From the NY Times: HARRIS NECK NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, Ga. — When the managers from the federal Fish and Wildlife Service talk about this 2,800-acre preserve of moss-draped cypress, palmetto and marsh, they speak of endangered wood stork rookeries and disappearing marsh habitat, dike maintenance and interpretive kiosks.
From the NY Times: VENICE, La. — In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, they became a symbol of the government’s inept response to that disaster: the 120,000 or so trailers provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to people who had lost their homes.
Has obesity become the new norm for African Americans? This seems to be a growing trend in the black community seeing as to the fact that there is a staggering new statistic floating around: 4 out of 5 black women are considered obese. Now am I not the only one that sees the problem in […]
Already off to a tough start in life, 49 percent of American babies born into poor families will be poor for at least half their childhoods, a new Urban Institute study finds. Among children who are not poor at birth, only 4 percent will be "persistently" poor as children.
GRAND ISLE, La. — Rough seas generated by Hurricane Alex pushed more oil from the massive spill onto Gulf Coast beaches Wednesday as cleanup vessels were sidelined by the faraway storm’s ripple effects.
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Nearly 50 Virginia prisoners are being held in perpetual isolation because they refuse to cut their hair, several for religious reasons.
The World Cup is seen as a uniting event, bringing together several different nations to play soccer. The ideal behind the World Cup is to promote a racial harmony among all the nations. I mean what is more harmonious than having a bunch of different countries gather together to engage in some “friendly” competition?
Author Rev. David Briddell never imagined he would spend the first years of his retirement searching through mountains of dusty government records to profile some 1300 of Maryland’s forgotten black Civil War heroes, but evidently that’s what he did.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – A Harvard scholar and the police sergeant who arrested him last July after a confrontation outside his home both missed opportunities to “ratchet down” the situation and end things more calmly, according to a review of the case released Wednesday. The independent review said “misunderstandings and failed communications” and a “certain degree […]
Egyptian archaeologists who have completed excavations on an unfinished ancient tunnel believe it was meant to connect a 3,300-year-old pharaoh's tomb with a secret burial site, the antiquities department said Wednesday.