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WorldSocialist.com--As many as 20 million Americans could lose their employer-sponsored coverage in 2019 under the health care legislation signed into law by President Obama in March 2010. This is the

From AmericanBanker.com March 16, 2012 JPMorgan Chase & Co. took procedural shortcuts and used faulty account records in suing tens of thousands of delinquent credit card borrowers for at least tw

Huffington Post--A photograph of a bumper sticker that features racist, anti-Obama language has gone viral on Facebook and other social networks. The sticker reads "Don't Re-Nig In 2012," in large

Unita Blackwell, a civil rights activist and the first black female mayor in the state of Mississippi, was born the daughter of sharecropping parents in Coahoma County, Mississippi on March 18, 1933.

This information presented at American Academy of Dermatology’s 70th Annual Meeting by Raechele Cochran Gathers, MD, FAAD, senior physician at the Multi-Cultural Dermatology Center of Henry Ford Hospi

On a local R&B station here in New Orleans their was a discussion on worship. The host of the morning radio show posed this idea that when we speak in a different language we are speaking from the rea

Chicago Sun-Times--When Steve Harvey signed on to do a nationally syndicated daytime TV talk show, producers considered basing the program in Connecticut or New York. Harvey’s current hometown, Atlant

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Dorothy Irene Height was born in Richmond, Virginia, on March 24, 1912. She was the daughter of James Edward Height, a building contractor, and Fannie Burroughs Height, a nurse. When Dorothy Height wa

Newsweek.com--In a massacre that expresses the brutality and horror of the entire American war in Afghanistan, an Army staff sergeant walked into a village in rural Kandahar province early Sunday morn

SAN FRANCISCO--UC Berkeley on Saturday was once again the crucible of the free speech debate. The birthplace of the Free Speech Movement in the 1960s hosted another iconoclast from the era, Nation

Lorraine Hansberry (born May 19, 1930, Chicago, Ill., U.S.—died Jan. 12, 1965, New York, N.Y.) American playwright whose A Raisin in the Sun (1959) was the first drama by an African American woman to

CNN--U.S. health officials are warning consumers to stop using some skin bleaching or skin lightening creams because they contain high levels of mercury. The federal Food and Drug Administration ha

Born August 9, 1884 in Reading, Pennsylvania, Daisy Lampkin became one of the most highly acclaimed African American women of her time. While Lampkin is best known for becoming the first women to be e

AdelaideNow.com--A common heart disease drug may have the unusual side-effect of combating racism, a new study has suggested. Volunteers given the beta-blocker, used to treat chest pains and lower

Janet Collins (March 7, 1917 in New Orleans, Louisiana – May 28, 2003 in Fort Worth, Texas) was a ballet dancer and choreographer. Janet Collins was one of the few classically trained Black dancers

From The Huffington Post March 7, 2012 The recently observed Black History month presents the opportunity for individuals worldwide to focus on the accomplishments and contributions of Black citiz

MARYLAND--An Essex man pleaded guilty in federal court on Monday for his role in hanging a raccoon on the porch of an African-American family, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. Joshua Wall,

(Reuters) - Black and Latino students across the United States are far more likely to be suspended than white students - and far less likely to have access to rigorous college-prep courses, according

By Joan Walsh March 3, 2012 One of the burdens of blackness, W.E.B. DuBois famously wrote, was facing down an omnipresent question from the wider society: ¡°How does it feel to be a problem?¡± I¡¯

South African diva Miriam Makeba is well known throughout the world known as the Mama Africa and the Empress of African Song. Born in 1932 in South Afica, she first came to the public's attention as a

Oprah Winfrey has landed the first interview with late singer Whitney Houston’s daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown, for a special to air March 11 on her OWN cable network. Winfrey interviewed the 18-ye