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What MJ had in his system
8:40 AM on 08/25/2009
It is well known that Michael Jackson had been on pain and anti-anxiety medications for years, probably since the Pepsi commercial accident in 1984 from which he suffered serious burns.
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Blacks' mistrust of medical system limits organ donations
5:22 PM on 08/04/2009
An ambitious campaign to increase black enrollment on organ donation began in...
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Michael Jackson and the truth about cardiac arrest
2:10 PM on 06/26/2009
Michael Jackson is dead at 50 from cardiac arrest. Cardiac arrest simply means that the heart has stopped pumping, which results in cessation of blood flow and oxygen to the organs and tissues. The body cannot be sustained without this, unless this is induced by a physician in the operating...
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New anti-smoking bill will save African American lives
8:39 AM on 06/26/2009
The new anti-smoking bill marks a monumental achievement in the fight against tobacco companies in the United States. It is geared towards protecting family and children and empowers the FDA to regulate the tobacco companies more stringently. The bill aims to reduce the consumption of cigarettes by minors by making...
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Universal health care a need not a want
7:47 AM on 06/16/2009
2009 marks a very extraordinary and exciting time in the United States of America. For the time in history we are under the leadership of an African American president. His background is not one of a privileged and wealthy individual and as such he understands the needs of the average...
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- Why Tavis Smiley can't win with anti-Obama talk
- Dems down to the wire lobbying for reform votes
- First lady and feds to food industry: Cut the fat!
- Oprah, schoolgirls to testify at defamation trial
- 11-year-old caught in the middle of health reform mudslinging
- Obama: 'We are going to fix health care in America'
- Colorectal cancer doesn't discriminate
- An 'Immortal Life': How one woman's cells helped cure a generation
- Presidential disrespect goes prime-time in Obama's Fox interview
- Baller-in-chief: Obama's 'March Madness' bracket scores well
- Conservatives use abortion issue to court African-Americans
- Will Michael Jackson's new music be a thriller for fans?
- Robert Townsend turns serious with 'Diary of a Single Mom'
- DMX sentenced to six months in Phoenix jail
- Oprah to appear in sex-abuse, defamation trial
- Slideshow: TV's black child stars - where are they now?
- Todd Bridges buries troubled past in 'Killing Willis'
- Jackson estate lands largest recording deal ever
- Obama skips Asia trip to push health care bill
- Maryland trying to secede from the South
- Obama effigy hung at RI school with fired teachers
- Paterson claims he made initial scandal leak
- Obama signs jobs bill: 'By no means enough'
- House Dems on track for vote on $940 billion health bill
- Rangers manager: I used marijuana, amphetamines
- Ex-porn star reveals purported Tiger texts
- The 15 most memorable 'March Madness' moments
- Tiger's aura gone, probably for good
- Ed Secretary: Ban NCAA teams with low grad rates
- Coach on coke: Rangers' Ron Washington tests positive for drugs
- Certain carnival dances said to come from the days of slavery
- Smithsonian receives rare Harriet Tubman items
- Selma, a town rich with history, seeks new legacy
- 'Black Ski' gets a lift from the First Family
- Obama musical set to open in Germany
- Five things you didn't know about Kwanzaa (but should)
- Lawmakers fight to finish health reform
- Kucinich switches vote, will back health reform
- Late-innings hardball in health care push
- Michelle Obama talks to anti-obesity food giants
- It's 'do or die' week for health care reform - how did we get here?
- Obama delays Asia trip to deal with health care
- Made in America: Black-owned businesses blaze trails on our soil
- GOP questions Boys & Girls Clubs' executive salaries
- Is the average single black woman really worth just $5?
- 'March Madness' isn't amateur, it's big league exploitation
- Why African-Americans are more optimistic despite fewer jobs
- Wealth gap greatest for black and Latino women
- Prosecutor pursuing 'all black people should leave Wal-Mart' remark
- Man posing as cop sexually assaults woman
- Barbershop Buzz: Should 'No Child Left Behind' be left behind?
- Teen dies after being pushed into traffic
- Children help mother deliver fourth child
- Missing woman's body found stuffed into bedframe
- 'Brooklyn's Finest' is flawed but fiercely entertaining
- Aid groups struggle to get food, water to Haitians
- 'The Book of Eli': A not-so-new parable of burnt-out beauty
- Gadgets to look for in 2010
- Mary J. Blige's 'Stronger With Each Tear' is a gem
- The 10 most important black films of the decade
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