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WASHINGTON —The House on Thursday fell short in an effort to ban abortions based on the sex of the fetus as Republicans and Democrats made an election-year appeal for women’s votes. The legislation would have made it a federal crime to perform or force a woman to undergo a sex-based abortion, a practice most common in some Asian countries where ...

Remarkable progress has been made in breast cancer screening and care in the past 20 years. Survival is improving, surgery can be less invasive in most cases, targeted therapies with fewer side effects are available, and not every breast cancer has to be treated with harsh chemotherapy. However, even with all of this progress, one recent study(2012 Racial Disparity in ...

Iyanla Vanzant is back on OWN TV with her own show ,Iyanla, Fix My Life. After not speaking for over 10 years, Iyanla Vanzant and Oprah Winfrey got together to “clear the air” about what they both called a series a of miscommunications. Iyanla, along with Deepak Chopra, Bishop T. D. Jakes and Tony Robbins, have been the “teachers” on ...

Jim Paratore, who developed and steered series including “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” and “The Tyra Banks Show,” as a Warner Bros. TV executive, has died. He was 59. According to Warner Bros., Paratore suffered a heart attack on tTesday while bicycling in France. He is survived by his wife, Jill Wickert, and his daughter, Martinique Paratore.

By Antonio L. Ellis On May 9, 2010, President Barack Obama said in an interview with ABC News “I think same-sex couples should be able to get married.” With that one statement, he made it clear that he believes that it’s wrong to prevent couples who are in loving, committed relationships from getting married. Obviously, the President has spent time ...

Gayle King forwarded the agenda of the cultural left on Wednesday’s CBS This Morning as she interviewed country music artist Chely Wright, an open homosexual. The Obama-supporting anchor targeted the country music industry for supposedly giving Wright the cold shoulder: “I’m a little disappointed and surprised by the reaction of the country music industry….they do seem, Chely, to have rejected ...

According to the Businesswomen’s Association of SA (BWASA), the proportion of women in executive management positions in South Africa has increased marginally. The census found that women occupied 3.6 percent of CEO positions, 5.5 percent of chairperson posts, 17.1 percent of directorships and 21.4 percent of executive management positions in the country. “The findings of the census show that we ...

Leo Dillon, the groundbreaking illustrator who became the first African-American to win the Caldecott Medal for children’s books, has died in New York at 79. Publisher Scholastic Inc. announced today that Dillon died May 26 at Long Island College Hospital from complications after lung surgery. Dillon and his wife and fellow illustrator, Diane Dillon, collaborated on a wide range of ...

According to the National Patient Safety Foundation, about 40 percent of all mistakes that doctors make are misdiagnoses. The top 5 misdiagnosed diseases in African Americans are: Lupus – Lupus is two to three times more common among African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans and Asians, it is a disparity that remains unexplained. Specifically, lupus is three times more common in ...

By Dr. Worokya Duncan This weekend I watched the news, listened to talk to radio, and became repeatedly incensed. What started to put the proverbial icing on the cake, however, was the Melissa Harris-Perry May 26th show on education. On this edition of the show, Ms. Harris-Perry and other pundits discussed the problems of education and the history of the ...