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Different experiences. Different histories. Different roads to living in the United States in 2010. Today, Black, White, and Latino families of the same income have very different levels of wealth. The three groups have different levels of educational attainment, life savings, hourly wages, access to medical care, and different life expectancies.
Kimberly James, a 14-month year old girl died in a baking car, in Miramar, Florida the U.K. Daily News is reporting. A 14-month-old girl died after being left in a baking hot car while her father attended church. Kimberly James is believed to have been in the vehicle for over three hours with sweltering temperatures […]
Teens who wear their pants low are thinking twice about doing so along Whiteside Street in Memphis, Tennessee.
Arizona’s controversial immigration law has prompted denunciations, demonstrations, boycotts and a federal lawsuit. But it may not bring the protest vote many Democrats had hoped would stem a Republican onslaught in races across the country.
Apparently Glenn Beck’s infatuation with black history extends to slavery. On the Oct. 1 broadcast of The Glenn Beck Program, Beck stated that slavery “started with seemingly innocent ideas.” Come again? What’s even more ridiculous than the comment is how he got there, rambling from one point to the next. He was attempting to deconstruct President […]
When sheriff’s deputies allegedly discovered a bags of marijuana and cocaine between a man’s buttocks, they say he gave a quick explanation.
Firefighters in rural Tennessee let a home burn to the ground last week because the homeowner hadn’t paid a $75 fee. Gene Cranick of Obion County and his family lost all of their possessions in the Sept. 29 fire, along with three dogs and a cat. “They could have been saved if they had put […]
Rhode Island’s Brown University says hip-hop singer Wyclef Jean (WY’-klef zhahn) has accepted an appointment as a visiting fellow in its Department of Africana Studies for the 2010-11 academic year.
Solar panels and a solar hot water heater will soon be installed at the White House, Energy Secretary Steven Chu said Tuesday.