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Young Black Achievers Making Black History Today

      February is Black History Month and we must acknowledge that many of our young Black men and women are making monumental achievements. Many in America would make many think Black people are lazy, take drugs, and make babies with different women every night. Based on this thinking, Black men and women don’t work, the ladies are on welfare, and men are uneducated, and in jail. […]

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It Shouldn’t Take a Fiery Crash and Toxic Spill to Push Action on Railroad Safety

     Five of the derailed cars contained nearly 1 million pounds of vinyl chloride, a toxic flammable liquid; other cars carried butyl acrylate, ethylhexyl acrylate, and isobutylene. The spills from the wreck have left a long chemical plume moving down the Ohio River at about a mile an hour. The result has been at least 3,500 fish killed. The train’s owner Norfolk Southern said it is removing contaminated soil at the crash site, which can leach toxic chemicals into the water and air, after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) raised questions. […]