Posted on 02 November 2011. Tags: Author, Black Leaders, California, Michael Beckwith is a New Thought Minister, Religion

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Beckwith
Michael Beckwith is a New Thought Minister, Author, and Founder of the Agape International Spiritual Center in Culver City, California, a New Thought Church with a Congregation estimated in excess of 8,000 Members. Beckwith was Ordained in Religious Science in 1985.
Michael Bernard Beckwith is Founder of the Agape International Spiritual Center, co-Founder of the Association ...
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Posted on 30 March 2009. Tags: Administration, American, California, Elections, History, News, Obama, Racing, University, cartoons, race, schools, slaves, writing

Two months into the administration of the first African-American president, Liz Sidoti of the Associated Press takes a look today at some of the "old racial stereotypes and Internet-fueled falsehoods'' about President Barack Obama that have "flourished.''
There was that New York Post cartoon portraying the president as a monkey, that California mayor resigning after circulating ...
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Posted on 24 March 2009. Tags: Brown, California, Community, Corruption, Events, Illegal, News, Nightclubs, Nightlife, Oakland, Parties, Police, Racism, Racist, allegations, drugs, inner circle, mayor jerry brown, oakland city hall, parking garage, police officers, revellers

Last week, Geoffrey Pete--long a well-respected figure in Oakland's African-American community, and the owner of Geoffrey's Inner Circle nightclub--held a press conference outside Oakland City Hall to announce he's considering filing a complaint against the OPD for unlawful harassment.
Pete has previously raised allegations that OPD and former mayor Jerry Brown instituted a crackdown on Oakland's ...
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