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.
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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
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Posted Monday, October 5th 2009 at 8:07PM
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The Canton Spirituals are an award-winning gospel recording group and are regarded as pioneers in the genre of traditional gospel music. Founded in Canton, Mississippi in 1943, the original Canton Spirituals were Eddie Jackson, Theo Thompson, Roscoe ...
Posted Monday, October 5th 2009 at 4:24PM
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Get the Facts
{It's} make-or-break time for health care reform, and the debate is intense. A number of falsehoods, from lawmakers to ordinary citizens, are making it tricky to know what’s true and what’s not. ESSENCE.com combed through some of the m ...
Posted Monday, October 5th 2009 at 3:14PM
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All Praise to Def Jam
Last night VH1 hosted its annual Hip Hop Honors, with this year’s show celebrating the 25th anniversary of Def Jam. Host Tracy Morgan opened the night with a hilarious church bit, bestowing nothing but praise on the greatest ...
Posted Monday, October 5th 2009 at 2:34PM
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NEW YORK — Back from another trip to Europe, this time Germany, where the same dismay as in France prevails over the U.S. health care debate. Europeans don’t get why Americans don’t agree that universal health coverage is a fundamental contract to wh ...
Posted Monday, October 5th 2009 at 2:11PM
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Sometimes it seems there is no better place to become obese than-- church. Church is a place of respite, a place for family and friends whom we value as family. It is a place to give and receive something spiritually. It can also become a place of c ...
Posted Monday, October 5th 2009 at 1:28PM
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(BlackDoctor.org) -- You get upset, you eat. You get depressed, you eat. You go through a breakup, you eat. For years, people have suspected that stress and obesity are linked, and now scientific research has found evidence to support this connection ...
Posted Monday, October 5th 2009 at 1:10PM
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Much of the debate over legalizing gay marriage has focused on God and Scripture, the Constitution and equal protection. But we see the world through the prism of money. And for years, we’ve heard from gay couples about all the extra health, legal a ...
Posted Saturday, October 3rd 2009 at 9:14AM
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