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Long Beach Indie to Highlight Positive Young Black Men

In the midst of the furor over the death of Michael Brown and the continuing legacy of the Trayvon Martin killing, the Long Beach Indie International Film Festival is featuring a suite of films highlighting positive images of young African American men. Taking place August 27-31, 2014 at the Cinemark at the Pike Theaters in Long Beach, California, the festival screens more than 90 diverse films from across the globe.

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The National Action Network’s annual convention is under way this week in New York, featuring dozens of panel discussions tackling civil rights topics from voter repression to stop-and-frisk laws, as well as planned remarks by President Obama.

The event’s primary goal, founder and president Al Sharpton told The Root, is to create an “action agenda” for the upcoming midterm elections.

Get the latest updates and highlights from the NAN event here.

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Recording artist and Pastor Deitrick Haddon has been cast to appear on the Oxygen series "Pastors of L.A." Confirmed Monday, May 13, the series is slated to follow the lives of pastors in California.
 
"Pastors of L.A." will give viewers a candid and revealing look at six boldly different and world renowned mega-pastors in Southern California, who are willing to share diverse aspects of their lives, from their work in the community and with their parishioners to the very large and s
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Annetha Jones reads her Bible at her Port St. John, Fla., home on May 8. She says that raising children, with all of the joy and pain involved, is worth it. "I wouldn't trade anything for being a mother," she said. (Craig Bailey/Florida Today)
She is worth far more than jewels, cites the Bible's Proverbs 31 - among many other praises - about wives, mothers and women who do it all.
The Old Testament scripture - sometimes sung or read to mothers during the Sabbath in traditional Jewish homes or
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179002_10151577603899532_706125720_n.jpg?width=200The Black woman in American is dead and we allow Satan to keep her that way. African Americans will not rise until the Black woman is brought back to life. After the Civil War the chains came off but today we still are not free. No our wrist and ankles are not chained but our minds are. To the men reading this, we must learn to show our women, our sisters, our mothers the proper respect. God created man to be the stewards over all creation. To show disrespect to the gift that is woman is mismana

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