By The Admin on March 28, 2010
Wayne Drash, CNN
- LaShonda Durden had just given birth to her second child. She was two weeks back from maternity leave when her supervisor called her into her office.
“You need to be trying to find other employment,” her manager said.
A bereavement coordinator and chaplain at an Atlanta, Georgia-area hospice, Durden suddenly found herself coping with [...]
Posted in Money & Finance, Policy & Issues
By The Admin on March 28, 2010
Perry Bacon Jr., Washington Post
- Rep. Artur Davis, long regarded as one of the most promising of a younger generation of black politicians that has emerged over the past decade, took a bold stance this week as he seeks to become the first African American governor of Alabama: distancing himself from the biggest legislative achievement [...]
Posted in 2010 Elections, Alabama, State & Local News
By The Admin on March 25, 2010
Kweisi Mfume, the former head of the NAACP and a former member of Congress, was named on Thursday to head the National Medical Association.
The group, which represents black American doctors and their patients, has about 30,000 physician members. Mfume is not a doctor.
“The National Medical Association has been the conscience of the medical profession by [...]
Posted in Health
By The Admin on March 22, 2010
A spokesman for the once mighty community activist group ACORN says the group is disbanding.
National ACORN spokesman Kevin Whelan said Monday that the organization’s board decided to close remaining state affiliates and field offices by April 1 because of falling revenues. Some other national operations will continue operating for at least several weeks before shutting [...]
Posted in Policy & Issues
By The Admin on March 22, 2010
Remember how shocking it was six months ago when Rep. Joe Wilson shouted “You lie!” to the president?
Suddenly, that outburst seems positively genteel.
From the “N-word” and anti-gay slurs being leveled at congressmen by protesters right outside the Capitol, to a shout of “baby killer!” within the chamber itself, to veiled and not-so-veiled threats online, the [...]
Posted in Health, National Politics
