GEORGIA--About 30 people showed their support of Raquel Nelson, the Marietta woman convicted of vehicular homicide after her 4-year-old son was killed by a hit-and-run driver, at the Marietta Square on Friday morning.
Many of the supporters were m ...
Posted Saturday, July 23rd 2011 at 5:31PM
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From BlackAgendaReport.com
July 21, 2011
The drought that threatens more than ten million lives in the Horn of Africa has been made vastly more deadly by U.S. and Ethiopian use of food as a weapon of war. The Americans last year forced the colla ...
Posted Friday, July 22nd 2011 at 12:11PM
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Health.com--Two independent research teams have used a new method to develop the first detailed maps of the places where DNA is likely to be reshuffled in the genomes of African Americans, creating a tool that will help find genes that cause disease, ...
Posted Thursday, July 21st 2011 at 12:34PM
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From Newsweek.com
July 20, 2011
NASA’s 135th space shuttle flight ended this morning when Atlantis touched down at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, marking the close of a 30-year run for NASA’s ambitious, controversial and trouble ...
Posted Thursday, July 21st 2011 at 12:29PM
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(ThyBlackMan.com) Many of us have seen the dismal statistics for black males in America. African American men are at the bottom of the barrel in nearly every category of life, including healthcare, education, incarceration, and unemployment. Many o ...
Posted Wednesday, July 20th 2011 at 2:44PM
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ATLANTA (AP) — Authorities say a 59-year-old former leader of a Ku Klux Klan chapter was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for seeking to have sex with two teenage girls.
Neal Ray Schmidt was sentenced Thursday after he pleaded guilty to dri ...
Posted Wednesday, July 20th 2011 at 2:40PM
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BET.com--We all know that childhood obesity is a serious issue in this country—an estimated 2 million children suffer from it. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 24 percent of African-American girls ages 6 to 11 are overweig ...
Posted Wednesday, July 20th 2011 at 2:04PM
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DETROIT - In a stunning and long-thirsted for victory against the forces of reaction in this country, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals declared Michigan's Proposal 2 unconstitutional July 1, paving the way to re-instate ...
Posted Tuesday, July 19th 2011 at 10:02AM
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