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Pew report shows African Americans regard high speed internet as an equalizing advantage
In every major category, from job opportunities to acquiring health information, more African-American and Hispanic adults regard lack of broadband access as “a major disadvantage” than whites do.
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New study: Vitamin-D Deficiency in Women Increases Risk of Pregnancy-Related High Blood Pressure
Vitamin D deficiency might help explain why African American women are at greater risk of preeclampsia than other racial groups, even when factors like income and healthcare access are taken into account.
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New study shows New York Public Schools are unable to teach Black male students
National tests showed 9% of New York’s black male eighth-graders were reading at grade level in 2009. In 2008, only 28% of male blacks graduated high school in the city.
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Price of African American art work growing dramatically
Thom Pegg predicts that Black Art’s value will increase from an investment standpoint. There’s some history there and a heritage there. It just wasn’t really well known.
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Maryland elects first Black woman appellate court judge
Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley is set to swear in the first black woman to an appellate court in the state Tuesday.
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Suspect held in connection with serial killing/stabbing of 18 African Americans
Authorities have identified the man arrested Wednesday at the Atlanta airport as Elias Abuelazam, 33, in connection with the stabbings of 20 people in Michigan, Virginia and Ohio.
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Naomi Campbell exposes the diamond industry’s role in African wars
The diamond industry has given almost nothing back to Sierra Leone, despite the critical role diamonds played in the war. In nearly every armed conflict or instance of a highly corrupt regime a network of reputable financial institutions facilitates and exacerbates the world’s worst abuses.
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Republican Sen. Graham plans to alter the Amendment that gave African Americans citizenship rights
The 14th Amendment ensured black citizenship when it was ratified in 1868. According to Senator Graham and other Republican leaders, the rationale of senators calling for hearings on the 14th Amendment is supposedly a concern about illegal immigration.