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High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America
Jessica B. Harris’s absorbing new book, “High on the Hog” zeroes in on what she sees as the two divergent strands of African-American cooking. The first reveres homey staples like corn pone, fried chicken and chitterlings…
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Support African American businesses and save
A national statistic shows 90-percent of the dollars spent by African Americans go to businesses that are not African American owned or invested
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[Video] Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech
If you’ve never seen the full speech before or, if you haven’t seen it in awhile and you’re looking for a little inspiration… watch the video
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Schools in GA, NC, and SC open on MLK Day to make up snow closings
A decision to use the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday to make up a snow day in Georgia and the Carolinas has infuriated civil rights leaders, who say the districts are insulting the civil rights icon.
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Republican school board in N.C. seeks to abolish integration
The situation unfolding here in some ways represents a first foray of tea party conservatives shaping a public school system.
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Rapper 50 Cent makes $8.7 million by tweeting
The 35-year-old celeb, aka Curtis Jackson, helped pop the shares of a no-name penny stock company he’s invested in by 290 percent yesterday after chatting it up this weekend on Twitter, the social-networking site
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Bun B of UGK completes first day teaching hip hop and spirtuality at Rice University
The rapper is taking the course very seriously, as the topic of religion is a very sensitive subject. “Hip-Hop artists and musicians, their religion comes into play a lot more during the course of making their music than people would think.”
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College educated African Americans migrate South
The nation’s college educate African-American population continued its southward migration over the past decade, shifting a large part of the black middle class from northern states to faster-growing economies of the South.