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Michelle Obama talks to anti-obesity food giants
4:17 PM on 03/16/2010
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Michelle Obama is urging the nation's largest food companies to speed up efforts to make healthier foods and reduce marketing of unhealthy foods to children...
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Oil field near 'black Beverly Hills' may be threat to residents
9:53 AM on 03/15/2010
LOS ANGELES (AP) - For decades, it had been assumed that one oil field, the historic Inglewood, just minutes from the downtown skyline, would eventually play out...
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How black women can combat genital herpes crisis
10:42 AM on 03/11/2010
OPINION - According the Center for Disease Control nearly half of all African-American women are infected with the HSV-2 virus...
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Alzheimer's cases rising among blacks, Hispanics
5:07 PM on 03/09/2010
VIDEO - It's an increase in Alzheimer's cases at a time when heart disease, breast cancer and prostate cancer deaths are all going down...
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White man posing as black doctor, makes house calls
1:38 PM on 03/05/2010
VIDEO - There is clearly no resemblance, but police in say that didn't stop 54-year-old Patrick Lynch from telling patients for months that he was Doctor Andrew Nelson...
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CDC enlists celebs to launch social media fight against HIV/AIDS
7:25 AM on 03/05/2010
African-Americans make up 12 percent of the U.S. population, but account for 46 percent of those living with HIV...
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Oscar winner Gossett, Jr. addresses prostate cancer stigma before Congress
4:02 PM on 03/04/2010
VIDEO - As health care reform continues to dominate the agenda in Washington, a hearing today focused on prostate cancer...
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'All black people' asked to leave Wal-Mart
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, NJ (AP) - On Sunday evening at the store, a male voice calmly announced: "Attention Wal-Mart customers: All black people leave the store now."...
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