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Pregnant Women Blocked From Getting Mortgages
What sounds like hibernation but is oppressive? Discrimination! Pregnant women and expectant couples are having trouble getting mortgages. Mortgage lenders are taking a “harder look” at prospective borrowers because their income may temporarily decline while they are on leave. This hesitancy includes new parents at home taking care of a baby. Even if a parent…
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Racial Tensions Explode Over Diversity at N.C. School Board Meeting
Protesters and police scuffled at a N.C. school-board meeting in Raleigh, resulting in multiple arrests. One of the people arrested was the Rev. William Barber, the head of the state NAACP chapter, who had been banned from the meeting after a trespassing arrest at a June 20 school board meeting. The Wake County School Board…
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More Than 20 Injured on D.C.-to-Los Angeles United Airlines Flight
United Flight 967 from D.C. to Los Angeles hit an extreme patch of turbulence, causing passengers and flight attendants to be thrown around the cabin. Twenty people, including four flight attendants, were injured on the flight that left Dulles Airport heading to LAX. Although most of the injuries were mild, one person was critically injured.…
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Between Truths and Indulgences, Part Two
Read part I of Wole Soyinka’s piece here. Fascination with the slave trade as part of my own history, right from elementary school, was as routine as that generation’s immersion in — for example — local mythology. The most notorious part of this human misadventure, unarguably the transatlantic slave trade, was the stuff on which…
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Once You Go Black: Lindsay Lohan Back With Shawn Chapman Holley
In what amounts to a legal version of musical chairs, Lindsay Lohan has reunited with attorney Shawn Chapman Holley, who resigned after Lohan was sentenced to 30 days in jail for not complying with probation requirement for a 2007 D.U.I. arrest. Holley supposedly dumped Lohan because of her uncontrollable behavior. Lohan insists that Robert Shapiro…
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Bill Restoring Jobless Benefits Extension Ends Senate Republican Delays
Finally, some relief for unemployed Americans whose unemployment benefits had expired. Senate Republicans had filibustered the proposed extension of benefits because many believed that it would cause the unemployed to stop looking for work. Have they been reading Ben Stein’s writing? At any rate, millions of unemployed Americans now have a little wiggle room for…
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Ben Stein's Wishful Thinking: Jobless Have Poor Work Habits and Personalities
Actor, comedian, writer and blowhard Ben Stein has the Internet buzzing over a piece he penned for American Spectator. In it, he talks about the jobless, basically saying that most of them generally have poor work habits and poor personalities — everyone, that is, except his closest friends. We’re not making this up. Stein writes,…
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Gel May Prevent AIDS Transmission
A medical breakthrough on AIDS prevention and treatment may be on its way. A new vaginal gel that appears to block the AIDS virus is boosting hopes worldwide that the dreaded disease can be brought under control. The gel is thought to be so effective that some African nations, like South Africa, may distribute it…
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Abortion Coverage Banned in New High-Risk Pools
The Obama administration is treading lightly on what many would consider an eroding of abortion rights. The White House is poised to extend the reach of federal restrictions on abortion funding to new high-risk insurance pools, a supplementary system for people at risk of being shut out of ordinary private insurance because of preexisting medical…
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Return of the Mack: AMC's Hit Show 'Mad Men' Is Back
AMC’s hit television show Mad Men returns for a fourth season on Sunday. Contrary to popular belief, black folks love this show just like everyone else. Fans will tune in to discover Don Draper, the aloof lead character who has more in common with regular folks than with the upwardly mobile New York crowd with…
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