By Starla Muhammad Contributing Writer (Special to the NNPA from The Final Call) — Stagnation is how economist Dr. Algernon Austin summed up what Black Americans faced in ... In 2013 Black America suffered as white anger and Black fratricide struck
By Ashahed M. Muhammad and Charlene Muhammad Contributing Writers Tragic assaults on Black life (Special to the NNPA from The Final Call) – The year 2013 saw George Zimmerman tried for the killing ... Report: Shift to digital phones could hurt communities of color
By Stephon Johnson Contributing Writer (Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News) — If information is the new currency, communities of color could go broke. Study: Black women must work harder than whites to lose weight
By Zenitha Prince Contributing Writer (Special to the Trice Edney News Wire from the Afro American Newspaper) — African-Americans are at a disadvantage in many areas along the socioeconomic spectrum, and according ... Glaucoma can run in your family
By the National Eye Health Education Program (Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer) – It may be easy to see that beauty is deeply rooted in your family tree. ... Eating nuts while pregnant puts offspring at lower risk for peanut, tree allergies
(Special to the NNPA from The St. Louis American) — In the United States, the prevalence of childhood peanut allergy has more than tripled from 0.4 percent in 1997 to ... Documentary on murder’s effects on local children to air on PBS
By Fritz Esker Contributing Writer “Shell Shocked,” a film depicting the devastating effects of violence against New Orleans children, will screen this month on local PBS affiliate WYES starting on Martin ... Why Americans have grown to hate Congress
By William Spriggs TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist Congress has itself to blame for its low ratings among the American people. Policymaking is all about choices. It is the calculus of weighing costs and ... Top 10 news events of 2013
By Marc H. Morial President/CEO, National Urban League “Facing the rising sun of our new day begun, let us march on till victory is won.” James Weldon Johnson As the sun ...
By Geraldine Wyckoff Contributing Writer Tabby Thomas was core to the Louisiana blues. As a guitarist, vocalist, composer, club owner, radio deejay, Rockin' Tabby, the King of the Swamp Blues, put the ...
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