From the daily archives: Wednesday, November 9, 2011
leadership_summit2[1]-2 According to statewide leaders, things are getting worse in Alabama. It seems like our state is trying to go back to the past that we struggled so hard to leave behind. Just look around you and you will see that the past is closing in on us again: diminished voting rights – racial attacks [...]
Special to the NNPA from the Global Information Network Oct. 25 (GIN) – Zambian miners ended a two week old strike for better pay, winning back their jobs and a pay hike from a Chinese firm. Union officials said it was a sign that Chinese-owned companies in Zambia are starting to bow to government pressure [...]
Special to the NNPA from the Jacksonville Free-Press History books and Hollywood have chronicled the Army’s Buffalo Soldiers and the Army Air Corps’ Tuskegee Airmen, but the men who integrated the Marines during World War II often have been forgotten. That is starting to change, beginning with the House’s 422-0 vote [...]
Friday 4 November 2011 by: Zaid Jilani, ThinkProgress | Report One of the tactics the 99 Percenters are using to take back the country from the 1 percent is to move their money from big banks to credit unions, community banks, and other smaller financial unions that aren’t gambling with our nation’s future. Now, the [...]
Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper The Republican Party’s leading candidate is on the defensive after it was reported that a third woman came forward Nov. 2 alleging that GOP front-runner Herman Cain sexually harassed her. A fourth woman, Sharon Bialek, came forward on Monday Nov. 7 to [...]
Thousands of protesters, including a Nobel laureate and a movie star, gathered near the White House on Sunday, November 6, 2011 in opposition to TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline. The demonstration is the latest in a series of White House protests aimed at convincing US President Barack Obama to block the $7 billion project that would [...]
Checks totalling $57,543.80 were distributed by Sheriff Joe Benison to the Greene County Commission, various cities in the county and the Greene County Sheriff’s Department. $30,483.88 came from Greenetrack for the month of October; Green Charity pre-paid $17,655.00 for November. The distribution was as follows: Greene County Commission – $16,088.71 from Greenetrack and [...]
So far this year, more than 2.2 million people with Medicare have saved more than $1.2 billion on their prescriptions, for an average of $550 per person, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced recently. And more than 22.6 million seniors and people with disabilities across the country have taken advantage of at least [...]
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