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Estate Tax Helps Fund The American Dream - Darius Ross (newtownbee.com) A cynical few are saying the estate tax hurts African Americans in some disproportionate way. But they're overlooking common-sense wealth planning. Here's the deceptive reasoning behind their statement: it's harder for African Americans to become millionaires (true), so the estate tax hits black entrepreneurs especially hard, forcing them to sell family businesses to pay the tax. Untrue. The US Small Business ...More

From: Newstarget.com "Excitotoxins have been found to dramatically promote cancer growth and metastasis. In fact, one aspartame researcher noticed that, when cancer cells were exposed to aspartame, they became more mobile, and you see the same effect with MSG. It also causes a cancer cell to become more mobile, and that enhances metastasis, or spread. These MSG-exposed cancer cells developed all of these pseudopodians and started moving through tissues, which is ...More

"What African Americans who seek political office must understand is that the days of getting 100 black pastors to endorse you will not win elections. That's old school. What is critical is taking a scientific and methodical approach to politics, and then creating the kind of groundswell of support necessary to be effective. Yes, you have to have the ability to fire up voters, but if you don't know where ...More

(BlackCollegeWire.org) Jackson State University has decided to withdraw its baseball team from the Southwestern Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament set for May 18-21 after discovering that a second and third ineligible player competed during the 2006 season. Head baseball coach Mark Salter has been relieved of his duties with pay pending the outcome of an internal investigation. Omar Johnson, assistant baseball coach, is to serve in the interim, university officials announced May ...More