By The Admin on April 25, 2011
NBC Chicago
- A Texas anti-abortion group on Saturday defended its billboard campaign on Chicago’s South Side that uses an image of President Barack Obama, while community groups said they hope to encourage residents to talk frankly about women’s health in low-income neighborhoods.
Pastor Stephen Broden of Dallas-based Life Always said he stands by the signs, which [...]
Posted in Policy & Issues, White House
By The Admin on April 25, 2011
Black Voice News
- A Stanford University geneticist, Carlos D. Bustamante, is leading an effort to include more Hispanics and African-Americans in genetic research critical to determining root causes of many diseases. He has been critical of such research that has often focused largely on White populations.
Work by the award-winning geneticist, who was born in Venezuela, [...]
Posted in Health
By The Admin on April 25, 2011
The Philly Post
- America recently marked the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, which ended slavery. Now it’s time to finally acknowledge—and concede—reparations, which would begin to end slavery’s vestiges.
African Americans are consistently at the bottom of the economic, educational and employment scale, and there are one or two reasons for that. Either they are [...]
Posted in Policy & Issues, Race
By The Admin on April 25, 2011
With gas prices climbing and little relief in sight, President Barack Obama is scrambling to get ahead of the latest potential obstacle to his re-election bid, even as Republicans are making plans to exploit the issue.
No one seems more aware of the electoral peril than Obama himself.
“My poll numbers go up and down depending on [...]
Posted in 2012 Elections, Featured, Money & Finance, Policy & Issues, White House
By The Admin on April 25, 2011
Clarion Ledger
- More than half a century after he first moved to desegregate higher education in the Magnolia State, James Meredith is calling for another revolution.
“There is desperation in Mississippi, particularly in the Mississippi Delta,” said the 77-year-old icon who applied to attend the University of Mississippi after returning from the Air Force in 1960.
“It [...]
Posted in Education, Mississippi
