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(foxnews.com) SALT LAKE CITY — Leaders for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the Rev. Al Sharpton are planning an in-person meeting, a church spokesman said. Sharpton asked for the meeting during a telephone apology he gave to two church elders after he said during a May 7 debate that Mormons don't believe in God. "Mr. Sharpton and church leaders are looking at possible dates for a meeting, ...More

This is a statement made by a an individual who is learning about the dangers of eating many of the unhealthy foods that are commonplace in Southern culture. (goupstate.com) Spartanburg residents can catch the scent of crackling bacon grease in the morning air. Afternoon atmospheres fill with aromas of chicken, fried to a glistening golden crisp; onion rings and fries so weighted down with grease they sink to the bottoms of stomachs; ...More

(hbns.org) Some ethnic minorities could be twice as likely as white and Native American people to prefer counseling and prayer to medication for treating depression, according to a national Internet survey. African-Americans, Hispanics and Asians who took the survey were skeptical about the biological basis of depression and wary of becoming addicted to antidepressants, according to Jane Givens, M.D., of Boston University Medical Center and colleagues. The survey results appear in the ...More

(news.yahoo.com) BALTIMORE - A city council leader, alarmed by Baltimore's rising homicide rate, wants to give the mayor the power to put troubled neighborhoods under virtual lockdown. "Desperate measures are needed when we're in desperate situations," City Council Vice President Robert W. Curran told The (Baltimore) Sun. He said he would introduce the legislation next week. Under Curran's plan, the mayor could declare "public safety act zones," which would allow police to ...More

NEW YORK, May 17 /PRNewswire/ -- When Barrington Irving returns to Miami in the last week of May, the 23-year-old pilot will set two world records: he will become the first African American and the youngest person ever to fly solo around the globe. He recently passed the halfway mark when he landed his single-engine aircraft in Calcutta, India, seven weeks after taking off from Miami on March 23rd where ...More

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Radio One, Inc. (NASDAQ: ROIAK and ROIA) today announced that it has entered into an Asset Purchase Agreement to sell all of its radio stations in Dayton, Ohio and five of its six radio stations in Louisville, Kentucky, to Main Line Broadcasting, a portfolio company of Arlington Capital Partners, a Washington, DC-based private equity fund. The transaction price is approximately $76.0 million which represents a purchase price multiple of ...More

(JBHE) This coming September, Amobi Okoye may become the youngest man to ever play in a National Football League game. Okoye, a native of Nigeria, graduated from the University of Louisville this past December at the age of 19. He earned his bachelor’s degree in psychology in three and a half years while playing defensive tackle for the football team. Okoye, who could walk when he was only seven months ...More

I have only known the music of George Duke for about 6 years, but mainly my listening experience has been from his After Hours, This is Jazz #37, A Brazilian Love Affair, and Duke albums. There was one album of his I have had on my mp3 player for a very long time, but never took the time to listen to it because at first, it sounded a little too ...More

ATLANTA (Reuters) - The number of people in the United States from ethnic or racial minorities has risen to more than 100 million, or around one third of the population, according to a U.S. Census Bureau report on Thursday. The minorities figure stood at 100.7 million, up from 98.3 million a year earlier. Within that, the Hispanic population was the fastest growing at a rate of 3.4 percent between July 2005 ...More

(koaa.com) High schools in Southern Colorado are getting ready for graduation. One Palmer High student is receiving special recognition. Brittney Exline, 15, is graduating from high school three years early. In the fall she'll head to the University of Pennsylvania to study political science and chemical engineering. Brittney is the youngest African American female ever accepted to an Ivy League school.(more...) More

Cuban President Fiedel Castro gives his opinion on bio-fuels: (caribbeannetnews.com) The mass cultivation of sugar cane needed to produce much of the world's ethanol pushes small farmers to abandon lands to large companies that force workers to toil without adequate water, food, housing, sometimes for $3 a day, Castro wrote in an editorial published on Tuesday by Cuba's Granma newspaper. "For us, the main question is to eliminate the plantation and have ...More

(This Day/AllAfrica.com) Chinese Premier, Wen Jiabao, has said his country's policy of trade and investment expansion in African countries, including Nigeria, was not another way of putting debt burdens on the countries, but to help them grow at a fast pace needed for development. This is on the heels of plans by a group of Chinese firms to invest $2billion in the south East zone of Nigeria. Speaking at the opening session ...More

(washingtonpost.com) A new report by a statewide task force that paints a grim picture of how African American male students are faring in Maryland's public schools and universities recommends strengthening mentor programs, encouraging more black men to be teachers and providing more academic support for those who need it. Two of the more controversial proposals are suggestions to place troubled students at black-majority high schools into single-sex classes and to encourage ...More