The following is Michael Moore's entry on Bernie Madoff for Time Magazine's issue of The World's Most 100 Influential People.
Elie Wiesel called him a "God." His investors called him a "genius." But, proving correct that old adage from the countr ...
Posted Saturday, May 2nd 2009 at 11:17AM
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Do not clean your hands with hand sanitizers.. Now I never thought I would have to use the information I learned from Biology 101 but now is the time. One important thing I learned was that hand sanitizers work they really do but do you understand wh ...
Posted Friday, May 1st 2009 at 2:39PM
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During his press conference last night, Barack Obama took a question from Andre Showell of BET.
Showell asked about African American Unemployment:
As the entire nation tries to climb out of this deep recession, in communities of color, the circ ...
Posted Friday, May 1st 2009 at 1:42PM
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Although I watched this series on my cable TV, I finally was able to finish watching my DVD copy of CNN'S Black In America this week. CNN ended its documentary with Dr. Michael Eric Dyson and his incarcerated brother meeting in jail. This scene was r ...
Posted Friday, May 1st 2009 at 1:06PM
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The Obama administration is asking Congress to close the big gap in prison sentences for dealing crack versus powdered cocaine, a law that critics say is unfair to blacks.
Such sentencing reform efforts tend to focus on lowering the mandatory mini ...
Posted Friday, May 1st 2009 at 12:53PM
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The issue of reverse discrimination first reached the nation’s highest court in the 1970s, when a student with good grades named Allan Bakke accused a University of California medical school of twice denying him admission because he was white.
S ...
Posted Thursday, April 30th 2009 at 1:18PM
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The achievement gap between white and minority students has not narrowed in recent years, despite the focus of the No Child Left Behind law on improving the scores of blacks and Hispanics, according to results of a federal test considered to be the n ...
Posted Wednesday, April 29th 2009 at 1:32PM
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Rodney King’s famous line, “Can we all just get along?” still resonates with us today. On this day, seventeen years ago, approximately 53 lives were lost with as many as 2,000 people injured. At the time, Los Angeles was home to the largest K ...
Posted Wednesday, April 29th 2009 at 12:43PM
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Fox became the first broadcast network to turn down a request by President Barack Obama for time, opting to show its drama “Lie to Me” on Wednesday instead of the president’s prime-time news conference.
Fox will direct viewers interested in ...
Posted Wednesday, April 29th 2009 at 12:35PM
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Peace To All:
The following letter was placed on a desk inside my cubicle at work, and I would like to share it with the BIA site members. Brothers and Sisters, please take a moment of your time to reflect on the SEVERITY of the statements (and ke ...
Posted Wednesday, April 29th 2009 at 12:21PM
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BET, the leading network tailored for black teens and young adults, will be joined by a new channel aimed at an older black audience.
Named Centric, it’s scheduled to debut in October.
Viacom, which owns BET, says Centric will serve black vie ...
Posted Tuesday, April 28th 2009 at 2:15PM
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Sojourner Truth, a former slave who met with Abraham Lincoln and was an early crusader for women’s right to vote and an end to slavery, is the first black woman to be honored with a bust at the Capitol.
First lady Michelle Obama, Secretary of St ...
Posted Tuesday, April 28th 2009 at 2:12PM
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Hey Sisters,
The following advertisement was sent to me through my Google account today. If you know of anyone who could benefit from this person, please tell them to be on the lookout after June 30, 2009.
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Posted Tuesday, April 28th 2009 at 1:31PM
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I truly believe that we dodged a serious bullet this year with the election of Barack Obama. While I cannot say for certain what would’ve happened if John McCain had won the election this year, here is an educated guess at what might have happened ...
Posted Monday, April 27th 2009 at 1:12PM
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A Jacksonville researcher has developed a way of sewing up patients after hysterectomies that stands to reduce the risk of complications and simplify the tricky procedure for less-seasoned surgeons.
Oh, and he’s 14 years old.
Feel free to rea ...
Posted Monday, April 27th 2009 at 12:53PM
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A 12-year-old suspended from school for fighting killed a 10-month-old baby by throwing him to the floor at a home where several young children were unsupervised, officials said Wednesday.
The preteen boy, whom authorities won’t name because of ...
Posted Friday, April 24th 2009 at 1:24PM
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Six South Florida men being tried a third time on terrorism charges pledged allegiance to Osama Bin Laden and wanted to wage war against the United States, including blowing up Chicago’s Sears Tower, a prosecutor said during closing arguments Thurs ...
Posted Friday, April 24th 2009 at 1:16PM
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Almost a year after Fox called Michelle and Barack’s “pound” and terrorist fist bump, CNBC host Larry Ludlow called the handshake that Barack Obama gave Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez a “Boyz in the Hood style handshake.” Is he trying to ...
Posted Thursday, April 23rd 2009 at 1:39PM
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Jill Scott and fiance Lil’ John Roberts welcomed their baby Jett Hamilton Roberts into the world at 4:20 pm on April 20. Jett weighed in at 7 pounds, 8 ounces.
Jill was told she couldn’t have kids.
Jill discovered she was pregnant while fil ...
Posted Thursday, April 23rd 2009 at 1:25PM
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CALL IT THE STIMULUS PACKAGE FROM GOD.
Manhattan’s Riverside Church - one of the country’s most illustrious religious institutions - is paying its new senior pastor, the Rev. Brad Braxton, more than $600,000 in annual compensation.
That’s ...
Posted Wednesday, April 22nd 2009 at 2:26PM
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It’s a general fact that breastfeeding during infancy is better for a baby’s health, but what about yours? According to a new study, the longer a woman breastfeeds, the lower her risk is for heart attack or stroke. Says EurekAlert,
The longer ...
Posted Wednesday, April 22nd 2009 at 2:20PM
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More than three years after Katrina stirred up the waters and washed out levees along a 75-mile, man-made shipping channel dubbed “hurricane highway,” a judge could soon decide whether the Army Corps of Engineers owes residents and businesses dam ...
Posted Wednesday, April 22nd 2009 at 2:17PM
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