LOCAL NEWS
DSS commish: Black-owned firms will get a fair shakeIn response to charges that the state Department of Social Services (DSS) is discriminating against black-owned social service providers, DSS Commissioner Angelo McClain vowed to instill a sense of fair play throughout the agency and insisted that those subcontractors engaging in discriminatory practices would have their state contracts terminated. More » |
City Council hears St. Botolph tenants' fearsResponding to tenants' concerns, the Boston City Council's Committee on Housing held a public hearing last Thursday about Northeastern University's recent purchase of St. Botolph Terrace, a complex of affordable housing apartment units subsidized by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). More » |
Landmark Mass. heart study now expanding to geneticsFRAMINGHAM - Doctors didn't know cigarettes were bad and thought high blood pressure could sometimes be good when homemaker Helen Vaughn was lured by a 1948 newspaper ad to join one of history's most important medical studies. More » |
Rwandan dance troupe brings hope, peace to Boston studentsThe Mizero Children of Rwanda came to the Mario Umana Middle School Academy in East Boston on Monday for a performance and cultural exchange with Boston students. Organizers of the troupe's trip wanted the visit to encourage further understanding between Americans and Africans. More » |
Schools mull free ride for students in needThere are roughly 15 million students attending public high schools in the United States. The total enrollment at boarding schools? Around 38,000. But studies have shown that students who attend boarding schools are more likely to get into and succeed in college, earn post-graduate degrees and make a higher annual income than their public school counterparts. And it's no surprise why. More » |
On World AIDS Day, harsh realities meet reason to hopeFor over 20 years, HIV/AIDS has ravaged this country and the world, leaving an unprecedented trail of sickness and death in its wake. World AIDS Day was marked across Massachusetts on Saturday with ceremonies and events that remembered the dead and honored those struggling to survive and stop the spread of the epidemic. More » |
NATIONAL NEWS
Ark. lawmaker sorry for e-mail on immigrants, blacksLITTLE ROCK - A state senator tearfully apologized last Thursday for an e-mail he wrote that said "we are being outpopulated by the blacks" and claimed illegal immigrants have overrun Arkansas. More » |
4th suspect in court in slaying of Redskins star Sean TaylorMIAMI - A fourth man charged in the shooting death of Washington Redskins star Sean Taylor appeared in court Sunday and, like his co-defendants, was denied bond. More » |
Grand jury to review fatal shooting of black Ark. boyLITTLE ROCK - Simmering racial divisions and fears in West Memphis came to a boil with the police shooting of a 12-year-old black child this summer, a local judge says, forcing him to impanel a civil grand jury to investigate the death. More » |
Caustic Clinton gets tough on ObamaWASHINGTON - Hillary Clinton has slipped menacingly into attack mode, one month before U.S. voters start picking 2008 presidential nominees, and the target for her deepest scorn is Democratic foe Barack Obama. More » |
Dean of U.S. preachers faces challenges of agingRALEIGH, N.C. - The Rev. Gardner C. Taylor is giving away most of his books. More » |
Possible rate freeze for struggling homeownersWASHINGTON - Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Monday an agreement was near on a proposal to help thousands of at-risk homeowners avoid foreclosures by temporarily freezing their mortgage rates. More » |
Reynaldo P. Glover, chairman of Fisk board, dead at 64NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Reynaldo P. Glover, chairman of the Fisk University board of trustees, has died of pancreatic cancer, the school announced last Thursday. He was 64. More » |
WORLD NEWS
Apathy fueling black AIDS epidemic in U.S.The United States has slashed the AIDS death rate among white and wealthy U.S. citizens, but the disease continues to ravage the black community at full force, leaders say. More » |
Brazil to dispense condoms in schoolsRIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Brazil's government announced plans to put condom-dispensing machines in public schools to help teenagers reduce the spread of AIDS. More » |
Mandela: Halting new HIV infections is keyJOHANNESBURG, South Africa - The world must not grow complacent about AIDS because the number of new HIV infections still outpaces the number of those being treated for the disease, former South African President Nelson Mandela said at a benefit concert Saturday. More » |
