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Health reform, access are not necessarily linked
Insurance coverage from the health reform law may not bring access to health care for Tennesseeans newly insured under the law, especially minorities and especially in the Memphis area, according to a new study from BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee. Nearly 600,000 Tennesseans are expected to get health insurance when or if the Affordable Care Act [...]
Election 2012: Why Ethnicity is Destiny for the GOP
Last week, the Census Bureau made nationwide headlines when it announced that for the first time since Native Americans were the dominant race, minorities make up more than 50 percent of births in the U.S. It defines a minority as anyone who is not single-race white and is not Hispanic. The change results from the [...]
Former top Calif. football prospect exonerated
First he cried. Then Brian Banks — exonerated of a rape conviction that cost him five years in prison — walked outside the courthouse and seized the moment of freedom he had dreamed of for so long. “This is the first step in reinventing my life,” he said after a judge issued his ruling Thursday, [...]
African Americans Should Ignore The Recent Prostate Cancer Test Recommendation
Thomas A. Farrington, PHEN President & Founder – I was in Atlanta, Georgia the past few days attending the American Urological Association’s (AUA) Annual Conference. While there we heard from the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) that it had ignored the voices of prostate cancer specialist, patients and patient advocacy organizations and that [...]
Groups call on Ga. governor to diversify bench
A coalition of civil rights and attorney groups says African-American judges are being replaced by white appointees in one of Georgia’s most heavily populated black counties and called Thursday for Georgia’s governor to fill vacancies with judges who reflect their communities’ diversity. The coalition, led by the Rev. Joseph Lowery, said black representation on the [...]
