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Congressman Charles B. Rangel

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Rep. Charlie Rangel. Photo: APK Photo ALBI YA NEW YORK— An elder statesman, a Civil Rights ambassador, a trailblazing legislator, and a visionary for social and economic justice for his beloved Harlem community were just some of the accolades that many have shared on the mention of his name. Congressman Charles “Charlie” Rangel, who passed away on May 26 at the age of 94, was admired and remembered by his colleagues, constituents, friends, and admirers as a great nobleman who served 46 years in Congress. Born June 11, 1930, he was a founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus in 1971 and a decorated soldier from the Korean War. Congressman Rangel epitomized leadership with pomp, personality, style, and purpose. He was a champion for justice who introduced legislation in 1987 that helped to dismantle Apartheid in South Africa, Called the Rangel Amendment, which denied foreign tax credits to American companies investing in that country. Congressman Rangel was the first Black person...

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France admits waging ‘war’ in African state

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  Web Pic via Albi clearly highlighted that a war had taken place in Cameroon, during which the colonial authorities and the French army carried out multiple forms of repressive violence.  War … continued beyond 1960 with France’s support for actions carried out by the independent Cameroonian authorities. It is up to me today to assume the role and responsibility of France in these events. Cameroon had been a German colony until World War I, when it was split between France and Britain, with the French-controlled area gaining independence in 1960 and the southern British Cameroons joining a year later.

Mad Dog

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  HAVE NO FEAR FOR THE FUTURE: THE FUTURE IS OURS! If you’re going to bring your generals and your army into Chicago to kill our “young savages,” I’m sending this book to the White House!   Before  you come, read it!  Give it to General “Mad Dog” Mattis, and read it before you come.  Now if I frighten you, don’t wet your pants,  hold on to your pants.   They need to be frightened, not you.  That’s why this subject was,  “HAVE NO FEAR FOR THE FUTURE: THE FUTURE IS OURS!”   I’m going to prove that. This book highlights the chemical experiment, and points out the CIA and who did it.  …   What we find the truth of, we are ready to die on it.  And if you know the truth and won’t tell it, what kind of  person  are you?   … 

State of the Union message

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  The economy is getting weaker. Consumer confidence is down. Unemployment is up. Federal budget deficits are rising to record levels.   The state of the union is, in a word, “dismal.” Two Nobel Peace Prize winners–former South African President Nelson Mandela and former U.S. President Jimmy Carter–criticized the Bush approach as shortsighted at best, or as arrogant, or even racially motivated. What I am condemning is that one power with a president who has no foresight and cannot think properly is now wanting to plunge the world into a holocaust n ot made a case for a preemptive military strike against Iraq. The spectacle of the United States, armed with its weapons of mass destruction, acting without Security Council authority to invade a country in the heartland of Arabia and, if necessary, use of weapons of mass destruction to win that battle, is something that will so deeply violate any notion of fairness in this world that I strongly suspect it could set loose forces tha...

Teens jail hanging

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  Ms. Burks said that she believed she was teaching her 19-year-old son, Northur, a lesson by making him wait for an extended period of time before she posted his bail–she told him as much in a phone call. However, she had no idea the next call she would receive would change her life forever: her eldest son was dead resulting from asphyxiation. Northur did not kill himself After three days in a cell, Ms. Burks posted her son’s bail; satisfied he had learned an important lesson about responsibility.   Less than 48 hours later, he was dead. The local media has covered this case and basically they are getting tired of the mother calling them about this. The family doesn’t want just a civil suit, they want criminal charges filed. This isn’t the ’50s where they could get away with it. Ms. Burks has vowed to turn her pain into power. Northur was a happy kid who was just happy to be driving his first car

‘The Master Physician and The Divine Art of Healing’

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  I greet all of you, my dear brothers and sisters, with the greeting words of “peace.” We say it in Hebrew, “Shalom,” in Arabic, “As-Salaam Alaikum,” in English, “Peace be unto you. --- Doctors must be involved in the divine art of healing Dear brothers and sisters, it’s a great honor to talk to those of you whom I believe God has called to the healing science and the healing art. To be a doctor, to be a healer, is one of the greatest professions of this world. I said, “called by God,” because every person involved in healing, to me, is involved in that which is of divine.  As doctors, you are students of the greatest house, divine house, that God created: the human body. And as students of His magnificent creation, the human body, there are certain norms that you know must be present in order for the body to be considered healthy. There are certain standards and there are certain criteria that all agree are the measurement of health. And so, when you take blood pressure, you...

South Africa rejects industry push to favor U.S.

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President Donald Trump meets South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office of the White House, May 21, in Washington. Photo: APK Photo/ALBI   South African Mining Minister Gwede Mantashe has rejected a proposal by top business leaders to offer the U.S. favorable access to Africa’s critical minerals, accusing them of pushing private interests, Bloomberg reported on Aug. 6. According to the outlet, the proposal—bearing the phrase “make minerals great again”—was drafted by a group including Sibanye Stillwater CEO Neal Froneman and board member Rick Menell ahead of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s meeting with US President Donald Trump in May. Mantashe said neither the Mines Ministry nor the Minerals Council South Africa, which represents most of the country’s mining firms, was consulted during the plan’s development. “They didn’t talk to us,” he told Bloomberg, adding that “there can be nothing about mining without” input from the ministry and broader indu...

Sudan’s civil war and humanitarian crisis show no signs of slowing

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  Sudan fighting intensifies as civilian death toll rises. Photo: MGN Online With the conflict between warring factions in Sudan showing no sign of abating, which is impacting different regions of the country, the humanitarian situation continues to deteriorate, with massive displacement of people and the collapse of essential services. In a recent briefing, the African Union explained that Sudan “remains the world’s largest humanitarian crisis,” with over 30 million people, in a country of 48 million, in dire need of assistance. “At least 150,000 people have been killed. More than 14 million have been displaced, with over 3 million fleeing to neighboring countries like Chad, Ethiopia and South Sudan. Once a vibrant capital city, Khartoum is now a ‘burn-out shell,’” reported The Conversation, a nonprofit online news platform, in a June 2025 article, “Sudan: foreign interests are deepening a devastating war—only regional diplomacy can stop them.” --- While t...

The Platform to Free Your Minds

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  To the wonderful students of HET-H.E.R.U. Sorority; to the students of the Nation of Islam Student Association; to those who spoke before me … . And to Brother Samuel X, who went out of his way to provide what he could that we might be able to meet tonight. That shows his love for you; and most importantly, it shows his love for the message that you are about to hear, that he knows will make a difference in your lives. My thanks to each of you who had anything to give. --- My thanks to some of the professors who gave money that this event might be held. We thank the administrators of the school for whatever assistance they gave. And even those who tried to make it very difficult, we thank you, too. Because ignorance causes us to do many silly things, and the man Jesus that I know, he would not approve of our returning evil for evil, but he would rather that we return good for evil. And I am sure that those who would not allow me to stand behind a Tennessee State University podium...