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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 cont

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 collea

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 o

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

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 t

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

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." B

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 forwar

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

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 Democr

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, dealin

(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 C

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 cr

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 t

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 dange

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

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 wro

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 off

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

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 colossa

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

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 urba

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 dedi

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