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Southern University should have known better than to invite Louis Farrakhan to campus
WGNO NewsI have to admit I was a little shocked when I found out Southern University in Baton Rouge had nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan come speak at the school earlier this month. The Nation of Islam student association sponsored the event, but not without...Tags: Education, Colleges and Universities, The Holocaust (1934-1945), Teaching and Learning, Students
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We have your values right here!
Change of SubjectCommenter Beth points us to this post at HotAir contrasting offical Chicago's reaction to Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan's activity in anti-violence efforts with Chick-Fil-A's so-far-thwarted attempt to open a second restaurant: So, let’s... -
Farrakhan's right to speak at Berkeley event is defended
L.A. NOWAn appearance by controversial Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan at UC Berkeley raised some hackles, but University of California President Mark G. Yudof issued a statement defending Farrakhan's right to speak.... -
Remembering Mike Wallace
Show TrackerVeteran broadcast journalist Mike Wallace, who found his way into the homes of millions of people through his many years on CBS' "60 Minutes," died Saturday night at the age of 93.... -
Controversial Nation of Islam leader to speak in Tampa
The Religion WorldControversial Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan is scheduled to speak in Tampa on Sunday. His speech marks what the NOI is calling the 15th annual Holy Day of Atonement to mark the anniversary of the Million Man March, which happened Oct. 16, 1995.... -
'Curb Your Enthusiasm': Never leaving the past (behind)
Show TrackerWhile this week's 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' offered some window dressing (borrowed pens, rash-afflicted 9-year-old girls, maitre d' bribery, Groat's disease), the main events were clearly the table read for the 'Seinfeld' reunion and Michael Richards being... -
Suspicions fire racial tensions
Gina Blandin has a theory about what caused the flooding disaster that befell New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina struck last August, an idea that has little to do with engineering studies or physical evidence and everything to do with the poisonous...Tags: Demographics, Disasters and Accidents, The Wall Street Journal, Ku Klux Klan, Media Industry
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A Documentary About Soul Food Serves Up Ideas About History, Health and Racism in America
Soul Food Junkies Mon. Jan. 14, 10 p.m., on PBS's Independent Lens, check local listings America's food system is racist. That's one of the claims advanced in Soul Food Junkies, a brisk, provocative and wide-ranging documentary about African-...
Tags: Healthy Diet, Salt, Foods and Beverages, Minority Groups, Dick Gregory
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Sun Myung Moon dies at 92; led controversial Unification Church
The Rev. Sun Myung Moon, the self-proclaimed Messiah from South Korea who led the Unification Church, one of the most controversial religious movements to sweep America in the 1970s, has died. He was 92. Moon, who had been hospitalized with pneumonia...Tags: Pneumonia, Cults and Sects, World War II (1939-1945), Family, Danbury
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Sun Myung Moon Dies At 92; Led Controversial Unification Church
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe Rev. Sun Myung Moon, the self-proclaimed Messiah from South Korea who led the Unification Church, one of the most controversial religious movements to sweep America in the 1970s, has died. He was 92. Moon, who had been hospitalized with pneumonia...Tags: London School of Economics, Pneumonia, Cults and Sects, Immigration, Religion and Belief
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Why I became Muslim
For Ramadan, the Islamic holy month that falls in August this year, we asked a few people in South Florida why they became Muslim and what it has meant to them. Here are the last two.
Patricia Salahuddin
Patricia Salahuddin teaches at the Design and...Tags: Palm Beach County, Christian Orthodoxy, Protestantism, Elijah Muhammad, Religious Festivals
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Chick-fil-A gets busted by the thought police
Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy is in hot water with the LGBT community because he committed the cardinal sin in an age of political correctness: Thou must not speak ill of anything gays, lesbians, bisexuals or transgender people wish to do. In an...
Tags: NBC (tv network), Barack Obama, Family, Rahm Emanuel, Same-Sex Marriage
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