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• Plastic Surgey: The New Beauty Norm?

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 465
  This is a good topic to discuss especially now since the popularity of all the make-over shows. I have always been curious as to why people, mostly women, have this idea that they are expected to look a certain way in order to “fit in” with society.We all would like to believe that quaint saying, [...]
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• News: Prosecutor Removes Himself from the Heather Ellis Case

  
  Your Black World — Authority: 436
  Heather Ellis is shown alongside her mother, Hester Ellis, outside the Justice Center at Bloomfield last month following her pre-trial hearing in a case that has gained national attention. At right is Ellis’ attorney, Timothy Hunsaker from the St. Louis firm of Rosenblum, Schwartz, Rogers and Glass. Also pictured ...
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• White House Press Secretary: “The President Has Not Made Any Decisions Concerning Afghanistan”

  
  THE KALEIDOSCOPE FACTOR: A Unique Collection of African American News and Commentary — Authority: 432
  White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters onboard Air Force One Tuesday that an ongoing investigation into the tragedy of Ft. Hood and alleged gunman Maj. Nidal Hasan is currently underway. The FBI and the Department of Defense are jointly and cooperatively in this investigation to “figure out what ...
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• The Bittersweet Beauty of South Africa: Place of the Year 2009

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 558
  Michelle Rafferty, Publicity Assistant Author Richard Rathbone first went to South Africa as the Students’ Visiting Lecturer Fund nominee at Cape Town University in 1976 and returned as Visiting Lecturer to the University of the Witwatersrand in 1979 and then as visiting professor to the universities of ...
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• Revised Formula Puts 1 in 6 Americans in Poverty

  
  AlumniUnit.com — Authority: 129
  The level of poverty in America is even worse than first believed.A revised formula for calculating medical costs and geographic variations show that approximately 47.4 million Americans last year lived in poverty, 7 million more than the government’s official figure.The disparity occurs because of differing ...
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• DC Sniper Scheduled to Die Tonight

  
  politics from the eyes of an ebony mom — Authority: 136
    In 2002 the DC area was terrorized by an insidious sniper. He killed 10 people and injured others. People had no idea of who was doing this or why  or where  would they strike next. The killers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Malvo were finally caught outside of Baltimore. In August of this year I had the ...
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• SCHOOL MATTERS: How African-American Males Can Succeed in School

  
  phxsoul.com — Authority: 135
  New America Media, News Report, Cynthia E. Griffin In spite of challenging familial, environmental and school situations, young African-American men can be high achievers in schools if education policy focuses on promoting their strengths instead of emphasizing their problems, according to a recent study by the ...
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• The Quotable Black Scholar: Pedro Noguera on Class and Black Identity Formation

  
  Black On Campus — Authority: 106
  Pedro Noguera *** “In many black communities, it is the ethos, the style, the orientation of poor black kids that influences middle-class black kids in ways that [are not] true for middle-class white kids. Most middle-class white kids don’t know poor white kids.” – NYU sociology of education Professor ...
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• President Obama Launches Major Veterans Employment Initiative

  
  THE KALEIDOSCOPE FACTOR: A Unique Collection of African American News and Commentary — Authority: 432
  President Barack Obama, October 23, 2009 President Obama Launches Major Veterans Employment Initiative Initiative Would Transform Federal Government into Model of Veterans Employment   Washington, DC – Today, the White House announced the launch of an initiative that is designed to transform the federal ...
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• Dispelling stereotypes in the black community

  
  The Temple News — Authority: 517
  Junior journalism major Lauren Grant aims to highlight the positive black community in her documentary, What Happened to Our Race?
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• A Taste of Freedom in Post-War Europe

  
  Information Without The Bun — Authority: 116
  After my father died in August 2000, we went through his things, of course. One of the items he held onto was an article from a 1946 issue of Newsweek, Racial: Maedchen and Negro, about black soldiers in post-WW II Germany. The Newsweek piece was initiated by a much longer piece in the October 1946 [...]
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• THE OMO PEOPLE

  
  My Urban Report — Authority: 113
  
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• Weekly Guidance For FLOTUS

  
  THE KALEIDOSCOPE FACTOR: A Unique Collection of African American News and Commentary — Authority: 432
  UPDATED:  TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10:  The First Lady’s visit to the Department of Labor has been postponed until further notice.   On Tuesday, the President and First Lady will travel to Fort Hood, Texas, for a memorial service.     WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11:  In the morning, the First Lady will attend the ...
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• Black is Back Coalition says Obama is white power in black face???

  
  Let's Talk Honestly — Authority: 129
  Over 200 people gathered for the first public demonstration by African-Americans against the Obama administration since his historic inauguration in January, and slammed the president for continuing what they described as Washington’s “imperialist” agenda around the world, AFP reported on Saturday. “We ...
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• The Ladies of Television

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 499
  The lesbian community has always been slightly more muted than our gay male counterparts. Though our male counterparts dominate in mainstream media, and even LGBT media at that, ladies – I’m here to say that we have something to celebrate this week.  After years of waiting for lesbian visibility in the media, ...
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• What Do the Cleveland Murders Say About Our Society?

  
  Black Public Scholars — Authority: 114
  by Dr. Boyce Watkins , Syracuse University   Anthony Sowell is a name that most of us would like to forget. Sowell is the 50-year-old man in Cleveland found to have 11 corpses in his home after being arrested on a rape charge. His neighbors noticed the smell, but some blamed it on the sausage factory next ...
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• Gloria Steinem Will Break Your Kneecaps

  
  Velvetpark | Dyke Culture in Bloom — Authority: 142
  Charis Books is the oldest, largest, feminist bookstore in the Southeast and one of only 14 independent feminist bookstores left in the U.S.
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• Antoine Walker is Broke: Five Lessons We can Learn

  
  Black Entertainment, Money, Style and Beauty Blogs - Black Voices — Authority: 145
  Filed under: Celebrity News , Personal Finance When I went to The University of Kentucky with Antoine Walker during the 1990s, we all knew he was going to be a star. He was headed for great things and would represent his family well. No one would have guessed that he would one day become the poster child for ...
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• Blaming it on the Alcohol Can Have Life-Altering Consequences

  
  Black Entertainment, Money, Style and Beauty Blogs - Black Voices — Authority: 145
  Filed under: Sexual Health , HIV/AIDS , Mens Health , Mental Health , Disease Prevention Its a warm summer night. A young man sits on the corner of Broadway and 12th Street in downtown Oakland sipping from a bottle of Hennessey. Bored and looking for a sexual fling with no strings attached, the young man dials ...
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