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Hundreds of people attended to Chick-Fil-A appreciation day to support the fast food chain after Chick-Fil-A President Dan Cathy’s proclaimed anti-gay marriage stance. But they didn’t know that Chick-Fil-A is actually a big supporter of Homosexuality. According to a new petition which is titled”Chick-fil-A: End the hypocrisy! Stop serving gay chickens,” calls a “harsh fact”: […]
During Sunday Nights Award Show BET handed out The Well-deserved Humanitarian Award to the Reverend Al Sharpton. He was celebrated, in part, for his voter education efforts, his tireless pursuit of civil rights, and being of general service to the African American community, and beyond for many decades! Ordained in the Pentecostal church, Al […]
The first report, that 50 or so graves had been disturbed at the historic Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, Ill. — the final resting place of civil rights icon Emmett Till, and the singer Dinah Washington — was grotesque. But by week’s end, the macabre tally had grown: Nearly 300 graves, possibly more, were destroyed in an apparent grave-resale scheme that took in an as yet unknown amount of money.
More than 60 passengers were missing after a riverboat collided with a trawler in southern Bangladesh Thursday, police said. In his first major speech since being confirmed, the nation’s first black attorney general told an overflow crowd celebrating Black History Month at the Justice Department the nation remains “voluntarily socially segregated.” “Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards,” Holder declared
In a blunt assessment of race relations in the United States, Attorney General Eric Holder Wednesday called the American people "essentially a nation of cowards" in failing to openly discuss the issue of race. In his first major speech since being confirmed, the nation’s first black attorney general told an overflow crowd celebrating Black History Month at the Justice Department the nation remains “voluntarily socially segregated.” “Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards,” Holder declared. Holder urged Americans of all races to use Black History Month as a time to have a forthright national conversation between blacks and whites to discuss aspects of race which are ignored because they are uncomfortable.