NEW YORK—President Barack Obama tried on Tuesday to defuse misconceptions about his health care reform proposal in a town hall meeting in New Hampshire, after a series of disruptions at Democratic lawmakers’ town hall meetings. Speaking to an audien ...
Posted Wednesday, August 12th 2009 at 11:35AM
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BOSTON – President John F. Kennedy's sister Eunice Kennedy Shriver, who carried on the family's public service tradition by founding the Special Olympics and championing the rights of the mentally disabled, died early Tuesday surrounded by relatives ...
Posted Tuesday, August 11th 2009 at 11:46AM
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Black Issues Appear Safe from Legal Attack
(Taylor Media Services) When the Senate voted last Thursday to confirm President Obama's nomination of Puerto Rican American Sonia Sotomayor as the 111th justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, it ma ...
Posted Tuesday, August 11th 2009 at 10:28AM
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There are many reasons to dislike the census but Black Americans need to know that many benefits can accrue for their participation in the 2010 Census.
In addition to a federal requirement, Census 2010 Census represents a significant economic stim ...
Posted Tuesday, August 11th 2009 at 10:25AM
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Jacksonville, FL- When the creator of “Noni Jones in Harlem”, a fictional web-journal, noticed that Black female ensemble casts had become obsolete from television airwaves practically over night, she had an idea. An avid writer, Ayesha K. Faines, ...
Posted Sunday, August 9th 2009 at 12:39PM
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(BlackDoctor.org) -- In today’s day and age, your doctor’s appointment shouldn’t consist of a one-sided Q&A. You should be asking the doctor just as many questions as he or she asks you. The next time you gear up for an appointment with your physicia ...
Posted Friday, August 7th 2009 at 1:01AM
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NEW YORK (AP) -- A hacker attack Thursday shut down the fast-growing messaging service Twitter, and Facebook also said it was looking into possible site problems.
Twitter said in its status blog Thursday that it was "defending against a denial-of-se ...
Posted Friday, August 7th 2009 at 12:58AM
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John Hughes has died of a heart attack.
Hughes suffered the heart attack while taking a morning walk during a trip to NYC to visit family.
He directed such '80s hit films as "The Breakfast Club," Weird Science," "Sixteen Candles" and "Ferris Bu ...
Posted Friday, August 7th 2009 at 12:00AM
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ATLANTA (AP) — A man believed to be the getaway driver in the robbery and shooting death of former boxing champion Vernon Forrest has been arrested, Atlanta police said Wednesday. Jquante Crews, 25, of Dallas, Ga., faces several charges including mu ...
Posted Thursday, August 6th 2009 at 11:28PM
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PHOENIX (AP) — The two youngest boys charged in the rape last month of an eight-year-old Liberian girl were ordered Wednesday to remain in juvenile detention with restricted visitors, as Liberia's deputy ambassador to the U.S. arrived in town hoping ...
Posted Thursday, August 6th 2009 at 11:16PM
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What country illegally kidnapped and then imprisoned a former member of Congress and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate? The rogue nation in question is Israel, the beneficiary of largesse forced from the pockets of millions of Americans. Former Congress ...
Posted Thursday, August 6th 2009 at 2:54PM
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HIROSHIMA, Japan - Japan marked 64 years Thursday since Hiroshima was hit in the world's first atomic bomb attack with a call for a nuclear-weapons-free world, a goal backed by U.S. President Barack Obama. The mayor of Hiroshima, the city where 140, ...
Posted Thursday, August 6th 2009 at 12:48PM
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WASHINGTON — Pressed by industry lobbyists, White House officials on Wednesday assured drug makers that the administration stood by a behind-the-scenes deal to block any Congressional effort to extract cost savings from them beyond an agreed-upon $80 ...
Posted Thursday, August 6th 2009 at 12:22PM
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has pledged to "expand and extend" American support for Somalia's weak interim government as it struggles against Islamist extremists believed linked to al-Qaida. Accusing the extremists of trying to t ...
Posted Thursday, August 6th 2009 at 11:45AM
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