...Some things we just didn't do for money. The United States always defined capitalism, but it didn't used to define us. But now it's becoming all that we are. Did you know, for example, that there was a time when being called a "war profiteer" was ...
Posted Monday, July 27th 2009 at 1:40AM
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HOUSTON — The Obama administration is vastly expanding a federal effort begun under President George W. Bush to identify and deport illegal immigrants held in local jails. But here in the city where the effort got a trial start eight months ago, peop ...
Posted Monday, July 27th 2009 at 1:03AM
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MODIIN ILLIT, West Bank — Seen from afar, this fast-growing settlement embodies everything that the Obama administration wants to address through its demand for a freeze on settlement building: it sits on land captured by Israel in the 1967 Middle Ea ...
Posted Monday, July 27th 2009 at 12:54AM
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WASHINGTON — The decision by Senate Democratic leaders last week to devote more time to winning Republican support for a health care overhaul has allowed President Obama to keep alive the possibility of bipartisanship on one of the most contentious i ...
Posted Monday, July 27th 2009 at 12:46AM
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WASHINGTON – Senate Democrats alone cannot pass President Barack Obama's ambitious overhaul of how Americans receive health care, a top lawmaker acknowledged on Sunday. Republicans said they will continue their opposition to a plan they say is simply ...
Posted Monday, July 27th 2009 at 12:29AM
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As nurses, we like to believe we rise above attitudes that would harm our patients or ourselves. But a more honest self-examination might find we sometimes harbor racist feelings toward our own colleagues who have different racial or ethnic backgroun ...
Posted Monday, July 27th 2009 at 12:04AM
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Vernon Forrest won the Marvin Kohn Good Guy Award in 2003 in a vote of members of the Boxing Writers Association of America, a richly deserved honor for a man who always was looking for ways to share his good fortune with others. "He came from the ‘ ...
Posted Sunday, July 26th 2009 at 10:48PM
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Michelle Obama sells magazines: she's been splashed across the cover of Vogue, People, O magazine, Time and more, has been called a "solid seller". Now that's news I can believe in & great news for Black women. Let's tell all our stories of the great ...
Posted Saturday, July 25th 2009 at 1:50AM
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On Wednesday's episode of "So You Think You Can Dance," contestants Ade and Melissa performed a contemporary routine inspired by breast cancer to Maxwell's cover of Kate Bush's "This Woman's Work." Before the performance, choreographer Tyce Diorio e ...
Posted Friday, July 24th 2009 at 2:55PM
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The election of our first black president has brought with it a strange proliferation of online racism among conservatives. And we've got the latest example. On Sunday night, Dr. David McKalip forwarded to fellow members of a Google listserv affilia ...
Posted Friday, July 24th 2009 at 12:17PM
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The Civility Project is not calling for unity—just respect.
A Republican and a Democrat walk into a bar — a coffee bar, that is. That's the plan, anyway. But, as Republican Mark DeMoss and Democrat Lanny Davis will tell you, a civil conversation ...
Posted Thursday, July 23rd 2009 at 7:20PM
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New York City used tests that discriminated against black and Hispanic applicants to the Fire Department and had little relation to firefighting, a federal judge in Brooklyn ruled on Wednesday, dealing a blow to the administration of Mayor Michael R. ...
Posted Thursday, July 23rd 2009 at 4:46PM
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(BlackDoctor.org) -- Researchers are planning to find out why black Americans seeking help for depression and other mood disorders are often misdiagnosed with schizophrenia. A team of University of Cincinnati investigators will lead a four-year nati ...
Posted Thursday, July 23rd 2009 at 10:14AM
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Organizing for America volunteers have done amazing work over the last couple weeks -- and the pressure is working. Congress is moving rapidly toward finalizing health care reform legislation, with crucial votes expected in both the House and the Sen ...
Posted Wednesday, July 22nd 2009 at 6:33PM
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In the short time since we first told you about the outrageous discrimination suffered by the children of Creative Steps Day Camp at a Pennsylvania swimming club, an amazing 85,000 of you stepped up to demand that the Department of Justice investigat ...
Posted Wednesday, July 22nd 2009 at 12:21PM
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RAVELERS REST, S.C., July 21 (UPI) -- A South Carolina mother whose 14-year-old son weighs 555 pounds has been charged with criminal neglect, prosecutors said. Jerri Gray's case could lead to more criminal action against parents of dangerously overwe ...
Posted Tuesday, July 21st 2009 at 8:29PM
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The search continues in Bryan County for Emma Carroll. The 83-year old woman has been missing from her home near Pembroke since Saturday evening. She suffers from dementia and has wandered from home several times in the past but has been found quickl ...
Posted Tuesday, July 21st 2009 at 7:06PM
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I'm glad that Chris Brown finally issued a public apology for assaulting Rihanna. Yes, I know he released a public statement last February where he said he was sorry for what transpired. But "what transpired" is too vague when referring to a felo ...
Posted Tuesday, July 21st 2009 at 5:59PM
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Michael Jackson Memorial Service - Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee introduces, Resolution 600 in honor of Michael Jackosn. Here's the link if anyone else would like to express their views to their elected officials about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's decision ...
Posted Tuesday, July 21st 2009 at 2:39PM
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This is something I received via email today & I really thought it was too good not to pass along to my sisters here on BWC. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away.
If he doesn't want you, nothing can ...
Posted Tuesday, July 21st 2009 at 1:22PM
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Back in the days when segregation was the law of the land, they opened doors of educational opportunity that produced generations of distinguished African American nurses. Today, HBCU nursing programs are building on that legacy to prepare the black ...
Posted Monday, July 20th 2009 at 6:53PM
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Iyanla Vanzant's keynote address to the "Women and Power 2004" conference, held in NYC.
Iyanla speaks to our ability to constantly adjust and compensate for the level of deficiency in our lives without address the real core issues. She says - "It ...
Posted Monday, July 20th 2009 at 6:20PM
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I copied and pasted this from one of the Moms from the "Mamas for Obama" group that I'm a part of on another social networking site who goes by the logon, katiedm.
Katiedm writes, "Here's a colossal Glenn Beck meltdown for your listening pleasure. ...
Posted Monday, July 20th 2009 at 3:13PM
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LOS ANGELES (AFP) - After six years together, the relationship between a pair of gay male penguins at San Francisco zoo is apparently over, with Harry leaving Pepper for another penguin -- Linda. The Los Angeles Times reported Friday that the relati ...
Posted Sunday, July 19th 2009 at 2:06PM
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