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Dare to be Great - All things are possible!
At some point in our lives, we have had dreams of becoming someone who achieved fantastic things and became internationally famous with an impressive financial portfolio.
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White America opens its arms to Obama - Is Black America ready for a more perfect 'union'?
The off record (recorded) chatter of Jesse Jackson concerning Barack Obama ”talking down to black people” clearly indicates that the old guard of the black leadership is not quite ready for a black president who refuses to use race as the only leitmotif..
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Asylum Commission calls for safe and sure returns of refused asylum seekers and new deal
The Independent Asylum Commission will call for a ‘New Deal for Safe and Sure Returns’ of refused asylum seekers when it launches its Safe Return report in Manchester today.
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How the racial sins of the past live on, multiplying suffering
For a very long time, clear disparities between blacks and whites in medical outcomes were dismissed as the fault of African American ignorance, superstition, or bad diets…writes Glen Ford.
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Whose money is on the table for climate change?
UK-based development agency Oxfam has called for clarity on funds promised by rich countries to help the world’s poor cope with the global food crisis and adapt to climate change.
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European Court turns it back on migrants with HIV
Yasmin Barracks assesses the impact of the recent ruling by the European Court of Human Rights to deport a Ugandan woman suffering from AIDS.
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Black Shakespearian actors taking centre stage
Lisa Urquhart looks at the steady rise in black actors playing major Shakespearian roles.
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Miami’s Urban Beach Week – are blacks targetd by police?
Every year several hundred thousand black youths gather at Miami's South Beach for Urban Beach Week, and each year the local police show them that African Americans are not wanted. By Mel Reeves.
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New report warns of bleak future for asylum seekers seeking UK sanctuary
Refugees seeking sanctuary in the UK are increasingly being denied refuge despite its once high reputation of providing protection for those fleeing persecution.
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South Africa military’s ban on HIV positive people ruled unconstitutional
South Africa's High Court in Pretoria has ruled that the military's exclusion of HIV-positive people from recruitment, promotion and foreign deployment is unconstitutional.
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How a one night stand could change your life forever
Twenty-five year old Marie* comes from France but works for an international non-governmental organisation that often requires her to travel around Asia and Africa. While on one such trip she made a decision that could change her life forever.
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Sean Bell & Wesley Snipes – victims of the American justice system?
The United States leads the world in putting its citizens behind bars. The nation with just 5 per cent of the world's population has 25 per cent of the world's prisoners.
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Kenya’s political leaders preach peace but homeless remain cautious
Ndirangu Mwangi, 26, one of 14,000 people camping in the Rift Valley town of Eldoret’s showground, was less than encouraged after Kenya’s political leaders visited the town as part of a “national healing” initiative.
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Martin Luther King Commemoration and Revisionism
The commemoration of MLK's assassination 40 years ago stuck to the usual revisionist script, as the dailies and even some black periodicals heralded the occasion by referring to MLK as "The Dreamer."
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Rwandans seeking reconciliation 14 years after genocide
Brigitte Mukandoli was a schoolgirl when a group of militias manning a roadblock near her village of Bishenyi, close to the Rwandan capital, Kigali, seized her. She was taken to a nearby village and raped by 10 men.
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Incidents of domestic violence rise threefold
World famous evangelist Juanita Bynum referred to herself as the “new face of domestic violence” after experiencing abuse at the hands of her Bishop husband a year ago. Incidents in the UK have tripled in the last 12 months.
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AFRICOM has no plans for humanitarian role in Africa
In a key briefing to Congress on 13 March, General William “Kip” Ward, head of the US Command for Africa, AFRICOM, devoted only 15 seconds of his four-and-a-half minute opening remarks to a possible humanitarian role.
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Single black mums use negative attitudes as motivation to succeed
Many single black mothers face daily struggles but despite their efforts feel that they are looked down upon by the rest of society.
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U.S. Among Harshest for Sentencing Children
Somalia and the United States share an unfortunate commonality - they are the only countries in the world that refuse to sign the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child because of its ban on sentencing children to die in prison.
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Black graduates losing out in the job market
Although more young people from the black communities are attending university, a greater proportion of them end up on the dole, rather than in the job of their dreams. Yasmin Barracks investigates why.
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