Black Women Face Increased Risk of Type 2 Diabetes

 

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Overweight Baby Sitter Falls On Top of Child and Smothers Him to Death

 

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Global Warming Linked to Famine in Africa

by Shani K. Collins, Your Black World 

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American Moms Working with Mothers in Africa

by Ayvaunn Penn, Your Black World

For those mothers who love their little ones, the affection they shed on their children connects them to mothers across the world. That is what the ten American mothers — including African-American mom Karen Walrond — learned on their trip to Kenya. This group of mommy bloggers is a part of the ONE campaign. The mission of their trip was to be able to share with the moms in the U.S. what moms in Kenya face with challenges such as HIV, malaria, and famine.

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A Doctor Now Gives the Services She Once Receives

by Ayvaunn Penn, Your Black World

Some studies show that a significant number of people remain in the social class they grow up in. That does not mean, however, that it is impossible to rise above one’s situation, and Dr. Carey McDade is a prime example.

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“The Human Tree” Seeks Help from American Doctors for His Condition

 

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Doctor Accused of Holding 32 Women Hostage and Selling Their Newborns Into Sex Trade

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Mother Shoots It out With Police over Daughter’s Medication

 

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Michelle Obama Dances with Kids on the White House Lawn (Video)

Yes, that’s Michelle getting down with some kids….again – changing what it means to be a first lady.

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Which of the 5 Dominant Personality Traits Are You?

From the UK Telegraph

Open

Defined by an inventive and curious nature, open people generally have an appreciation for art, adventure, unusual ideas, curiosity, and variety of experience. They can be highly emotional.

They are sensitive to beauty and tend to be, compared to closed people, more creative and more aware of their feelings. They are more likely to hold unconventional beliefs.

Dead NFL Player Dave Duerson would Not Have Qualified for Full Disability Benefits

By ALAN SCHWARZ  Published: May 4, 2011

BOSTON — As the football world absorbs Monday’s news that Dave Duerson had the football-related brain damage he suspected before fatally shooting himself in February, an overlooked detail has emerged: had Duerson reached out for help via the N.F.L.’s disability plan, which he helped administer, his neurological injuries would not have qualified for a high level of benefit, if any at all.