Sink taps were the source of an infection which killed three babies at a Belfast hospital, the Northern Ireland health minister has confirmed. Edwin Poots told the NI Assembly that the Pseudomonas bacteria had been traced to taps at a neo-natal unit in the Royal Jubilee Maternity Hospital. The un... Read more...

While the hard drive shortage continues, Western Digital suffers another loss. Western Digital has suffered a major hit as rival Seagate Technology wins an arbitration award worth $525 million, pending confidential arbitration action in Minnesota. Basically, the arbitration award is b... Read more...
At the stroke of midnight on the first of January, the brilliant Times Square ball descends, signifying the birth of a new year, a time to renew, reinvent, and reenergize. As the confetti swirls through the air, there's something else afloat with it--Hope. Hope that no matter how fulfilling last yea... Read more...

A new study paints a bleak portrait of the unemployment landscape faced by young black men in New York City. The headline of the report, filed by the Community Service Society of New York reads, "Only One in Four Young Black Men in New York City Have a Job." The study finds that ... Read more...

Cant blame Bush for this one... Last week, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, set up disaster recovery centers in the area for those in need after recent storms. Those centers were overwhelmed this weekend, prompting FEMA to break claims into two categories, food vouchers or... Read more...

Via: There's a dark theory about great, lasting art. Some of the greatest and influential music has sprung from pockets of desperation, poverty and struggle, and a desire to escape these confining elements. It's why Robert Johnson will be remembered long after the Strokes; why Eminem started in a... Read more...

009 in the United States, Black household median wealth was $5,677 while White households are worth 20 times more at $113,149 At the present rate of closure, average Black households will never, EVER catch up to White households in wealth! The wealth gaps between whites and minorities have grow... Read more...

As bad as the last recession has been for Blacks in America, recovery might be worse. In the absence of federal policy interventions and without an effective "trickle-up" stimulus plan, Blacks will not only have lost ground during this recession, they will also continue to lose ground during and aft... Read more...

A catastrophic flood emptied New Orleans of much of its black youth. Powerful social forces may be doing a similar thing to places like Harlem and Chicago's South Side. Over the past decade, the inner-city neighborhoods that have served for generations as citadels of African-American life and cultu... Read more...