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Child Safety Seat Event Planned For Webster Parish
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Minden, LA- Louisiana State Police Troop G is planning to conduct a free child passenger safety seat check-up event on Saturday, February 20, 2016 from 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. at Wal-Mart located at 1379 Homer Road in Minden.
It is a proven fact that car seats and booster seats save lives. These devices offer the best protection for children in the event of a crash. However, approximately 3 out of 4 child seats are ... MORE |
SCOTUS analyst: Loretta Lynch ‘most likely candidate’ to replace Scalia
Loretta Lynch is sworn in to testify before a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on her nomination to be U.S. attorney general on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 28, 2015. Photo by Kevin Lamarque/ReutersThursday. (Courtesy Wellesley College)
By Corky Siemaszko
A leading Supreme Court analyst thinks Attorney General Loretta Lynch is the “most likely candidate” to replace the late conservative Justice Antonin Scalia.
Tom Goldstein, who runs the influential SCOTUSblog, had earlier predicted Ninth Circuit Judge Paul Watford would make the top of President Obama’s short list. But in a revised blog post, Goldstein said he now believes Lynch is the leading contender.
Lynch is a “very serious possibility,” Goldstein wrote. “The fact that Lynch was vetted so recently for attorney general also makes it practical for the president to nominate her in relatively short order.” MORE
A leading Supreme Court analyst thinks Attorney General Loretta Lynch is the “most likely candidate” to replace the late conservative Justice Antonin Scalia.
Tom Goldstein, who runs the influential SCOTUSblog, had earlier predicted Ninth Circuit Judge Paul Watford would make the top of President Obama’s short list. But in a revised blog post, Goldstein said he now believes Lynch is the leading contender.
Lynch is a “very serious possibility,” Goldstein wrote. “The fact that Lynch was vetted so recently for attorney general also makes it practical for the president to nominate her in relatively short order.” MORE
First African-American, all-female, flight crew honored for Black History Month
From left to right: Captain Rachelle Jones Kerr, First Officer Stephanie Grant and flight attendants Robin Rogers and Diana Galloway (Courtesy: MNAA)
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – The first African-American, all-female flight crew was honored Thursday in a “First in Flight” luncheon after they made history in 2009.
The luncheon, hosted by the Metro Nashville Airport Authority (MNAA), was to not only honor the women but also Black History Month. |
Landmark Study Finds U.S. Dementia Incidence Highest
In African Americans And American Indians
First Study to Look at Dementia Risk in Six Racial and Ethnic Groups Representing the Diversity of the United States
CHICAGO, Feb. 10, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The first study to look at dementia risk in a population representing the diversity of the United States finds dementia incidence to be highest in African Americans and lowest in Asian Americans. The rate of occurrence of dementia in African Americans was found to be 65 percent higher than Asian Americans. The results are published online today by Alzheimer's & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association.
The study population included more than 274,000 members of Kaiser Permanente – a large, integrated healthcare delivery system in Northern California. The scientists compared dementia incidence across six racial and ethnic groups – Whites, Asian-Americans, Latinos, African Americans, American Indians/Alaskan Natives, and Pacific Islanders... MORE
The study population included more than 274,000 members of Kaiser Permanente – a large, integrated healthcare delivery system in Northern California. The scientists compared dementia incidence across six racial and ethnic groups – Whites, Asian-Americans, Latinos, African Americans, American Indians/Alaskan Natives, and Pacific Islanders... MORE
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8th Annual Amnesty Day This Month
The Shreveport City Marshal Office will be holding its 8th annual Amnesty Day on Saturday, February 27, 2016 between the hours of 8:00 a.m. through 4:00 p.m. at the Shreveport City Marshal Office located in the Shreveport City Courthouse. On this date, anyone who has outstanding warrants through ... |
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SEXUALLY-TRANSMITTED ZIKA CASE CONFIRMED IN TEXAS:
DALLAS (AP) -- Health officials on Tuesday reported that a person in Texas has become infected with the Zika virus through sex in the first case of the illness being transmitted within the United States amid the current outbreak in Latin America... |
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City-Owned Denton Cemetery Remains ‘Whites Only’ As Council Member Seeks To Remove Deed Restriction
Some may find it hard to believe that even though we are in the year 2016, a cemetery in the city of Denton, Texas, still has a “whites only” deed restriction. Several council members are now seeking to remove the decades-old deed restriction that bars blacks from being buried in the city-controlled cemetery, USA Today said in a recent report. However, the task may prove to be more difficult than initially thought. “You have to have so many of the property owners within that restricted area agre... |
#BLACKHISTORYMONTH: Profiles in Courage
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Guion Stewart Bluford, Jr., NASA Astronaut
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Guion Stewart Bluford, Jr., Ph.D. (born November 22, 1942), (Col, USAF, Ret.), is an American aerospace engineer, retired U.S. Air Force officer and fighter pilot, and former NASA astronaut, who was the first African American in space.[1]
Before becoming an astronaut, he was an officer in the U.S. Air Force, where he remained while assigned to NASA, rising to the rank of Colonel. He participated in four Space Shuttleflights between 1983 and 1992. In 1983, as a member of the crew of the Orbiter Challenger on the mission STS-8, he became the first African American in space as well as the second person of African ancestry in space, after Cuban cosmonaut Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez. ...continue |
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#BlackHistoryMonth"JOHN HANSON: The First Black President... & Moor"
There is an ongoing dispute as to whether, or not, John Hanson, a black man (a Moor), was the first President of the United States, as such.
The technical aspects of the matter refer to Hanson’s leadership as President of the Continental Congress, which pre-dated the formation of the US Constitution, and the formal definition of the role, “President”. In a feature about his death, on History.com, they state: “Named a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1779, Hanson served in that body from 1780 to 1782, including a term as the president of Congress (a position similar to that of prime minister in the British Parliament) from 1781 to 1782, during which time the Articles of Confederation were finally ratified and General George Washington defeated the British army at Yorktown, Virginia. Upon the ratification of the Articles on March 1, 1781, the Continental Congress became the “Congress of the Confederation” or the “United States in Congress Assembled.” Hanson was the first president of that body, but not of the United States.” CONTINUE #WOMENSHEARTHEALTH
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