By The Admin on July 26, 2010
Climate change is predicted to increase the intensity and negative impacts of urban heat events, prompting the need to develop preparedness and adaptation strategies that reduce societal vulnerability to extreme heat. The potential health impacts resulting from climate change are essential to policy discussions about reducing greenhouse gas emissions and about social adaptation to climate [...]
Posted in Policy & Issues | Tagged climate change, Joint Center for Political & Economic Studies
By The Admin on July 26, 2010
Charing Ball, The Atlanta Post
- Democratic Senator James Webb penned an op-ed in the Washington Post last week entitled, “Diversity and the Myth of White Privilege,” which basically argues against government entitlement programs because of their ability to disenfranchise white people. Yeah, you heard me right.
Webb is upping up the race baiting war being played [...]
Posted in National Politics, Race
By The Admin on July 26, 2010
Pew Research Center
- As a group, African Americans attracted relatively little attention in the U.S. mainstream news media during the first year of Barack Obama’s presidency — and what coverage there was tended to focus more on specific episodes than on examining how broader issues and trends affected the lives of blacks generally, according to [...]
Posted in Media, Race
By The Admin on July 26, 2010
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Monday he believes there is evidence of war crimes in the thousands of pages of leaked U.S. military documents relating to the war in Afghanistan.
The remarks came after WikiLeaks, a whistle-blowing group, posted some 91,000 classified U.S. military records over the past six years about the war online, including unreported [...]
Posted in International News, White House
By The Admin on July 26, 2010
In an address to Members of Congress and participants attending a Congressional Black Caucus meeting, Robert L. Johnson, founder and chairman of The RLJ Companies, called for a national discussion about the growing wealth gap which he referred to as a “wealth gap Tsunami threatening African American families.” He cited the recent Institute on Assets [...]
Posted in Money & Finance, Race | Tagged Bob Johnson, wealth gap
