Eight ways to spot counterfeit money
By Samuel Weigley, Yahoo Finance - The new U.S. $100 bill is set to debut in October. Along with a sleeker, more high-tech look, the new bill has new security features designed to thwart counterfeiters. For instance, the new $100 has color-shifting ink that would be difficult for counterfeiters to duplicate. The Liberty Bell on the note [...]
Study: Lax attitude on teens and Rx drug abuse
By Jennifer C. Kerr, Associated Press:WASHINGTON — More parents need to talk with their teens about the dangers of abusing Ritalin, Adderall and other prescription drugs, suggests a new study that finds discouraging trends on kids and drug use. When teens were asked about the last substance abuse conversation they had with their parents, just [...]
Poverty in America: Millions of families too broke for bank accounts
By Bob Sullivan, Columnist, NBC News – Sabino Fuentes-Sanchez hid $25,000 all around his house because he didn’t trust banks. Lasonia Christon receives her Wal-Mart salary on a pre-paid debit card. Kim James was homeless for most of the past decade in part because she had no place to save money. There are plenty of [...]
AKA sorority lawsuit takes turn; witness tampering cited
HuffingtonPost.com – The lawsuit against the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. chapter on Howard University’s campus has taken an interesting turn as the organization is being accused of witness tampering. Seniors Laurin Compton and Lauren Cofield made headlines when they filed a suit against the sorority, alleging human rights violations and asserting that their legacy [...]
Black voters are back in style
By James Clingman, Houston Forward Times - The push for the Black vote is on. Black folks are back in style. Black is beautiful – again. Since the last election, the mantra has become, “Get more ‘minorities’ to vote Republican” and Black voters are at the top of that list. Yes, they want to increase their [...]
Diverse group formed the NAACP
By Spergeon Holly Jr., DailyComet.com - Along with the celebration of black history, we would like to celebrate our integrated history. Some people don’t know what the NAACP is all about and its purpose. History has proven that a man must stand for something or he will fall for anything. The mission of the National Association [...]
Alleging human rights violations, Howard students sue to get into AKA sorority
By Will Sommer, WashingtonCityPaper.com - Howard University seniors and sorority hopefuls Laurin Compton and Lauren Cofield find themselves in a plot with elements of a teen novel: arguments about who can wear pink, accusations of snitching, a cabal of girls called “the Sweets.” But instead of devising an elaborate way to get back at the in-crowd, Gossip Girl-style, they’re suing the [...]
Ex-Black Panther head on gun control, Obama
By Lelia McDowell, TheRoot.com – Elaine Brown, the only woman to head the Black Panther Party, became chairman when Huey P. Newton fled to Cuba to avoid jail in 1974. The party shocked the nation with its advocacy of self-defense and images of defiant young black men and women in black leather jackets carrying rifles. [...]
Reader’s Digest parent seeks bankruptcy protection
NEW YORK (AP) — The parent company of Reader’s Digest has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for the second time in less than four years, saying it needs to cut its debt so it can keep restructuring. RDA Holding Co. says it will keep publishing the magazine during the bankruptcy, and aims to be out [...]
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Student loan borrowers need enforcement and repayment flexibility
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist Earlier this year, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) asked for public comments on private student loan debt affordability. By the April 8 deadline, more than 4,300 organizations and consumers answered. The volume of these requests suggests that the more than $1 trillion of debt already incurred by student loans [...]
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