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Archive for April 19th, 2006

Not every product labeled as “natural” is good for you

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“Frito-Lay has launched a new “Natural Doritos” product that doesn’t have the usual monosodium glutamate (an excitotoxin) and artificial colors found in its flagship product, but it does contain another offensive ingredient: yeast extract. It’s listed right on the package of the new Natural Doritos products.
Yeast extract is a flavor-enhancing additive that many food manufacturers [...]

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How Black Men Influence Teenage Girls (MyBrotha.com)

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“For a very long time, there has been an increased awareness of the positive, constructive interactions between Black male role-models and Black boys. The lack of fathers in the home and the negativity associated with broken families and “dead-beat dads”, has been center stage in the Black community.
While our attention on the father-son, male role-model/Black [...]

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Unheard and unseen

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States Help Schools Hide Minority Scores
By FRANK BASS, NICOLE ZIEGLER DIZON and BEN FELLER, Associated Press Writers
Monday, April 17, 2006
States are helping public schools escape potential penalties by skirting the No Child Left Behind law’s requirement that students of all races must show annual academic progress.
With the federal government’s permission, schools aren’t counting the test [...]

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Good news coming out of Colorado

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Believe it or not, there is a significant black population in the state of Colorado. Much of this is due to the military bases located there as well as transplants from California. My family and I lived in both Colorado Springs and in Parker (a small suburban town just outside of Denver). There is [...]

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Owens continues to make waves in Hollywood

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Dana Owens (b.k.a. Queen Latifah–I’m not big on stage names) continues to add to her resume…
Queen Latifah Inks Deal with Focus Features and Rogue Pictures 
Queen Latifah has inked a first-look deal with Focus Features and its genre arm, Rogue Pictures, to develop low- to medium-sized budget films under her Flavor Unit Entertainment banner.
Flavor Unit, Latifah’s [...]

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