The sun sets on the Black Family Channel

(multichannel.com) Atlanta-based Black Family Channel is expected to end its run as a 24-hour channel once talks with Gospel Music Channel are finalized later this week.
The two parties are negotiating a deal in which BFC will yield its 16 million subscribers to 10 million-subscriber Gospel, along with its blessings, effectively ending its run as a [...]

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Precious cargo from Haiti

It is stories like this that I use in my case that despite some of the problems here in America, this country is by far the best option for those that live in hopeless situations.
(miamiherald.com) One by one they walked in: five girls in spring flower dresses with their hair neatly braided, nine boys in [...]

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Speak against the Cuban government, get 17 years in prision

Well at least they have free medical care, right?
Except for this guy.
(cubanet.org) HAVANA - A veteran dissident leader who wrote a book about Cuban prison conditions while behind bars was freed over the weekend after serving his entire 17-year sentence, rights groups said Monday.
Jorge Luis Garcia Perez, widely known by the nickname “Antunez,” was released [...]

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Documentary on Blacks on Wall St.

(eurweb.com) A documentary is in the works about African Americans who have made substantial contributions on Wall Street. Titled “Wall Street In the Black,” the film by Drunia M. Duvivier aims to serve as inspiration for a generation of black youth.
“I was inspired by the extraordinary African American men and women I encountered,” Duvivier, who [...]

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Project Band-Aid

That is what I am calling the latest campaign organized by both the NAACP and the HSAN to bleep out certain words within hip hop music when they are broadcasted on the airwaves. (read what I just said again and let that sink in)
What happens when someone purchases the album? Or how about the “uncensored” [...]

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