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Getting Smart on Surety Bonds: African-American Female Business Owner in St. Louis Got Funded.

When I quit my job with the post office to start a building maintenance company that specialized in big public buildings, I knew I would have to be good. Better than the big companies that were already doing it. What I

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Why (I)we Occupy

Since the start of the Occupy Wall Street movement I’ve been captured by the opportunity to complete the unfinished business of the Civil Rights movement. Yes, I believe that the Occupy Movement offers Black America an opportunity to address income

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Unemployment for African Americans and Latinos projected to stay very high through 2012

Very high levels of unemployment are expected to remain high through the 4th quarter of 2012, a new EPI report finds.  In No relief in 2012 from high unemployment for African Americans and Latinos, EPI Director of the Race, Ethnicity, and

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True story shows how adolescent overcame obstacles, overwhelming odds to live successful life

In “The Dead Soldiers” (ISBN 146375244X), DMR1 allows readers to experience his journey from a DC area street hustler to an undergrad on an upper Midwestern college campus. He says that his situation is only one of many during his

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Whitney Houston’s Death May Be A Mystery For Weeks

She Died From What Appears to Be a Combination of Prescription Drugs Mixed With Alcohol Los Angeles, CA (February 13, 2012) — Whitney Houston’s life of glorious song and unnerving self-destruction apparently ended in a bathtub at the Beverly Hilton

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Whitney Houston Was Found in Hotel Bath, Coroner Confirms

LOS ANGELES – Coroners on Sunday completed their autopsy on the body of singer Whitney Houston and confirmed that she was found in the bathtub of her Beverly Hills hotel room, but said the cause of death would not be

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Five Ways to Advance Your Small Business Using Business Intelligence

If you don’t know everything you would like to know about how to grow your small business — who are your best customers, what is your most profitable product or service, what’s the best location for your business — you

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Positive Parenting During Early Childhood May Prevent Obesity

Programs that support parents during their child’s early years hold promise for obesity prevention, according to a new study in the online February 6 issue of Pediatrics.Today, one out of five American children is obese. Young children who are overweight

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Interview: Entrepreneur and CEO at 24, Lindsay Phillips

The past two years have probably been the most tenuous this generation has known. For me, the recession of the early 1990s is a distant, hazy memory, but the time in which we live now is clear in its uncertainty.

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Racial Segregation Continues, and Even Intensifies

“Manhattan Institute report heralding the ‘end’ of segregation uses a measure that masks important demographic and economic trends.” In a study released this week, two Manhattan Institute researchers heralded the “end of the segregated century.” Harvard professor Edward Glaeser and Duke professor

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