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May Is Brain Tumor Awareness Month

Posted on May 4, 2011 by | Leave a comment

This article was inspired by Harlemite, husband and rapper Jim Jones who is a advocate for Brain Cancer Awareness Month. Brain cancer can be one of the most devastating types of cancer, because our brains are so crucial to how we are able to function every day. Our bodily functions are controlled by electric impulses sent from our brain. If those are hindered by a malignant tumor, our mobility, speech and ability to control movement will be adversely affected. Continue reading →

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Gap Looking For Customers Of Color

Posted on March 22, 2011 by | Leave a comment

The Gap Inc. is hoping to reverse less-than-expected sales at its U.S. retail outlets by re-positioning its marketing strategy. A company executive said that the marketing budget will be shifted “disproportionately to acquiring new customers.” The new target will be younger and ethnically diverse consumers, meaning specifically African-Americans, Latinos and Asians. Continue reading →

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NAACP Endorses Legalizing Marijuana?

Posted on July 1, 2010 by | Leave a comment

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On Monday, the California State Conference of the NAACP announced its “unconditional endorsement” of a November initiative that would legalize the recreational use of marijuana.

On Tuesday, the NAACP said why. According to a just-released study by the Drug Policy Alliance, blacks are far more likely to be arrested for pot possession than whites — even though statistically, blacks use marijuana at lower rates than whites. Continue reading →

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Not Sure of Kagan

Posted on June 27, 2010 by | Leave a comment

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Should Elena Kagan be worried? As the Supreme Court nominee is set to begin her confirmation hearings tomorrow, many leading civil rights groups have yet to pledge full support of President Obama’s pick. Citing a thin and mixed legal record, several predominantly African-American groups have declined to endorse Kagan, while others have expressed only hesitant support. “There isn’t a judicial record to review, indicating her views on critical civil rights matters,” Continue reading →

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NY African-Americans Hit Harder By Recession

Posted on July 15, 2009 by | 1 Comment

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The current financial recession has been more damaging for African-American communities in New York at an alarming rate, confirmed a report released Monday by a city comptroller.

According to CNN, while unemployment in the city spiked to 72 percent from the first quarter of 2008 to the first quarter of 2009, it surged to more than 160 percent in the black communities specifically. The unemployment rate increased 14.7 percent, rising four times the speed than any other ethnic group.

National figures, however, did not show such a crippling difference.

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African Americans And The American Dream

Posted on June 12, 2009 by | Leave a comment

MetLife - Dwight Raiford photo 06-11-09As the current economic crisis has led Americans to re-evaluate their priorities, the American dream is, once again, being revised.  For many, it is now defined first and foremost by financial security, followed by a greater emphasis on personal relationships – family, marriage and children.

According to The 2009 MetLife Study of the American Dream–the company’s third annual study–eight in 10 or 82 percent of African Americans believe they will be able to achieve the American dream in their lifetimes, compared to 89 percent of Hispanics and 75 percent of the overall population.  While African Americans are more optimistic it is still possible to achieve the American dream, they lag other groups in their achievement of the dream, with only 19 percent of African Americans reporting that they have achieved the dream.

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U. S. Census Chief Speaks

Posted on May 29, 2009 by | 1 Comment

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For years there have been charges that African-Americans are under-represented in the U. S. Census counts conducted once every decade.

”It’s very possible that some African-Americans or Spanish speaking persons were under-counted in previous Census because there may have been some belief that making face-time with the government was not in their best interests,” acknowledges Arnold Jackson, chief operating officer for the decennial Census.

Jackson, who is Black, says although the last Census in 2000 had an under-count of less than one-half percent, he believes masses of people have gone uncounted in the past because of a lack of returned data. Fewer than 60 percent of African-Americans returned their 2000 Census questionnaire compared to 77.5 percent of Whites, according to the Census Bureau.
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African-Americans More Religious

Posted on February 4, 2009 by | Leave a comment

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The Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life released a new analysis that paints a detailed religious portrait of African-Americans. The analysis finds that African-Americans (from Harlem to Houston) are markedly more religious than the U.S. population as a whole on a variety of measures, including reporting a religious affiliation, attendance at religious services, frequency of prayer and the importance of religion in people’s lives.

Compared with other racial and ethnic groups, African-Americans are among the most likely to report a formal religious affiliation, with fully 87% of African-Americans describing themselves as belonging to one religious group or another. The analysis also finds that nearly eight-in-ten African-Americans (79%) say religion is very important in their lives, compared with 56% among all U.S. adults. Continue reading →

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