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3 hrs ago | Queerty

HIV Awareness Billboard Accused Of Presenting Gay Black Men As "Acceptable"

A billboard designed to raise HIV/AIDS awareness in Dallas, Texas has come under scrutiny for featuring a black couple.

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Related Topix: HIV/AIDS, Health, Dallas, TX, Epidemic, Natural Disasters

4 hrs ago | Journal Gazette

Emancipation tribute survives, now thrives

'The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free.

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Related Topix: Texas

8 hrs ago | Alabama Live

John England III, first African American to serve as a federal...

John England III this morning took his first milestone steps as a federal magistrate judge in his new office at the Hugo L. Black U.S. Courthouse in downtown Birmingham.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Richard Shelby, Alabama, University of Alabama

Tue Jun 18, 2013

Lowell Sun

Faith Ringgold exhibit challenges America to see its true colors

Fifty years after the racial upheaval of the 1960s, Americans often like to say they don't see color.

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Related Topix: Harlem (New York, NY)

Seattle Times

Bill would honor Buffalo Soldiers' role in parks

In the decades after the Civil War, the nation's first black Army regiments guarded Yosemite and Sequoia national parks against poaching and timber thefts, a role that in hindsight made them some of the United States' first park rangers.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Representative Jackie Speier, Democrat

Science Daily

Early-life air pollution linked with childhood asthma in minorities

The researchers said their findings indicate that air pollution might, in fact, be a cause of the disease, and they called for a tightening of U.S government standards for annual exposure to NO2.

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Related Topix: Environment, Science, San Francisco, CA, UC San Francisco, UC Berkeley, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Myrtle Beach Online

New from Kanye West, J. Cole and Sigur Ros

One of the many striking and often shocking metaphors within "Yeezus," the new album from rapper Kanye West, arrives halfway into the 10-song release, during a song called "I'm in It."

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Related Topix: Black Entertainment, Kanye West, Hip-Hop, Entertainment

Worcester Telegram & Gazette

Sen. Cowan to minorities: Get political

U.S. Sen. William "Mo" Cowan said he's done a lot of "cool things" since being appointed to fill the seat left vacant when John F. Kerry became U.S. secretary of state, including meeting top political leaders on a tour of the Middle East and flying, with the president, aboard Air Force One.

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Related Topix: Immigration Reform, US Politics, US News, Joe Biden, Capitol Hill (Washington, DC), Worcester, MA

Inman

a Disparate impacta doctrine troubling property owners, mortgage lenders and employers

Two federal lawsuits brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission last week spotlights an issue that is getting increasing attention from home mortgage lenders, rental property owners, local governments, and now the U.S. Supreme Court: "disparate impact."

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Related Topix: Law, Employment / Labor Law, US News, US Supreme Court, Criminal Defense Law, Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance

Mon Jun 17, 2013

New Pittsburgh Courier Online

The death of Saint Paul's College

Saint Paul's College, a historically Black college founded in 1888 in partnership with the Episcopal Church, announced last week that it's shutting down and working to help current students transfer to other institutions.

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Related Topix: Saint Paul's College, Saint Augustine's College, Atlanta, GA, Economics News, Bankruptcy, South Carolina State University

Townhall

Two Black Democrats Become Republicans in Louisiana

At a conference held in Baton Rouge at the end of May, called @Large and aimed to attract black conservatives, black Democrat Elbert Guillary, a member of the state legislature, announced that he was switching party and becoming a Republican.

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Related Topix: US News, Opinion

Mashable

'Question Bridge' Project Inspires Dialogue Among African-American Men

The Question Bridge project , a multimedia art initiative meant to "represent and redefine Black male identity in America," has taken to Kickstarter with Question Bridge Interactive .

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NewsOne

Re: James Weldon Johnson NAACP: Scholar, Author James Weldon Johnson...

James Weldon Johnson lives on in history and is often best-known for his leadership of the NAACP by becoming the organization's first Black manager.

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Related Topix: Arts, Literature

BleacherReport

Did the 2013 Draft Prove the Health of African-American Interest in Baseball?

Even if the numbers really aren't as damning as they're made out to be, the decline of African-American players in Major League Baseball is something that the league is very much stressing over.

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13WMAZ.com

Georgia College to Screen 'Imitation of Life'

The university's Sallie Ellis Davis Cultural Arts Center will analyze the significant roles of African-Americans in the workplace through a series of influential Hollywood films and a lecture this month.

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Related Topix: Imitation of Life, Drama Movies

The Indianapolis Star

Dan Carpenter: Why of course gays have been in Boy Scouts for years

I have a Christian friend, with children and grandchildren in church schools and plenty to recommend him as a professional and alumnus.

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Related Topix: Wedding, Opinion

National Public Radio

African-Americans And Gay Marriage: It's Complicated

As the Supreme Court prepares to rule on two cases involving same-sex marriage, a new documentary takes a look at what same-sex marriage means for African-Americans.

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Related Topix: It's Complicated

NewsOne

Re: NAACP Says Alleged Suicide May Be Mississippi Lynching

USA Today is reporting on an incident called a suicide by authorities, that the NAACP thinks may actually be a lynching.

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Related Topix: Greenwood, MS, Suicide, Leflore County, MS

Lawyers.com

EEOC Sues Employers for Using Criminal Background Checks

In two lawsuits filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on June 11, the agency accused two large employers of using criminal background checks to illegally discriminate against black workers.

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Related Topix: Law, Employment / Labor Law, Spartanburg, SC

MediLexicon

Olfactory Decline In Seniors Can Perturb Diet, Presage Disease And Predict Death

The ability to distinguish between odors declines steadily with age, but a new study shows that African-Americans have a much greater decrease in their sense of smell than Caucasians.

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Medicine, Nutrition, Pinto, MD, University of Chicago, Health

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