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By Mason Harrison Contributing Writer unsecured lenders Eighteen months after a gunman shocked America by killing more than two dozen students and teachers at an elementary school in rural Connecticut, gun violence ... Study: Diabetes medication Metformin more effective in Black patients than in white
By Vanessa Blanchard Contributing Writer (Special from Dailey Digest News and The NorthStar News & Analysis) – Black people who treat their type 2 diabetes with a drug called Metformin are likely ... Women of color urge Obama to ‘re-align’ My Brother’s Keeper
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) — More than 1,000 women of color —including Mary Frances Berry, former chair of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights; Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Alice ... Traditional parental roles are changing
By Mason Harrison Contributing Writer A new study by the Pew Research Center points to a dramatic shift in the traditional role of fathers in American life as an increasing number of ... Todd: ‘You can’t download freedom’
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (NNPA) – Rapidly-expanding technology, social media and new smart phone apps are no substitute for the hard work needed to fight persistent racism in ... The lies about ‘illegal immigration’
By A. Peter Bailey TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist In a recent conversation with a colleague, she expressed great indignation about “illegal immigration” and how all those Latinos smuggling themselves into the United States ... JPMorgan Chase charged with making predatory loans to Black homeowners
By Frederick H. Lowe Contributing Writer (Special from The NorthStar News & Analysis) — JPMorgan Chase & Co., the world’s largest bank based on assets, stuck Black homeowners with predatory, or high-interest ... Coming out of Congo Square – Bamboula 2000
By Geraldine Wyckoff Contributing Writer Bamboula 2000 celebrates and sings about its 20th anniversary on a new release, The Wild Bamboulas. In 1994, percussionist and vocalist Luther Gray founded the group in ... Steve Scalise elected U.S. House majority whip
By Christopher Tidmore Contributing Writer It was the secured loan personal loan spring of 1995, and Quentin Dastugue had just won the Louisiana Republican Party en­dorse­ment for Governor. His final triumphant ...
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