By The Admin on May 28, 2009
Pam Spaulding, Huffington Post
- As someone who is black and lesbian, it’s tiring and absurd to encounter the argument that the black civil rights movement somehow exclusively owns the ability to use “civil rights.” And the result of that is any challenge to this thinking amounts to stepping on the third rail.
There is no Oppression [...]
Posted in Policy & Issues, Race
By The Admin on May 28, 2009
When faced with a terminal illness, African-American seniors were two times more likely than whites to say they would want life-prolonging treatments, according to a University of Pittsburgh study available online and published in the June issue of the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
The study, led by Amber E. Barnato, M.D., M.P.H., associate professor of [...]
Posted in Health
By The Admin on May 28, 2009
Sen. Roland Burris wants to be known for his work on Capitol Hill. But once again he’s finding it hard to escape the cloud that followed him to the Senate.
Tainted from the day he was appointed, Burris on Wednesday denied new allegations of a pay-to-play scheme as newly revealed wiretaps showed him begging for his [...]
Posted in Congress
By The Admin on May 27, 2009
Pharoh Martin, NNPA
- For years there have been charges that African-Americans are under-represented in the U. S. Census counts conducted once every decade.
”It’s very possible that some African-Americans or Spanish speaking persons were under-counted in previous Census because there may have been some belief that making face-time with the government was not in their best [...]
Posted in Federal Government, Race
By The Admin on May 27, 2009
When Jim Hann learned he would be laid off, he scheduled surgery to donate a kidney to his wife.
Steve Drake rationed his asthma medicine after he was let go while two-time cancer survivor Roberta Furchak had to draw on precious retirement savings to ensure her tests were covered after she lost her job.
All three were [...]
Posted in Health
