Thursday, April 28, 2011

Breaking news: After tornado, stone age conditions exist in Huntsville, Ala.

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(Photo courtesy of NASA Earth Observatory - April 27, 2011) Relatives and friends in Huntsville, Ala. report the tornado which hit the Spa...
Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Breaking news: Obama releases birth certificate

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After so much controversy over his birth certificate, U.S. President Barack Obama has released it to the world. The following message fro...
Monday, April 25, 2011

Sai Baba, Indian spiritual leader, dead at 84

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Sathya Sai Baba, the controversial Indian spiritual leader known as Sai Baba who sported an Afro and was often accused of sexual abuse, died...
Sunday, April 24, 2011

Royal fashionistas: where do they shop?

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(Photo by Tomi Johnson) If you are a soon to be princess and wanna-be queen of England like Kate Middleton, you shop at Warehouse, Banana ...
Saturday, April 23, 2011

Commencement Challenge winner will host Obama

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The White House is asking citizens to participate in a Commencement Challenge - selecting which high school should have the privilege of Pr...
Friday, April 22, 2011

U.S. executions up since 2008; Troy Davis could be next

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(Photo of Troy Davis, awaiting execution in Georgia for 20 years. Provided by ColorofChange. His mother, Virginia Davis, died while napping ...
Wednesday, April 20, 2011

FDA approves costly autoimmune disease drug

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Genentech and Biogen Idec announced April 19 that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Rituxan® (rituximab) in combination w...
Thursday, April 14, 2011

Why are we killing ourselves?

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The recent suicide of 25-year old Lashonda Armstrong and the murder of her three children brings to mind slave stories of black women who sa...
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Tuesday, April 12, 2011

On this day in History...

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Attack on Fort Sumter, S.C., starts Civil War - 1861 Fort Pillow (Tenn.) Massacre - 1864 Anti-Klan law passed in North Carolina - 1869

Students and grads scrambling for PAID internships and jobs

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Summer is fast approaching, and December 2010 college graduates who have not found jobs yet are in competition with university students for ...
Monday, April 11, 2011

U. S. "Working poor" versus the "Super Rich"

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The amount of people who are working but are still poor is increasing in the United States, according to the Census Bureau. In 2009, 10.4 mi...
Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Sisters protest corporate exec's pay and human trafficking

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(Photo of Salvatorian Sister Mary Leo - 1963, St. Joseph's Mission School, Huntsville, Ala.) According to an article in Business Inside...
Monday, April 4, 2011

Professor Manning Marable, historian and political activist, dead at 60

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After surviving a double lung transplant last summer, Dr. Manning Marable died April 1 in New York City from pneumonia. He was a Professor...
Thursday, March 31, 2011

How accurate are census and unemployment figures?

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Ever wonder if the U.S. Census correctly counts Blacks and Hispanics living in prisons or Native Americans living on reservations? And are a...

Preparing for disasters - are you ready?

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I have a friend who is a conspiracy and disaster watcher. She spends her free time surfing the Internet, like many people (including myself)...
Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Arlene Holt Baker, AFL-CIO plan walk to Georgia State Capital

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Labor leaders and politicians will be walking from Atlanta's King Center to the State Capital with AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Arl...

Obama gives energy policy speech at Georgetown University

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President Barack Obama gave an update today on a plan concerning the United States’ independence from foreign oil. The major networks cut th...
Tuesday, March 29, 2011

MoveOn.org planning "Day of Solidarity" on April 4

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Calling it "one of the most important progressive days of action in nearly a decade," MoveOn.org, a political action group, is pla...

Michelle Obama will speak at Spelman 2011 Commencement

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First Lady Michelle Obama will be the guest speaker at Spelman College's Commencement in Atlanta, Ga. Her address will be held May 15, ...
Monday, March 28, 2011

Consumers Use $250 in Economic Recovery Payments

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Wonder how consumers spend money it gets back from the government? The U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics keeps up with t...
Sunday, March 27, 2011

Time to prepare for your wedding day!

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With all the media hype surrounding the upcoming wedding of Prince William and Lady Kate, wedding planning is becoming a major project; but...
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Saturday, March 26, 2011

Quote for today...

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"You can not help someone if you do not respect them." ---The 14th Dalai Lama
Thursday, March 24, 2011

U.S. Census reports jump in Hispanic population due to immigration

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Hispanic and Asian Populations Grew Fastest During the Decade (Check out Rev. Samuel Rodriguez's speech suggesting Hispanics and Black...

Affordable Care Act: What's in the fine print?

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As we celebrate the one year anniversary of the passage of health care reforms, ConsumersUnion®, the non-profit publisher of Consumer Report...
Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Elizabeth Taylor, Jewel of Hollywood Age

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It has been said that violet-eyed Elizabeth Taylor was a woman known for her superb acting ability, multiple marriages, gorgeous diamonds, a...