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65th N.C. Azalea Festival: It must be springtime

Wilmington, North Carolina and its island beaches! Each year in April when the landscape is dominated by thousands of brilliant pink, white, and purple azaleas, Wilmington pays homage to these dazzling flowers during the annual  North Carolina Azalea Festival, a

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State of Black America 2012

(NNPA) – WASHINGTON – The state of Black America is simple according to the National Urban League president and CEO Marc Morial: “It’s under attack.” Marc H. Morial, Urban LeagueThe civil rights organization’s latest annual report details areas of Black life

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Trayvon Martin’s Death Takes Toll on Family

Sybrina Fulton knows what she will be doing tomorrow. It is the same thing she did yesterday. And the same thing she will do today. “I cry every day,” she said Sunday on TV One’s Washington Watch with Roland Martin. “I

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President Obama Expresses ‘Love’ for Black Press

WASHINGTON (NNPA) – President Barack Obama expressed admiration for the balanced picture African-American newspapers present of the Black community each week, saying such portrayal not only helps Blacks but Americans of all races and ethnicities. “One of the things that I

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Foster Care, Uncertain Futures Loom For Thousands of Immigrant Children

WASHINGTON—More than 5,000 children of immigrants are languishing in state foster care nationwide because their parents were living in the United States illegally and were detained or deported by federal immigration authorities. These children can spend years in foster homes, and

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Blaming the Victims in Their Own Voices: Phi Delta Kappan Does Disservice to Blacks

WASHINGTON—Tracey and Abby Sparrow, one a teacher and the other a nonprofit’s vice president, both white, recently took to the pages of Phi Delta Kappan, a magazine for educators, to explain what stands between black males and academic success. The writers’

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America’s Families Carry Heavy Housing Burdens, Says New Report

Despite continued reductions in home prices and mortgage interest rates, housing affordability remains a growing problem for many Americans. That was the key finding in a new study, Housing Landscape 2012, from the Center for Housing Policy. After analyzing Census

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Minority Business Owners Expand Cupcake Business Via Local Farmers Market

Icing on the Kake by Khayla is now providing gourmet cupcakes each and every weekend at the Yellow Green Farmers Market in Hollywood, Florida. Owners Khayla and Ty Stanley started Icing on the Kake by Khayla in January 2011 as a

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What Carbohydrates Do To Your Body

There’s lots of information out there these days about nutrition and health, and some of it can be very confusing!  One nutrition topic that has gotten a lot of attention lately is carbohydrates, or “carbs.”  It seems that every time

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Sodexo Foundation Youth Grants Position Young People as Leaders in Finding Solutions to Childhood Hunger

YSA (Youth Service America) and Sodexo Foundation have awarded 77 Sodexo Foundation Youth Grants to young people nationwide to support youth-led service projects designed to reduce childhood hunger in America. Projects will take place as part of Global Youth Service

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Greater Diversity Tech News : A Comprehensive Online Marketing Strategy

Business owner’s question: Our website is a plumbers website. The account has already been set up by Google and I am looking for someone to manage the account. The campaigns need tweaking and we are trying to get on the first

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Southern Calif. Cities More Multiracial

Southern California cities are now significantly more multiracial than they were 20 years ago, according to a new USC analysis released Thursday. The percentage of multiracial cities in the five-county area climbed from 51.2 percent to 61.5 percent from 1990

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Rock, Pop, White Power: How Music Influences Support for Ethnic Groups

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Just a few minutes of listening to mainstream rock music was enough to influence white college students to favor a student group catering mostly to whites over groups serving other ethnic and racial groups, a new study

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Affordable Care Act Expansions Poised to Improve Women’s Health

A new article by researchers from the Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative in the Department of Health Policy at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services examines the multiple opportunities provided by the Affordable

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What’s With All the Groupon (GRPN) Investor Hatred: A solid investment for our times

Another Groupon GRPN naysayer, not soothsayer. I can’t figure out all this hatred of Groupon – sounds like a bunch of old men talking about the young people of today and how they will never make it with those fancy

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