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BATON ROUGE, La. — Sisters Network Incorporated, the only national African American breast cancer survivor organization in the country, will kick off its 12th annual National African American Breast Cancer conference today in Baton Rouge. A pioneer in the African American breast cancer awareness movement, Sisters Network hosts the only national conference specifically addressing the devastating […]

WASHINGTON — A few days ago, 2012 presidential candidate Mitt Romney took the unpopular position with a crowd of Republicans and defended the healthcare plan he instituted as former Governor of Massachusetts. While many in the crowd didn’t agree with the “success” of his plan, one group in Washington sure does. The White House –  […]

DETROIT – According to police sources, an officer from Detroit’s Western District has been suspended for having sex with a transvestite prositute while on duty. Fox Detroit reports: Police sources told FOX 2’s Andrea Isom that person was a prostitute that is also a transvestite. She was also told the officer took the hooker in […]

The White House is shoring up its security walls and the rest of the country’s with a new cyber security plan. The plan will cover four key areas that President Obama deems to be weak: the protection of American citizens; the protection of critical infrastructure, such as the power grid and financial sector; the protection […]

Link to video of Dr. Boyce Watkins and Rev. Al Sharpton speaking about this controversial case Three years ago, Georgia Pastor Onslow Ross was sentenced to 10 years in prison and found guilty of 54 counts of bank fraud, money laundering and various other illegal transactions. Many of his supporters not only felt that the […]

CHICAGO, Ill. — A federal appeals court has ruled the City of Chicago must hire more than 100 African-American firefighters to compensate for past hiring discrimination. myfoxChicago.com reports: The ruling is the latest development in a fight over the department’s 1995 entrance exam. Thousands of people sued the city, saying the test favored white applicants. […]

It is being reported that the sexual coercion lawsuits against Bishop Eddie Long of the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church are likely to be tried publicly, rather than settled out of court as it was initially thought. The Root reports: Settlement discussions between the prosperity preacher and the four young men who have filed civil […]

Data from a recent study released today in the American Journal of Public Health showed that banning menthol cigarettes could save as much as 600,000 premature deaths by the year 2050. The Grio reports: With tobacco companies heavily marketing menthol cigarettes in minority communities, as many as 80 percent of African-Americans smokers smoke menthol cigarettes […]

After several reported meeting cancellations by the Obama Administration in the past two years, the Congressional Black Caucus and President Obama were in a room together and talked guess what: African American unemployment. In an hour long meeting this past Thursday, CBC members urged President Obama to focus on the unemployment issues of African Americans […]

Is the right to display a Confederate flag a matter of free speech? Or should anything related to a government function, whether it is a building or an instrument of law, remain unfettered by symbols that are offensive to millions? While the answer seems obvious, this debate is heating up again as our nation endures […]