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Kentucky Overturns Decision on Interracial Marriage

Posted on December 6, 2011 | 2 Comments

Gulnare Free Will Baptist church in Kentucky overturned a decision that barred mixed-race couples from membership, the Huffington Post reports. This decision comes amid an outcry of racial injustice.
The church overturned the decision Sunday, saying that it welcomes all believers

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Mouth Closed Shut: What Happens in the House Stays in the House

Posted on December 5, 2011 | 90 Comments

The Jerry Sandusky and Bernie Fine child molestation cases bring up a very serious topic. But does this apply to the black community? There may potentially be skeletons so old in the black community’s closet that they may as well be fossils. The topic of sexual abuse is taboo, but when applied to the black community, it simply would be an understatement to say the least.

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Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc., Epsilon Theta Chapter Reflects on 105 years

Posted on December 4, 2011 | No Comments

Sunday, Dec. 4 marks the 105th anniversary of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., the first inter-collegiate black Greek fraternity. Henry Arthur Callis, Charles Henry Chapman, Eugene Kinckle Jones, George Biddle Kelley, Nathaniel Allison Murray, Robert Harold Ogle and Vertner Woodson Tandy founded the fraternity at Cornell University on Dec. 4, 1906.

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