Memphis, TN (December 8, 2011) -- The Church of God in Christ (COGIC) for the second straight year has a very successful Holy Convocation in St. Louis. The 104th Holy Convocation of the Church of God in Christ has ended and all of the delegates or "s ...
Posted Sunday, December 18th 2011 at 10:41PM
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Washington, DC (December 12, 2011) -- Dr. Gail C. Christopher, vice president for program strategy for the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, today was awarded the 2011 "Change Agent Award" by the Schott Foundation for Public Education. Dr. Christopher was ho ...
Posted Sunday, December 18th 2011 at 10:31PM
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Atlanta, GA (December 11, 2011) -- Beginning in early 2012, Dr. R. Kay Green will begin a "Bridging the Distance-Learning Gap" tour targeting HBCUs and public two-year colleges. Following her mission, "to provide quality marketing and management inst ...
Posted Sunday, December 18th 2011 at 10:22PM
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(CNN) -- Standing just over 2 feet tall, Jyoti Amge of Nagpur, India, was confirmed Friday as the world's shortest living woman.
Guinness World Records, known as the global authority on record-breaking -- albeit odd -- achievements, flew to India ...
Posted Friday, December 16th 2011 at 10:24PM
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The other day, when I was bringing my son to preschool, a classmate greeted him at the door by shouting, "You're African! You're from Africa!" My son and I were knocked back for a moment, but he quickly recovered (as only a 5-year-old could), once hi ...
Posted Friday, December 16th 2011 at 10:16PM
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BlackBerry maker Research in Motion is slashing sales and profit forecasts, and it says its new BlackBerry 10 smartphones have been delayed until the end of 2012. That's an eon in the fast-moving consumer tech world.
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Posted Friday, December 16th 2011 at 10:13PM
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The decline, though slight, offers hope that the tide may be turning on one of the nation's most stubborn health issues. The number of obese New York City schoolchildren fell by 5.5 percent over five years, federal and city officials said Thursday, o ...
Posted Friday, December 16th 2011 at 10:20AM
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While the incomes of so many Americans remain the same size or get smaller, corporate chiefs can't say they're suffering in quite the same way. American CEOs saw pay increases of between 27 and 40 percent last year, according to a GovernanceMetrics ...
Posted Thursday, December 15th 2011 at 9:40PM
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A recent study released today states that nearly 20% of women in the U.S. were victims of a rape. The study also indicated that at least 25% have been attacked by a partner or a husband. This ...
Posted Thursday, December 15th 2011 at 8:08PM
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Born 16 weeks early and weighing barely half a pound at birth, one of the smallest surviving babies ever born anywhere in the world is growing and thriving at a Los Angeles County Hospital. Melinda Star Guido may be tiny, but Global Birth Registry f ...
Posted Thursday, December 15th 2011 at 6:16PM
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(BlackDoctor.org) -- For African American adults, perceived racism may cause mental health symptoms similar to trauma and could lead to some physical health disparities between blacks and other populations in the United States, according to a new stu ...
Posted Wednesday, December 14th 2011 at 10:06PM
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(BlackDoctor.org) – It is estimated that sickle cell disease occurs among about 1 out of every 500 African-American births. Children with sickle cell disease, an inherited blood disorder, who also have high blood pressure and/or anemia are at increas ...
Posted Wednesday, December 14th 2011 at 9:32PM
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I was born a girl but in a boy's body, as media headlines tend to scream when telling stories like mine. Being trans, I've grown up with the understanding that most women are born girls, yet some are born boys. And most men are born boys, yet some ar ...
Posted Wednesday, December 14th 2011 at 9:29PM
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The body of Karen Swift was found just two miles from her Tennessee home, nearly six weeks after the 44-year-old mother was reported missing.
Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John Mehr told CNN that the body was discovered ...
Posted Wednesday, December 14th 2011 at 9:02PM
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Different costs for the same procedure in 2009. Staying healthy in the United States is expensive. In fact, in 2009, the average annual cost of health care was $7,960 per person -- two and a half times what it was in Japan for the same year.
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Posted Wednesday, December 14th 2011 at 7:18PM
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