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  • Mignon Clyburn Becomes First Woman To Take Helm at the FCC

    Mignon Clyburn Becomes First Woman To Take Helm at the FCC

    It’s important to celebrate whenever social barriers are knocked down — including the one that was bestowed this week upon Mignon Clyburn when she became the acting chairwoman of the [...]

  • David Johns: A Fresh Face for African American Education Reform

    David Johns: A Fresh Face for African American Education Reform

    The President has gained a new ally in his comprehensive strategy to reform education: David Johns, who was recently appointed as Executive Director of the White House Initiative on Educational [...]

  • Documentary: ‘Life After Life’ Follows Two Men Imprisoned As Teens Rebuild Their Lives

    Documentary: ‘Life After Life’ Follows Two Men Imprisoned As Teens Rebuild Their Lives

    The film Life After Life follows Harrison and Noel, two men who spent decades incarcerated after for committing unthinkable acts as teenagers. After spending their youth and adult life behind [...]

  • Proximity to Fast Food Dictates BMI In Low-Income Blacks

    Proximity to Fast Food Dictates BMI In Low-Income Blacks

    African-American adults living closer to a fast food restaurant had a higher body mass index (BMI) than those who lived further away from fast food, according to researchers at The [...]

  • Strong Southern Support for Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion Despite Governors’ Opposition

    Strong Southern Support for Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion Despite Governors’ Opposition

    A large majority of people living in the Deep South supports the Medicaid expansion in the Affordable Care Act, even though their governors and representatives oppose it, according to a [...]

  • Global: Ushahidi Gives New Hope for Better Internet Access in Rural Africa

    Global: Ushahidi Gives New Hope for Better Internet Access in Rural Africa

    A non-profit technology company based in Kenya has created a wireless internet router that it says will help people living in places where electricity is spotty and internet service is [...]

  • Motivational Monday: 4 Quick Tips For Resetting Your Joy When It All Goes Wrong

    Motivational Monday: 4 Quick Tips For Resetting Your Joy When It All Goes Wrong

    Things didn’t turn out how you planned them. You may be feeling shock, surprise, anger, overwhelm, confusion, fear, frustration, grief, worry, or sadness about how things went so terribly wrong. [...]

  • Integrated and Equal? Reflections on Brown vs. Board Nearly 60 Years Later

    Integrated and Equal? Reflections on Brown vs. Board Nearly 60 Years Later

    On the anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark case that struck down separate but equal and ushered in the era of integrated schools, I am reflecting on [...]

 

  • Mignon Clyburn Becomes First Woman To Take Helm at the FCC
  • David Johns: A Fresh Face for African American Education Reform
  • Documentary: ‘Life After Life’ Follows Two Men Imprisoned As Teens Rebuild Their Lives
  • Proximity to Fast Food Dictates BMI In Low-Income Blacks
  • Strong Southern Support for Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion Despite Governors’ Opposition
  • Global: Ushahidi Gives New Hope for Better Internet Access in Rural Africa
  • Motivational Monday: 4 Quick Tips For Resetting Your Joy When It All Goes Wrong
  • Integrated and Equal? Reflections on Brown vs. Board Nearly 60 Years Later
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The Gun Control Tragedy: When Votes, Contributions Trump Saving Lives
03/May/2013 04:46

The Gun Control Tragedy: When Votes, Contributions Trump Saving Lives

We’ve witnessed a number of tragedies recently: the Boston Marathon Bombing, the explosion in West, TX, the earthquake in China, the plane crash that killed troops in Afghanistan. But there [...]

SOCIAL ISSUES

Study: Lower-Achieving Students Often Matched With Less-Experienced Educators0

Study: Lower-Achieving Students Often Matched With Less-Experienced Educators

Even within the same school, lower-achieving students often are taught by less-experienced teachers, as well as by teachers who received their degrees from less-competitive colleges, according to a new study [...]

  • Global: Ushahidi Gives New Hope for Better Internet Access in Rural Africa
  • Integrated and Equal? Reflections on Brown vs. Board Nearly 60 Years Later
  • Mass Public School Closings: Good Fiscal Policy or Racist Austerity Measures?
  • West Africa Struggles to Fill Climate Gap

SOCIO-ECONOMICS

Going Solo Series: How to Finish the Marketing Projects You Start0

Going Solo Series: How to Finish the Marketing Projects You Start

I learned from one of my first mentors, Michael Port, that being successful in business is really about starting and finishing projects. He also taught me that most business problems [...]

  • Strong Southern Support for Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion Despite Governors’ Opposition
  • Why the Obama Administration Must Do More To Help Working-class Families on Housing
  • Study: Colleges Using Financial Aid to Woo The Wealthy While Leaving Low-Income Students Behind
  • The Federal Minimum Wage Debate Rehashes Among Economists, Politicians

HEALTH & HARMONY

Proximity to Fast Food Dictates BMI In Low-Income Blacks0

Proximity to Fast Food Dictates BMI In Low-Income Blacks

African-American adults living closer to a fast food restaurant had a higher body mass index (BMI) than those who lived further away from fast food, according to researchers at The [...]

  • Legislatures Face Off on Mandatory Paid Sick Leave
  • Video of the Week: What’s Eating Black Women?
  • Life on Purpose: What Is a Parent?
  • Health Matters: “I Just Didn’t Want To Hear Any More Bad News…”

MOVERS & DOERS

David Johns: A Fresh Face for African American Education Reform0

David Johns: A Fresh Face for African American Education Reform

The President has gained a new ally in his comprehensive strategy to reform education: David Johns, who was recently appointed as Executive Director of the White House Initiative on Educational [...]

  • Star Power: Tonya Lewis Lee Launches New To Discuss Sexuality, Birth Control & Healthy Choices
  • Grassroots Giver: “Room To Read” Brings Books to World’s Poorest Children
  • Grassroots Giver: L.A. Initiative Helps Formerly Incarcerated Young Black Males “BLOOM”
  • CASA Improves the Face of Foster Care Through Advocacy, Mentoring

SOUL LIFE

Emory Professor’s New Book Explores Young Black Males Who Are ‘Cut Dead’0

Emory Professor’s New Book Explores Young Black Males Who Are ‘Cut Dead’

Despite their hopes and aspirations for the future, too many African American young men are still being rendered mute and invisible by society, says Emory University’s Gregory Ellison II. His [...]

  • Documentary: ‘Life After Life’ Follows Two Men Imprisoned As Teens Rebuild Their Lives
  • Documentary: In “Triggering Wounds”, A Young Man Struggles With Gun Violence
  • Documentary: ‘Imagine a Future’ Examines & Celebrates Black Beauty, Self-Esteem
  • Documentary–’Little Music Manchild: The Malik Kofi Story’ Chronicles Child Prodigy

VIEW POINT

Mignon Clyburn Becomes First Woman To Take Helm at the FCC0

Mignon Clyburn Becomes First Woman To Take Helm at the FCC

It’s important to celebrate whenever social barriers are knocked down — including the one that was bestowed this week upon Mignon Clyburn when she became the acting chairwoman of the [...]

  • Black Women Role Models on TV: How Did We Get From Denise Huxtable to Evelyn Lozada?
  • NRA Debate: Protection, Not Gun Rights
  • Motivational Monday: 3 Tips To Chase Away A Bad Case Of The Monday Blues
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