The NewYork Times does a excellent job of letting Ms. Sherri West tell the story of how her life changed after a devastating divorce which eventually led to the loss of her business and home. Inspite of West's challenges, she tells how she has staye ...
Posted Friday, October 23rd 2009 at 2:13PM
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WASHINGTON — Late last month, the senior White House adviser David Axelrod and Roger Ailes, chairman and chief executive of Fox News, met in an empty Palm steakhouse before it opened for the day, neutral ground secured for a secret tęte-ŕ-tęte. Mr. ...
Posted Friday, October 23rd 2009 at 1:05PM
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D.C. - Today, the Immigration Policy Center released a new report, Breaking Down the Problems: What's Wrong With our Immigration System. This special report looks at the impact our outdated and inefficient immigration system is having on our nation a ...
Posted Wednesday, October 21st 2009 at 4:06PM
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October 21
Double Dutch is historically a jump rope game played by black children (mainly girls) in rural and urban areas in America. The first concrete evidence of jump rope activity can be seen in medieval paintings where children roll hoops ...
Posted Wednesday, October 21st 2009 at 2:59PM
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October 17, 2009 Op-Ed Guest Columnist by BONO (singer/songwriter)
http://www.atu2.com/band/bono/
A FEW years ago, I accepted a Golden Globe award by barking out an expletive. One imagines President Obama did the same when he heard about his Nob ...
Posted Wednesday, October 21st 2009 at 2:40PM
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Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson made a special guest appearance on "Saturday Night Live" this week to reprise his role as "The Rock Obama." This was by far the most Obama-sympathetic opener of the season, as it detailed the problems he inherited when he to ...
Posted Tuesday, October 20th 2009 at 4:49PM
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[A crisis can stop us dead in our tracks thus arresting our attention for that momemt to focus on that problem alone. A crisis can occur anytime in our lives and could be no fault of our own like when a loved one becomes hospitalized, a child experi ...
Posted Monday, October 19th 2009 at 9:42AM
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October 18
On this date in 1926, Chuck Berry was born. He is an African-American Rock & Roll musician and songwriter.
Charles "Chuck" Edward Berry was born in San Jose, California, and grew up in St. Louis. In the early 1950s, Berry led a popu ...
Posted Sunday, October 18th 2009 at 9:58PM
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Who wouldn’t want to buy a Black doll named little monkey for their little girl? What better way to reinforce the idea that people of colour are less than, than by giving a child a toy that plays upon the racialized meme that we are animals. If th ...
Posted Friday, October 16th 2009 at 6:10AM
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(CNN) -- People across the world watched Thursday as a homemade balloon soared 7,000 feet over eastern Colorado after a 6-year-old boy, thought to be inside, set it loose from his parents' home. The balloon landed south of Prospect Springs, Colorado ...
Posted Thursday, October 15th 2009 at 5:25PM
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DryerBuzz & Company: Join us for the LIVE Great "Good Hair - Don't Go There" Debates. We'll get to the root of the problem.
We got good hair but do we have good cents? DryerBuzz LIVE has to come back on this one. The movie, Good Hair by Chris Roc ...
Posted Wednesday, October 14th 2009 at 2:52PM
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Netting $2.5 billion in profits last year wasn't enough for WellPoint, the nation's largest insurance company. Now, WellPoint's affiliate, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, is suing the state of Maine for refusing to guarantee it a profit margin in ...
Posted Wednesday, October 14th 2009 at 4:11AM
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You and more than 50,000 others have joined the call for CNN to dump Lou Dobbs! Now it's time to take the next step. In just one week, CNN will launch its “Latino in America” series, which tells the stories of Latinos from across the count ...
Posted Wednesday, October 14th 2009 at 3:02AM
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TORONTO (AP) — Oprah Winfrey was so taken by Sapphire's novel "Push" that she read it more than once. Yet even though the talk-show host has made best-sellers of unknown books, Winfrey didn't think even her staggering influence could make "Push" — t ...
Posted Wednesday, October 14th 2009 at 2:57AM
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In the almost two decades since comedian Chris Rock has been on the scene, he’s been everything from sidekick and standup star to producer/host of two hit TV shows, “The Chris Rock Show” and “Everybody Hates Chris,” respectively. His stand-up career ...
Posted Wednesday, October 14th 2009 at 2:49AM
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Many Christians do not take holiness seriously. They do not realize that to be holy is a commandment from God. Since God has called us to holiness, we have to will ourselves to live the holy life. In 1 Peter 1:13 -16, we see God's call to holiness:.. ...
Posted Wednesday, October 14th 2009 at 2:09AM
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Years ago while in high school I was recruited to study engineering. My parents wouldn't let me go all the way to Boston. Now I am a clothing engineer. I am always cold, always inventing some way to stay warm. Sometimes I hate bulky winter sweaters. ...
Posted Wednesday, October 14th 2009 at 1:21AM
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Let me offer a modest proposal: If Congress fails to pass comprehensive health reform this year, its members should surrender health insurance in proportion with the American population that is uninsured. It may be that the lulling effect of having ...
Posted Thursday, October 8th 2009 at 11:02AM
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Ring the bell, school's back in!
Football is back in, too, for Michael Crabtree(notes). After a long holdout, he finally signed a contract with the San Francisco 49ers. As it turns out, all they needed was a little help from M.C. Hammer.
Actual ...
Posted Wednesday, October 7th 2009 at 9:06PM
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An Oakland Raiders cornerback claims he was penalized on Sunday for making a religious display while celebrating an interception. After picking off a Matt Schaub(notes) pass in the end zone, Oakland Raiders cornerback Chris Johnson celebrated by dro ...
Posted Wednesday, October 7th 2009 at 8:28PM
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Digital Dating: Most of us wouldn't guess that beautiful Hollywood actresses turn to dating Web sites to find a man. But alas, Essence Atkins of "Half & Half" fame did just that. The Brooklyn-bred, Los Angeles-based starlet was over meeting men in th ...
Posted Tuesday, October 6th 2009 at 2:50PM
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Think about it: You live in California but want to relocate to New York. You don’t have the funds to travel back and forth for in-person interviews, and the organization doesn’t either. When you throw a webcam into the mix, rather than just a phone c ...
Posted Tuesday, October 6th 2009 at 2:28PM
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Susan Odegaard Turner, RN, MSN, PhD, an accomplished nurse educator, was secure in her career: "I took no calls from recruiters for eight years," she says. Then she got laid off. It can happen to anyone, even the nurse who is well-regarded in her ca ...
Posted Tuesday, October 6th 2009 at 1:59PM
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Tyra Banks opens up to CNN's Larry King about weight issues, abuse, and her modeling careeer. Larry King Live - CNN.com
http://tyrashow.warnerbros.com/ ...
Posted Monday, October 5th 2009 at 8:07PM
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