Father absence "decimates" black community in U.S.
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For Chris Gardner, who was played by Will Smith in the movie "The Pursuit of Happyness," fatherhood is the greatest job in the world.
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Sometimes the trigger will be a newspaper story he is reading about Africa. Or he may spot a group of boys on a street corner on the South Side of Chicago and think that one or more of them "could be me, they may not have a father at home." At other moments, he will be playing with his daughters --...
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Bemoaning an increasing tendency of parents to "manage their kids' lives by cell phone," entertainer Bill Cosby pleaded Wednesday with fathers, mothers, teachers and other authority figures to work harder to improve the lives of black children.
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NEW YORK  - African-American preschoolers  whose parents say they don't believe racism is a problem are  more likely to be depressed or anxious, a new study indicates.
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Black Americans born between 1946 and 1964  "are no better off relative to whites than their parents and grandparents" were in terms of income, according to a new Duke University study.
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With more than triple the US average of African-American homicides, the city is battling to protect kids from gunfire.
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Young blacks walk to a city polling place, only to be blocked by a menacing white cop. Businessmen unwillingly parachute into Iraq. When Americans begin disappearing from their jobs, actor Matt Damon says, "George Bush &#151; it's his job, or yours."
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As the nation continues to celebrate the desegregation of major league baseball, the question is why African-Americans have vanished from the sportâs landscape.
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Washington - The United States (US) is losing ground again in its fight against Aids with blacks, particularly African-American women, suffering most from the resurgent spread of the virus.
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A New York City Council resolution to ban the infamous epithet may be well-intentioned, but it implies that black people are nothing but helpless targets
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An American institution is in danger of fading away.
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Parents are cutting back their kids' schedules to make more time for family.
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Children born to older fathers may have a higher risk of developing schizophrenia ( search ) than those with younger dads, according to a new study.
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NEW YORK -- Once the cultural capital of black America, Harlem had reached the bottom of decades of decline by the late 1980s, with streets full of abandoned houses, virtually an open-air crack cocaine market and thousands of violent crimes each year. It took the collaboration of people including...
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THURSDAY, March 8 (HealthDay News) -- Black Americans are more likely than whites to suffer severe, untreated and disabling depression, U.S. research shows.
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African Americans voice their protests against the treatment of black males by the criminal justice system.
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Many young U.S. blacks are as confident as their white and Hispanic peers that they can use politics to make things better, but a majority of young blacks feel alienated from today's government, a study said on Thursday.