ATLANTA
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The South has emerged as ground zero in the HIV/AIDS crisis in the USA.
Roughly half of all new
AIDS diagnoses are occurring in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi,
North Carolina,
South Carolina and Tennessee, according to federal estimates.
Overlying that dismal reality is another: There's a severe shortage of
HIV
specialists in the South, which exacerbates access to treatment for
people living with the disease in the region, according to one of the
nation's leading AIDS advocacy organizations.
"This disease is no longer a metropolitan problem," says Sen.
Jeff Sessions,
R-Ala., a host of the roundtable. "In fact, infection rates in the
rural South are among the fastest-growing in the country."
WTH? Republicans Want Food Stamps Cut By Billions
WASHINGTON — The 1,000-page “farm bill” being debated in the Senate is
somewhat of a misnomer. Four of every five dollars in it – roughly $80
billion a year – goes for grocery bills for one of every seven Americans
through food stamps.
German sports apparel maker Adidas has canceled the release of the
controversial JS Roundhouse sneaker, which featured rubber ankle
shackles, after a huge public outcry, reports
CNN.com.
The advertising for the shoe premiered on the Adidas Original Facebook page on June 14 with the caption:
“Got a sneaker game so hot you lock your kicks to your ankles?”
“Wow obviously there was no one of color in the room when the
marketing/product team ok’d this,” said a commenter identifying herself
as MsRodwell on nicekicks.com.
Adidas defended the shoe’s designer
Jeremy Scott by saying that he was just being “quirky” and “lighthearted,” but Rev.
Jesse Jackson is but one of the leaders in the Black community who disagrees:
“The attempt to commercialize and make popular more than 200 years of
human degradation, where blacks were considered three-fifths human by
our Constitution is offensive, appalling and insensitive,” Jackson said
in a statement Monday.
The late-night talk show from CBS Television Distribution has
already been sold in all top 10 markets and 17 of the top 20, covering
52 percent of the country.
It's official:
Arsenio Hall is returning to television, partnering with CBS Television Distribution for a late-night talk show.
The project will see the former host of
The Arsenio Hall Show reteam
with CBSTVD, whose previous incarnation, Paramount Domestic Television,
oversaw his syndicated late-night talker that ran from 1989-94.
"We're excited to welcome Arsenio back to the family and partnering
on his new, late-night syndicated talk show,” CBSTVD president
John Nogawski said in announcing the news Monday.
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Publisher's Note:
It's amazing how some of the news media outlets have conveniently omitted the fact that the reason why Paramount (named at that time) started to give Arsenio Hall a bad time back then is because of a particular guest he had on his show . . . namely, The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan.
And to this date, this is why I continue to respect Mr. Arsenio Hall for what he did!
So, please, let us not forget the history of Hall's television demise by a company who is now accepting him back after all of these years.
Just keeping it real . . . and you should too!
Anthony Hills (pictured), a 55-year-old Charleston, S.C., man, died from flesh eating bacteria, WCSC reports.
