By The Admin on August 14, 2011
MedPage Today
- Young black patients don’t survive as long on dialysis as their white counterparts, according to a national study that challenges notions of a black advantage for dialysis.
As seen in many prior studies, the overall mortality on dialysis came in lower for black than for white patients at 57.1% versus 63.5% (P<0.001), Dorry L. [...]
Posted in Health, Race
By The Admin on August 10, 2011
Washington Post
- Charles L. Gittens, the first African American agent in the Secret Service and the former head of the agency’s Washington field office, died July 27 at an assisted living center in Mitchellville after a heart attack. He was 82.
An Army veteran, Mr. Gittens joined the Secret Service in 1956 and was soon posted [...]
Posted in Federal Government
By The Admin on August 9, 2011
Miami Herald
- Unemployed for two years and growing increasingly frustrated, Charet Thomas thinks that neither Congress nor the White House is looking out for her or others who compose the nation’s 15.9 percent jobless rate among African-Americans.
“I think people getting off unemployment and getting jobs are middle-class people,” said Thomas, who was laid off from [...]
Posted in Congress, White House
By The Admin on August 7, 2011
Washington Post
- The 2010 unemployment rate for 16- to 24-year-old whites was 16.3 percent compared with 30 percent for blacks. Meanwhile, the median net worth for whites in 2009 was $113,149, according to the Pew Research Center, compared with $5,677 for blacks.
As a 23-year-old African American woman, I recognize this economic disparity. But I believe [...]
Posted in Money & Finance, Race
By The Admin on August 7, 2011
BET
- Standardized tests like the SAT can make any student nervous, but a new study from Stanford University finds that Black students are especially susceptible.
The study concluded that African-American students perform poorly on standardized tests because they fear incorrect answers will confirm negative stereotypes about their race, The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education writes [...]
Posted in Education, Race
