Category Archives: Social Issues
Video: Health Care By the Numbers
Can we afford health care reform? With over 46 million Americans uninsured, we can't afford not to. In the past decade, Insurance premiums paid by Americans have increased by 131%. In 2004, 18% of insured Americans had medical bill problems.
Black Queers Are Tying The Knot
More and more lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people of African descent are marrying. While same-?sex marriage is not the most pressing issue in black communities, these efforts are creating controversy.
Howard Dean’s Prescription For Real Healthcare Reform
Americans need real healthcare reform, not just insurance reform, and nobody should mistake the two. Real healthcare reform should offer coverage to the employed, the unemployed, the sick, the healthy, the young, the old. Everyone.
World’s Dependency on Oil
The world has grown a disturbing addiction for oil. Many oil fields around the world are headed for depletion. National statistics are unreliable at best, or classified at worst, and national oil companies control up to 80 percent of oil
CNN: ‘Making Blacks Look Bad’ So ‘Whites Feel Good’
How would CNN promote a show called "White in America?" Would they feature the thousands of meth addicts who have abandoned their children? The California rural and suburban white women who do more dope than Latino and black youth? And
Are Gay Rights Civil Rights?
There is a saying that history repeats itself and without a doubt that is what is currently taking place in this country with the gay rights movement. People who supported slavery, denied white women and people of color the right
Obama Boycotts Anti-Racism Conference
President Obama defends his decision to boycott the recent United Nations anti-racism conference - and the UN replies
