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Eleven years after the 9/11 attacks, President Obama says the country has emerged stronger, safer and more resilient. “As painful as this day is and always will be, it leaves us with a lesson: that no single event can ever destroy who we are, no act of terrorism can ever change what we stand for,” […]
The controversial idea was published in the University’s newspaper, where Heimbach alluded that the purpose of the organization is to replicate other student union organizations on campus by giving white students the same avenue to appreciate their history and heritage. Students and professors balked at the idea of divisive ‘white only’ proposed organization on […]
Many 9/11 conspiracy theories surfaced shortly after the September 11th attacks — some bringing compelling arguments and some not holding up at all. Theorists believe…
If you had a chance to say something to your teen age self what would you? Well Gabrielle Union did just that. In the October issue of Ebony Magazine, Gabby penned a letter to her younger self. In the note, she encourages her younger self to be comfortable with her skin tone and […]
For the first time in 25 years, teachers in the country’s third-largest public school system hit the picket line. After a weekend of unsuccessful 11th hour contract negotiations, the Chicago Teachers Union made good on its promise to walk out on more than 400,000 students at 675 schools. “We have failed to reach an […]
Two points from defeat, Serena Williams turned things around just in time to win the U.S. Open in the last four games to beat Victoria Azarenka 6-2, 2-6, 7-5 on Sunday night for her fourth championship at Flushing Meadows. Williams said, “I honestly can’t believe I won. I really was preparing my runner-up speech, because I […]
In one of the most notorious cases in American history acquitted “O.J. Simpson Is Innocent and I Can Prove It,”claims that O.J. Simpson was protecting his son Jason Simpson now 41 and living in Miami Florida. At the time of the trail and investigation Jason was 24. According to a 1994 team of private investigators and forensic […]
The Gallup daily tracking poll showed good news for President Barack Obama on Friday, the day following his speech at the DNC. Gallup interviewed about 1,500 adults. The results showed President Obama with a 52 percent approval rating, the highest approval percentage reported for the President on the Gallup tracking poll since the killing of Osama bin Laden […]
President Barack Obama will ask voters for more time, another four years in office tonight, arguing he needs more time to address some of the nation’s biggest problems and clean up the mess he inherited. According to excerpts released by his campaign, tonight at the Democratic National Convention Obama will say, “I won’t pretend the path I’m offering […]
President Obama will accept the Democratic nomination for a second term inside the Time Warner Cable Arena. Obama had been slated to kick off the final stretch of his campaign at a rock-concert-style event inside the 74,000-seat outdoor Bank of America Stadium here. But Democratic National Convention organizers announced Wednesday that they were moving his […]