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Man pleads guilty to racist threats against coach

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A Nashville man has pleaded guilty to a federal hate crime for making racially motivated threats to an African-American assistant...

HPV vaccines less effective for Black women

WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Although Black women are twice as likely as White women to die from cervical cancer, Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination may not...

Affordable Care Act will create more jobs

WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Health care reform under the Affordable Care Act is off to a sickly start. There have been problems with the main...

Blacks continue fight to secure voting rights

  WASHINGTON (NNPA) – When lawmakers ratified the 15th Amendment in 1870, protecting voting rights for Blacks, opponents of the law lashed out, violently at...

Black youth at higher risk of ‘disconnection’

PHILADELPHIA (NNPA)--Take a walk through a low-income minority neighborhood in the city of Philadelphia on any given weekday and you’re sure to notice the...

Viewpoint: What Homewood deserves

In April 2011, I suggested to MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow that the NRA should have held its convention in the Homewood Coliseum. I am glad...

Is cigarette smoking really a problem?

  If it seems as if many people are still smoking these days, you’re probably right. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) states...

Meet Dr. Karen Hacker, Allegheny County Health Department’s new director

  In September 2013, the Allegheny County Health Department (ACHD) welcomed Karen Hacker, MD, MPH, as its new director. Before moving to Pittsburgh, Dr. Hacker...

Miss SC pageant gets its 1st openly gay contestant

ANALOUISA VALENCIA by Jeffrey Collins Associated Press Writer SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) — Analouisa Valencia came to the door in a bright blue facial mask and sweatpants, surprised anyone was coming to see her.

With Supreme Court decision, affirmative action hangs in the balance

KIMBERLY WEST-FAULCON While the United States Supreme Court decision on affirmative action last week did not eliminate the use of race-based criteria in college admissions, many do not see the decision as a victory.

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