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Focusing Attention on the Real Impediment to Black Progress

Some black critics have argued that the problems faced by young African Americans is primarily a result of racism in American society.

(WASHINGTON, DC) - In February, President Obama launched an initiative for black young men.

As he announced a $200 million, five-year initiative, My Brother's Keeper, he declared: "I didn't have a dad in the house. And I was angry about it, even though I didn't necessarily realize it at the time. I made bad choices..."

Wounded Knee Massacre by Christians Crusaders

Please don’t be confused with Wounded Knee Incident.

(WASHINGTON, DC) - The Wounded Knee Massacre occurred on December 29,1890, near Wounded Knee Creek (Lakota: Čhaŋkpé Ópi Wakpála) on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the U.S. state of South Dakota.

It was the last battle of the American Indian Wars.

Daryl Hall and Amos Lee Share `Brotherly Love` on 66th Episode

Live from Daryl's House on Palladia is "In a Philly Mood".

(LOS ANGELES) - Live from Daryl's House celebrates it's Philadelphia roots in its new Pawling, N.Y., location as fellow City of Brotherly Love native Amos Lee joins Daryl Hall for the show's 66th and latest installment.

The episode premieres on Viacom's high-definition music channel Palladia...

Ultranationalist Neo-Nazi Parties on the March in Ukraine

Threat of anti-Semitic violence should cause international alarm

(NEW YORK al Jazeera) - President Viktor Yanukovich’s sudden, surprise departure from Kiev is the beginning of a long ordeal for Ukrainians. It’s also the start of a major threat to the several hundred thousand Ukrainian Jews.

Anti-Semitic violence in Ukraine may come as a surprise to an American audience accustomed to optimistic portrayals of the swiftly changing events in U.S. media.

The White Rose Lives! (in Oak Ridge, Tennessee): February 18, 1943 and February 18, 2014

The Nazis thought that the influence of the White Rose ended with their arrest, trial and immediate beheadings.

(DULUTH, MN) - 71 years ago last week, three idealist anti-fascist whistleblowing students at the University of Munich were arrested and imprisoned by the Gestapo.

Their crime? Protesting their war-mongering German government by the publication and distribution of a series of anti-Hitler leaflets in Munich and other German cities...

Twenty Years After the Massacre at the Tomb of the Patriarchs

What would we have known without the media?

(HUGUENOT, NY) - Wherever you happened to be on February 25, 1994, if you were old enough to read a newspaper you’ll likely recognize the name Baruch Goldstein.

You may recall that he was a brilliant, exceedingly gifted physician; president of his class, who graduated Summa Cum Laude with a 4.0 index.

For American Stoo-dents... A Virtual History Of Canadian Finance

When I go into a bank I get nervous. The clerks make me nervous; the sight of the money makes me nervous; everything makes me nervous. - Stephen Leacock

(DAYTONA BEACH) - Bay Street in Toronto is kind of like Wall Street. Kind of. Or at least it used to be. Actually, it's more like a Yogi Bera financial center.

The volume of trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange got so large that it isn't there any more.

A Chaotic Penal Discussion on the Release of Murugan, Santhan and Perarivalan

"If some person kills the PM and is released then how will a common man will get justice. It's a point to ponder" - Rahul Gandhi

(MELBOURNE) - Tamil Nadu Government on 19 February 2014 decided to set free, within three days of the Supreme Court judgement, all the seven convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. The SC commuted the death penalty of three assassins, Santhan, Murugan, the husband of Nalini and Perarivalan, to life imprisonment.

Nalini, Robert Pious, Jayakumar and Ravichandran were also released.

My Bi-polar Uncle

My Uncle Vic was a remarkable man...

(DAYTONA BEACH) - I saw my Uncle Victor on only one occasion, when I was eight or nine years old, and it wasn't a happy event.

My brother Jack and I were playing Barney Oldfield in my visiting uncle's Ford Model A roadster, and he, slightly miffed, asked Ross, my father, to eject us.

The 13th Amendment will Prolong the Sufferings of the Tamils

Now that the UNHRC is only a month away, India is in a fix

(MELBOURNE) - The 13th Amendment was a clause in the Indo-Sri Lankan Accord.

It was signed by the Prime Minister of India, Rajiv Gandhi and President Jayawardene of Sri Lanka in July 1987 to bring an end to the armed conflict in Sri Lanka between the Sri Lankan armed forces and the Tamil Tigers.