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(NNPA) - As we prepare to advocate for universal health care in the United States Senate one issue that impacts people's health is the quality of food available to them. Wealthy people tend to have better health in part due to their diet of quality foods. Conversely, poor peoples' poor health is usually predicated on their choices in food.


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The word apartheid has slipped from our daily vocabulary. It is not a part of the news coverage we read each day and school children are more than likely not taught about this political construct. But 25 years ago, apartheid in South Africa was the number one parasite on the collective Black soul. Twenty-five years ago, Black South Africans were controlled by a government that reduced them to slaves in their own country. Black South Africans were denied all political and economic rights and were killed when they raised their voices in protest.


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Thanksgiving is a time when many Americans pause to be grateful for all we have. In the current economic downturn when the gap between rich and poor is at the highest level since the Great Depression and the unemployment rate is 10.2 percent, millions of our neighbors, including many families with children, are struggling hard to count their blessings.


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Although a House of Representatives ethics committee is known to be looking into the activities of at least 19 members of Congress, the only full-scale investigations underway are against seven Black lawmakers.


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After creating an imbroglio because he refused to perform a marriage ceremony for a White woman and a Black man, Louisiana Justice of the Peace Keith Bardwell resigned under pressure. However, his stated reason for denying the couple a marriage license is still perplexing: "There is a problem with both groups accepting a child from such a marriage," he told the Associated Press. "I think those children suffer, and I won't help put them through it."


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A Message from Bernie Foster, The Skanner Publisher

We commemorated Veterans Day remembering all the brave men and women who gave their lives in our wars -- so that we might be a free people today. War has been part our human experience since before the Bible was written -- and unfortunately it is still with us today.
So this week we want to recognize the spirit of courage and dedication that our military embodies ...


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What is a child's life worth? What is a child's health worth? What is a child's spirit, battered by preventable suffering and chronic disease, worth? What are a child's hope and ability to learn worth? What are the true values of the world's richest nation that is so spiritually poor that it even debates whether it can afford to give all its children the basic right to health care?


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If you ask a corporation, "Did you make money last year?" its response may well be, "Who's asking?" It's no secret that corporations keep two sets of books, one for shareholders and one for tax authorities ...


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President Ronald Reagan had his flaws, but he certainly could turn a phrase. In the 1980 Presidential campaign he asked a question that has resonated in campaigns ever since. "Are you better off than you were four years ago?" the former California governor asked in his race against Democratic President Jimmy Carter. The people answered with a resounding "no," and Ronald Reagan was elected...


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Wouldn't it be nice to be able to click your heels and get your wish? For most older Americans, being able to remain in their homes and communities as they age would be a dream come true. Nearly 90 percent of people over 50 want to age-in-place


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The Skanner Foundation's 38th Annual MLK Breakfast