UnitedHealth, Aetna and Cigna opt out of California insurance exchange Kaiser Permanente, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of California are all expected to participate in the state-run market for individual health coverage. By Chad Terhune, Los Angeles Times May 22, 2013, 5:59 p.m. Some prominent health insurers, including industry giant UnitedHealth Group Inc., are […]
Are Black critics of the president being objective or naive?
21 May 2013 by
Off the plantation or out of bounds? WaPo columnist laments. Obama can’t win with some black critics. How the Obama Administration Talks to Black America “Convenient race-talk” from a president who ought to know better A president for everyone, except Black people
Nigeria targets 700,000 young farmers in new job initiative
21 May 2013 by
A new government plan, “Youth in Agriculture”, is expected to create jobs for youth. The Federal government is currently developing a presidential initiative aimed at creating 700,000 young commercial farmers in the agricultural sector of the country, the minister of agriculture said. Adewumi Adesina, disclosed this in Akure, Ondo State when he delivered a Foundation […]
Louis Farrakhan: Blacks need to invest and buy property in Detroit
20 May 2013 by
DETROIT (AP) – Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan urged Detroit’s pastors and majority black population Friday to join him in an effort to buy neglected properties and take other steps to help revitalize the struggling city where the movement started more than 80 years ago. The fiery orator offered few specifics in a speech […]
Somaliland: independent but not recognized
20 May 2013 by
People in Somaliland are marking 22 years of self-declared independence from Somalia, but they are still waiting for the world to recognise their region as a country.Celebrations were held in the capital, Hargeisa, on Saturday, with people holding rallies, waving flags from their vehicles and staging shows in various stadiums.Somaliland, which is more tribally homogeneous than […]
VA GOP candidate: Planned Parenthood “more lethal” for blacks than KKK
20 May 2013 by
“Slavish devotion to the Democrat party” E.W. Jackson, the new Republican nominee for Virginia lieutenant governor, railed against Planned Parenthood in a 2012 video maligning the Democratic party, comparing the women’s health organization to the Ku Klux Klan, and decrying what he cast as black voters’ “slavish devotion to the Democrat party.” Continue reading…