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Good news for the American economy. We have added an unexpectedly strong 290,000 jobs in April. This made the unemployment rate rose to 9.9 percent according to government officials, today. nalysts had expected a gain of about 190,000 in the month. With the constructive revisions today, April was the fourth consecutive month that the economy […]
Kerry Washington made a stop at the David Letterman Show and looked absolutely fab!
VIA: WTVD.COM The big news for KNBC worker Jacki Wells Cisneros broke right inside her own newsroom — she and her husband won the $266 million Mega Millions jackpot. She told the Los Angeles TV station in an interview Wednesday night that she discovered during her usual routine on the assignment desk very early that […]
PITTSBURGH — As a scholar, poet and abolitionist, George B. Vashon broke barriers in the 1800s: he was the first black to graduate from Oberlin College, the first black lawyer in New York state and the first black professor at Howard University.
Every so many years this seems to reoccur. It’s hard to image so many people keep falling down this path but yet it happens. Chambers Funeral Home & Crematorium in Riverdale, Maryland has lost its license after investigators found about 40 bodies stacked on top of each other, leaking fluid, in a garage, a state […]
Dear Bud, The Rainbow PUSH Coalition appeals to Major League Baseball to take a public stand against the recently passed Arizona immigration law. We also urge you to move the scheduled 2011 all-star game from Diamondback Stadium in Arizona unless this law is repealed. America’s democracy is based on the values of freedom and equality–a […]
In the wake of the terrifying near Time Square bombing authorities dramatically beat the clock overnight, seizing a Pakistani-American citizen moments before he began a long trip to his war-torn homeland. If there had been even a fragment of time lapse the suspect would have fled for good into his homeland for sanctuary. We are […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Rescuers feared even more bodies would emerge as muddy flood waters ebb from torrential weekend rains that swamped Nashville, much of Tennessee and two neighboring states, leaving at least 29 dead.
WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. – Deputy Clay Grant Jr. was off-duty and picking up a couple of household items from Target when customers started screaming.
Black Americans have historically been undercounted by the U.S. Census, and as a result our communities have missed out on federal funding and other resources that were sorely needed.
VIA: CNN.COM A voluntary recall has been issued for more than 40 over-the-counter drugs for children, including Tylenol and Motrin, because they don’t meet quality standards. “This recall is not being undertaken on the basis of adverse medical events,” McNeil Consumer Healthcare said in a statement Friday. “However, as a precautionary measure, parents and caregivers […]
