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07/17/11 share: digg facebook twitter What inspired you to start writing children's books? What are your thoughts on the lack of children's books that portray children of color in a positive light? What in your opinion are the most important thing African American authors can do to make a huge dent in the children's publishing world? A lesson on the pitfalls of aspiring to be someone you are not, Atelia ...
07/14/11 Lycopene, a red pigment that gives tomatoes and certain other fruits and vegetables their color, could help prevent prostate cancer, especially in African American men, according to new research at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
07/14/11 Studies show nearly 70% of black children do not know how to swim; therefore, the fatal drowing rate of African American children is three times that of white children.
07/13/11 For years people have been complaining about the state of an African American cemetery in Richmond's East End.
07/11/11 The Taubman Museum of Art will partner with the Harrison Museum of African American Culture to host a new exhibit on the works of Internationally known artist Helen Steene
07/09/11 The Fourth of July holiday weekend, when Americans were taking the time to celebrate democracy, the California Redistricting Commission (CRC) was considering a move that would cripple African American political power. "The CRC's process as they develop the next round...
07/09/11 The annual Lagrange Street Polish Festival, as well as the African American Festival are in full swing
07/08/11 The NAACP says it is going to set up meetings with the heads of the news networks to discuss the lack of African American anchors.
07/08/11 SPOKANE-- A neo-Nazi is in jail because he allegedly tried to pick a fight with the wrong man, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. According to the Kootenai County Sheriff's Office, Daren C. Abbey, 28, is accused of verbally confronting and then assaulting Marlon L. Baker, a 46-year-old African American. It happened inside a Bayview, Idaho bar on July 3. According to the Kootenai ...
07/08/11 McKissick's "Days Gone By" Helena-West Helena's Second Saturday event at 5:30 p.m. July 9 includes a talk by self-taught artist artist Sylvester McKissick at the Delta Cultural Center's Annex, 223 Cherry St. The St. Francis County native and Little Rock resident will talk about his life and his art, in conjunction with the DCC's exhibit, "Collaborations: Two Decades of African American Art ...
07/07/11 Community activists claim Pabst is pushing high-alcohol content beverage in African American neighborhoods
07/06/11 SILVER SPRING, Md., July 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The nation's oldest and largest association of African American physicians, the National Medical Association (NMA) is alarmed by the recent budget negotiations which now potentially target Medicare and other healthcare programs. "Any spending cuts that reduce access to care or compromise the quality of the care delivered will not help patients and ...
07/06/11 Project records living memories of residents by Sara Blumberg To preserve the history of Turner Station, the community is planning to record it for everyone to hear. This summer the community is partnering with the Maryland Commission on African American History & Culture as well as the Banneker-Douglass Museum in Annapolis, to preserve the history of the historic African-American ...
07/05/11 One arts advocate considers the Haitian Mural possibly the most historic piece of African American art in Delaware.
07/02/11 The U.S. government announces it has filed a discrimination lawsuit against New Berlin for allegedly denying a low-income housing project last year because it would have attracted African American families.
07/01/11 Maj. Gen. Ronald Bailey has assumed command of the Camp Pendleton-based 1st Marine Division, the first African American to command the oldest, largest and most decorated division in the Marine Corps. In a tradition-laden ceremony Thursday, Bailey assumed command from...
07/01/11 Photo West Milford Sol Rosenkranz is a 93-year-old survivor of six concentration camps, including Buchenwald in Germany. Leo Lowy is a Holocaust survivor who lives locally in Cedar Crest Village. Leon Bass is an African American World War II veteran who bore witness at Buchenwald. Judita Hruza is a Hungarian survivor of a forced march. And all of these individuals recently touched the lives of ...
06/29/11 Mark Naison had never seen New York as united as it was in the months following 9/11. American flags, which he previously only saw fluttering on the doorsteps of privileged white families, were lining largely African American blocks in East New York and Brownsville.
06/29/11 *Najee Ali, director of LA based Project Islamic HOPE is calling for a federal investigation and hate crime charges to be filed against four white students at Santa Monica High School for taunting and African American student with a noose, chaining him to his locker and calling him a slave. Read/learn more details of the [...]
06/27/11 Mississippi's first African American woman to sit on the Mississippi Appellate Court was formally sworn in today at the Gartin Justice building. Judge Ermea Russell was administered the oath of office this afternoon.
06/27/11 Preserve Our Legacy, a foundation that promotes bone marrow registry, specifically in the African American Community made a stop in Biloxi this Sunday evening. The event's message of promoting life, brought out dignitaries from the all over the Gulf Coast, Hattiesburg and Canton. | 
