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E-mailed to blackinformant.com: The issue at hand today that is a serpent waiting to stike the financial infrastructure of the black community and the community as a whole. It pertains to teens and credit. The average 15 yr old has 2 cell phones and a credit card. The debt-ridden lifestyle the last generation lived has now morphed into a full-grown financial loch-ness monster that is now crushing our youth and their future. ...More

(npr.com) "Our lenders tell us that figure is very much on the low end of the scale," says Corey Carlyle, senior director of government affairs at the Mortgage Bankers Association. "I've seen figures as high as $4 billion, and again, that is just what it cost the industry in 2006." And while street gangs only account for a portion of that, the fact that they have moved to mortgage fraud as ...More

(ajc.com) Juanita Bynum, a preacher whose fiery and frank sermons about women's empowerment have won her a national following, was attacked by her husband in the parking lot of an Atlanta hotel early Wednesday morning, police said. Bynum, whose ministry is based in Waycross, and her estranged husband, Thomas W. Weeks III, had met up at Renaissance Concourse Hotel near Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport to try to reconcile, Atlanta police said. But ...More

Man, I was in Target the other day waiting for my wife. While I was standing there I decided to randomly pick up products to see where it was manufactured. ALL OF THEM said 'China'. Here is some other related news regarding manufacturer's paradise. Lead causes more U.S. recalls of China-made toys Wed Aug 22, 2007 NEW YORK (Reuters) - Excessive amounts of lead paint on toys and other children's products led the U.S. Consumer ...More

(thuglifearmy.com) "When George Curry's Emerge Magazine published its famous 1993 cover depicting US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as "Lawn Jockey for the Far Right", he used ridicule to ignite a potent WMD --- a weapon of mass discussion among African Americans that clarified black opinion on the uses to which an earlier Bush administration put its prominent black faces. In that spirit, Black Agenda Report and CBC Monitor will ...More

DETROIT (AP) - Fox News and a black political group say they won't hold a Sept. 23 Democratic presidential debate in Detroit, which the leading candidates already were planning to skip. The campaigns of U.S. Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama and former Sen. John Edwards had said they wouldn't participate in the debate. Opponents have criticized Fox as biased against Democrats. (more...) Sooooooo, does this mean that CNN is unbiased towards ...More

Remember this story: (CNN) -- Tornadoes tore across the nation's midsection for a second night Saturday, 24 hours after a storm leveled Greensburg, Kansas. [...] Kansas Emergency Management Agency spokeswoman Sharon Watson said eight of the deaths were in Kiowa County, where Greensburg is located, and one was in Stafford County, to the northeast. "I believe 95 percent of the homes are gone," Hewitt said of Greensburg. "Downtown buildings are gone, my home is ...More

(galluppoll.com) PRINCETON, NJ -- A new Gallup Poll finds Congress' approval rating the lowest it has been since Gallup first tracked public opinion of Congress with this measure in 1974. Just 18% of Americans approve of the job Congress is doing, while 76% disapprove, according to the August 13-16, 2007, Gallup Poll. That 18% job approval rating matches the low recorded in March 1992, when a check-bouncing scandal was one of ...More

"Highlighted in the Black Film Report: 2000-2004 are key findings that illustrate the economic impact of the black film genre: * Seventy-seven (77) black films, representing $1.75 billion in domestic box office gross, were released in the five-year period, 2000-2004. * Since 1990, black films have grossed $3.88 billion in domestic box office revenues. During that same time period, mainstream films grossed $102 billion. On average, black films represent 3-5% ...More

Someone over at the flickr.com website posted up 80 images of old Jet magazines from back in the day. Thanks, sis. ! (hat tip: Cobb) Breezing through these articles, one can easily see that some topics will never go away. :) More