By The Admin on April 26, 2011
Black Voice News
- The recent tragic death of a woman who drove herself and her children into the Hudson River in Newburgh, N.Y., still has people asking, “How could she?” And, while there are no easy answers for this terrible act, it is increasing the conversation on depression and mental health in the Black community.
Reports [...]
Posted in Health
By The Admin on April 26, 2011
Haiti’s president-elect announced Tuesday that he intends to impose taxes on money transfers and international cellphone calls to help finance schools across the chronically impoverished country.
Michel “Sweet Micky” Martelly, who last week was declared the official winner of a March 20 presidential runoff but will not take office until May 14, said Haiti’s three telecommunication [...]
Posted in Education, International News
By The Admin on April 26, 2011
New Jersey’s Secretary of State ruled on Tuesday that Olympic track star Carl Lewis cannot run for state Senate because he did not met the legal requirement that he has lived in the state for four years.
Lewis, 49, winner of nine Olympic gold medals, announced earlier this month he wanted to run in the June [...]
Posted in New Jersey
By The Admin on April 26, 2011
Real estate mogul Donald Trump suggested in an interview Monday that President Barack Obama had been a poor student who did not deserve to be admitted to the Ivy League universities he attended. Trump, who is mulling a bid for the Republican presidential nomination, offered no proof for his claim but said he would continue [...]
Posted in Education, White House
By The Admin on April 26, 2011
Dr. Robert Owens
- Who in their wildest dreams ever thought we would see a headline reading, “China Urges U.S. to Protect Creditors”? For those of us who grew up in an America that was the undisputed leader of the free world; an America that waged war against the Communist East, an America that was [...]
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