By The Admin on October 24, 2011
While much of the country struggles to emerge from a recession, California’s Silicon Valley is booming, and technology companies like Facebook, Skype, and Apple are seeing their valuations soar. CNN anchor and special correspondent Soledad O’Brien reports that the ownership of this digital bloom is mostly young, white, and male. For her fourth [...]
Posted in Media
By The Admin on October 19, 2011
The NYPD is in hot water again after one of its white officers allegedly lied about his arrest of an unarmed Black man and then used racial slurs to describe the arrest.
Officer Michael Daragjati has been charged with writing a false police report claiming that an African-American man resisted arrest by shoving and kicking Daragjati.
The [...]
Posted in New York, Race
By The Admin on October 19, 2011
Herman Cain has vaulted to the top of the polls as a Republican presidential candidate, but there’s one audience that may prove tougher for him to win over: his hometown church.
Cain, a conservative who recently said African-Americans were “brainwashed” into voting Democratic, is an associate minister at an Atlanta megachurch that has been a stronghold [...]
Posted in 2012 Elections
By The Admin on October 19, 2011
The U.S. metropolitan areas with the lowest black-white residential segregation levels were located in the fast-growing South and West, according to analysis of 2010 U.S. Census results by the Population Reference Bureau (PRB).
The most segregated metro areas were mainly concentrated in the slow-growing Northeast and Midwest. The report examined only metro areas with a total [...]
Posted in Race
By The Admin on October 19, 2011
October marks National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Is there cause for celebration? For many reasons, the answer is a resounding “yes.” Since 1990, the rate of death from breast cancer has been dropping. Research—much of it funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI)—has improved our understanding of breast cancer and produced more effective treatments.
Yet nearly [...]
Posted in Health
