Men From Key Ethnic Groups Show Markedly Different Media Use Patterns
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Cranford, NJ, and Menlo Park, CA – October 16, 2002: New Knowledge [...]
October 4, 2005; Menlo Park, CA: Television and personal computer (PC) ownership and usage varies significantly across cultural groups, according to new findings from Knowledge Networks (KN). The difference in usage and ownership of these technologies – considered along with demographic and household income data – offers a valuable decision-making context to advertisers and marketers [...]
First, the news…
Computers may not boost student achievement
By Greg Toppo, USA TODAY
SAN FRANCISCO  Give a kid a laptop and it might not make any difference.
That’s the message from research presented here Monday, which suggests that spending millions of dollars to bring technology into kids’ homes and schools has decidedly mixed results.
Taxpayer-supported school computer and [...]
Update 1: I just found this site that grades members of congress on their stances on better immigration. Here is Maxine Waters’ grade.
Update 2: I was able to find the following regarding her postion on the Mexican mafia (a gang made up of many illegals who has influence in the Los Angeles area):
Now, at the [...]
First, the news…
Duke case reopens wounds for black women
The young black women can almost finish each other’s stories.
They go to a party, a concert, a nightclub. Twenty-somethings of all colors are flirting and dancing. And then it happens.
Inevitably, a woman says, a white man asks her to dance erotically while he watches. Or he grabs [...]
Buying Investment Property
by Clifford A. Hockley
Few commercial transactions involve a simple purchase agreement without amendments or a quickie loan application. The process is more complex and each transaction is unique. The result is that sometimes the best way to close purchases is to come up with terms and conditions tailored to the individual property.
Sphere: Related [...]
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Colon cancer is one of the leading killers of Americans. This year’s expected toll: 56,600 deaths. Yet you can reduce your odds of getting colon cancer by eating the right foods. The American Institute of Cancer Research says up to 75% of cases of colon cancer could be prevented by diet. Here, for Colorectal Cancer [...]
LOS ANGELES: Pimps, prostitutes and thugs often have big parts in Hollywood movies set in black America, but if Jeff Clanagan succeeds, audiences may soon see smart, independent films about mainstream African-American life.
Clanagan formed Codeblack Entertainment this year to distribute films like “Preaching to the Choir,” a drama that played at festivals in 2005 and [...]
You know WE own the joint when you see names like:
Stylezz!
It’s yo’ hair
Who duzz yo’ hair (I saw this one in Vegas)
Destiny’s
Effervescent’s
(keep adding!)
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Someone passed this story to me via e-mail. I wasn’t sure that it was legit until I saw it in the news this morning.
Bellevue Community College President Jean Floten apologized Wednesday at an emotional open-campus meeting called after students complained about what they said was a racially offensive math question used on a practice test.
Floten [...]
”I was just at a conference of police chiefs,” said William Bratton, chief of police in Los Angeles, which has 720 openings. ”It was all everybody was talking about.”
Police officials and researchers say a confluence of demographic changes and social trends have precipitated the shortage. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have siphoned off public-service-minded [...]
Between some of the talking heads on cable news and folks online, folks are already bracing for what could be an unfortunate turnout for those who wanted their pound of flesh out of the hides of the Duke University lacrosse team. This group is basically made up of two camps: folks who have a perpetual [...]
For the past couple of weeks the whining from my own has reached to a level that has become too sickening for me to ignore any longer. While we have made great strides in just about every area in society imaginable, many of us still fixated in keeping the fight against “racism” alive by magnifying [...]
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