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With news breaking that the unemployment rate has dropped to its lowest level in three years — 8.3 percent for the nation and 13.6 percent for African Americans — political pundits and observers are speculating that Mitt Romney‘s entire platform, built solidly upon the shaky economy, may have crumbled beneath him.
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We still can’t believe Don Cornelius is gone. Your favorite Praise 100.9 personalities and staff members are opening the airwaves for you to hear your favorite songs from this pioneering show.
It’s still fresh, it’s still unreal, but we are the voices that the people want to hear from most. Let the celebration of life & love continue every time you watch these videos, dance down
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Even while claiming an estimated 500,000 lives each year in this country, few recognize that the leading cause of death in our community is heart disease.
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NEW YORK — The Rev. Jesse Jackson is entering the fray over The Recording Academy’s cuts to its Grammy categories: He’s asking to meet with the president of the organization and has raised the possibility of protests with the awards less than two weeks away.
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Ameila Blackett moved to the United States from Monrovia, Liberia over 30 years ago. Although she left Liberia at age 17, she’s still dedicated to helping children impacted by war, malnutrition and homelessness. Ms. Blackett launched the non-profit, ‘CCBM Inc., Organization for Orphan Children in Liberia.’ Ms. Blackett talked with ‘COMMUNITY VOICES’ host, Ron Holland, about her efforts to help the children of her native home.
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James Fortune and FIYA celebrates their first #1 Debut. “Identity” debut at #1 on Top Gospel and Christian Charts, Number 1 on Independent Albums Charts and #7 on Billboard Top 200 Charts. This is a well deserved honor as James and his team worked very hard on production and promotion of this new album. Identity features artist such as GRAMMY Award Winning Monica, Fred Hammond, GRAMMY Nominee and Sunday Best Winner Le’Andria Johnson, Nikki Ross, and more.
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I’ve got to face the facts. My stomach isn’t as flat as it was in June and my hips are a little wider than they were in August. So here I go again. The first frost hasn’t even hit the ground and I’m eating more bread, desserts and any other comfort food I can shove into my mouth. I never blame my winter body on the holidays
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The nominations for the 2012 Academy Awards are in! The annual award ceremony honors only the prestigious and great entertainment milestones of the year. Within those nominations are four, for “The Help.”
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Despite George Lucas’s struggles to get any major movie studio to take a film featuring an all African-American cast, Red Tails proudly sits at second place at the box office. Hollywood studios were stunned by how well the No. 2 film, George Lucas banner film Red Tails, did in matinees today. Until they discovered that the Lucasfilm/Twentieth Century Fox movie’s marketing inside the African-American community resulted in busloads of schoolkids and midday filmgoers for the Tuskegee airmen’s story. Some industry
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