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This was submitted by reader Saudia Abdullah "After my maternity leave was over I took my son to the day care and boldly went to work.  I was in my office for about 30 minutes when the tears began to role down my face.  I stood up grabbed my purse and went into my bosses office and explained to him that I could not in good conscience leave my child in ...More

(dukechronicle.com) "The buying power of North Carolina's minority groups has greatly increased since 1990, making the state's business and investment market one of the most active in the country, according to a study published by the North Carolina Institute of Minority Economic Development. And Durham is one of the key cities that reflects this trend, thanks to its large and diverse minority population, the study states. The report does not, however, ...More

(news.enquirer.com) About 70 percent of African-American women do not live with a spouse, the Census Bureau says. That's the direction in which Monica Blackwell-Harper once saw herself headed. Although she wanted children, "I didn't want to get married," the 35-year-old from Forest Park says. "I didn't understand why people would (marry). It seemed like a bad idea, because in my circle, it seemed like everybody broke up." That included her parents, ...More

Washington, DC—Pennsylvania leads the nation in the rate of black homicide victimization according to a new analysis of unpublished Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Supplementary Homicide Report (SHR) data released today by the Violence Policy Center (VPC). The study, Black Homicide Victimization in the United States: An Analysis of 2004 Homicide Data, uses 2004 data—the most recent data available from the FBI—and is the first analysis to rank the 50 ...More

it provides a missing ingredient to all the claims that the medical industry is no different today than it was during the days of the Tuskeegee experiments. Studies Indicate African-Americans Need to Question Doctors More; New Magazine Helps Get the Conversation Started WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A recent study concludes that African-Americans are less likely than Whites to question their doctors or raise concern about their care, according to an article in the most recent ...More

"Energy outputs from ethanol produced using corn, switchgrass, and wood biomass were each less than the respective fossil energy inputs. The same was true for producing biodiesel using soybeans and sunflower, however, the energy cost for producing soybean biodiesel was only slightly negative compared with ethanol production. Findings in terms of energy outputs compared with the energy inputs were: * Ethanol production using corn grain required 29% more fossil energy than ...More