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Health Care Reform: Ten Facts
- By Leslie M. Quesenberry
- Published 05/10/2010
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Now that health care reform is law I think it's important that we move past the political rhetoric and look at the real facts of what this reform means to the lives of average Americans
#1 Extends Coverage To 32 Million More Americans
Because of this bill 32 million of our fellow Americans will have health insurance coverage
President Obama - “Your Ego Is Writing Checks Your Body Can’t Cash”
- By Frank Denver
- Published 05/8/2010
- Politics
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This is a classic line, from the movie Top Gun, which holds true even today Whether it’s a quest for financial gain or political glory, the results are the same
Racial Profiling Cases on Center Stage After High-Profile Arrest
- By John B. Landers
- Published 08/26/2009
- Politics
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Regardless of what side you come down on regarding the recent incident involving the arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, it is one of those racial profiling cases that has propelled the issue back into the minds of average Americans Gates, a prominent Harvard professor, was arrested in his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts and charged with disorderly conduct after a neighbor called the police and reported that two men were trying to break into Gates' home
Black Politicians Face Pressure in New York
- By Meta J. Mereday
- Published 08/26/2009
- Politics
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New York State has a historic track record with the caliber of Black politicians it has launched onto the national platform
With congressional dynamos including the late Adam Clayton Powell Jr
The Horror of Socliazed Medicine
- By Alex Avram
- Published 08/25/2009
- Politics
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Ronald Reagan once said:
"Freedom is always just one generation away from extinction We don’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream; we have to fight for it and protect it, and then hand it to them so that they shall do the same, or we’re going to find ourselves spending our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children about a time in America, back in the day, when men and women were free
100th Anniversary Celebrated at NAACP Convention
- By Todd A. Smith
- Published 08/21/2009
- Politics
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On March 9, 1892 in Memphis, Tenn three successful African American businessmen were brutally lynched and accused of raping White women, when their actual “crime” was the competition they represented to their White counterparts
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