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TLCweekly.com: Lost community news every Monday based on major Black, African and Caribbean-owned newspapers around America. TLC Weekly: The voice you barely knew in Kansas. Status Updates: If it can't wait till Monday, then you'll find it in our Status Updates. Photos: includes images from news that didn't make tlcweekly's Blog. Blog: Check for our latest Blog available first to Friends every Monday. We don't send out those annoying emails. Friends: Show some love. Guestbook: Keep it clean, y'all.
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FEATURE VIDEO: Hidden Colors is a documentary about some of the African roots to the modern world that's disregarded for the miseducation of diasporans in America, the Caribbean and the West. Note: Trailer presented in recognition of Black History Month events every February in the U.S. and Canada.
FEATURE VIDEO: Public schools are now the largest referral source of kids into the penal system, according to a report by The Anne E. Casey Foundation last fall. These youngsters are usually criminalized for minor, nonviolent offenses that schools traditionally addressed by displinary actions. (See Oct. 3 Blog) The classic "Juvenile Delinquintz" by Terminator X is about why some students rejected the teachings of their history class, then were disciplined for it.
FEATURE VIDEO: Somali community members close their bank accounts at a Minneapolis, Minn. Wells Fargo after the company refused to reinstate money wiring services to their families in famine-stricken Somalia. (See Jan. 16 Blog) Banks in Minnesota suspended Hawalas--money transfers to Somalia from Somalis abroad--after the threat of legal ramifications should the money benefit any Al-Shabab affiliate, according to newly-imposed U.S. Homeland Security rules. (See Dec. 26 Blog)
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