15 posts tagged “cnn.com”

• Angela Burt-Murray: Black women consider interracial relationships • Tatsha Robertson: Education is No. 1 issue for black America • Jury: Black community denied water for decades • Woman beats poverty, aims for her Ph.D. • I AM: Author Bliss Broyard's father kept his race a secret • I AM: Barbara Hillary is the first black woman to reach the North Pole at age 75 • Aggressive, drug-resistant breast cancer affects black women • Teens from single-parent, female-headed households defy the odds • Essence Music Festival: A festival of empowerment • Interactive: Vanessa Williams, Whoopi Goldberg talk about what it means to black • Essence: Extreme Lockup: Why are so many children being treated like criminals? • Lynya Floyd: Why are so many black women single? • Essence: Women of war share their courageous stories from combat • Obama calls absent black fathers to task • Essence: Black women whose roles shape the 2008 presidential campaign • Commentary: Why Americans can't get over race • CNN HBCU Tour: Students share what it means to be black in America • Young People Who Rock: Rissi Palmer is changing the face of country music • Celebrities talk about what it means to be black in America • HBCUs, business leaders help groom future entrepreneurs • Essence: Experts discuss greatest challenges for black Americans in 2008 • Wounds still linger for children of civil rights activists • 'Call My Name' adds color to AIDS quilt • iReport.com: Morehouse student wins HBCU student contest

Story Highlights Hearing Saturday to decide how delegates to be apportioned All-night meeting fails to come up with resolution Rules committee searching for plan to count Michigan, Florida delegates Both states' delegations invalidated for violating party rulesNext Article in Politics »

Debris fell on a sidewalk and shattered in Louisville, Kentucky, after part of a cornice fell off a brick building, according to footage from the city's CNN affiliate WHAS-TV. Watch as the quake sends bricks tumbling » **Wow, I am shocked! I always know of the earth quakes on the West Coast of the USA but never knew about them in the midwest. This is a new one for me!**

In a discussion with the editorial board of the Washington Times on Thursday, Rice called racism a “birth defect” of America, and said that black Americans have loved the nation even when it didn’t love us. **There definitely was a LACK of Coverage on this issue!! Thank you, Cnn.com for sharing!**

(CNN) -- A plane crashed Tuesday shortly after taking off from the Goma airport in the Democratic Republic of Congo, killing at least 75 passengers and crew members on board, a foreign ministry spokesman said. **Please pray for the families/friends. This is truly devastating**,

From subsistence farmers eating rice in Ecuador to gourmets feasting on escargot in France, consumers worldwide face rising food prices in what analysts call a perfect storm of conditions. Freak weather is a factor. But so are dramatic changes in the global economy, including higher oil prices, lower food reserves and growing consumer demand in China and India.

The state has a larger proportion African-Americans (36 percent, according to the 2000 census) than any other state in the country. And black voters make up nearly 70 percent of registered Democrats.