As the embattled government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad appears to be trying to limit Internet access and communications in Iran, new kinds of social media are challenging those traditional levers of state. Iranians are blogging, posting to Fac ...
Posted Tuesday, June 16th 2009 at 8:52PM
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(BlackDoctor.org) -- The body mass index (BMI) and waistline measurement overestimate obesity in blacks, according to a new study. The results, which were presented at The Endocrine Society’s 91st Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., suggest that conv ...
Posted Monday, June 15th 2009 at 8:25PM
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(Taylor Media Services) Predominantly Black Howard University in Washington, D.C. will soon get one of the largest the largest grants in its history: $150 million to help prepare future engineers and other technology professionals. Siemens PLM Softwa ...
Posted Monday, June 15th 2009 at 5:43AM
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(Taylor Media Services) Hair styles involving braids, extensions and dreadlocks can lead to potentially severe hair loss in African American women. The New York-based hair care company Tangled Hair Techs believes the potential for damage is presen ...
Posted Monday, June 15th 2009 at 5:35AM
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As you all may not know, sometime ago I blogged about the Diary of a Tired Black Man. I've had the opportunity to visit the site on rare and very few occasions . Apparently the creator of the site and the maker of the film has angered several forme ...
Posted Friday, June 12th 2009 at 6:03PM
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Ten-year-old Kennedy Corpus has a rock-solid excuse for missing the last day of school: a personal note to her teacher from President Barack Obama. Her father, John Corpus of Green Bay, stood to ask Obama about health care during the president's t ...
Posted Friday, June 12th 2009 at 5:38PM
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White people had the highest incidence rate for melanoma of the skin. Hispanic people had the second highest incidence of getting melanoma of the skin, followed by Asian/Pacific Islander people. White people were more likely to die of melanoma of th ...
Posted Friday, June 12th 2009 at 5:20PM
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Florida Gov. Charlie Crist has signed a kidney transplant bill named for former Miami Heat star Alonzo Mourning. Mourning, a kidney transplant recipient, was on hand for the signing ceremony Wednesday at a Tallahassee dialysis center. It was a retur ...
Posted Friday, June 12th 2009 at 2:03PM
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On the Ellen show, Sheryl Crow said this is what caused her breast cancer. It has been identified as the most common cause of the high levels of dioxin in breast cancer
tissue. Sheryl Crow's oncologist told her: women should not drink bottled wate ...
Posted Friday, June 12th 2009 at 1:09PM
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I used to work with someone who told me to look into Montessori education when it came time for my child to go to school. This coworker told me he put his two children through Montessori and he told me it was the best thing he did. Although I have ...
Posted Friday, June 12th 2009 at 5:24AM
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The Canadian health-care system is opaque, unconcerned with patient satisfaction and, of course, has lengthy waiting times for medical services as a defining feature. Canadians are aware of these problems but many accept them as the unfortunate but i ...
Posted Thursday, June 11th 2009 at 7:02AM
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June 9, 2009
The family of Dr. George Tiller announced today that effective immediately, Women's Health Care Services, Inc., will be permanently closed. Notice is being given today to all concerned that the Tiller family is ceasing operation of the ...
Posted Thursday, June 11th 2009 at 6:36AM
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AP - The most prominent American museum bearing witness to violence against Jews was the scene of bloodshed, its doors breached by an assailant who opened fire with a rifle, killing a guard in an attack linked to a white supremacist's hate. Law enfor ...
Posted Thursday, June 11th 2009 at 6:23AM
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All Americans from the youngest to the oldest should have access to quality medical care irrespective of ability to pay. My mom has been out of work like many Americans. The other day she had some problems with her stomach for which I thought she sho ...
Posted Wednesday, June 10th 2009 at 10:35PM
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Bossip just caught word that Ush & Tameka’s marriage might be crumbling as we speak. The “project manager” chick, Grace Miguel, that Usher was seen with last week, is married and wants no parts of the drama.
Source: Bossip
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Posted Wednesday, June 10th 2009 at 9:54PM
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An 88-year-old gunman with a violent and virulently anti-Semitic past opened fire with a rifle inside the crowded U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on Wednesday, fatally wounding a security guard before being shot himself by other officers, authoritie ...
Posted Wednesday, June 10th 2009 at 7:22PM
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Officer Stephen Tyrone Johns, the security guard who was shot at the Holocaust Memorial Museum this morning has died of his injuries in hospital. He was 39 years old. It is believed he was shot by James Wenneker Von Brunn, when he walked in to the m ...
Posted Wednesday, June 10th 2009 at 7:12PM
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(BlackNews.com) - Toward the end of his life, tennis legend and activist Arthur Ashe sat down and wrote a letter to his young daughter to be read and re-read for inspiration and comforted as she got older and he wasn’t around. The letter was, and is ...
Posted Monday, June 8th 2009 at 9:56PM
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Weekly Address
The President makes clear that as Congress works through health care reform legislation, it must include fundamental changes that lower costs, ensure Americans have choices, and establish access to quality, affordable health care fo ...
Posted Monday, June 8th 2009 at 5:04PM
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June 7
Prince
Prince was born on this date in 1958. He is an African-American singer, producer, musician, and global multi-media entertainer. Prince Rogers Nelson is from Minneapolis, MN, a graduate of Minneapolis Central High School, who taught ...
Posted Sunday, June 7th 2009 at 8:48PM
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WASHINGTON — After months of insisting he would leave the details to Congress, President Obama has concluded that he must exert greater control over the health care debate and is preparing an intense push for legislation that will include speeches, t ...
Posted Sunday, June 7th 2009 at 7:00PM
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Action Alert! Urge a Vote in the States on Federal Parents’ Rights Amendment
Friday, June 5, 2009 at 12:00 AM
We occasionally hear about efforts by the federal government and the states to assume control of decisions more rightly made in i ...
Posted Saturday, June 6th 2009 at 11:25PM
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President Obama in Egypt
Text: Obama's Speech To The Muslim World http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/06/04/politics/main5061278.shtml?source=related_story
From Mike Allen's POLITICO Playbook
DAVID AXELROD, on the call: 'Obviously this was ...
Posted Saturday, June 6th 2009 at 11:03PM
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FERNANDO DE NORONHA, Brazil – Brazilian military planes found a 3-mile (5-kilometer) path of wreckage in the Atlantic Ocean, confirming that an Air France jet carrying 228 people crashed in the sea, Defense Minister Nelson Jobim said Tuesday. Jobim t ...
Posted Tuesday, June 2nd 2009 at 5:29PM
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