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Black Health News
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Tuesday, 14 August 2007 |
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Studying people in their
homes and neighborhoods, investigators have found that poor housing
conditions contribute to the risk for diabetes in urban, middle-aged
African-Americans. Read more at wustl.edu
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Black Entertainment & Sports News
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Tuesday, 14 August 2007 |
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Book reviewers are greeting warmly a new book on Africa by African-American journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault. The book is called "New News Out of Africa: Uncovering Africa’s Renaissance." Read more at VOANews.com
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Black Community Issues
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Tuesday, 14 August 2007 |
 Police and prosecutors investigating a
confusing murder of a single mother fired at by at least two guns are
defending themselves against racism claims for the arrest of two
college-bound black teens. Read more at detnews.com
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Black Business News
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Tuesday, 14 August 2007 |
 The head of Your Black Muslim Bakery, already accused of kidnapping and
torturing a woman, is facing new charges in an alleged real-estate scam,
court records show. Read more at SFGate.com
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Black Community Issues
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Monday, 13 August 2007 |
 Irene Morgan Kirkaldy, a black woman whose refusal to give up her bus
seat to white passengers led to a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision
more than a decade before Rosa Parks gained recognition for doing the
same, has died at 90. Read more at MSNBC.com
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Black Political News
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Saturday, 11 August 2007 |
 Leave it to Sen. Barack Obama to stir up an international incident by acknowledging something everyone already knew. Obama's
bombshell: If the Obama administration knows Osama bin Laden is in
Pakistan and President Pervez Musharraf doesn't act to take him out,
President Obama will. Read more at chicagotribune.com
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Black Commentary and Views
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Saturday, 11 August 2007 |
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 Husband Bill Clinton's popularity among African-Americans was
somewhere between unassailable and delusional. Now
Democratic Senator Clinton of New York is slipping into Bill's cloak of
blackness in her bid for the White House. Read more at boston.com
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Black Health News
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Saturday, 11 August 2007 |
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Thirty-five years ago, the covers were pulled off the Tuskegee
syphilis experiment conducted by the Macon County Public Health
Service (PHS). The 40-year experiment allegedly was set up to
study the impact of untreated syphilis on some 600 black men,
about 200 in a control group, beginning in 1932. In her book, Medical Apartheid, Harriet Washington explores the “dark
history of medical experimentation on black Americans, from colonial
times to the present.” Read more at The Black Commentator
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Black Community Issues
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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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Black Community Issues
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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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