YOUR NATIONAL NEWS
OCTOBER 2012
Day1
Full Debate Schedule!
The debates for the presidency begins....
As the campaigning edges closes in the presidential debates allows many Americans all over to watch and make their opinion of the choices ...
Posted Monday, October 1st 2012 at 10:12AM
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YOUR WORLD NEWS
OCTOBER
Day 1
Normally, people who aren't in touch with the sport of golfing has made an enormous glance to the recent win of the Euro-team this year. Americans normally dominate the sport and it has been quite some time since ...
Posted Monday, October 1st 2012 at 9:31AM
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YOUR WORLD NEWS
OCTOBER 2012
Day 1
World News Japan
A new report calculates that the number of aging people in the world are expected to live at least 60 years of more has the potential growth to become over 2 billion world wide by the year 20 ...
Posted Monday, October 1st 2012 at 9:06AM
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We just launched a new LinkedIn page for HBCU Alumni to use to network in a professional environment and also receive hand selected job opportunities to take advantage of.
Please join our group. We will select winners each week for our HBCU Product giveaways each week from our new LinkedIn Page ...
Posted Monday, October 1st 2012 at 2:48AM
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Children with Specific Language Impairment, which affects about 7 percent of 5- to 6-year-olds, have no other developmental disorders, hearing loss or brain injuries but are late to begin talking may have a genetic link for the cause of their problem ...
Posted Saturday, September 29th 2012 at 10:05AM
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During his State of the Union Address, President Obama strongly urged every state not to allow students to drop out of high school before the age of 18. The president alleges that because Americans with higher levels of education have a lower unemplo ...
Posted Friday, September 28th 2012 at 10:51AM
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Register to Vote
Voter registration is faster and easier than ever!
In the United States, voter registration is the responsibility of the people, and only 70 percent of Americans who are eligible to vote have registered. RegistertoVote.org is a nonpartisan organization committed to reaching th ...
Posted Friday, September 28th 2012 at 10:47AM
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Voter Alert. Enter your address to see what the Presidential candidates have to say about jobs and the economy, education and much more!
Voting in Your State - Register to Vote
http://www.vote411.org/enter-your-address?dest=voting-dossier#.UGWqyq4n1dg ...
Posted Friday, September 28th 2012 at 10:32AM
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By Ann-Marie Adams
It’s evident: A long history of chronic underfunding, classrooms with broken air conditioners and tattered library books have handicap many of the nation’s 105 historically black colleges and universities in their quest to deliver quality education and research.
By 2020, bla ...
Posted Thursday, September 27th 2012 at 3:00PM
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by AFRO Staff
Hundreds of educators and agencies that support education from around the country converged on the Grand Hyatt hotel in Washington D.C. on Sept. 26-27 for the 2012 National Historically Black Colleges and Universities Week Conferen ...
Posted Thursday, September 27th 2012 at 2:43PM
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By Michael R. Crittenden
Associated Press
In this Feb. 24, 2008 file photo, actor Samuel L. Jackson speaks on behalf of then-presidential candidate Barack Obama at a rally in Tyler, Texas. (AP Photo/Dr. Scott M. Lieberman, File)
WASHINGTON –Actor Samuel L. Jackson has a simple message ...
Posted Thursday, September 27th 2012 at 2:21PM
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Virginia State University will play its 2012 Homecoming football game against CIAA Conference rival Lincoln (PA) University on Saturday, October 20 at 1:30 p.m. As our Trojans prepare to challenge Lincoln on the field, we extend a challenge to their alumni off the field.
The Battle of the Orange ...
Posted Thursday, September 27th 2012 at 12:51PM
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Results may help explain racial differences in obesity rates.
TUESDAY, Sept. 25 (HealthDay News) -- The link between chronic stress and weight gain is much stronger in black girls than white girls, and may help explain why black girls are more lik ...
Posted Wednesday, September 26th 2012 at 11:22PM
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By Barbara Bronson Gray
HealthDay Reporter
FRIDAY, Sept. 21 (HealthDay News) -- A new study suggests that obese black children have a significantly greater risk for high blood pressure than white children of comparable age and weight.
When whi ...
Posted Wednesday, September 26th 2012 at 11:16PM
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Regardless of weight, participants didn't consume more to 'make up' for calories burned.
TUESDAY, Sept. 25 (HealthDay News) -- Exercise reduces people's motivation to eat, according to a small new study that found just 45 minutes of brisk walking ...
Posted Wednesday, September 26th 2012 at 11:02PM
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