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Missing Black Children Overlooked By Media
Unimaginable as her ordeal might be, Amanda Berry’s plight stands as even more of an anomaly than many may want to think.
A 2010 academic study finds that roughly 80 percent of the news coverage devoted to missing children focuses on victims who are not black, which raises anew in the face of the Cleveland-based tragedy primarily centering on a now 27-year-old local.
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Absentee Fathers Creates Special Meaning For Mother's Day
With Mother's Day coming up, the African-American community holds several special events such as church services, music concerts, and dinners. However, there is often less fanfare when it comes to Father's Day.
Many African-American experts say it is not surprising that the black community overemphasizes Mother's Day. They say that mother's have a special place in the black community.
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Mi CASA es Su Casa (My House Is Your House)
According to a 2010 Associated Press article, “Blacks struggle with a 72 percent unwed mothers rate,” Women’s health on NBCNews.com, statistics reveal that children of unmarried mothers of any race are less likely to succeed academically, and more likely to be imprisoned, and the victim of drugs, poverty, and continuing the out-of-wedlock cycle than children born into two-parent homes. Not many of those unmarried mothers move beyond welfare to self- and other-sustaining lives. LaShunda Leslie-Smith is one who has.
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Black World War II Veteran Tells His Story
FREDERICK, Md. (AP) - At age 88, Kenyon Parker still goes every day to the gym, where he shares stories of his time as a World War II soldier.
The Frederick resident spent three years in the then-racially segregated U.S. Army, enlisting at age 18.
Parker was a junior in high school when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. A year later, he enlisted and traveled to England, France, Germany, the Panama Canal, and the Philippines.
"I was glad to get away from home," Parker said. "Blacks were dirt poor. I came up in segregated times."
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Mixed Race Daughter Of Segregationist Strom Thurmond Dies
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Essie Mae Washington-Williams, the mixed-race daughter of one-time segregationist Sen. Strom Thurmond who kept her parentage secret for more than 70 years, has died. She was 87.
Vann Dozier of Leevy's Funeral Home in Columbia said Washington-Williams died Sunday. A cause of death was not given.
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Children Of Promise: The Forgotten Victims Of Crimes
African-American children are nine times more likely and Hispanic children three times more likely than white children to have a parent in prison. Thanks go to the State of Idaho for assembling a national fact sheet, which gives us a snapshot of the plight of these children who are often the forgotten victims of crime. The average age of children with an incarcerated parent is eight years old; 22 percent of the children are under the age of five. And there’s more bad news.
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Kwanzaa Is A Celebration Of Family Values
American families are worried as they teeter on the edge of the fiscal cliff. While politicians pontificate and posture, moms, and dads throughout the country wonder how they will feed, clothe, and house their children in light of the huge tax increases looming on the horizon. Now is the perfect time for a holiday that focuses on family values and reminds us of the truly important aspects of home and hearth. We need a little Kwanzaa now!
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Atlanta Honors Social Legacy Of Martin Luther King Sr
ATLANTA (AP) - The father of Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as a prominent Atlanta preacher and civil rights leader. But as a young man from a poor sharecropping family in rural Georgia, he is said to have walked north to Atlanta barefoot so he didn't wear out his only pair of shoes.
His legacy is now being honored through a community center built to help other low-income people find a path out of poverty.
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French Shooting Spree Blamed On Gunman’s Parents
PARIS (AP) — The radicalization of the French gunman who killed seven people on an eight-day shooting spree this spring began at home, his brother recounts in a new book and documentary, according to media reports.
Mohamed Merah killed three Jewish children, a rabbi, and three paratroopers in and around the southern city of Toulouse in March before dying in a standoff with police. Merah claimed links to al-Qaida and said he had received training at an Islamist paramilitary camp in Pakistan.
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Mclean County Latinos Highlighted
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (AP) — Pedro Chavez was 18 when he left his home in Mexico in 1910 and walked 1,000 miles to El Paso, Texas, in search of a better life.
His country was going through a revolution while the United States offered the promise of jobs building a railroad line.
"There were posters (in Mexico) encouraging workers to come to work on the railroad," said Mary Trunnell, Chavez's granddaughter.
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