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(WALL STREET JOURNAL) A record 15 million people around the world this year entered America’s green-card lottery, an immigration program that offers a quick path to legal, permanent U.S. residence for 50,000 people a year—selected purely by the luck of the draw. The so-called “diversity visa program” lottery drew nearly 25% more entries than last […]
(BLACKAMERICAWEB) Drug use among black American females and Latino males ages 12 to 17 has risen dramatically in the past two years, according to the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONCDP). The data, released by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Agency, revealed both groups demonstrated increased drug use of more […]
Facebook, the popular networking site, has 350 million members who collectively spend 10 billion minutes there every day, checking in with friends, writing on people’s electronic walls, clicking through photos and generally keeping pace with the drift of their social world. Read more here. RELATED: Anti-Facebook Pastor Admits To Group Sex RELATED: New Jersey Pastor […]
Bishop Eddie Long wasn’t present in court on Friday (November 19th) for the first court hearing in his sexual misconduct case, but neither were his accusers. Counsel representing all parties expressed an interest in settling, and this case is likely to be over once mutually agreeable terms are met. Bishop Long’s official response to all […]
The NAACP began its three-day National Religious Leaders Summit this past week with an emphasis on incarcerated women, encouraging the faith community to take a leadership role on matters of social justice. The summit, themed “The Faith Community, The Trumpet of Conscience, began Monday in Atlanta, Ga., with a brief detailing the social justice, education, […]
Cap Haitien, Haiti (CNN) — The cholera outbreak in Haiti has spread across the border to the Dominican Republic and that nation has issued a maximum health alert, its health ministry said. The first confirmed case is a 32-year-old Haitian construction worker who returned to the Dominican Republic last Friday with symptoms of the intestinal […]
(NEWSONE) GALVESTON, Texas— A man who stole a car left idling on the seawall returned and chastised the owners after realizing a child was inside, authorities said. A Houston woman, 22, and her boyfriend took the child fishing with them early Tuesday in the 900 block of Seawall Boulevard, where a rock pier juts into the […]
As your child enters into adolescence, you need to adapt your parenting skills for dealing with a teenager. Granted there isn’t a “how to” book, but if you want to maintain a healthy relationship, based on mutual respect with the potential to last a lifetime, here are some blunders to avoid from our sister site […]
PORT-AU-PRINCE — The death toll from Haiti’s cholera epidemic has reached more than 900 and the disease is present in six of the 10 provinces of the earthquake-battered Caribbean country, the Health Ministry said on Sunday. An update on the ministry website said as of November 12, there had been 917 deaths and more than 14,600 […]
(ABCNEWS) “I am an atheist,” says “Jack,” a Southern Baptist with more than 20 years in ministry. “I live out my life as if there is no God,” says “Adam,” who is part of the pastoral staff of a small evangelical church in the Bible Belt. The two, who asked that their real identities be […]
A woman gets fired from her company for being critical of management on Facebook. So, the National Labor Relations Board stepped in and are fighting for the woman saying her speech should be protected because other office workers responded to her post in dicussion. How do you rule, should posting on facebook get you fired? […]
Washington (CNN) — A senior administrator with the Federal Air Marshal Service has been removed from his leadership position while the agency investigates a “culturally insensitive” remark he made on a recent conference call, CNN confirmed Tuesday. John A. Novak, assistant director of the service, dismissed a black colleague’s suggestion that the agency hold regional […]