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    Glorious Easter Crowns at Allen Temple and Tree of Life Ministries

    by  • April 16, 2012 • Headine Display, Uncategorized

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    Allen Temple Baptist Church: Bottom Left to Right: Honorable Teresa Cox, Ruth Mims- Jemerson, Varnell Owens, Norma Mondy, Luella McFerren, AyseThompson, De Ida Spencer; Middle Row: Robin Dozier, Okorie Dozier, Ms. Elizabeth, Taylor Nelson, Teralynn Nelson, Joycelyn Mondy-Hutchinson, Blondie Robinson, Jamilah Buckner; Back row: Margaret Peterson, Geraldine Goree, Annie Allen. Photo by Stephen Brooks,...

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    Mujahidun Sumchai JD, PhD

    by  • April 16, 2012 • Uncategorized

    Dr. Mujahidun Sumchai is an African- Indigenous- European-Asian-Mestizo-Pacific Islander American, a unique multicultural American. He has a PhD in Integral System Humanities Behavioral Social Science from the California Institute of Integral Studies. Dr. Sumchai is a National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) certified Family-to-Family Trainer and Parents and Teachers as Allies trainer. He has...

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    Tulsa shooting suspects confessed, police documents show

    by  • April 10, 2012 • Headine Display, Uncategorized

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    (CNN) The 19-year-old Tulsa, Oklahoma, man whose Facebook page lamented his father’s death “at the hands of a f–king n—-r” told investigators he shot three of the African-Americans injured or killed in a Friday shooting spree, according to police documents. Fellow suspect Alvin Watts confessed to shooting the other two people, according to the...

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    Physical, Psychological and Electronic Violence

    by  • April 8, 2012 • Marin County News, Special Interests Articles, Uncategorized

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    Photo of: Shari Miller A new study of 1,430 7th-grade students reveals that many 7th-graders are dating and experiencing physical, psychological and electronic dating violence. More than one in three (37%) students surveyed report being a victim of psychological dating violence and nearly one in six (15%) report being a victim of physical dating...

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    Cheating our children: Suspicious school test scores across the nation

    by  • March 26, 2012 • Education, Uncategorized

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    By Heather Vogell, John Perry and Alan Judd and M.B. Pell The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Suspicious test scores in roughly 200 school districts resemble those that entangled Atlanta in the biggest cheating scandal in American history, an investigation by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution shows. The newspaper analyzed test results for 69,000 public schools and found high...

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    EJS Mourns the Loss of John Payton

    by  • March 26, 2012 • Obituaries, Obituary, Uncategorized

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    The Equal Justice Society mourns the loss of John Payton, the President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., who died late Thursday after a brief illness. He was 65. EJS expresses our deep condolences to his wife, Gay, and to the LDF family on this tragic loss. “John Payton...

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    GILBERT JOINS RAIDERS AS DIRECTOR OF MEDIA RELATIONS; TAYLOR NAMED DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS

    by  • March 26, 2012 • Sports, Uncategorized

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    The Oakland Raiders have announced the hiring of Zak Gilbert as director of media relations, and have named Mike Taylor director of public affairs. Taylor, who has been with the Raiders organization since 1988, welcomes Gilbert to the Raiders organization. Gilbert, 36, most recently served in the NFL from 2001-07, leaving as the chief assistant in the...

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    Prescott Circus Theatre Show

    by  • March 23, 2012 • Uncategorized

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    Prescott Circus Theatre, featuring over 100 student performers, will perform at 11:30 a.m., Saturday, March 31 in the auditorium at McClylmonds High School, 2607 Myrtle St. in Oakland. The children will perform juggling, stilting, acrobatics, unicycle, hambone body percussion, hip-hop dance and balancing acts. Families and children are invited to attend the free show....

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    For Many Youth, A Coach Can Make a Difference

    by  • March 16, 2012 • Uncategorized

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    By Kia Croom A little basketball can make a big difference in a child’s life, according to George Brown, coach of Recreational Complex Youth Sports sponsored by D.P. Security and Sims Metal Management. Brown is a coach for age 12 and under and 8th grade players of Recreational Complex Youth Sports teams, which each year...

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    In violence between Sudan and South Sudan, ‘echoes of Darfur’

    by  • March 11, 2012 • General Articles, Uncategorized

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    By Sudarsan Raghavan, NAIROBI — Renewed cross-border clashes between Sudan and the new nation of South Sudan are raising fears of a worsening humanitarian crisis, with some officials warning that the violence is reminiscent of the conflict in Darfur. Hundreds of people have fled Sudan in recent days, heading to camps in South Sudan and western Ethi­o­pia where tens...

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