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Issues In Black America

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Issues In Black America

Michael Jackson, the Humanitarian.

Issues In Black America's tribute to Michael Jackson, the Humanitarian.

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United States Surgeon General

United States Surgeon General

United States Surgeon General

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About Issues In Black America Magazine

Issues in Black America Magazine a personal-growth resource magazine, is designed to inform, educate, inspire and entertain Africans-Americans. It also focuses on information about the purpose, function and latest developments of major Black organizations in America.

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Call Me MISTER!

A Program that Recruits, Trains, Certifies, and Secures Employment for African-American Men as Teachers
by Ross Norton
The statistic is alarming: less than 1 percent, or fewer than 200, of South Carolina’s 20,300 elementary school teachers are African-American men. A unique partnership is changing that. The Call Me MISTER program has received national attention and could become [...]

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NEA shares strategies to improve education for students with autism

Unveils online resource during Autism Awareness Month (April)
The National Education Association (NEA) is offering a free online workshop to share strategies to improve education for students with autism. The 90-minute video gives educators and parents information they need to identify the characteristics of autism. It also suggests techniques to work successfully with children who have [...]

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National Urban League

EMPLOYMENT GROWTH A CREDIT TO OBAMA’S POLICIES  BUT BLACK JOBS CRISIS PERSISTS
National Urban League launches “State of Urban Jobs” to address solutions to joblessness
National Urban League President and CEO Marc H. Morial today cautioned that higher-than-expected job growth last month should not cloud the still-desperate employment crisis among communities of color.
“The need for direct [...]

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NAACP ISSUES CALL FOR YOUNG LEADERS TO CRAFT NEW CIVIL RIGHTS AGENDA

LEADERSHIP 500 SUMMIT TO BRING TOGETHER EMERGING CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS TO HONOR DR. HOOKS & DR. HEIGHT AND CONTINUE LEGACY
The NAACP issued a call for young leaders to join NAACP Chairman Roslyn M. Brock and NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous in Hollywood, Florida during the last week of May to discuss the future [...]

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HBCU’s medical schools rating by GWU

Historically black medical schools lead the nation in producing the highest percentage of physicians practicing in underserved communities. Morehouse, Meharry and Howard Medical Schools ranked first, second and third in a study of 141 training institutions conducted from 1999 to 2001 by a group of George Washington University researchers 
HBCUs are best in training Doctors who [...]

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Civil Rights Leader to Tackle Health Disparities and Promote Health Policy Priorities

Former U.S. Congressman Kweisi Mfume recently took the helm of the nation’s oldest and largest medical association representing the interests of more than 30,000 physicians of African descent and their patients, effective March 29, 2010.
 A seasoned elected official and prominent civil rights advocate, Mr. Mfume will bring his considerable experience working across organizations to help [...]

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Harvard University Low-income families paid tuition program

No tuition and no student loans!
Harvard University announced over the weekend that from now on undergraduate students from low-income families will pay no tuition. Inmaking the announcement, Harvard’s president Lawrence H. Summers said,”When only ten percent of the students in elite higher education comefrom families in the lower half of the income distribution, we are [...]

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Model United Nations Team earns honor at international conference

The Savannah State University (SSU) Model United Nations Team traveled in March to Taipei, Taiwan to compete in the Harvard World Model United Nations conference, returning home March 22 with an individual award for diplomacy.
More than 2,000 delegates from more than 70 countries attended the conference, in which students take on the roles of ambassadors [...]

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Executive Director of White House Initiative on HBCUs speaks at Honors Convocation

Morgan State University hosted its annual Honors Convocation, a ceremony commemorating Morgan students’ academic excellence over the past year, on April 1, 2010.
John Silvanus Wilson Jr., executive director of the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities, was the guest speaker at the ceremony. Wilson and his team, work with 105 HBCUs, the [...]

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Hampton University Grad Selected as Female Officer on Navy Sub

Lisa Brodsky, a recent Hampton University graduate and Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) midshipman, has made history by becoming one of only 19 female officers in the nation selected as the first women to serve aboard a U.S. Navy submarine. A native of Colorado Springs, Colo., Brodsky graduated May 9 magna cum laude [...]



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