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Immigration Crackdowns Credited for Record Drop in Hispanic Teen Pregnancy

A new report states that the economy and immigration crackdowns are credited for a significant drop in teen pregnancies among nearly all US States.   This week the Centers for Disease Control released data indicating that  every state except West Virginia and North Dakota showed significant drops over the past 5 years.  The Hispanic teen birth rate dropped the [...]

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Getting Ahead of Obama’s National Export Initiative

President Barack Obama’s National Export Initiative (NEI) hit a milestone on 15 May 2013 as a delegation of business officials and Commerce Department officials traveled to Brazil, Colombia, and Panama during the one year anniversary of a free trade agreement (FTA) between the United States and Colombia.   The FTA was designed to increase the amount [...]

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Saint Augustine Drops Plans to Buy Struggling St. Paul’s College

Special to the Trice Edney News Wire from the Richmond Free Press Saint Paul’s College no longer has a buyer. Saint Augustine’s University of Raleigh, N.C., has dropped plans to take over 125-year-old Saint Paul’s, its sister Episcopal affiliated school in Lawrenceville, 80 miles southwest of Richmond. Taking Saint Paul’s officials by surprise, Dr. Diane [...]

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Obama Needs a Drudge

By Brent Budowsky As media controversy about the Benghazi attack swirls across official Washington and throughout major media, President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton should consider why so many in mainstream media have joined the conservative press in the stampeding herd that now puts them on the defensive. The GOP has begun [...]

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“New Slaves”– Kanye West Goes for Rap God (Again)

Be great at your craft if you’re gonna have a God complex. Kanye West satisfies both conditions. Because of that, his song “New Slaves” makes more sense to audiences. West released “New Slaves”, in all its bitter, butter bars and glory, last weekend. Projections of him rapping were displayed in 66 cities. Viewers quickly posted [...]


 
 

 
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Immigration Crackdowns Credited for Record Drop in Hispanic Teen Pregnancy

A new report states that the economy and immigration crackdowns are credited for a significant drop in teen pregnancies among nearly all US States.   This week the Centers for Disease Control released data indicating that ...
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Getting Ahead of Obama’s National Export Initiative

President Barack Obama’s National Export Initiative (NEI) hit a milestone on 15 May 2013 as a delegation of business officials and Commerce Department officials traveled to Brazil, Colombia, and Panama during the one year ann...
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Saint Augustine Drops Plans to Buy Struggling St. Paul’s College

Special to the Trice Edney News Wire from the Richmond Free Press Saint Paul’s College no longer has a buyer. Saint Augustine’s University of Raleigh, N.C., has dropped plans to take over 125-year-old Saint Paul’s, its si...
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Obama Needs a Drudge

By Brent Budowsky As media controversy about the Benghazi attack swirls across official Washington and throughout major media, President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton should consider why so many in mainstr...
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“New Slaves”– Kanye West Goes for Rap God (Again)

Be great at your craft if you’re gonna have a God complex. Kanye West satisfies both conditions. Because of that, his song “New Slaves” makes more sense to audiences. West released “New Slaves”, in all its bitter, but...
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Missing the Detention & Deportation Forest for the Immigration Reform Tree

Seemingly lost in much of the congratulatory messaging surrounding the “Gang of 8″ immigration reform bill passing by a bipartisan vote of 13-5 from the Senate Judiciary Committee to the Senate floor is the continue...
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Frederick Douglass Statue to be Unveiled in U.S. Capitol on Juneteenth

On Wednesday, June 19, a statue of famous abolitionist Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) will be unveiled in the in the United States Capitol Visitor Center at a ceremony.  After escaping slavery, Douglass became a leader of th...
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Katherine Archuleta Could Become First Latina to Head Office of Personnel Management

This morning President Obama announced that he will nominate Katherine Archuleta for the Director of the Office of Personnel Management. Should she be confirmed, Archuleta would be the first Latina to head this agency. The Offi...
by Adriana Maestas
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Anthony Foxx: Smooth Sailing at Confirmation Hearing to be Transportation Secretary

Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx encountered lots of friendly faces at his Senate confirmation hearing.  Even though Sen. John Thune (R-ND) decided today that President Obama’s nominee for Transportation Secretary, Mayor Ant...
by Lauren Victoria Burke
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U.S. the Leader on Broadband

By David L. Cohen This week, the U.S. Conference of Mayors convenes its “Innovation Summit” here in Philadelphia, including a focus on broadband, the Internet, and all they enable. There’s no better location f...
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J. Lo and Verizon Appeal to Latinos’ Affinity for Social Media

Yesterday entertainer Jennifer Lopez announced that a company she created, Viva Movil, is partnering with Verizon Wireless to allow people to shop for services, phones and mobile plans via social networks and in new stores that...
by Adriana Maestas
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NYT: Though Enrolling More Poor Students, 2-Year Colleges Get Less of Federal Pie

New York Times: Community colleges have received a declining share of government spending on higher education over the last decade even as their student bodies have become poorer and more heavily African-American and Latino, ac...
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Dems, GOP Vie For Latino Voters Via Education Issues in Texas

Republicans and Democrats are pursuing Latino voters in Texas, but perhaps one of the most vivid illustrations of their different approaches is the way members of each party are creating education policy. The majority of Texas ...
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5 in CBC: Let’s Stop Pontificating and BS-ing, Obama’s Morehouse Speech Was Excellent

“Excellent speech,” said Rep. Sanford Bishop (D-GA), on Tuesday as he entered a House Democratic Caucus meeting featuring White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough.  Bishop was quick to respond positively on what ...
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President Obama’s Opaque Transparency

“We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency… Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in Government.” Over the past few weeks the Obama a...
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Immigration Bill Passes Senate Judiciary Committee; Gay Couples Left Out

Yesterday the Senate Judiciary Committee passed the immigration bill out of its committee by a vote of 13-5 ending the markup session. The bill will now go to the Senate floor. All of the Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Commi...
by Adriana Maestas
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Will Aereo Expand the Potential of Spectrum? Atlanta Will Find Out

Last Tuesday, Aereo founder and chief executive officer  Chaitanya “Chet” Kanojia told Bloomberg West host Emily Chang that Aereo is the beginning of broadcast television being available everywhere and that Aereo’s techn...
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Dissecting the Obama Morehouse Speech Critics

resident Obama’s Sunday commencement  speech to graduates of Morehouse College, a prestigious all male historic black university (HBCU), with themes that centered around civic duty and personal responsibility, elicited the ...
by Jeneba Ghatt
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The Speaker’s Lobby: The Politics of Natural Disasters

By Chad Pergam of Fox News There may yet be a fight in Congress over emergency federal spending to cover the cost of the devastating tornado that impaled Moore, OK this week. But there’s no fight yet. And there might not be o...
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President Obama Meets with DREAMers at the White House

As the markup session of the immigration reform bill continues in the Senate Judiciary Committee, President Obama took the opportunity today to meet with DREAMers and their family members in the Oval Office. This meeting gave P...
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