March is Colon Cancer Awareness Month and Bear River Health Department officials say it is a good time for those 50 and older to make a screening appointment.
Health department deputy director Dr. Ed Redd says colon cancer is the second most dead ...
Posted Thursday, March 10th 2011 at 3:58PM
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PITTSBURGH--Nationally syndicated radio host Bev Smith compares the Rev. Louis Farrakhan with Martin Luther King. Local Jewish leader David Ainsman likens him to a Nazi.
And those diverging views are creating quite a bit of controversy.
Rev. Fa ...
Posted Tuesday, March 8th 2011 at 1:14PM
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Five hundred years after slavery days, and we still trust our exploiters and oppressors more than we trust each other.
We still have an inferior perspective when we analyze the things that we can do for ourselves and for each other.
We don’t be ...
Posted Tuesday, March 8th 2011 at 1:10PM
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I just learned that one of our sisters in the NOI in Chicago Sister Michelle is in ICU after suffering from a blood clot in her lungs. I ask everyone to please keep her in your prayers and your hearts. Get well soon sis! ...
Posted Monday, March 7th 2011 at 7:41PM
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(ThyBlackMan.com) The unemployment rates for every segment of the African-American population remains persistently high, even while the rest of the nation is starting to get back to work. While the national unemployment rate has dropped to 8.9 percen ...
Posted Monday, March 7th 2011 at 7:23PM
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You've probably heard the following rule a million times. Old folks used to say it everyday. I call it the "profane assumption." It is the Rule of Black Progress and it goes like this: "If you are Black, you have to run twice as hard to get half as f ...
Posted Monday, March 7th 2011 at 6:56PM
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Washington, D.C. – Members of the Project 21 black leadership network strongly disagree with the President's contention, as reported in the new book Family of Freedom: Presidents and African Americans in the White House, that the tea parties are moti ...
Posted Sunday, March 6th 2011 at 4:27PM
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After Mass as he was leaving the front door, the priest caught up with him & said, "Murphy, I am so glad ya decided to come to Mass. What made ya come?"
Murphy said, "I got to be honest with you Father, a while back, I
Misplaced me hat & I really, ...
Posted Saturday, March 5th 2011 at 5:23PM
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Shortly after Oprah Winfrey became a national sensation she hired her first cousin Jo Baldwin to be her speechwriter. Later she promoted Baldwin to VP of her company Harpo Inc.
“When I received my PhD in 1985 from the University of Wisconsin-Milwa ...
Posted Saturday, March 5th 2011 at 3:48PM
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