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Black Commentary and Views
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Friday, 24 August 2007 |
 Shannon Reeves is the new point man in the GOP's efforts to increase its following among blacks, who have voted overwhelmingly for the Democratic candidate in every presidential election since 1964. Read more at USAToday.com
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Black Political News
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Friday, 24 August 2007 |
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A spokesman for talk show host Tavis Smiley, the debate organizer, said
an announcement about which candidates will appear would be made this
month. But, he insisted, the full complement of announced Republican
contenders is anticipated onstage at Morgan State University. Read more at Baltimore Sun
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U.S. Black News
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Friday, 24 August 2007 |
 The Michael Vick case has exposed a split within the NAACP and the African-American community, as some condemn Vick’s role in the deaths of fighting dogs and others cast him as a victim of a racist justice system. Read more at MSNBC.com
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Black Commentary and Views
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Thursday, 23 August 2007 |
 When it comes to America’s criminal justice policy, the cure is often
worse than the crime. Nowhere is this fact more apparent than in the
war on drugs, which has inflicted more social damage than drugs
themselves. Read more at InTheseTimes.com
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Black Community Issues
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Thursday, 23 August 2007 |
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Here’s the Jamaica you’ll never see in those rum-and-reggae resort ads: A nation of rampant homophobia, where incendiary song lyrics and violence against gay people stigmatize HIV prevention and care - and increase infection. Read more at POZ.com
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Black Health News
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Thursday, 23 August 2007 |
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African-American women are 39 percent more likely to die of breast
cancer than white women, even when both are diagnosed with the same
stage of the deadly disease... Read more at WilmingtonJournal.com
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Black Health News
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Thursday, 23 August 2007 |
African Americans with type 1 diabetes have a high risk of loss of vision, new study findings show. Poor control over blood sugar levels is "a very powerful risk
factor for losing vision." Read more at diabetes.org
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Black Health News
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Thursday, 23 August 2007 |
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As the world's top vaccine researchers gather in
downtown Seattle for the four-day AIDS Vaccine 2007
Conference, some of them say the most realistic goal now isn't a
vaccine to prevent HIV infection, but rather one that prevents HIV from
being passed on. Read more at seattletimes.com
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Black Business News
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Thursday, 23 August 2007 |
The National Association of Black Accountants and the Howard University School of Business Center for Accounting Education are launching an effort to encourage a greater number of black CPAs. Read more at WebCPA.com
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Black Political News
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Thursday, 23 August 2007 |
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Ensure that our next president is not funding the genocide in Darfur! Sign the petition asking each presidential candidate to divest his or her financial holdings from targeted companies doing business in Sudan. Sign the petition to All Presidential Candidates
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