By The Admin on August 31, 2009
Patient race, gender and insurance status influence decisions about who will go on to receive liver transplants, according to a University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine study. Available online and published in the September issue of the American Journal of Transplantation, the study indicates that women, blacks and patients with Medicare who are in end-stage [...]
Posted in Featured, Health
By The Admin on August 31, 2009
Dorothy Rowley, AFRO
- By a slim margin of just 38 votes, a Black woman has become mayor of a small town in northern Italy.
Sandy Cane, 48, won the election earlier this summer and will govern the town of Valceresio, population 5,300, which borders Varesotto and the Swiss confederation of Ticino. She will serve a five-year [...]
Posted in International News
By The Admin on August 31, 2009
Matt Soergel, Florida Times-Union
- At a church service Sunday to honor African-American male teachers, the talk turned to the mentors who had made a difference in the lives of some black educators.
For George Maxey, the new principal at Raines High School, it was John Fox, a white teacher who inspired him in third grade, when [...]
Posted in Education
By The Admin on August 31, 2009
Nordette Adams, Examiner
- Saturday, August 29, was the 4th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina breaching the levees of city of New Orleans. That catastrophe caused Americans and people all over the world to re-evaluate not only the nation’s readiness for disaster but also its race relations. From media video reports it was obvious that the majority [...]
Posted in Race
By The Admin on August 31, 2009
Richard Eden , UK Telegraph
- The 39-year-old supermodel, who is a close friend of Sarah Brown, the Prime Minister’s wife, claims that major companies are refusing to use non-white women to promote their products.
“This year, we have gone back all the way that we had advanced,” she says. “I don’t see any black woman, or [...]
Posted in Race
