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August 29th, 2012
Written by D. A. Barber in Race & Politics, Latest News with 0 Comments
According to a survey released August 22, 2012, by the Pew Research Center, the median income for the middle class in the U.S. decreased from $72,956 to $69,487 since 2000. In fact, for the first time since World War II, “mean family incomes declined for Americans in all income tiers” with the percentage of Americans who fit into the new normal of the middle class dropping from 61 percent in 1971...
August 28th, 2012
Written by Manny Otiko in Feature Stories, Latest News with 0 Comments
Historically prominent in the fields of academia and technology; Asian Americans are now making waves in the political arena.
Just recently, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal was named as one of the front-runners for the Republican vice presidential nomination, but the position eventually went to Rep. Paul Ryan. Jindal is the child of Punjabi immigrants who settled in Louisiana and a former...
August 27th, 2012
Written by D. A. Barber in Education, the Great Equalizer, Ethnicity vs Race, Latest News with 0 Comments
A report from the Center for American Progress released August 22, 2012, indicates there are “lingering vestiges of racial inequality” in America’s schools when it comes to state and local education “per-pupil” spending on students of color.
Another report released August 20, 2012, by the Pew Hispanic Center says Hispanics are now “the largest minority group among the nation’s four-year colleges...
August 24th, 2012
Written by Rita Rizzo in Race & Politics, Latest News with 0 Comments
August 14, 2012 is a day to remember. It is the day the GOP publicly played the race card for the first time in this election cycle. It was a sly move. They dealt the first card off a deck held by Joe Biden. Complete with contrived outrage, the party indulged in a full-fledged temper fit and demanded a full apology for a racial reference that oddly, had nothing to do with race! Confused? Let me...
August 23rd, 2012
Written by Rita Cook in Focus on Health, Latest News with 0 Comments
Algae, a miracle health food provided by Mother Nature, and Catharine Arnston, Founder and CEO of the Naughty Nutritionist Inc. agrees. According to NASA, World Bank, and the United Nations algae is the most nutritionally dense food in the world. It has 3 times more protein than steak, 50 times more iron than spinach, 4 times more chlorophyll than wheatgrass, all electrolytes, most B vitamins,...
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