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"The End of White Flight For the First Time in Decades, Cities' Black Populations Lose Ground, Stirring Clashes Over Class, Culture and Even Ice Cream By CONOR DOUGHERTYJuly 19, 2008; Page A1 Decades of white flight transformed America's cities. That era is... read more

Dr Frank A Sloan and his colleagues studied the “claims records of 14,491 Medicare beneficiaries diagnosed with glaucoma who received one of three incisional surgeries— primary trabeculectomy (PT), trabeculectomy in the presence of scarring from previous ocular surgery or trauma (TS), or implantation of a glaucoma drainage device (GDD)—between 1994 and 2003″.

Who Are Those Pesky Subprime Borrowers? They are poorer than prime borrowers, have lower credit scores, and a higher percentage of debt to income. They are also more likely to be black or hispanic. And this article claims they are bearing the brunt of the mortgage mess: As an African American professional woman, Glover fit the profile of a subprime borrower to a T.

For the past few days I’ve been listening to the pundits discuss Obama’s speech and whether or not his speech connected with the average white working man or woman in the United States. And if the pundits are to be believed Obama’s speech failed to or resonated very little with the avearge

According to the latest census data, until the mid-1990s, over 30% of all African Americans lived in poverty. Since then, the percentage has dropped into the 20s and, since 2000, it has never exceeded 25%. Clearly, there’s an accelerating upward economic trend among African Americans.

An Exit Poll Vignette [ Posted Tuesday, March 4th, 2008 – 15:58 PST ] [THE SCENE: Exterior of a polling place. Could be Ohio, could be Texas — it's unclear from the building itself. An impossibly-well-groomed pollster (impossibly good hair, impossibly good clothes, impossibly cheerful and chirpy) is waiting for voters to emerge from the polls, clipboard in hand.