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JOSEPH C. PHILLIPS: Health Care and the Moral Imperative
*I am always troubled by those in government claiming they have a moral imperative to enact this or that policy. A little digging often reveals that their motives are more self serving than moral. I am doubly troubled when those raising the moral banner tend to reject the very idea of an objective morality applicable to all men at all times. Read Full Story

BETWEEN THE LINES: LAPD's New Police Chief, Charlie Beck: Reformer or Redeemer?
By Anthony Asadullah Samad
*The Los Angeles City Council confirmed the Los Angeles Police Department's (LAPD) newest police chief this week. Deputy Chief, Charlie Beck, will soon be sworn in as the 55th Chief of Police of the nation's controversial police department. Read Full Story

AUDREY’S SOCIETY WHIRL: McDonald’s Launches Flavor Battle National DJ Competition Featuring Celebrity DJs Spinderella, Bryan Michael Cox And DJ Irie
By Audrey J. Bernard, Lifestyles/Society Editor
*The nation’s foremost fast food dynasty, McDonald’s, recently launched the McDonald’s Flavor Battle, a new, national premier DJ competition that kicked off nationwide September 7, 2009 in which three local DJs each represented a McDonald’s famous burger and competed to win the McDonald’s Flavor Battle on the main stage at the Sprite Step Off events. Read Full Story

THE PULSE OF ENTERTAINMENT: Irene 'Mama' Stokes is cooking with the stars on her new Internet cooking show
By Eunice Moseley
*Irene Stokes known to most as comedian/actress Mama Stokes, mother of music/film producer Chris Stokes (Immature/IMx, B2K, “You Got Served”), has launched an Internet cooking show, “Irene Cooking with the Stars.” Her cooking show has had celebrities such Raven Symone', Jamie Foxx, Neicy Nash, and Tisha Campbell-Martin. Read Full Story

STEVEN IVORY: Raheem's Theory
*He navigated the big, maroon Buick Duce and a Quarter into the shopping center parking lot, found a space close to the sidewalk near the intersection and slid out from behind the wheel. Read Full Story

THE JOURNAL OF STEFFANIE RIVERS: A Family's Love
*Almost every month it seems that another celebrity has come forth to confess their personal experience with childhood sexual or physical abuse. There was Michael Jackson who a decade ago revealed that his father, Joseph, beat him and his siblings; Oprah Winfrey alleged sexual abuse at the hands of an uncle and most recently Tyler Perry and Monique’ Parker have come forth with their versions of abuse by a family member or trusted friend. Read Full Story

THE BRIDGE: Picking Us Up
By Darryl James
*The easiest thing to do when looking at someone beneath you is to look down without attempting to help. Yet, many of us who claim to be morally righteous fail to do that which would demonstrate our righteousness. Read Full Story

ROBERT JAMES TAYLOR: Economics 101: Those who Caused the Current Recession Cannot Be Relied upon to Fix It
*The Labor Department’s most recent unemployment report symbolized the fallacy and the foolishness of relying upon the same class of greed-driven people who caused the nation’s current recession to implement solutions to end the recession. Read Full Story

VERONICA'S VIEW:Looking Beyond the Tragedy at Gramercy Place
By Veronica Hendrix
*No one knows what demons 26-year-old La’Tonya Dixon wrestled with during her short and troubled life. But what we do know is that on the morning of Saturday, October 17, 2009 she succumbed to them and did the unthinkable. Read Full Story

BETWEEN THE LINES: The Black Men's New "Little Black Book:" Courtesy of the Barbershop Health Initiative
By Anthony Asadullah Samad
*If you want to hear some of the most ascinine responses to health care you ever want to hear (besides in Congress), ask a black man when's the last time he's been to the doctor. "Never" is a common response for many men in their 40s and 50s. Black male nutrition provides just as ridiculous responses. Read Full Story

THE PULSE OF ENTERTAINMENT: Jon Secada goes back to his roots with his new 'Expressions' Jazz CD project
By Eunice Moseley
*“I studied Jazz music...six years of college...loved it,” said multi-Grammy Award winning singer/songwriter Jon Secada when asked why a Pop legend would record a Jazz album. “My career (just) went in another direct. This album is my chance to get back to my roots.” Read Full Story

GLENN'S STRATEGIES FOR WELL-BEING: The 'Antibiotic Season'
*Yes, it’s that time of year when we begin to see the return of cold and flu. What better time to visit the issue of ANTIBIOTICS. Read Full Story

AUDREY'S SOCIETY WHIRL: The Black Retail Action Group Inc. (BRAG) celebrates 39th annual scholarship and awards dinner gala.
By Audrey J. Bernard, Lifestyles/Society Editor
*President Obama’s message of “change” is still in style! And was it ever present at this year’s extraordinarily stylish Black Retail Action Group Inc. (BRAG) 39th annual scholarship and awards dinner gala on Friday, October 23, 2009 at Cipriani Wall Street, from 6 to 10pm. Read Full Story

STEVEN IVORY: Nothing Stands in the Way
*"It's here," Kevin says somberly into the phone, watching from a window of his third story apartment as a U-haul van searches for parking down on Vermont Avenue. Both elated and melancholy, today he bids farewell to "Nihil Obstat." Read Full Story

THE MO'KELLY REPORT: Dress Codes Aren't Racist...People Are
*The story slowly made its way around the nation, via a crafty combination of a viral internet campaign and word of mouth. Read Full Story

THE BRIDGE: Know Balance, Know Peace
By Darryl James
*Last week, I wrote an open letter to Bitter Women. Of course, it was less than well received by the Bitter Women themselves. Instead of seeking to understand my point, they were angry that I had a point at all. And the first thing many of them demanded was that I “balance” things out by writing about Bitter Men. My primary response is this: “Go straight to hell.” Read Full Story

THE JOURNAL OF STEFFANIE RIVERS: Another Sad Story
*The story out of Cleveland, Ohio about the ten dead bodies and a human skull found in and around the home of Anthony Sowell is gruesome. Sowell, who pleaded guilty to attempted rape in 1990 and served prison time for it, was found to have been living among the rotting corpses of his victims possibly since last April. That’s the earliest that one of the four dead women identified by police was reported missing by her family. Read Full Story