Posted on May 31, 2005 by thestateofblog
Conservative activists and an organization called CAMERA (Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America), an organization that insures Israel is never criticized in the American press, are threatening to probe NPR for alleged anti-Israel and “pro-insurgent” reports. “The changes sought by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s (CPB) conservative chairman, Ken Tomlinson, and his [...]
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Posted on May 31, 2005 by thestateofblog
141 days. Nicholas Kristoff reports that it has been 141 days since President Bush uttered a word about the genocide in Darfur. Since that time, where he only mentioned the tragedy in passing, the White House killed the Darfur Accountability Act that would have helped alleviate the crises in the Sudan. Since that time [...]
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Posted on May 31, 2005 by thestateofblog
The AP has reported that in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the National Institute of Health used foster children to test AID/HIV drugs without the required independent monitors. Hundreds of children were subject to these tests and were mostly minorities. They ranged in age from infant to teens. The conductors of the test argue [...]
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Posted on May 31, 2005 by thestateofblog
141 days. Nicholas Kristoff reports that it has been 141 days since President Bush uttered a word about the genocide in Darfur. Since that time, where he only mentioned the tragedy in passing, the White House killed the Darfur Accountability Act that would have helped alleviate the crises in the Sudan. Since that time [...]
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Posted on May 31, 2005 by thestateofblog
The AP has reported that in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the National Institute of Health used foster children to test AID/HIV drugs without the required independent monitors. Hundreds of children were subject to these tests and were mostly minorities. They ranged in age from infant to teens. The conductors of the test argue [...]
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Posted on May 30, 2005 by thestateofblog
Remember those who died in this current war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Find their names here and here.
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Posted on May 30, 2005 by thestateofblog
Remember those who died in this current war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Find their names here and here.
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Posted on May 27, 2005 by thestateofblog
(Earl Graves, CEO of Black Enterprise, pictured)“Today’s business environment moves at lightning speed. For the chief executives of the nation’s largest black-owned businesses, keeping pace is priority No. 1. They must continually re-evaluate corporate capabilities and tinker with their company’s infrastructure to gain maximum advantage. Many must contend with emerging competitors, but the most daunting [...]
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Posted on May 27, 2005 by thestateofblog
(Earl Graves, CEO of Black Enterprise, pictured)“Today’s business environment moves at lightning speed. For the chief executives of the nation’s largest black-owned businesses, keeping pace is priority No. 1. They must continually re-evaluate corporate capabilities and tinker with their company’s infrastructure to gain maximum advantage. Many must contend with emerging competitors, but the most daunting [...]
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Posted on May 27, 2005 by thestateofblog
Martin Luther King decided to become a vocal opponent of the war in Vietnam after reading a January 1967 article in Ramparts Magazine. Though King had made small remarks about the war as far back as 1965, he knew that coming out against the war would mean the end of the SCLC. The January 1967 [...]
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