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Since the President’s State of the Union address, the news wires have been filled with grandstanding comments from politicians and commentary crying about how Bush has “once again forgotten about poor Black folks” by not mentioning Katrina in his address.
While the particular article below wastes no time placing these dramatic claims at the very beginning, [...]

This was submitted by reader Saudia Abdullah
“After my maternity leave was over I took my son to the day care and boldly went to work.  I was in my office for about 30 minutes when the tears began to role down my face.  I stood up grabbed my purse and went into my bosses office [...]

(dukechronicle.com) “The buying power of North Carolina’s minority groups has greatly increased since 1990, making the state’s business and investment market one of the most active in the country, according to a study published by the North Carolina Institute of Minority Economic Development.
And Durham is one of the key cities that reflects this trend, thanks [...]

(news.enquirer.com) About 70 percent of African-American women do not live with a spouse, the Census Bureau says. That’s the direction in which Monica Blackwell-Harper once saw herself headed.
Although she wanted children, “I didn’t want to get married,” the 35-year-old from Forest Park says. “I didn’t understand why people would (marry). It seemed like a bad [...]

Washington, DCâ€â€ÂPennsylvania leads the nation in the rate of black homicide victimization according to a new analysis of unpublished Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Supplementary Homicide Report (SHR) data released today by the Violence Policy Center (VPC). The study, Black Homicide Victimization in the United States: An Analysis of 2004 Homicide Data, uses 2004 dataâ€â€Âthe [...]

it provides a missing ingredient to all the claims that the medical industry is no different today than it was during the days of the Tuskeegee experiments.
Studies Indicate African-Americans Need to Question Doctors More; New Magazine Helps Get the Conversation Started
WASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–A recent study concludes that African-Americans are less likely than Whites to question their [...]

“Energy outputs from ethanol produced using corn, switchgrass, and wood biomass were each less than the respective fossil energy inputs. The same was true for producing biodiesel using soybeans and sunflower, however, the energy cost for producing soybean biodiesel was only slightly negative compared with ethanol production. Findings in terms of energy outputs compared with [...]

For whatever reason, the recent article that I posted on this site back on Thursday regarding Prince George’s County, Md. has been on my mind for a good part of the weekend. I have long maintained that public schools in mostly Black communities tend to be nothing more than lab experiments and this article I [...]

(manilamaildc.net) More and more states in the United States are hiring qualified teachers from the Philippines.
The latest states included in the list are North Carolina, Virginia and Kansas. There are now hundreds of other Filipino teachers teaching in schools in Maryland, Texas, Las Vegas and other states where there are a lack of special education [...]

DONESHA SHAMEL BLAND
Case Type: Missing
DOB: Oct 12, 1991
Sex: Female
Missing Date: Jan 5, 2007
Race: Black
Age Now: 15
Height:  5′3″ (160 cm)
Missing City: RICHMOND
Weight:  115 lbs (52 kg)
Missing State : VA
Hair Color: Brown
Missing Country: United States
Eye Color: Hazel
Case Number: USVAVA07-41
Circumstances: Donesha was last seen on January 5, 2007. She was wearing a green t-shirt with white writing and [...]

Excerpt from a Nina Mae McKinney fansite
“Nina Mae was indeed “The First Black Movie Star,” the first black actress in starring roles who appeared in over 30 films (more than Horne or Dandridge), some films are considered lost, some are not as available to the public. Her achievements in films was not only being the [...]

(northjersey.com) “New-home sales in the United States rose more than forecast in December, showing that the real estate market is improving following its biggest slump since 1990.
The 4.8 percent increase represented an annual pace of 1.12 million new homes, the most since April, from a 1.069 million rate the prior month, the Commerce Department said [...]

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(gazette.net) “Prince George’s County’s recent economic prosperity could be jeopardized unless African-American males, who make up a sizable portion of the future workforce, make greater strides in academic achievement, business advocates and educators say.
African-American males make up 39 percent of the county’s public school population, or nearly 52,000 students, and [...]