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(SI.com) Most recently, of course, Donovan McNabb, quarterback of the Philadelphia Eagles, declared that African-American quarterbacks suffer much more scrutiny than their white brethren. It was a particularly interesting observation coming from McNabb, because, if you recall, Rush Limbaugh resigned from ESPN four years ago for saying that the very same McNabb was overrated, inasmuch [...]

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — Jorge Castaneda knelt on a rocky ledge with a map of the Sierra Nevada spread before him.
“There aren’t street names,” the 18-year-old city kid said only half-jokingly just before his first backpacking trip. “How are we supposed to read these maps?”
Castaneda was with a group of young men from [...]

(radioink.com) Urban radio remains the best way to reach black consumers, according to a new presentation by ROI Media Solutions based on Arbitron Portable People Meter data. In Philadelphia, more than 91 percent of black listeners 12 and older listened to at least one of the market’s five Urban-oriented stations over the course of a [...]