From Newsweek.com
September 17, 2010
The number of people living in poverty in America rose to 43.6 million in 2009, the US Census Bureau reported Thursday. This is the largest number since the agency began making such estimates 50 years ago and ...
Posted Saturday, September 18th 2010 at 4:33PM
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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is hoping that black voters don't stand on the sidelines when Democrats need all the election help they can get this year.
With polls showing his party facing a wide "enthusiasm gap" with the GOP, Obama sought ...
Posted Saturday, September 18th 2010 at 4:30PM
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From Newsweek.com
September 14, 2010
Is Newt Gingrich just pretending to have lost his mind, or has he actually gone around the bend? His lunacy certainly seems genuine enough. It's one thing to be a rhetorical bomb-thrower, as Gingrich has long ...
Posted Thursday, September 16th 2010 at 1:56PM
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VIRGINIA--Eleven years before Rosa Parks, there was Angela McLinn. Twenty-four years before the Civil Rights Act, there was Angela McLinn.
But history missed her somehow.
In 1944, McLinn and three other Howard University female African-American ...
Posted Thursday, September 16th 2010 at 1:49PM
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Washington, D.C. - The US Department of Education recently proposed a series of rules aimed at tightening regulatory oversight of career colleges. But the new standards, if enacted, are a classic example of the federal government doing more harm than ...
Posted Wednesday, September 15th 2010 at 12:18PM
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From PsychologyToday.com
September 13, 2010
During my two years of research on children among the Kalahari San, or Bushmen, I watched kids scramble over huge termite hills, chase each other around the scrub brush in the savanna, practice dance st ...
Posted Tuesday, September 14th 2010 at 10:36AM
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WHO AM I?
By Sister Siebra Muhammad
I'm Mary J. Blige giving you the 411
And I won't stop until the war is won
I'm the Salt with a Deadly Pepa
Aiming higher, never settling for lesser
I'm Angela Bassett, Halle, Jada, and Taraji
I'm the one ...
Posted Monday, September 13th 2010 at 2:03PM
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BET.com--Monday (September 13) is the 14th anniversary of the death of Tupac Shakur. Pac died in 1996, after succumbing to gunshot wounds he suffered a week prior when leaving a Mike Tyson fight in Las Vegas.
Travie McCoy still vividly remembers ...
Posted Monday, September 13th 2010 at 1:57PM
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From Newsweek.com
September 12, 2010
Since the founding of the Drug Enforcement Administration in 1973, 15 million Americans have been arrested for marijuana.
That is more people than live in California’s 25 largest cities – millions more than l ...
Posted Sunday, September 12th 2010 at 6:57PM
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Prersident Barack Obama on the Tom Joyner Morning Show on Friday, Sept. 10, 2010
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: How you been?
TOM JOYNER: I’VE BEEN GOOD. HOW HAVE YOU BEEN?
You know, I’m doing fine. Michelle’s doing well. The girls started school t ...
Posted Friday, September 10th 2010 at 4:20PM
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