Posted by Duane On January - 3 - 2007ADD COMMENTS
**UPDATED - Scroll to bottom of post** Knowing who your real parents are is one of the most essential needs of any child. This is a fact that oftentimes gets lost in our cosmopolitan world that suggest that anybody or anything can fill that space. Fortunately the voices of some of those children (who are now adults) are starting to get much needed press in their search for their fathers. The following ...More
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Posted by Duane On January - 3 - 2007ADD COMMENTS
While on my sabbatical from writing on this site, I had some opportunity to read other blogs out there (something I rarely get a chance to do during the week). While it was great to see the further expansion of Blacks in the blogosphere, to me it seemed as though the core of most postings I read dealt with some of the same issues we have been talking about for ...More
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Posted by Duane On January - 3 - 2007ADD COMMENTS
While this press release does not completely answer that question, it certainly if packed full of enough data to give you some general clues. SAN DIEGO-(Business Wire)-January 3, 2007 - Why are African Americans purchasing more Nissan Altimas and Dodge Chargers and Asian Americans purchasing more Toyota Camrys and Honda Civics than other vehicles available to them? "While building well-designed, capable and quality vehicles, at the most discounted price, have the ...More
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Posted by Duane On January - 3 - 20072 COMMENTS
(AP) MEMPHIS — If current demographic trends hold, Memphis could become the country's first large metropolitan area with a majority black population, according to U.S. Census Bureau data. Census Bureau estimates from 2005 show the non-Hispanic white population in the eight-county Memphis metro area dipped below 50 percent for the first time — to 622,235 residents, or 49.4 percent of the area's 1,260,905 residents. The area's 568,875 black residents comprised 45.1 percent ...More
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