LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com/AP) — The number of whooping cough cases in the Southland and throughout California has reached epidemic proportions, state health officials said Friday. The California Department of Public Health said in a statement release ...
Posted Tuesday, June 17th 2014 at 1:18PM
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NurseTogether has confirmed that 24 states are part of the compact state nurse licensure (NLC).
Nurse Compact State License
http://www.nursetogether.com/nurse-licensure-applications--fees-by-state
A nurse with a permanent residency in a NLC st ...
Posted Monday, June 16th 2014 at 10:49AM
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We salute Deanna Jordan, a single mother of three who graduated from UCLA with three degrees on Friday!
“I needed for my sons to see there was a legacy that preceded them with college. I am the first in my family to go to college,” the 28-year-o ...
Posted Monday, June 16th 2014 at 10:44AM
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Actress and singer Audra McDonald made history during the 2014 Tony Awards when she won her sixth Tony for her leading role as Bille Holiday in “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill”. In her moving acceptance speech, McDonald not only thanked her ...
Posted Friday, June 13th 2014 at 2:54PM
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It's sad whenever I see any black woman in business fail or start to wane because sometimes it is through no fault of her own. It happens daily, I'm sure all around the world or just in this country but it stings. I want us all to succeed whether you ...
Posted Wednesday, June 11th 2014 at 10:51PM
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This morning, during my routine perusal of the Internet, I came across an article about Katy Perry’s Prismatic tour. Folks were all in their feelings about Perry’s dancers, who looked like caricatures of Black women. Katy donned a baby blue dress ...
Posted Wednesday, June 11th 2014 at 10:17PM
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Meriam Ibrahim is not sentenced to die for her Christian faith for two years, until such a time as her newborn baby girl Maya is weaned, but she could be flogged within days if her appeal of her death sentence is thrown out. LifeNews recently covered ...
Posted Wednesday, June 11th 2014 at 9:44PM
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Miracle baby, three months later: She is happy, healthy and loved. Robin Cyr’s fourth child has already packed a lifetime’s worth of emotional turmoil into her first 28 minutes in the world. Cyr, 34, was told her baby girl had died just after be ...
Posted Wednesday, June 11th 2014 at 9:36PM
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(Washington, DC) The family of Jahi McMath is posting on social media, asking supporters to contact her charter school to ask them to grant the eighth-grader a diploma this week. Jahi, diagnosed as brain-dead, was the center of a tremendous battle b ...
Posted Wednesday, June 11th 2014 at 9:10PM
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Halle Berry is going to need the paycheck she's getting from her upcoming TV series Extant. The Oscar-winning actress has been ordered by a Los Angeles court to pay $16,000 a month in child support to her former beau Gabriel Aubry, People reports.
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Posted Wednesday, June 11th 2014 at 6:25PM
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Join Our Family and Ask the FTC to Help Stop Advertising Hurting Our Kids
Every parent thinks their children are perfect and my wife and I are no different. We want our eight year-old daughter and seven year-old son to grow up knowing they’re beautiful just the way they are. But every day our mes ...
Posted Tuesday, June 10th 2014 at 10:39AM
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(June 9, 2014). Public school students in two more states will no longer have to conform to Common Standards. South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley signed a law that will replace the national initiative with state-developed standards and tests by the 2015 ...
Posted Tuesday, June 10th 2014 at 10:35AM
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Maya Angelou’s friends and family gathered to celebrate her life at Wake Forest University in North Carolina today. Former President Bill Clinton and First Lady Michelle Obama paid tribute to the acclaimed author and poet, but it was Oprah Winfrey’s moving words that brought many at the memorial ser ...
Posted Monday, June 9th 2014 at 10:11AM
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Meagan Good has expressed interest in playing Whitney Houston in her upcoming biopic, however producers chose Yaya DaCosta for the job. According to sources, the model-turned-actress has been cast to play the legendary singer in her forthcoming Lifetime movie directed by Angela Bassett. As we repor ...
Posted Monday, June 9th 2014 at 10:07AM
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Who videos an abortion or takes selfies of themselves before an abortion? Click on the link or click on actual blog pic to see lady taking photo of herself and GET this in WHITE Pants. Have Americans grown that callous? I shutter at the thought. G ...
Posted Monday, June 9th 2014 at 9:39AM
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ABORTION
What Abortion Selfies Tell Us About American Community
Real communities are about more than just comments, likes, and favorites.
By Ben Domenech
(MAY 8, 2014) You have by this point likely heard about the story of New Jersey abortion counselor Emily Letts’ decision to film her surgic ...
Posted Sunday, June 8th 2014 at 5:56AM
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JUNE 4, 2014. How can a government claim to derive its powers “from the consent of the governed” when it deliberately deceives the people whose consent it supposedly requires? The case of a Connecticut family forced to pay a fee to be used to fun ...
Posted Friday, June 6th 2014 at 10:21PM
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(The Insider) It's hard to imagine that it would be difficult to find a dress designer for an Oscar nominee, but that was the case for Melissa McCarthy back in 2012. McCarthy, who was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Bridesmaids, ...
Posted Friday, June 6th 2014 at 1:28PM
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After a messy breakup nearly a year ago, Fantasia Barrino is still bitter towards ex, Antwaun Cook.
Adding fuel to the fire, Cook went back to his estranged wife Paula who is helping him raise his 2-year old son that he had with Barrino. According ...
Posted Friday, June 6th 2014 at 11:25AM
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June 6, 2014 U.S. Added 217,000 Jobs in May; Unemployment Rate Remains 6.3%
American employers added 217,000 workers in May, a bit more than the average monthly gain over the last six months and another sign that the economy may finally be gaining ...
Posted Friday, June 6th 2014 at 10:49AM
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A May 5, 2014, photo provided by the New York State Department of Corrections shows Daniel St. Hubert. A man believed to have stabbed a 6-year-old boy to death and critically injured a 7-year-old girl in a knife attack in a New York public housing bu ...
Posted Thursday, June 5th 2014 at 9:36AM
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The Roman Empire has fallen.
The NFL announced on Wednesday that Super Bowl 50 will be graphically represented using standard Arabic numerals instead of Roman numerals, which the league has been using since Super Bowl V in 1971.
It's a one-year ...
Posted Thursday, June 5th 2014 at 9:19AM
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A search is on for the man who allegedly stabbed 6-year-old boy Prince Joshua Avitto in the elevator and 7-year-old girl Mikayla Capers. Avitto’s wounds were fatal and Capers is clinging to life In Brooklyn. These two children were coming back down ...
Posted Wednesday, June 4th 2014 at 11:33PM
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In today’s “LOL” news, “Family Guy” character Peter Griffin spoofed Rihanna’s naked CFDA Fashion Awards gown and we fell out laughing. The photo surfaced on Instagram and quickly made its way around social media.
Ri Ri, who was named ...
Posted Wednesday, June 4th 2014 at 9:38PM
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(Washington, DC LifeNews.com )
1. America’s women should be told that a common feature of ObamaCare Exchange plans is narrow networks in which consumers have fewer choices of doctors and hospitals (as even the New York Times has come to recogniz ...
Posted Wednesday, June 4th 2014 at 8:56PM
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