(ars.usda.gov) Just in time for bathing suit season: a leaner, meaner watermelon that boasts all the refreshing flavor and good-for-you nutrients of many conventional varieties, but contains more than 50 percent less sugar.
Agricultural Research Service (ARS) plant geneticist Angela Davis in Lane, Okla., is the chief breeder of two new low-sugar melons that should be [...]
(foxnews.com) SAN DIEGO — Leonard Nimoy isn’t through with Spock yet.
The 76-year-old actor will don his famous pointy ears again to play the role in an upcoming “Star Trek” film due out Christmas 2008.
“This is really going to be a great movie. And I don’t say things like that lightly,” Nimoy told a gathering [...]
(seattletimes.com) Workers accused of concocting the biggest voter-registration-fraud scheme in state history said they were under pressure from the community-organizing group that hired them to sign up more voters, according to charging papers filed Thursday.
To boost their output, the defendants allegedly went to the downtown Seattle Public Library, where they filled out voter-registration forms using [...]
(AP via blacknews.com) CHICAGO — The yellow school bus rumbles through vacant lots and past demolished buildings on a tour of what was once one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in the country.
For the woman with the microphone, the “Ghetto Bus Tour” is the last gasp in a crusade to tell a different story about [...]
(sfbayview.com) I was more than a little irritated that none of the people caring for him were African American. Why, I wondered, were there no African Americans in vital jobs that are critical to our community’s health and, moreover, provided good salaries and incredible self-fulfillment? I looked for an answer.
Here’s what I learned: California is [...]
(ynetnews.com) The president of one of America’s best known African-American colleges has added her voice to the chorus of condemnations coming from the US of the academic boycott against Israel being waged by Britain’s main academic union, the University College Union (UCU).
In a letter sent this week to an American-Jewish leader, Marvalene Hughes said: “It [...]
(newsday.com) Not many entrepreneurs are told to do their homework before they devote time to their business.
But that’s the rule laid down by the parents of Leanna Archer, who at the age of 11 owns Leanna’s Inc., a Central Islip mail-order and on-line business that sells hair-care products.
Leanna is the persistent entrepreneur, according to her [...]
(washingtonpost.com) Prince George’s, a county that underwent a seismic population shift a generation ago as it became the nation’s wealthiest majority-black suburb, might be on the cusp of another demographic change.
In the past decade, Prince George’s has become a destination for many working-class and foreign-born families because of its relatively affordable housing. At the same [...]
From EURweb.com
“As far as the ‘Hot Ghetto Mess’ issue, [BET President/CEO Debra Lee] has got the same problem that I had in that BET, for all practical purposes, is the only preeminent voice for African Americans in media and because of that it is given a greater responsibility and obligation by certain people that BET [...]
Side One
Well after all the snap commentaries and protests and threats of boycotts the night finally came for the show that would doom ALL Black people back to the days when Chicken George roamed the plantation.
The show was a mixture of street interviews, off the wall home videos highlighted by brief comments by host Charlie [...]
My wife and I are determined to come out of this real estate slump with a few more properties under our belt. This is truly a buyer’s market — especially if you are looking to make a good investment. Here are some quick links.
# An In-Depth Look at the Atlanta Housing Market
# The Austin, Texas [...]
(washingtontimes.com) The international street gang MS-13 is unifying its violent members across the U.S., including the D.C. area, attempting to strengthen its criminal operation by creating a single organization.
“Traditionally, the gang consisted of loosely affiliated groups known as cliques; however, law enforcement officials have reported increased coordination of criminal activity among Mara Salvatrucha cliques in [...]
Dinesh D’Souza addresses the whole Obama ‘can’t catch a cab because I’m Black’ thing:
I interviewed a number of cabdrivers for that book, and here is what they told me. Driving a cab is one of the most dangerous jobs in the country, because drivers are routinely picking up people they don’t know. The law requires [...]
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