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Red Hot Market Sends House Prices Up In 99 Out Of 100 US Cities
Housing prices across the U.S. are surging with the first quarter setting marks not seen in more than a decade, two housing surveys...
Democratic Caucus Chair: Election System in New York State Needs Reform
Letter to the Editor from Dustin M. Czarny, NYSECA Democratic Caucus Chair, Onondaga County Board of Elections Commissioner(D) – Dear...
Aretha Franklin, Queen of Soul, Dead at 76
Aretha Franklin, the “Queen of Soul,” died Thursday in her home city of Detroit after battling pancreatic cancer of the neuroendocrine...
U.S. Military Celebrates LGBT Pride Month While Still Banning Openly Transgender Soldiers
Although the end of June represented a huge victory for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community after the Supreme...
USDA Awards $31 Million in Grants to Help SNAP Participants Afford Healthy Foods
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that USDA has awarded $31.5 million in funding to local, state, and national...
Black America Missing Nearly Half of Its Economic Share
New Report Shows African-Americans at Rock Bottom of America’s Equality Index By Hazel Trice Edney (TriceEdneyWire.com) – Amidst...
Black leaders to President Obama: Speak ‘More Forcefully’ on Race Issues
(TriceEdneyWire.com) – In 1903, author, orator and public intellectual W.E.B. Dubois stated, “The problem of the Twentieth Century...
Golfer Charlie Sifford, First African-American to Play in PGA Dies
by staff reporter Golfer, Dr. Charles L “Charlie” Sifford died Tuesday at the golden age of 92, according to the Professional...
New Report Finds ‘Staggering Inequality’ of Incomes Once Decried by MLK
(TriceEdneyWire.com) – Income inequality, one of the issues that so troubled the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., is again front and...
Obama says Economic Crisis is over in 2015 State of the Union Address
President Barack Obama delivered his sixth State of the Union address Wednesday, in a speech before Congress, stating there has been an end...