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Saturday, 11 August 2007 |
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For 35 years, four different mentoring and
networking programs for primarily African-American young people laid the
foundation that helped to develop many of today's clergy and lay leaders
in The United Methodist Church. Until 2004, however, the leaders of those four groups had never come together
to share their knowledge and resources. When they finally did meet, they joined together
to launch a new network to more intentionally recruit youth for
development into future leaders for local churches, educational
institutions and outreach ministries.
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Saturday, 11 August 2007 |
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Black Americans accounted for 13 percent of the U.S. population in 2005
but were the victims of about 15 percent of all of the nonfatal violent
crime and about 49 percent of all homicides, the Justice Department’s
Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today.
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Wednesday, 08 August 2007 |
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On July 25, 2007, the Annie E. Casey Foundation released the 18th annual KIDS COUNT Data Book, a national and state-by-state effort to track the status of children in the U.S. Data available online at KidsCount.org
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Monday, 06 August 2007 |
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In an era when families are fragmented by distance, the
African-American reunion is helping to strengthen the extended family
bond. Many of these gatherings expand beyond the down-home picnics with
Grandma's potato salad to include hotel banquets with dinner and
dancing. Read more at baltimoresun.com
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Sunday, 05 August 2007 |
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For years, Toinetta Jones
played the dating game by her mom's strict rule. "Mom always told me,
'Don't you ever bring a white man home.'" But at 37, the Alexandria divorcee has shifted to dating ``anyone who asks me out,'' regardless of race. Read more at Guardian Unlimited
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