One of the most prominent and effective African American members of Congress, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), has long been a fighter against the spread of HIV/AIDS in the African American community and a strong advocate for the rights and care of ind ...
Posted Wednesday, April 6th 2011 at 12:01PM
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New York– The Secret Service is investigating a data heist that is being called the largest data heist in history.
Hackers breached the Epsilon marketing company’s records Friday, stealing millions of email contacts. Fortunately for countless pe ...
Posted Tuesday, April 5th 2011 at 12:30PM
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(Reuters) - Actress and goodwill ambassador Angelina Jolie appealed on Tuesday for international support for people fleeing the conflict in Libya and for increased aid for those inside the country.
Jolie, a goodwill ambassador for the United Natio ...
Posted Tuesday, April 5th 2011 at 12:27PM
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HARTFORD — Lawmakers are looking to strengthen landmark legislation requiring police to record the race of motorists in traffic stops.
The law, as currently written, directs the African-American Affairs Commission to analyze the data to determine ...
Posted Monday, April 4th 2011 at 8:41PM
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GlobalResearch.com--American fighter jets, submarines and missile ships have officially stopped firing at Gaddafi’s troops.
Ever since Washington handed over command of the military operation to the NATO coalition, the US has been slowly winding d ...
Posted Monday, April 4th 2011 at 7:08PM
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ATLANTA: The first-ever, over-the-air broadcast TV network programmed exclusively for African-American audiences will launch this fall, according to its founders. Bounce TV was announced today by a team of executives that includes former United Natio ...
Posted Monday, April 4th 2011 at 7:05PM
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From The Minnepolis Heart Institute
April 2, 2011
The sickle cell trait could be a cause—albeit rare—of sudden death in young African-American competitive athletes, most commonly during football training, according to a scientific poster that wil ...
Posted Sunday, April 3rd 2011 at 2:46PM
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DAKAR, Senegal — As rebels swept across Ivory Coast in a rapid advance to oust the nation’s strongman, Laurent Gbagbo, hundreds of people were killed in a single town last week, by far the worst episode of violence reported in the four-month politica ...
Posted Saturday, April 2nd 2011 at 7:18PM
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Inaugurated by the Academy of American Poets in 1996, National Poetry Month is now held every April, when publishers, booksellers, literary organizations, libraries, schools and poets around the country band together to celebrate poetry and its vital ...
Posted Saturday, April 2nd 2011 at 3:35PM
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