Blacks have trouble clearing cervical cancer virus
Provocative new research might help explain why black women are so much more likely than whites to develop and die from cervical cancer: They seem to have more trouble clearing HPV, the virus that causes the disease. Doctors have long thought that less access to screening and follow-up health care were the reasons black women [...]
Seven black California teens charged with beating Hispanic youth
Seven black teenagers are facing assault and hate crime charges for an attack on a 15-year-old Hispanic student who was punched and kicked repeatedly on his way home from a Southern California school, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said. The suspects in the beating range from ages 13 to 16 and were part of [...]
Keith Olbermann ousted from Current TV talk show
Keith Olbermann is looking for a new job after less than a year as a talk show host at Current TV. The left-leaning cable network announced just hours before airtime on Friday that Olbermann’s show “Countdown” would be replaced with a new program called “Viewpoint” hosted by former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, beginning that [...]
It’s a Magic, as in Johnson, day for Dodgers fans
At the little hole-in-the-wall cafe that has served for half a century as the unofficial pit stop for Los Angeles Dodgers fans heading to baseball games, there was Magic in the air Wednesday. That’s Magic as in Earvin Johnson, the beloved basketball icon who, his city awakened to learn, has been named one of the [...]
AFD—Recruiting Austin’s best for its finest
While many employers are struggling to keep employees working in a slowly recovering economy, the Austin Fire Department (AFD) is currently in recruitment mode. Many Americans are looking ‘outside-the-box’ to find gainful employment in this era of corporate bankruptcy and multiple layoffs. The AFD may provide an opportunity outside of the ‘norm’ that lasts a [...]
Family of slain Florida teenager to speak at city meeting
The family of a teenager shot to death last month by a neighborhood watch volunteer — a case that has sparked national debate and concerns about racial profiling — will address a Sanford, Florida, city meeting on Monday, officials said. Trayvon Martin, 17, was killed February 26 as he walked back to his father’s fiancee’s [...]
Jobless claims fall to four year low
The number of Americans claiming new unemployment benefits dropped to a four-year low last week, offering further evidence the jobs market recovery was gaining traction. Initial claims for state unemployment benefits fell 5,000 to a seasonally adjusted 348,000, the lowest level since February 2008, the Labor Department said on Thursday. Economists polled by Reuters had [...]
911 tape reveals possible racial slur in Fla. teen killing
The Florida police department handling the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teen by a self-appointed neighborhood watch leader admitted to ABC News tonight that investigators missed a possible racist remark by the shooter as he spoke to police dispatchers moments before the killing. The admission comes a day after the Justice Department announced that [...]
Census documenting Great Depression to be released
It was a decade when tens of millions of people in the U.S. experienced mass unemployment and social upheaval as the nation clawed its way out of the Great Depression and rumblings of global war were heard from abroad. Now, intimate details of 132 million people who lived through the 1930s will be disclosed as [...]
‘Don’t Re-Nig,’ the racist anti-Obama bumper sticker, appears real
Is this racist, anti-Obama bumper sticker real? An image purporting to show a racist, anti-Obama bumper sticker on the back of a vehicle has been garnering lots of attention on Facebook in the past 24 hours. The bumper sticker reads, “Don’t Re-Nig in 2012.” And in smaller print below, “Stop repeat offenders. Don’t’ reelect Obama!” [...]
