A federal decision on the CSX Virginia Avenue Tunnel project has been delayed, to the relief of a group of D.C. residents who are against the proposed plans. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) on Aug. 19 announced the Federal Highway Administration has delayed issuing a record of decision, or ROD, until after until after Sept. 15, as Norton […]
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Personal Trainer Spreading Message of Healthy Living for Black Women
Crystal Adell Crystal Adell defies the stereotype that Black women do not consistently pursue a physical exercise discipline. Now, the certified personal trainer is on a mission to further dismantle the stereotype and reverse the disproportionate statistical data regarding health and obesity among Black women by advancing the message of healthy living. “It is my personal mission […]
Posted inNational News
McConnell Details GOP Strategy to Derail Obama’s Last Two Years
If Republicans have their way, the last years of Barack Obama’s presidency will be a doozy. Barack Obama (left) and Mitch McConnell are pictured. In an interview with Politico, Kentucky Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell laid out a game plan for reining in the president’s policies that could turn the next two years into a series […]
Posted inARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Iyanla Vanzant Taking Oprah Network Show to Ferguson, Mo.
Iyanla Vanzant, a nationally recognized spiritual life coach. In the wake of the police shooting of Michael Brown and the resulting unrest in Ferguson, Mo., Black leaders of all stripes have traveled there to seek justice, support the residents and bring resolution to the ongoing conflict. Iyanla Vanzant, a nationally recognized spiritual life coach, was […]
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Perspectives About Brown’s Death as Different as Black and White
Protesters march in the street as lightning flashes in the distance Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson) Reactions to the death of Michael Brown, the unarmed African-American teen killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Mo., and the protests that followed are as different as . . .Black and White. A […]
Posted inBaltimore News
Typical Casino Patrons Have Solid Careers, Better Education
The HorseShoe Casino Baltimore will stage its grand opening, Aug. 26, welcoming an estimated 10,000 guests through its doors. Over time, however, the casino’s patrons will not be distinguished so much by race but by income and education, experts said. “There is not much data on the racial breakdown of casino-goers,” said gambling expert James […]
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Civil Rights Leaders, Groups Issue Recommendations
Rev. Jessie Jackson walks with protesters down the street Friday, Aug. 15, 2014, where Michael Brown was killed by police nearly a week ago in Ferguson, Mo. A suburban St. Louis police chief on Friday identified the officer whose fatal shooting ignited days of heated protests, and released documents alleging the teen was killed after […]
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Sierra Club’s #StoptheSmog Campaign Against Coal Plant Pollution
Marylanders fed up with living with smog are pressuring the Maryland Department of Environment (MDE) to increase protections via a new social media campaign. On Aug. 14, the Sierra Club launched the #StoptheSmog campaign to urge officials to cut dangerous pollution from coal plants. Maryland residents tweeted to MDE’s Twitter account, @MDEnvironment, photos of themselves wearing […]
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Hacking Coalition Takes Ferguson Protest to the Next Level
Twitter has suspended a handle of Anonymous, the international hacking coalition that released the name and photo of the Ferguson, Mo. police officer it believed to be the shooter in the death of 18-year-old Michael Brown. @TheAnonMessage was suspended early Aug. 14 after the group followed up on a threat to release the name, address […]
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Hidden Cancer Cells Defy Fibroid Surgical Procedure
Government alerts and an onslaught of personal injury attorneys’ advertisements on the dangers of using power morcellators in the removal of uterine fibroids have signaled a public health concern that could disproportionately impact African-American women. Uterine fibroids, noncancerous growths that develop from the muscular tissue of the uterus, are quite common but overwhelmingly so among […]
Posted inBaltimore News
Black Men Prime Cop Targets
Michael Brown Sean Bell, unarmed, hours away from becoming a husband when he was slaughtered by police in a 50-bullet fusillade in November 2006, in Queens, N.Y. Ariston Waiters, 19, of Union City, Ga.; unarmed, shot twice in the back and killed by a police officer in December 2011. Ramarley Graham, an unarmed Bronx teen chased […]
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Okla. Missionary Claims Demons Made Him Rape, Molest Kenyan Orphans
19-year-old Oklahoma missionary Matthew Lane Durham with one of the children from an orphanage in Kenya on his shoulders. (Courtesy Twitter) The 19-year-old Oklahoma missionary accused of molesting and raping boys and girls at an orphanage in Kenya said he was possessed by a demon at the time. According to The Daily Mail, federal prosecutors […]