By The Admin on October 26, 2010
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Minority Health (OMH) announced $16.2 million in grants and cooperative agreements for demonstration projects aimed at eliminating health disparities among racial and ethnic minorities. Recipients include states, territories, national and community organizations, organizations serving tribes, and post-secondary educational institutions.
“We’re living in extraordinary times with many [...]
Posted in Health, Race
By The Admin on October 26, 2010
Michelle Obama is urging Americans to vote with an eye toward the future and with the energy of the past — two years ago, to be exact.
At an appearance alongside House Speaker Nancy Pelosi at a San Francisco fundraiser on Monday, the first lady warned that Republicans were putting up a strong fight to recapture [...]
Posted in 2010 Elections
By The Admin on October 26, 2010
CQ Politics
- Three long-shot African-American Republican House candidates are fuming at national party leaders for not doing enough to help get them elected.
Campaign managers for Chuck Smith in Virginia, Charlotte Bergmann in Tennessee and Marvin Scott in Indiana all said the support they’ve received from GOP leaders this cycle has been dismal. They added that [...]
Posted in 2010 Elections, Party Politics
By The Admin on October 26, 2010
Slovenia elected its first black mayor on Sunday, an immigrant from Africa known as the “Obama of Piran,” the town where he lives.
In fact, Peter Bossman, a Ghana-born physician, could be the first black mayor elected anywhere in his region of Europe.
Bossman, who settled in this tiny Alpine nation in the 1970s to study medicine [...]
Posted in International News
By The Admin on October 25, 2010
Palm Beach Post
- Gubernatorial candidate Alex Sink was quietly jeered at a NAACP candidate forum last week in Miami.
It wasn’t what the Democrat said or didn’t say, said Joy-Ann Reid, a Democratic activist who moderated the event that drew about 1,500 people. It was that she wasn’t there.
“You had an empty chair, which was symbolic,” [...]
Posted in 2010 Elections, Florida
