Houston becomes “Nawlins II”

(chron.com) Houston may be hot, unfriendly and frustratingly difficult to navigate, but more than two-thirds of the poorest New Orleans evacuees who fled to the city after Hurricane Katrina plan to stay, a Rice University survey released today shows…
Almost half have no health insurance. Nearly a third lack a high school diploma. Three-fifths reported they [...]

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Didn’t they pull this with T.D. Jakes?

First the news…
Black Press Being “Fenced” Out of Economic Justice
Members of the West Coast Black Publishers, an organization of approximately 30 African American Newspapers throughout California, Arizona, Nevada, Washington, and Oregon, and the California Black Media organization attended a Press Conference, called by the Pasadena Journal News at the Pasadena Playhouse, on September 1, 2006, [...]

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Ham hocks on aisle 4

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will retool its 3,256 U.S. stores over two years to give them a more customized mix of goods and layout for six key groups of customers, including Hispanics, African-Americans and affluent shoppers, the executive in charge of Wal-Mart’s U.S. operations said Thursday…
The approach, called segmentation, follows months of new initiatives from Wal-Mart [...]

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South African clothes makers not feeling the love for Chinese imports

Cape Town - (www.busrep.co.za) Local clothing manufacturers, the very constituency the government’s clothing quotas are supposed to help, have now voiced their opposition to the planned restriction on imported Chinese-made clothing.
The clothing manufacturer associations and clothing retailers were noticeable in their absence at a joint press conference yesterday, organised by the department of trade and [...]

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Edited for history

(Eonline.com) Safe to say that Bill Clinton won’t be TiVo’ing ABC’s The Path to 9/11 this weekend.
Several of Clinton’s minions, including former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, former National Security Advisor Sandy Berger and the former President’s personal attorney and Clinton Foundation head Bruce Lindsey have put pen to paper this week asking Disney CEO [...]

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