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Facebook founder to donate $100M to mostly minority Newark schools on Oprah Show
The donation is being announced Friday on Oprah Winfrey’s TV show in an arrangement that brings together the young Internet tycoon, Newark’s celebrated Democratic mayor and a governor who has quickly become a star of the Republican party.
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New Study links non- stick pans to high cholesterol levels in kids
Exposure to these compounds occurs through all manner of sources: drinking water, dust, food packaging, breast milk, cord blood, microwave popcorn, air and environmental sources
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Mega-church pastor Bishop Eddie Long accused of sexual misconduct
The men were 17- and 18-year-old members of Long’s New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, when they say Long abused his spiritual authority to seduce them with cars, money, clothes, jewelry, international trips and access to celebrities.
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New study links absent dads and early puberty in girls
Exposure to more artificial light from TVs or computers is one theory. Other possibilities include weak maternal bonding, assuming a single mother is working long hours. It might be possible that African-American girls reach puberty early from exposure to estrogen stimulating beauty products.
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New study: Daycare has lasting effects for African American children
An examination of the data revealed that children who attended more responsive, stimulating, and well-structured settings during preschool had fewer behavioral problems-such as aggression and rule breaking-in middle childhood.
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Hampton University Opens $225M Cancer Center
This is the first proton therapy center connected with a historically black university and the only one of eight in this country not connected with a medical school. The institute should generate between $80 million and $100 million a year in revenue.
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Is BET getting back to its Roots?
“Conversations with Ed Gordon” airing at noon will feature one on one interviews, provocative debates and discussions about the issues Black America face on a daily basis.
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FDA considers genetically engineered salmon
A company, AquAdvantage Salmon, has injected growth hormones into Atlantic salmon that enable the fish to reach maturity in half the normal growth time, 16 to 18 months, rather than 30 months