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North Carolina’s First Prostate Cancer Center Caught in Certificate of Need Litigation

Sadac Israel — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 20:05:19 +0000

Raleigh, NC: A prostate cancer center in Raleigh deemed necessary by the North Carolina State Health Coordinating Council in 2009 is now on hold because of pending lawsuits by three local medical facilities. Cary Urologists Dr. Kevin Khoudary and Dr. John Leung filed an application with the state for permission to open The Prostate Health [...]

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Reparations sought in 1898 riots

Sadac Israel — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:06:53 +0000

Statewide series of marches to end in Raleigh as NAACP conference begins Marchers took to the street this week, calling for the state to make reparations for the 1898 Wilmington riots. About a dozen people marched to the courthouse in Durham on Sunday. It was one of 13 such marches held across the state leading [...]

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Election pits McCain vs. Obama

Sadac Israel — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:00:09 +0000

WASHINGTON – The Democratic presidential nomination his, Barack Obama reached out Wednesday to mend fences with his defeated rival as Republican opponent John McCain tried to frame the fall campaign on his own terms. “I think he has exercised very bad judgment on national security issues and others,” McCain said. Hillary Rodham Clinton was angling [...]

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Stay in Step with your Diabetes

Sadac Israel — Tue, 27 May 2008 02:52:30 +0000

More than 60 percent of non-traumatic, lower-limb amputations occur among people with diabetes. Don’t become one of them. (NewsUSA) – Nearly 21 million people in the United States are afflicted with diabetes, which accounts for 7 percent of the population. The prevalence of the disease is even higher among African Americans. In fact, approximately 13 [...]

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MLK’s ‘Dream’ to Shine in Four-Acre Memorial

Sadac Israel — Fri, 23 May 2008 12:31:05 +0000

(NewsUSA) – During the 1963 March on Washington, Martin Luther King, Jr. stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and delivered what would become his most famous public words. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech left an indelible imprint on hundreds of thousands of civil rights demonstrators that day and would continue to do [...]

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Screening is Key to Preventing Colorectal Cancer

Sadac Israel — Fri, 23 May 2008 12:25:56 +0000

The ACG recommends that you talk to your doctor about colorectal cancer screening. (NewsUSA) – Colorectal cancer is the number-two cancer killer in the U.S. Unfortunately, few people realize that there are a number of simple screening tests that can make colorectal cancer one of the most preventable cancers. Most colon cancers begin as polyps [...]

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Modern black novels leave firm impression

Sadac Israel — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:18:23 +0000

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – There was a time when the term “African-American literature” referred to the work of literary giants such as Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker and Zora Neale Hurston. Today, it includes “Desperate Hoodwives” by a pair who go by the pen names Meesha Mink and De’nesha [...]

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Pictures show a world in black and white

Sadac Israel — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 19:55:44 +0000

Exhibition features Durham man’s pictures of a troubled era The woman is holding her infant carefully, almost reverently, but she cannot shield him from the reality etched above their bus seat: “For colored patrons only.” Alexander M. Rivera Jr. took the photograph more than half a century ago, but when he sees it on the [...]

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New Catholic church cherishes its roots

Sadac Israel — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 14:45:14 +0000

Bishop presides at dedication of modern home for traditionally black parish Etheldreda Guion came to Durham a newlywed in 1963, a Catholic from New Orleans looking for a new parish. She visited Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in downtown Durham, which she learned was for whites. Black Catholics, they told her, went to Holy Cross, a [...]

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The color line crossed

Sadac Israel — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 21:58:37 +0000

Davie Street Presbyterian looks back on a turbulent time after the historic black church hired a white pastor Members of Davie Street Presbyterian Church were accustomed to the injustices that came with being black in North Carolina in the 1960s — school segregation, political disenfranchisement, separate lunch counters. But they were caught off guard when [...]

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