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Unwed Black Women and Interracial Marriage
In an article by Ralph Pritchard Banks, the Wall Street Journal weighs in on a long-known fact in the African-American community: the issue of unwed single black women. Nearly 70 percent of black women are unmarried, and Banks contends that a limited pool of available men within the race underscores the problem. What explains this…
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Gunman at Virginia Tech? Campus on Lockdown
The campus of Virginia Tech University was placed on lockdown Thursday morning after kids attending a summer science camp on the campus reported seeing a man carrying what looked like a gun. Students have been instructed to stay inside and secure their doors. While there have been no further sightings, authorities say they’re using “an…
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Birth Control, No Co-Pays: Why Hysteria?
This week the Department of Health and Human Services announced that health insurers will be required to cover preventive care without charging a co-payment, co-insurance or a deductible. The new guidelines, which expand on preventive care already covered under the Affordable Care Act, comprise a range of services for women. These include screening for gestational…
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Daily Job Lead: U.S. Program Director
The Global Buildings Performance Network, or GBPN, is looking for go-getters who want to help lower greenhouse-gas emissions across the country and around the world. The GBPN informs policymakers and legislators in the United States, India, China and throughout Europe on the implications of greenhouse gases and how governments the world over can help mitigate…
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Don't Underestimate Rosa Parks
In the past few days, news of Rosa Parks’ “near-rape” has rippled through the media — in part because of a “newly found” six-page document in her own hand from the late 1950s, revealed by Guernsey’s Auctioneers. There are two problems with how the story is playing out, however: the casting of Parks as victim…
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Natalie Cole on Hep C: Lose the Stigma
She’s the Grammy Award-winning daughter of legendary singer Nat King Cole, but Natalie Cole’s most recent performance wasn’t designed to honor her family’s musical legacy or advance her own career. At a benefit concert for the American Liver Foundation last week, her only aim was to raise awareness about the seldom-talked-about and poorly understood disease…
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The Debt and the Planet of the Dopes
As I write, it remains uncertain whether the superpatriots who make up the Tea Party will send the nation they claim to love so much hurtling into the abyss of default with consequences that no economist or politician can totally foresee. Nor is it completely clear which planet these extremists have been living on as…
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Writer Hints at Comcast Payoff to Sharpton
Activist Was Early Backer of Acquisition of NBC “Eight months after Al Sharpton signed a pivotal agreement that helped Comcast and NBC secure Federal Communications Commission approval for their $30 billion merger, MSNBC appears poised to reward him with a prime-time news show,” Wayne Barrett, who long covered Sharpton for the Village Voice, wrote Wednesday…
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The Biggest Lie About Race? That It's Real
There’s a reason we’ll never come to a consensus on the most accurate racial classifications for Barack Obama or Tiger Woods. There’s a reason questions about ethnicity on the census and college applications feel impossible to an increasing number of Americans. There’s a reason you can be black in the United States, colored in South…
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An End to the AIDS Epidemic?
In 1996, many wondered whether the AIDS epidemic was finally over. That year, thanks to the breakthrough in medication used to treat HIV, for the first time in the history of the pandemic, deaths from the disease dropped dramatically. At that watershed moment, AIDS changed from a death sentence to a manageable illness. Of course,…