WASHINGTON – Senate Democrats alone cannot pass President Barack Obama's ambitious overhaul of how Americans receive health care, a top lawmaker acknowledged on Sunday. Republicans said they will continue their opposition to a plan they say is simply ...
Posted Monday, July 27th 2009 at 12:29AM
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As nurses, we like to believe we rise above attitudes that would harm our patients or ourselves. But a more honest self-examination might find we sometimes harbor racist feelings toward our own colleagues who have different racial or ethnic backgroun ...
Posted Monday, July 27th 2009 at 12:04AM
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Robin Beaton, RN, worked as a nurse for 30 years ... 59, almost didn’t get the double mastectomy she needed when she was diagnosed in June 2008 with HER2 positive breast cancer, an aggressive form of the disease. Beaton, who lives in Waxahachie, T ...
Posted Sunday, July 26th 2009 at 11:47PM
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Vernon Forrest won the Marvin Kohn Good Guy Award in 2003 in a vote of members of the Boxing Writers Association of America, a richly deserved honor for a man who always was looking for ways to share his good fortune with others. "He came from the ‘ ...
Posted Sunday, July 26th 2009 at 10:48PM
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By Sunny Freeman, The Canadian Press
KINGSTON, Ontario. - The suspicious deaths of three Montreal sisters and a caregiver found inexplicably in a car submerged in the Rideau Canal took a dramatic turn Thursday as police alleged the four had been m ...
Posted Saturday, July 25th 2009 at 1:15AM
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama backed down on Friday from a statement that police had "acted stupidly" in arresting a black scholar in a racially charged case that was rapidly becoming a distraction for Obama. The president made a sur ...
Posted Friday, July 24th 2009 at 6:31PM
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On Wednesday's episode of "So You Think You Can Dance," contestants Ade and Melissa performed a contemporary routine inspired by breast cancer to Maxwell's cover of Kate Bush's "This Woman's Work." Before the performance, choreographer Tyce Diorio e ...
Posted Friday, July 24th 2009 at 2:55PM
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The election of our first black president has brought with it a strange proliferation of online racism among conservatives. And we've got the latest example. On Sunday night, Dr. David McKalip forwarded to fellow members of a Google listserv affilia ...
Posted Friday, July 24th 2009 at 12:17PM
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Listen to this one... ABC news and various other media outlets have already jumped on the President about his comments about the Gates' case. You said it Brother Faulkerson & on one of the news shows they used a "Tom" from Fox News (Warren I believe ...
Posted Friday, July 24th 2009 at 11:50AM
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The Civility Project is not calling for unity—just respect.
A Republican and a Democrat walk into a bar — a coffee bar, that is. That's the plan, anyway. But, as Republican Mark DeMoss and Democrat Lanny Davis will tell you, a civil conversation ...
Posted Thursday, July 23rd 2009 at 7:20PM
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New York City used tests that discriminated against black and Hispanic applicants to the Fire Department and had little relation to firefighting, a federal judge in Brooklyn ruled on Wednesday, dealing a blow to the administration of Mayor Michael R. ...
Posted Thursday, July 23rd 2009 at 4:46PM
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(BlackDoctor.org) -- Researchers are planning to find out why black Americans seeking help for depression and other mood disorders are often misdiagnosed with schizophrenia. A team of University of Cincinnati investigators will lead a four-year nati ...
Posted Thursday, July 23rd 2009 at 10:14AM
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Organizing for America volunteers have done amazing work over the last couple weeks -- and the pressure is working. Congress is moving rapidly toward finalizing health care reform legislation, with crucial votes expected in both the House and the Sen ...
Posted Wednesday, July 22nd 2009 at 6:33PM
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In the short time since we first told you about the outrageous discrimination suffered by the children of Creative Steps Day Camp at a Pennsylvania swimming club, an amazing 85,000 of you stepped up to demand that the Department of Justice investigat ...
Posted Wednesday, July 22nd 2009 at 12:21PM
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A South Carolina mother whose 14-year-old son weighs 555 pounds has been charged with criminal neglect, prosecutors said. Jerri Gray's case could lead to more criminal action against parents of dangerously overweight children, her lawyer, Grant Varn ...
Posted Tuesday, July 21st 2009 at 8:31PM
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From VivianPaige...
Over the last few months, I had been hearing that there is a shortage of ammunition. Honestly, I thought it was just a local thing. That is, until I read this article on the front page of today’s Virginian-Pilot:
…blame politics ...
Posted Tuesday, July 21st 2009 at 7:22PM
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Apparently Chris Brown has released a video expressing his sincerest apologies for the incident against Rihanna. Although he had already issued a statement prior about his actions, the person who wrote the blog feels that it means more now since he’ ...
Posted Tuesday, July 21st 2009 at 6:10PM
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Michael Jackson Memorial Service - Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee introduces, Resolution 600 in honor of Michael Jackosn. Here's the link if anyone else would like to express their views to their elected officials about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's decision ...
Posted Tuesday, July 21st 2009 at 2:39PM
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Back in the days when segregation was the law of the land, they opened doors of educational opportunity that produced generations of distinguished African American nurses. Today, HBCU nursing programs are building on that legacy to prepare the black ...
Posted Monday, July 20th 2009 at 6:53PM
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I copied and pasted this from one of the Moms from the "Mamas for Obama" group that I'm a part of on another social networking site who goes by the logon, katiedm.
Katiedm writes, "Here's a colossal Glenn Beck meltdown for your listening pleasure. ...
Posted Monday, July 20th 2009 at 3:13PM
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LOS ANGELES (AFP) - After six years together, the relationship between a pair of gay male penguins at San Francisco zoo is apparently over, with Harry leaving Pepper for another penguin -- Linda. The Los Angeles Times reported Friday that the relati ...
Posted Sunday, July 19th 2009 at 2:06PM
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President Barack Obama convened a meeting (Tuesday, July 14th) with community advocates, political leaders and policy experts on Monday to help create an ambitious agenda to overhaul the nation’s urban centers where millions of African Americans call ...
Posted Saturday, July 18th 2009 at 2:50PM
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Denny’s, the popular restaurant chain, will present a $100,000 check in celebration of their commitment to diversity on Thursday at the NAACP Convention in New York. The check compliments Denny’s dedication to building strong families, promoting comm ...
Posted Saturday, July 18th 2009 at 2:36PM
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Maybe it’s the heat. Maybe it’s the economy. Maybe it’s that we have so many outlets to receive information, but there’s a lot of stuff going on out there that makes us say, “What the heck!?” We call it What-the-Heck Wednesday, but trust me, there’s ...
Posted Saturday, July 18th 2009 at 2:26PM
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