The Concerned Coalition to Protect Prisoner Rights held a press conference on Jan. 6, 2011, to discuss the physical assaults perpetrated on inmates by prison staff. The attacks took place in the wake of fact finding visits by the coalition to Mac ...
Posted Tuesday, January 11th 2011 at 1:51PM
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Second-born children conceived within one year of their older sibling’s birth are more likely to be diagnosed with autism than children born farther apart, new research suggests.
The study, published online today in the journal Pediatrics, is bel ...
Posted Monday, January 10th 2011 at 5:37PM
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From Newsweek.com
January 9, 2010
It was announced last summer that total student loan debt, at $830 billion, now exceeds total US credit card debt, itself bloated to the bubble level of $827 billion. And student loan debt is growing at the rate ...
Posted Monday, January 10th 2011 at 5:33PM
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According to a law enforcement memo based on information provided by DHS and obtained by Fox News, Jared Loughner, the alleged shooter of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, may have been influenced by a pro-white racist organization that publishes an ...
Posted Sunday, January 9th 2011 at 3:47PM
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NEW ORLEANS--Denease Sorapuru and Michael Henderson came to Destrehan Plantation on Saturday afternoon for an event commemorating an 1811 slave revolt. Both described themselves as of Creole descent and related to slaveowners affected by the revolt.
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Posted Sunday, January 9th 2011 at 2:00PM
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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Nine days before Martin Luther King's birthday, a historical barrier was reached, as the Ohio Supreme Court swore in it's first black female justice at the King Arts Complex on Columbus' east side.
"She is the american dream come ...
Posted Sunday, January 9th 2011 at 1:46PM
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Critics who suggest that Oprah Winfrey's new OWN network could use a little more racial diversity found a gentle supporter in Sheila Johnson, co-founder of Black Entertainment Television.
Johnson, who counts herself as Winfrey admirer, said Thursd ...
Posted Saturday, January 8th 2011 at 7:05PM
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(CNN) -- An American school founder who young Haitian men once hailed as a savior was sentenced Tuesday to nearly 20 years in prison for sexually abusing them.
Douglas Perlitz, 40, was sentenced in federal court in New Haven, Connecticut, to 19 ye ...
Posted Saturday, January 8th 2011 at 2:54PM
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This Sunday, about 4 million Sudanese in the war-torn Southern part of the country will go to the polls to cast their ballots in a referendum to decide if they should remain a part of Africa's largest country or become the continent's newest nation.
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Posted Saturday, January 8th 2011 at 2:41PM
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