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Weight Watcher: Star Jones Fights Obesity On BET Documentary
Jackson :: MS :: USA | 6 days ago
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The 47-year-old TV talent's decision to have gastric bypass surgery in 2003 and failure to fully disclose how she lost the weight to the audience of 'The View' was why the show's executive producer, Barbara Walters claimed the former assistant district...
Tags: Jackson, Mississippi, african americans, Black Entertainment Television, BET, ones bet, Sarah Palin, black women
Sacramento employee files discrimination lawsuit against Jos. A Bank Clothiers
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 8 days ago
Credibility Sacramento employee files discrimination lawsuit against Jos...Bank Clothiers has filed a federal class-action lawsuit charging that managers for the mens' clothier's western region discriminate against African American employees and job applicants.
Tags: Casey Stewart, african americans, Bank Western Region, Anthony Perez, americans employees, Sacramento, filed discriminate, managers positions, job applicants, sacramento employees, San Francisco, Primary dealers, Law Crime, Labor
ECONOMY-US: "Green" Jobs Should Be Black and Brown Too
Rome :: Italy | 11 days ago
Credibility The Barack Obama administration's drive to promote a "green" economy is not working in the interest of poor people in the United States, especially those who belong to minority communities, according to a new study by a leading think tank. "The communities...
Tags: Barack Obama, Terry Keleher, U.S. Labour Department, green economies, green job, obama administration, told ips, IPS, labour leaders, african americans, Italy, Rome, Green-collar worker, Unemployment, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Employment, Recessions, Global warming, Social Issues, Labor
Lufkin Industries delays awarded payout to workers
African Americans were awarded over 5 million dollars in back pay by a federal judge. This lawsuit has been ongoing over 12 years. African Americans were passed over for promotions, worked in hot and humid environments. They deserve to be compensated...
Tags: Lufkin Industries, lawsuit, classaction, african americans, sexual harrasment
Emmett Till's Original Coffin to be on Display at Smithsonian
In 1955 in Money, Mississippi, fourteen year old Emmett Till was senslessley murdered in an act of racial voilence that lead to the galvanization of the Civil Rights Movement. Emmett's mother, Mamie Till, requested that her son have na open coffin so...
Tags: racism, african americans, mississippi, civil rights movement, chicago, smithsonian, washington d.c., Emmett Till
Bo welcomed with open paws
Boston :: MA :: USA | 3 months ago
Credibility A crowd turns out in honour of ‘Bobama’ at a pooch parade in the First family’s summer holiday hotspot Pooches have been on parade on Martha’s Vineyard in honour of the First family dog Bo. The island held its first ever dog parade, which was partly...
Tags: Martha, african americans, Bo Obama
Safe Sex in the African-American Community
We as Americans, African Americans, need to take some responsibility for our health. Now a day, African American women are the big percentage of people dying from A.I.D.S. Its like we are playing Russian Roulette with our lives. It...
Tags: Safe Sex, Community, African Americans.
Arresting one jerk doesn't erase the racial profiling of your neighbors
We all need a lesson in profiling. Recently, about a year ago I decided to change my look and grow a beard. I have copper skin, am about 5'10, 190lbs. I have something of a keen nose and curly-wavy hair. I am African American. Far too often I was profiled...
Tags: Henry Louis Gates Jr., racial profiling, race matters, racism, Arab Americans, African Americans, white, bigotry, police, stupid, police officer
HIV/AIDS AMONGST BLACKS IN OUR NATION'S CAPITOL
At least 3 percent of our Nations Capitol's residents have HIV or AIDS. "Our rates are higher than West Africa," said Shannon L. Hader, director of the District's HIV/AIDS Administration, who once led the Federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's...
Tags: HIV, AIDS, AFRICAN AMERICANS, WASHINGTON DC, NATION'S CAPITOL
Obama’s Presidency is a Bonus to Africans
Africans see the presidency of the world's most amazing nation as a bonus to them. If Obama's father was African, then Obama is effectively African and his leadership of the US is a gift to the black continent, they reason. Though Americans are...
Tags: Barack Obama and african his african connection, african americans, Obams kenyan links
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