Based on a 96 page report on the causes of premature death by the CDC, the leading cause of death among young blacks of both sexes appears to be black men.
Young children who consume exclusively organic dairy products are significantly less likely to develop allergies, asthma or eczema by the age of two, according to a study conducted by researchers from the Louis Bolk Institute in the Netherlands and published in the British Journal of Nutrition.
After years of speculation and rare case reports, a recent FDA-funded study by The National Institute of 
revealing details of Israel's clandestine nuclear programme.He is being held on suspicion that he met foreigners, violating conditions of his 2004 release from jail, police say. Read more...
There is no “war” against terrorism. What 
Scientists are warned of the dark sideof genomic research.
A university project found that black youths feel widely alienated – 48 percent of respondents believe the government treats most immigrants better than most black people. So researchers created a place for them on the Internet. The Black Youth Project is a website of research and blogs aimed at the group.
“We felt there needed to be a space on the Web where young black people could speak for themselves,” says Cathy Cohen, a political science professor at the University of Chicago and the lead investigator at the Black Youth Project (BYP), which has researched the attitudes, culture, politics, and resources of African-American youths since 2003. “This is a space for young black people to be politically engaged, and it’s a place for teachers to think of creative curriculum based in the lives of young black people.”
The website (www.blackyouthproject.com) came out of the work that the BYP has been engaged in, particularly a national survey it conducted several years ago. The survey, coupled with detailed interviews with individuals, offers insights into the attitudes that black youths have about everything from hip-hop and sex to politics and religion. Read more...
Fifty-three! Yes, 53! This is the number of vaccines a child receives between birth and 6 years of age, if his/her parents follow the CDC's "Recommended Immunization Schedule for Persons Aged 0 through 6 Years." Unfortunately, millions of parents do.In this paper, we analyzed this "schedule" for the benefit of parents and anyone else who is related to or knows a child under six years old. Most people know very little about this "schedule," so the information in this research paper should be an eye-opener for many. Needless to say, it should be read by everyone. Why?
"Vaccination"must be understood within today's social and political context. Vaccination (or immunization, as they call it), is intrinsic to a vast medical system that is on auto-pilot. This means that everyone involved, from the medical staff to parents, does what they are told or trained to do—no questions asked, no second thoughts, no thinking required.
If the fact that a child receives 53 vaccines—35 of which are administered before the child turns 2 years old—sounds unbelievable, it is; especially to those who are unaware of how the field of pediatrics works in this country. Can you imagine the amount of extremely toxic chemicals being injected into the tender, supple and fragile body of an infant and toddler? Few people consider this, including parents. Nevertheless, this is the reality that millions of children endure.
There is not any wonder that autism now afflicts one (1) in every 100 children. Nearly everyone knows someone with an autistic child, according to the most recent report about the epidemic of autismin America.
American mothers as a whole do not breast-feed their babies as much as health experts would like, but African-American moms have the lowest rates of all — by some measures, they are half as likely to nurse as whites and Hispanics.
The federal government, some hospitals and nonprofits are trying different strategies to close this nursing gap, though no one seems sure exactly why the disparity exists. Read more...
For children born in 2006, a smaller percentage of African-American women exclusively breast-fed for three months.
But are these hidden messages really all that hidden? James Cameron himself hasn't been shy in publicly proclaiming the fact that he's an environmental activist who believes that humans and "industrial society" are "causing a global climate change" and "destroying species faster than we can classify them." In a recent interview with PBS' Tavis Smiley, Cameron admitted that he made "obvious" references in the film to Iraq, Vietnam and the American colonial period to emphasize the fact that humans have a "terrible history" of "entitlement" in which we "take what we need" from nature and indigenous peoples "and don't give back." Read more…
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Lou Jing's background became fodder for national gossip, sparking a vitriolic debate about race across a country that, in many respects, can be quite homogenous. There are 56 different recognized ethnic groups in China, but more than 90 percent of the population is Han Chinese. So people who look different stand out.
"We lived in a small circle before," said her mother. "But after Lou was seen nationwide, some Chinese people couldn't accept her."
It has been a shocking ordeal for someone who says she always considered herself just like every other
By Spencer S. Hsu and Carrie JohnsonThe Department of Homeland Security improperly gathered intelligence on the Nation of Islam for eight months in 2007 when the leader of the black Muslim group, Louis Farrakhan, was in poor health and appeared to be yielding power, according to government documents released Wednesday.
The intelligence gathering violated domestic spying rules because analysts took longer than 180 days to determine whether the U.S-based group or its American members posed a terrorist threat. Analysts also disseminated their report too broadly, according to documents obtained under the by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a civil liberties group. Read more...
After more than three decades in prison, a Florida man was set free Thursday after a DNA test showed he did not kidnap and rape a 9-year-old boy in 1974.
"I'm not angry," James Bain, 54, told reporters after a brief hearing in Bartow, Florida.
Bain was 19 when he was convicted on charges of kidnapping, burglary and strong-arm rape. He received a life sentence. He's going home for the first time in 35 years. Read more…
By Stephanie Chen
As budget deficits grow and the economy tumbles, governors and legislators are cutting costs by allowing inmates, mostly low-risk offenders, to leave prison earlier than laws previously permitted. Nationwide, more states are beginning to release thousands of inmates early by
increasing "time off" provisions.
Last week, figures from the U.S. Department of Justice indicated that in 2008 the gr owth of the prison population was slower than in any year since 2000. Some experts say the slowdown confirms that states are reconsidering their sentencing policies. Read more…
The estimated time when whites will no longer make up the majority of Americans has been pushed back eight years — to 2050 — because the recession and stricter immigration policies have slowed the flow of foreigners into the U.S.
Empowerment Project aims to build economic, community strength The couple's buy Black campaign or the “Empowerment Experiment” garnered national headlines as well as some criticisms for promoting racism. But the Andersons, who live outside Chicago in suburban Oak Park, Ill., saw their experiment as a lesson in self-help economics.
The Andersons wanted to change Black Americans' mindset from just being consumers to being more conscious of how they spent their money and with whom. It wasn't too long ago that Blacks largely patronized Black businesses, said Mrs. Anderson, formerly a business consultant who now heads the Empowerment Experiment full-time. Before the fight for integration in this country, Blacks had little choice but to support their own. She said integration was a good thing, but for Blacks “integration was bad economically... because we lost that sense of duty to shop with our own.” Read more...
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By James G. Muhammad
Young black men are "over-represented" in youth prisons, a report has revealed.
More than a third (36%) of 15 to 18-year old men held in youth custody in England and Wales are from black or other ethnic minority groups - and the number is growing.
The Children and Young People in Custody 2008-2009 survey, also found nine out of ten young prisoners of all races said they had been expelled from school.
A quarter of all young men and nearly half of young women in custody had spent time in local authority care. Read more...
According, to recent statistic estimates, in the year 2025, 24,324,778 United States citizens will suffer from -blank-. Are you intrigued yet? Are you nervous? Well, what if I told you exercise and a proper nutrition can enhance your chances of never receiving this disease? Due to our sedentary lifestyle, and improper nutrition, the prevalence of Diabetes, has skyrocketed in recent years. If we as a nation, want to diminish the increasing rate, we must understand the disease.
1. Diabetes is a metabolism disorder. During consumption, our body breaks most of our food down into glucose. It just so happens, that the main source of energy and fuel is, glucose. When an individual has diabetes their body does not produce enough insulin to be able to move their glucose throughout their body. Therefore, that individual does not receive the necessary fuel and energy.
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