D expresses his embarrassment for Flavs action in the TV show the
Surreal Life |
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Toronto Star: Black
police officers from across the force, gathered on company time to have
a frank discussion about what it was like to be a black member of a
force facing allegations of racial profiling. |
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REGGAE STAR SIZZLA was released on Monday evening without being charged,
after a three day interrogation by police.
|
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One of Johnnie Cochran's most important cases was when he help free
Black Panther Elmer "Geronimo" Pratt from jail. Geronimo Pratt was
framed for murder by the FBI during the cointelpro days. Listen to a
speech by Geronimo Please note that this link requires real player. |
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M.I.N
News has obtained a copy of a letter which was sent to Canada's Minister
of Foreign Affairs Pierre Pettigrew by
Libby
Davies who is the NDP
MP
from
Vancouver East.
The letter expresses her
concern
and says that Canada has a moral obligation to act
"Given
Canada’s role in the removal of the elected government of Jean-Bertrand
Aristide" |
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Alicia Keys rocks,
John Legend walks at Canadian stop on Diary Tour |
|
Listen to the following 1995 speech by our brother the late Johnnie
Cochran RIP. This is an audio file. |
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Famed Attorney Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. Dies at 67 |
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A native of Brooklyn's rugged Bedford-Stuyvesant section, Time Warner
Chairman Dick Parsons has demonstrated a flair for converting apparent
defeats into victories |
|
New York Times: With the start of the Africa Channel later this year on
cable television in the United States, a group of entrepreneurs seasoned
in the intricacies of African culture and history hope to demystify the
continent for American audiences. |
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Is the Willie Lynch speech an authentic historical document? |
|
BBC: The Bush administration made plans for war and for Iraq's oil
before the 9/11 attacks, sparking a policy battle between neo-cons and
Big Oil |
|
Bishop
T.D. Jakes explains Ray Charles' music and faith were both products of
the spiritual community he came from |
|
Jadakiss puts
out a song to diss 50 cent. I don't think they'll be any kissing between
them two! To listen to the Jadakiss track click here *warning* contains
profanity |
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Although 50 and
the game kissed and made up. 50 cent still has beef with Fat Joe. To
listen to the Fat Joe track that deals with 50 click here *Warning*
contains profanity |
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U.S. Steady Drop in
Black Army Recruits |
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Should
we trust the US on HIV/AIDS? |
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Yvon Neptune,
Haiti's prime minister under President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, on a
hunger strike since Feb. 20, has fallen into critical condition and was
rushed to a hospital by U.N. soldiers Thursday evening
|
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The U.S.
attorney has launched a quiet probe into the hip-hop music business |
|
Blacks
more prone to Alzheimer's |
|
As you might have heard somebody
broke into Paris Hilton's phone book and
published all of her celebrity friends phone numbers
online. We normal
don't do this sort of thing but this time it was too tempting. So if you
are curious to see her phone book.
Here it is. |
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U.N.
peacekeepers will intervene - and use force if necessary - if Haitian
police attack unarmed civilians again. Haitian Police are being trained
by the Canadian RCMP. I wonder what the RCMP is teaching them? |
|
CBC
manipulates a story about Haiti to make the Canadian government's work
there look good. See for your self. |
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LEGAL CHAOS IN GRENADA |
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NDP's Alexa
McDONOUGH Press release: REPORTS OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN HAITI
WARRANT CANADIAN INVESTIGATION |
|
Meditation
can modify brain, study finds |
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Meditation
can be key component of stress management |
|
I wonder why we haven't heard
the new Styles P song on the Radio? Is it because the corporate world
doesn't want to hear pro-black positive music? Click here to listen to
the new Styles P single. |
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Toronto police Chief Julian Fantino speaks at the Jamaican Canadian
Association for a Black History Month event |
|
The Undiscovered Malcolm X: Stunning New Info on the Assassination, His
Plans to Unite the Civil Rights and Black Nationalist Movements & the 3
'Missing' Chapters from His Autobiography |
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Haiti: After a jail break, former Prime Minister Yvon
Neptune and former Interior Minister Jocelerme Privert are now being
held by the U.N. peacekeepers. |
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Nova Scotia "This province is the only government in Canada to set up a
separate department and minister dedicated to the needs of people of
African descent" |
|
Anthony
Wong has sued two homicide officers and the woman who identified him as
a suspect for $100 million. |
|
Caribbean
Community will not re-admit Haiti until after elections |
|
African
Union seeks role in troubled Haiti |
|
Alternet:
The Idea That Brought Slavery to Its Knees |
|
Gerard
Latortue (Haiti's U.S. puppet prime minister) seeks Aristide's help to
end violence |
|
For
the Bobo Shantis, Christmas comes in January
|
|
Blood
Pressure in Blacks Around World Not as High as in African-Americans
|
|
Study
suggests obesity has lesser financial impact on African-Americans
|
|
Michelle
Richards is the author of It Could Never Happen To Me, a story of sexual
abuse. The book is so far available only at independent bookstores in
the GTA.
|
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(Jamaica)
EDWARD Seaga will quit as leader of the opposition and member of
parliament for West Kingston on January 19, after 43 years of service to
that constituency
|
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Speaking
of the $156.5-million in penalties to settle the probe with Ontario
Securities Commission Michael Lee Chin said "As a [mutual fund]
unit holder of other companies, why am I a second-class citizen? Why
shouldn't I be getting restitution?" "You open a can of worms,
finish it."
|
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FCC
Chair Orders Investigation Into Williams' Deal With Bush Administration
|
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Canada's
role in Haiti is 'destructive'
|
|
Armstrong
Williams is “the premiere Black political whore in America,”
|
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tsunami
conspiracy theories
|
|
While
Black Senator Barak Obama refused to support or defend his people in the
senate by using his vote to protect the rights of Blacks to vote in the
USA. White Senator Barbara Boxer pick up the slack as the only Senator
to vote with the Congressional Black caucus to object to the counting of
the electoral votes in Ohio
|
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Meditation
study aims to leap over mental barriers
|
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Breaking
Taboo, Mandela Reveals Son Died of AIDS
|
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The War
Between Toronto Police and Anthony Wong
|
|
"Uncle
Tom" Armstrong Williams was paid to promote propaganda as
legitimate news during the election for George Bush. He was paid with
government funds to promote Bush's policies and to influence other Black
journalist.
|
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Nigeria
to Produce HIV/Aids Drugs Next Year
|
|
WebMD:
Meditation Lowers Youths' Blood Pressure
|
|
CNN:
White supremacist charged in 'Mississippi Burning' killings
|
|
The
Jamaica Stock Exchange main index soared by 66 per cent last year
|
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A
majority of Haiti’s poor earnestly believe the coup was organized and
led by the US, France and Canada.
|
|
Shirley
Chisholm, the first black woman to serve in Congress and the first woman
to seek the Democratic presidential nomination, died on Saturday night
|
|
Final
Call: Congressional Black Caucus attacks Ohio voter
disenfranchisement
|
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Do
you know what Operation Kingfish in Jamaica is? Check it out
|
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Twenty
minutes of daily meditation helped middle schoolers lower their
blood pressure and heart rate, a new study from the state of Georgia
concludes.
|
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CBC:
Apocalypse Cow
|
|
WebMD:
Meditation May Bolster Brain Activity : Buddhist
Meditation May Produce Lasting Changes in the Brain
|
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A
new BBC documentary exposes how the city of New York has been forcing
HIV-positive children under its supervision to be used as human guinea
pigs in tests for experimental AIDS drug trials. These Children are
mostly Black or Latino. If the parents refuse to allow these experiments
on their Children they are said to be taken and placed into foster care,
then they are experimented on.
|
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Haiti
bloodbath that left dozens dead in jail
|
|
A
study by the University of Chicago found that Arab populations,
including Palestinians, Jordanians, Syrians, Iraqis, and Bedouin, have
at least some sub-Saharan African genes.
|
|
Leadership in
Toronto's black community
|
|
A
judge in Porter County has issued a warrant for the arrest of Nasir
Farrakhan, son of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan
|
|
AIC
Ignores Own Advice on Rapid Trading of Mutual Funds
|
|
Jay-Z
Named President Of Def Jam
|
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Jamaica
Observer: Michael Lee Chin try to reduce violence in Jamaica
|
|
Proof
of Ohio Election Fraud Exposed
(Seems like Bush did it again!)
|
|
Michael
Lee Chin's AIC slamed; they have to pay the biggest settlement in
Canadian history! $58.5 million!
|
|
Montreal
Haitians ask Canadians and Québecois(es) for Solidarity
|
|
USA
Today: Black Daughter of racist, segregationist Senator Strom
Thurmond Tells her Story in Book
|
|
Condi
Rice vs. Cynthia McKinney
|
|
Jamaica
Observer: Billionaire Michael Lee Chin's AIC lends JPSCo US$8 m
|
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Jamaica
Observer: Lee Chin setting up US$-b regional fund
|
|
The
world according to Nas
|
|
Toronto
Star: 'I was a slave,' says African nanny regarding her experience
in Toronto
|
|
Alternet:
Race and American politics (2004 election): The White Elephant in the
Room
|
|
Seattle
Times: As much as Rosa Parks admired King, she never believed that
nonviolence was the only solution.
|
|
Something's
Fishy in Ohio. By Jesse Jackson
|
|
Toronto
Star: A
brief update on Anthony Wong, the young man who spent three years in
jail for a murder he did not commit.
|
|
Aubyn
Hill whose golden parachute from National Commercial Bank has been
estimated at US$750,000 (J$46 million) had an ongoing combative
relationship with Kris Astaphan, the bank's deputy chairman and close
confidant of the owner and chairman, Michael Lee Chin.
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