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Black scientists are far less likely to receive funding for a research study than a white scientist, according to a study published today in Science Mag. The in-depth analysis of U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant data finds that black Ph.D. scientists chances of winning NIH funding was 10 percentage points lower than that […]

Exercising just 15 minutes per day can effectively increase life expectancy compared with little or no exercise at all, according to a recent study in Taiwan involving over 400,000 individuals. Using health screening data collected over the past 13 years, a research team led by Wen Chi-pang of the National Health Research Institutes put 416,175 […]

WASHINGTON-Allen West the Tea Party affiliated Republican congressman from Florida compared himself to abolitionist Harriet Tubman and the Democratic Party to the “plantation” in a recent interview with Fox News. Fellow Black Republican, Herman Cain has also compared the Democratic Party to a plantation. The Huffington Post Reports “So I’m here as the modern day […]

Hundreds of New York parents are entangled in child neglect cases after being found with or admitting to using small amounts of  marijuana. Despite the fact that these parents face little or no criminal charges, New York’s child welfare agency is pursuing these incidents and in some cases taking children from their homes. In one […]

SAN FRANCISCO-Hackers have released the names, home addresses as well as email addresses and passwords of BART officers in protest to BART’s recent shutdown of cell phone service on stations to stop protests. The attacks were conducted by the infamous hacker group Anonymous who also launched a cyber attack on BART last month, shutting down […]

Right wing talk show host, Rush Limbaugh, compared Obama to a new Oreo cookie and called the cookie a “Obameo” on his show. Many consider the term “Oreo” a racial slur, including Limbaugh himself, who claimed that the Michael Steele had had Oreos thrown at him at an event, insinuating that he was “Black on […]

Welcome a new day with new possibilities. We all want to embrace happiness and the chance of a new day. That’s the best thing about sunrise. The darkness is over. May today be the beginning of the end of darkness for you. There is a wonderful saying that when the darkness ends the joy begins. […]

ATLANTA- New billboards in Atlanta by an anti-abortion group, Abortion In The Hood attack Jesse Jackson and the Congressional Black Caucus for betraying the Black community on the issue of abortion. The website and campaign, funded by the Restoration Project criticize Jackson for changing his position on abortion after being against it in the 1970s. […]

A majority of Americans say Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream of racial equality has been realized in the USA, although a significant divide between Black and white people’s perceptions of equality and race relations still exists, a new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll suggests. The Poll found that most Americans– 90% of whites and 85% of […]

BOSTON-A group of friends are suing a Boston bar, Peggy O’Neil’s for discriminating against them due to their skin color. The men, Cape Verdean a Hispanic and an African American claim that they were denied entry in to the bar they were going to to celebrate a friend’s birthday. The Huffington Post Reports: Later that […]

California Rep. Maxine Waters and Black caucus members told a mostly Black audience to “unleash” them to confront President Barack Obama on the issue of jobs during the Congressional Black Caucus “For the People Jobs Tour” town hall in Detroit, MI, on Tuesday. Waters expressed her and other Black Caucus members’ dilemma of having to […]