While most of his peers were focused on graduating and figuring out “what’s next?”, Kevin Stonewall was discovering colon cancer breakthroughs during his last year of the high school. As a student working at a Rush University lab during his senior year, the teen from Chicago’s South Side (Ashburn n ...
Posted Tuesday, July 29th 2014 at 12:16PM
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23 July 2014-A growing number of women in the United States are getting plastic surgery to enhance their behinds. But with the costs of surgery running into the thousands, many are choosing cheap backstreet procedures, which are maiming women and in some cases killing them. Fake doctors across the ...
Posted Tuesday, July 29th 2014 at 12:08PM
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - More than half of heart patients in a new U.S. study made mistakes taking their medications or misunderstood instructions given to them at hospital discharge. Those with the lowest "health literacy" were among the most li ...
Posted Tuesday, July 29th 2014 at 10:49AM
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‘ Fist bump’ healthier than a handshake
According to a report from Aberstwyth University, the fist bump may in fact be a more hygienic greeting than shaking hands. Handshaking facilitates the movement of germs between people, and can help spread co ...
Posted Tuesday, July 29th 2014 at 10:24AM
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Are you a nurse tired of the bedside grind, but would still love being a nurse? Are you worried that if you leave the bedside you won’t be fulfilled as a nurse?
If so, then consider a unique nursing job that is beyond the bedside that still fulfil ...
Posted Tuesday, July 29th 2014 at 10:17AM
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The Cameroonian military says members of the Nigerian militant group Boko Haram have abducted the wife of the country's deputy prime minister in the northern Cameroonian town of Kolofata.
A local religious leader and mayor was also abducted from t ...
Posted Monday, July 28th 2014 at 6:30PM
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(BlackMediaScoop) An Atlanta man was bilked out of $175,000 when he fell victim to an organized ring that uses identity theft to raid investment and bank accounts, according to Atlanta police. Atlanta Police Detective Ken Stapler said six-figure ide ...
Posted Thursday, July 24th 2014 at 11:09PM
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In 2012 and 2013, some members of Congress tried to pass the privacy killing bill CISPA. But Americans pushed back and defeated it. Now CISPA is back - only it's being called CISA - and it's even worse than before.
Don't be fooled by the new name ...
Posted Thursday, July 24th 2014 at 1:49PM
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Lifetime’s Whitney Houston biopic is up and running and Entertainment Tonight has the exclusive peek of the controversial film. The movie will premiere in early 2015.
See below.
http://blackamericaweb.com/2014/07/23/see-yaya-dacosta-as-whitney ...
Posted Thursday, July 24th 2014 at 1:34PM
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Government subsidies paid to patients who bought health insurance through the federal exchange are invalid, according to a ruling Tuesday by a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C. Meanwhile, a federal appeals court in Richmond, Virginia, upheld ...
Posted Thursday, July 24th 2014 at 1:21PM
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New York, NY — Have you ever seen Black children speaking Chinese? If not, watch the video below (It’s truly amazing!). It’s called the Global Language Project (GLP), and its an after-school language program in New York City that teaches teaches urba ...
Posted Thursday, July 24th 2014 at 11:38AM
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JULY 23, 2014 When Dusty Baker hit his 30th home run for the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1977, the first man to greet him at home plate was his friend and teammate, rookie Glenn Burke. Overcome with happiness, Burke did the first thing that came to mind — ...
Posted Thursday, July 24th 2014 at 10:16AM
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North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory signed legislation Tuesday that starts the process of replacing Common Core Standards with a more localized approach. Created in 2010, the program offers a series of guidelines showing what children should know about ...
Posted Wednesday, July 23rd 2014 at 10:19PM
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The opening arguments for the Theodore Wafer, the man who shot and killed Renisha McBride began July 23rd. McBride is the 19-year-old woman who was in a car accident in Dearborn Heights, a mostly white town bordering Detroit, in the early hours of No ...
Posted Wednesday, July 23rd 2014 at 7:33PM
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Bullying in nursing has been an issue of concern for decades. There are different names for bullying, including lateral violence, horizontal hostility, aggression, and incivility. Regardless of the name it still means the same thing, i.e., it is on ...
Posted Wednesday, July 23rd 2014 at 5:19PM
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"I was just minding my own business. Every time you see me you want to mess with me. I'm tired of it. It stops today!" I made the mistake of watching the video in which NYPD choke and arrest 43-year-old Staten Island resident Eric Garner until he w ...
Posted Wednesday, July 23rd 2014 at 11:50AM
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In a new expose’ video released today, a former Planned Parenthood abortion clinic director says Planned Parenthood put a price on the value of a human life: $313.29. That’s the amount of money Abby Johnson says the Planned Parenthood abortion clini ...
Posted Wednesday, July 23rd 2014 at 11:22AM
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Here’s a unique way pregnant women are celebrating life! Women are commissioning an artist in England to paint their swollen bellies with unique and child-based images that are vivid and full of imagination. In addition to doing more typical commissioned paintings, English artist My Little Sweet-pea ...
Posted Wednesday, July 23rd 2014 at 11:17AM
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Please join the Family Research Council on Wednesday, July 30th at 12:00 pm for our forum, "Common Core: Uncommon Dilemma," in which we'll be hosting some of the finest minds in the American education arena as they discuss their concerns about this o ...
Posted Tuesday, July 22nd 2014 at 7:38PM
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19-year-old Matthew Durham is facing possible life in prison after authorities say he admitted to raping several young girls, forcing some boys to perform oral sex on him and even making other kids watch while on an African mission trip. Thankfully, ...
Posted Tuesday, July 22nd 2014 at 7:23PM
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July 22, 2014. Action Needed to Oppose Ratification by Full Senate. Will Estrada has been leading our efforts to defend homeschooling on Capitol Hill since 2006. As the oldest of eight kids, and a homeschool graduate who married a homeschool graduate ...
Posted Tuesday, July 22nd 2014 at 7:13PM
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Registered nurses are staying in their jobs longer and delaying retirement, researchers report this week. The trend has helped push the current workforce to 2.7 million, which is well beyond the previously projected peak of 2.2 million.
However, w ...
Posted Tuesday, July 22nd 2014 at 4:35PM
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A teething baby can be an unhappy baby, and it’s not uncommon for parents and caregivers to try and soothe their little one with over-the-counter oral/”gum numbing” medications. U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) officials now warn that teething ...
Posted Friday, July 18th 2014 at 7:45PM
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Actress and former Miss America Vanessa Williams gave a powerful testimony on Oprah’s Master Class about her experience being molested by an 18-year-old girl when she was only 10-years-old and how it affected her psychologically. The traumatic incid ...
Posted Friday, July 18th 2014 at 7:36PM
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