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By Ruban Roberts There is a scholarly article written by Regina Austin of the University of Pennsylvania entitled “Not Just for the Fun of It.” This …

Some 2,300,000 Americans are locked up in federal, state and local prisons and jails, meaning the U.S with five percent of the world’s population has …

America’s recent spate of mass killings, all with guns and mostly by young white people, says everything about this society that many citizens don’t want …

Pope Francis PHOTO COURTESY OF FAMOUS BIOGRAPHIES By JAKE COYLE CANNES, France -The documentary “Pope Francis: A Man of His Word” brings the world’s most …

Dr. Levi Watkins Jr. PHOTO COURTESY OF VANDERBILT.EDU NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – Tennessee State University is establishing an endowed scholarship fund in honor of a …

Muslims worship during Ramadan PHOTO COURTESY OF YOUTUBE.COM By AYA BATRAWY and ABDULLAH AL-SHIHRI Associated Press RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – Millions of Muslims around the …

As the body count mounts in America’s war on itself, the attention focuses on its various component actors, maladies and instrumentalities. There’s the focus on …

For the past 17 years, each Memorial Day weekend on Miami Beach has been spoiled by the bad behavior of thugs. Most of the revelers …

It has taken more than four hundred years to go from being born “Kunta Kinte” to being made into “Toby,” to becoming Kanye West. What …

PAINFUL HEALING: The Old Ship A.M.E. Zion Church is across the street from the Equal Justice Initiative’s lynching memorial. PHOTO COURTESY OF WIKIPEDIA By MELISSA …