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TAAN Celebrates One Year and Is a Global Portal Today!
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On December 11, 2011, The African American Network (TAAN) began testing the waters to see if there was an interest and a market for news that affected African Americans, both locally and globally. We started out by writing about some critical areas that affect African American like literacy, child molestation, job creation and recreation; prison and slavery of African American men, Christmas Shopping and the list goes on. We found that the interest of the topics published on our blog were far reaching and had a global interest...what started out as a blog about San Antonio, Texas has become a worldwide portal for information about education, children, business leaders, ordinary people, politics, community and more. As we move into another holiday season and another year...we cherish the memories and accomplishments of ordinary, yet extraordinary people in communities across the country. We've only chipped a tiny tip of the iceberg...there are so many stories of interest to
TAAN Photo of the Day: Presidential Election Sealed With a Kiss
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VOTE November 6th...BIG DAY...BIG DECISION...GO VOTE
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Get Out to VOTE...Wake up Call from Michelle Obama
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Romney and Obama Swap Zingers at Al Smith Dinner, 2012
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Jay-Z Speaks About The Power of Our Vote...Get Out and Vote
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What Did You Think About the Vice Presidential Debate???
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Governor Rick Perry to Speak at UNCF Luncheon...While Mayor Julian Castro Accepts the "Excellence in Education" Award
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SANDUSKY TAKEN OFF THE STREETS FOR LIFE...
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S OURCE: NEW YORK TIMES BELLEFONTE, Pa. — Jerry Sandusky stood in court Tuesday in his current uniform, the bright red jumpsuit of the Centre County jail. No longer was he in his Penn State coaching gear, nor in the suit and tie he wore at his trial in June. He was, in a sense, as powerless before his victims as they had once been before him. So he sat, forced to listen. “We both know exactly what happened,” said one of three victims who stood and spoke. Another said: “I am troubled with flashbacks of his naked body, something that will never be erased from my memory. Jerry has harmed children, of which I am one of them.” “There is no punishment sufficient for you,” the mother of another victim wrote in a statement read by the lead prosecutor. Another victim wrote: “There is no remorse. There is no acknowledgment of regret, only evil.” The Penn State sexual abuse scandal does not have many chapters left. The former football coach Joe Paterno is dead, his name
MARTA board votes for Keith Parker as general manager
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By Steve Visser The Atlanta Journal-Constitution The MARTA board of directors picked a rising transit “star” with a reputation for working with Republicans as the general manager Thursday to revamp the troubled transit authority. Board Chairman Fred Daniels said the board would be negotiating a contract with Keith Parker, who is currently the chief of VIA Metropolitan Transit in San Antonio. Daniels noted that Parker was coming from a politically conservative area. He hoped that would serve Parker well in negotiations with Georgia’s GOP-dominated Legislature, which provides no funding for MARTA, if the Legislature “gives him a chance.” “He has worked well with both the business community and the political community,” Daniels said. “He has a track record in San Antonio of working with both Republicans and Democrats. Same thing in Charlotte.” Almost immediately after news of Parker’s selection broke in Atlanta, the San Antonio Express-News reported on its website th
Poets Perform at Continental Cafe...This Friday...Team Spoken Word Raising Money for Education
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Keith Parker...VIA Metropolitan Transit CEO...Atlanta Bound?
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VIA's President and CEO Keith Parker was selected Thursday night to lead Atlanta's public transit agency, the ninth largest in the nation and one showing signs of trouble. Parker did not immediately accept the job and plans to meet with the VIA Board of Trustees at a special meeting early next week to discuss it, according to an email sent to the board shortly after the vote in Atlanta. The board of the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority met and cast nine votes in favor of naming Parker general manager and CEO; one member abstained and another didn't attend, said spokesman Lyle V. Harris . “We strongly believe that Keith Parker is the best choice for MARTA,” said MARTA board Chairman Frederick L. Daniels Jr. in a statement Thursday. “We are extremely proud of the work we have done to this point, and we are very confident that we have picked the right man, for the right job at the right time.” After learning of Parker's selection, VIA
Michelle & Barack Obama dancing with Ellen DeGeneres
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San Antonio MLK Documentary...Dreams Come True: A Living History...Now On YouTube
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Meet Famous Black Republics...Supposedly...Who Knows?
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Global Grind Looking for and Found Some Black Republicans
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President Obama and First Lady's 20th Anniversary Kiss...
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ELECTION DAY TODAY: Pastors Join Forces to Encourage San Antonians to Vote
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EARLY VOTING UNDERWAY: Pastor Kenneth Kemp Speaks Out on Voting
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Does Mitt Romney Really Talk Like This...Take a Listen...
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Has Obama Changed America....Does He Need More Time to Do It!!!
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Little Things Matter in Presidential Debates...Watch October 3rd Beginning at 9:00 pm Eastern Time...8:00 pm Central Time
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What Previous Voters are Saying About President Obama
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YaKe' Smith Speaks About His Film "Wolf"....Showing in San Antonio at the Bijou through October 4th...
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Young Ladies Want Us to Register to VOTE...Then Get Out to Vote
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DOES MICHELLE OBAMA'S OUTFITS...FIT IN?...SEE WHAT SOME THINK...
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Since she became First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama's fashion choices have been closely scrutinized and debated. But while we've argued the merits of mixed prints , kitten heels and other style minutiae, we never once doubted that First Lady Michelle Obama looked the part. But in an interview last month, conducted at the American Legion's annual meeting in Indianapolis, Virginia voter Bobbie Lussier expressed her concerns to NPR's Ari Shapiro with the Obamas -- specifically, Mrs. O's appearance: I just -- I don't like him. Can't stand to look at him. I don't like his wife. She's far from the first lady. It's about time we get a first lady in there that acts like a first lady, and looks like a first lady. Shapiro happened to run into Lussier just yesterday at another Romney event, this time in Springfield, Virginia, allowing Lussier to clarify her previous comments. Shapiro probed Lussier, saying that last time "