The Oscar-winning actor contributed $1 million last month to Priorities USA Action, the “super PAC” backing President Obama, helping lift the group to its best fundraising month yet. In all, Priorities USA Action pulled in $6 million in June. Its b ...
Posted Thursday, July 19th 2012 at 9:29PM
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Tamia Hill was well-known even before her marriage to NBA star Grant Hill. The Canadian-born songstress was discovered by Quincy Jones and had some memorable hits with “You Put a Move On My Heart,” “Stranger In My House,” “So Into You,” which rapper ...
Posted Thursday, July 19th 2012 at 9:23PM
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On Tuesday, Oprah Winfrey at last sold her eight-room, 4,607-square-foot Streeterville co-op unit in Chicago for $2.75...
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Posted Thursday, July 19th 2012 at 9:12PM
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Next time you fret about the amount of time you, your friends or your offspring are spending with their e-readers, take heart. You are part of a growing trend: reading.
Last November Kristina Chew wrote a Care2 Causes post that posed a questio ...
Posted Thursday, July 19th 2012 at 9:10PM
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(BlackDoctor.org) — Young women whose significant others are their primary source of spending money are more likely to report that they don’t use condoms, according to a study in the Journal of Adolescent Health.
• Almost one-quarter of the women ...
Posted Monday, July 2nd 2012 at 12:58PM
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Jun 28, 2012 Mary J Blige is finally speaking out on her Burger King crispy chicken fiasco. The Queen of Hip-Hop Soul reveals how the backlash “crushed” her, and broke her heart. “I felt there was no need for me to say anything because everyone was ...
Posted Thursday, June 28th 2012 at 8:41PM
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NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City nightclub that was the site of a bottle-hurling brawl after a dispute between the entourages of singers Drake and Chris Brown has had its liquor license suspended. The State Liquor Authority suspended the license of W ...
Posted Thursday, June 28th 2012 at 8:32PM
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EURweb.com The black sequined jacket worn by Michael Jackson during his historic performance in the 1983 TV special “Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever” belonged to his mother Katherine and was pulled from her closet at the last minute, according ...
Posted Thursday, June 28th 2012 at 8:28PM
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R&B singer Kelly Price believes she was racially profiled on a recent trip to Mobile, Alabama on her way to perform at the city's "Funk Fest." According to Price, she was waiting to board a flight on United Airways when she encountered a service age ...
Posted Thursday, June 28th 2012 at 8:25PM
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Whether shepherding legislation they sponsored, collaborating on a strategic workforce plan or educating their peers about healthcare issues, nurses elected to their state legislatures continually draw on their past clinical experiences to promote th ...
Posted Sunday, June 24th 2012 at 8:06AM
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During the ordeal of slavery black families were robbed, spoiled, and auctioned off wholesale. Young children were separated from their mothers, wives were separated from their husbands, and ultimately the entire black family structure was destroyed. ...
Posted Sunday, June 24th 2012 at 12:20AM
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If there is a demographic that is more maligned and vilified in America than black men, it is black fathers. Or the lack thereof.
Black men who father children have generally been consigned the grotesque “babies daddies” moniker because of the hor ...
Posted Sunday, June 24th 2012 at 12:09AM
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Two studies recently published in scientific journals say that when it comes to parenting, dads really do matter to kids — and in some ways, they may have even more influence than mothers.
According to a meta-analysis of several decades' worth o ...
Posted Sunday, June 24th 2012 at 12:05AM
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Shortly after President Obama announced that DHS will halt the deportations of eligible undocumented youth, a Chicago-area fifth grader delivered a speech of his own. Over the weekend, Alexander Tymouch was honored as the National 5th Grade Creative ...
Posted Saturday, June 23rd 2012 at 5:24PM
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I've heard so many people—especially in the church—express concern over the upcoming generation. "They aren't prepared to lead," these folks complain. "They aren't motivated. They have to constantly be 'mothered.'" There are definitely distinctions ...
Posted Saturday, June 23rd 2012 at 4:58PM
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Bullies on the Bus: “ Making the Bus Monitor Cry ” That’s the name of the video. It’s more than 10 minutes long, but if you make it through more than three of them with your eyes not getting misty and your blood not boiling then you are a rock, or a ...
Posted Saturday, June 23rd 2012 at 4:52PM
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Sister Irma,
That was a shame that kids can act like that, eh? I'm not surprised because children can be so cruel to not only other children but to grown ups. I felt really bothered that the American culture is such that children have no manners ...
Posted Saturday, June 23rd 2012 at 2:54PM
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Jersey City Medical Center is looking for OR RNs with strong scrub and circulating skills and one to three years experience & ICU RNs with one to three years of ICU/CCU/SICU experience and a Critical Care (CC) Certification.
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Posted Thursday, June 21st 2012 at 4:48PM
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The Keisha Knight-Pulliam rumor mill was kicked into overdrive yesterday and she isn’t having it.
Plenty of websites, including this one, reported Keisha Knight-Pulliam was joining the cast of Real Housewives of Atlanta. If Keisha was joining a re ...
Posted Thursday, June 21st 2012 at 4:00PM
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(HEALTHeCAREERS.com)--Today, having a degree and experience may not be enough to beat the competition in getting the job you want. You may have all the required technical skills or have graduated from one of the top nursing schools, however, if you a ...
Posted Thursday, June 21st 2012 at 1:35PM
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(Reuters) - American singer Bobby Brown has remarried in Hawaii, four months after the drowning death of his ex-wife Whitney Houston, People magazine reported on Tuesday. People magazine said the couple tied the knot on Monday, a day after Brown per ...
Posted Thursday, June 21st 2012 at 11:55AM
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Culture and Nursing: When Shelli was a new scrub nurse with only six months experience, she failed to anticipate that the surgeon would need a particular scalpel. Immediately, her preceptor deftly slapped the correct blade into the impatient surgeon’s outstretched hand with a glare in Shelli’s dire ...
Posted Sunday, June 17th 2012 at 8:38PM
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Things My Dad Taught Me...
(BlackDoctor)This Father’s Day, BlackDoctor.org celebrates the precious men in our lives by remembering the many things they taught us…
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Posted Sunday, June 17th 2012 at 8:19PM
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