Actress and comedian Mo’Nique continued an award-winning streak, adding an NAACP Image Award to a list of recently received accolades for her ferocious performance in “Precious”.

March 4 event will draw teachers, parents, unions, state workers and others to various sites, organizers say.

The particular focus on African-American employment by the president and civil rights leaders came about because the Black jobless numbers are teetering near rates that rival Great Depression levels.

Lawmakers continually questioned who those partners were, and whether the Census was digging deep enough into communities. They said their constituents in California, Utah and Texas had expressed dismay at widespread disorganization at the regional level.

That wave of 6,500 is more like a trickle that will come over the course of the year and not all at once, with relatively ‘low-level’ parolees released early but still subject to search and drug tests at any time.

INDIAN WELLS, Calif.  _ Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal will team with retired stars Pete Sampas and Andre Agassi in a charity tennis exhibition to raise money for Haiti.
The “Hit For Haiti” match will be played March 12 during the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells.
Tournament director Steve Simon says he expects a minimum of [...]

The bulk of the agency’s stimulus money was sent to the California State Water Resources Control Board and the California Department of Public Health, which together got $439 million to finance upgrades of drinking water infrastructure and fund water quality protection projects.

LOS ANGELES  _ California Assembly Speaker Karen Bass is planning to run for Congress, a Democrat with knowledge of her plans said Tuesday.
Bass, 56, a Democrat who was the first black woman to lead the Assembly, will declare her candidacy for the 33rd Congressional District seat Wednesday in Los Angeles. She’ll be endorsed at the [...]

The company is working with Handicap International on a contract to build a database of amputee victims; other relief groups would be able to use the database to care for patients. Lea Radick, a spokeswoman for Handicap International, said the organization is not aware of similar record-keeping efforts being done on amputees in Haiti.

All of us want to stay fit and looking great. However, as we get older and the waist lines begin to expand and age lines start to appear in our faces. We try counter measures to hold back the aging process.  First, turn within yourself.  Look at what you dislike about your body and facial [...]

An estimated 500,000 people fled to the countryside in the days after the quake, many on buses paid for by the government to move quake survivors away from the heart of the destruction. Hundreds of thousands more are camped atop the rubble of their homes, or packed into makeshift camps.

Murray, working as Jackson’s personal physician during the singer’s preparation for comeback concerts, has been under investigation since the 50-year-old pop star died June 25 after being administered the hospital-strength anesthetic propofol and sedatives at his rented mansion to help him sleep.

That wave of 6,500 is more like a trickle that will come over the course of the year and not all at once, with relatively ‘low-level’ parolees released early but still subject to search and drug tests at any time.

Forget Euro horror stories and the Massachusetts election—restore the public option and give the people the help they need.

Haitians living in the United States are deeply impacted by the devastating earthquake that hit their island homeland earlier this month, according to a poll sponsored by New America Media.