NEW YORK (AP) — A catastrophic flood emptied New Orleans of much of its black youth. Powerful social forces may be doing a similar thing to places like Harlem and Chicago’s South Side. Census data shows that cities from coast to coast have steadily drained of black children over the past decade. Last year’s census [...]
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July 1, 2011
June 23, 2011
TSA Changes Child Pat-Down Policy
The Transportation Security Administration has changed its policy regarding child pat-downs to prevent airport security screeners from conducting invasive pat-downs on children, the head of TSA said Wednesday, reports USA Today. TSA Administrator John Pistole announced the change in policy at a Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee hearing. The policy amendment follows on [...]
June 14, 2011
Southern Baptists Poised for Historic Election
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Southern Baptist Convention meets this week in Phoenix to elect new leaders and one could make his mark in the history of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination. Fred Luter is expected to be nominated for first vice president. If elected, he would be the first African-American in the No. 2 position [...]
May 21, 2011
Cities affected by anti-terrorism grant cuts
Metropolitan areas still eligible for $662 million in Urban Area Security Initiative grants for fiscal year 2011: Los Angeles San Francisco San Diego District of Columbia Chicago Boston New Jersey City/Newark area New York City Philadelphia Houston Dallas/Fort Worth Phoenix Anaheim, Calif. Riverside, Calif. Denver Miami/Fort Lauderdale Tampa, Fla. Orlando, Fla. Atlanta Baltimore Detroit Minneapolis/St. [...]
May 18, 2011
December 28, 2010
December 21, 2010
Government Waste: 20 Of The Craziest Things That The U.S. Government Is Spending Money On…
Example of some waste: #1 A total of $3 million has been granted to researchers at the University of California at Irvine so that they can play video games such as World of Warcraft. The goal of this “video game research” is reportedly to study how “emerging forms of communication, including multiplayer computer games and [...]
November 9, 2010
Why is it OK for Isarel to Threaten Iran With Death?
I want to kill Iran… Why is it OK for Israel to talk trash about Iran? Why is it OK for Israel to want to attack Iran? Israel has a fit every time that they fake an interpretation of what Iran says and try to make the world think Iran is scum.Now Israel wants to [...]