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Proposed Alzheimer's laws could help family members (WLBT-TV Jackson) It's an alarming statistic. Alzheimer's disease is on the rise. Studies show Mississippi isn't immune, and 65-thousand people will have the illness by 2025. 
Insidious (Art Voice) "Insidious" lives up to his name. Ibn Shabazz's new play, Insidious , now at Road Less Traveled Theater, is a pot-boiling dark comedy that cynically revels in contemporary phobias and taboos as it twists its way through the double and triple reversals of a thrilling plot. 
African-American News - July 30, 2010
Newt Gingrich went on Fox last night to peddle more of his hateful, vile garbage regarding the so-called "Ground Zero Mosque," which is not at ground zero and is not a major mosque, but an Islamic community center.
Armed police storm Nation of Islam mosque in London (w/ video) (know4life.blogspot)
London armed police officers forced their way into the United Kingdom headquarters of The Nation of Islam. House votes to eliminate cocaine sentencing disparity (know4life.blogspot)
The House of Representatives passed a historic bill Wednesday that narrows sentencing disparities between crack and powder cocaine convictions, which civil rights and civil liberties experts say contributed to the disproportionate imprisonment of African-Americans in recent decades. Kings and Queens used to divide South Africans, No More... (know4life.blogspot)
Zuma, who was announcing the findings of the Commission on Traditional Leadership Disputes and Claims, said it was essential that the six king and queenships come to an end in order to "correct the wrongs of the past". "The apartheid regime created its own traditional leadership at the expense of authentic leadership in some communities," Zuma said ... Howard Dean gestures during an interview with The Associated Press in this March, 2008 file photo when Dean was chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
50-foot mural at UNC School of Government celebrates African-Americans (The Asheville Citizen-Times)
A creative interpretation of the Greensboro lunch counter sit-in of 1960 is the first in a series of murals that will commemorate the contributions of African-Americans and Native Americans to the state. Sherrod said Thursday she will sue a conservative blogger who posted an edited video of her making racially tinged remarks last week.
AIDS Action Coalition gets $2 million grant (Mobile Register)
The good news arrived when the AIDS Action Coalition of North Alabama received a $2 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control. Is it racism, preferential treatment or something else? (Hampton Roads Daily Press)
Is it racism, preferential treatment or something else? Virginia Sen. Jim Webb wants to end federal diversity initiatives, saying those programs have "expanded so far beyond their original purpose that they now favor anyone who does not happen to be white." David Squires Urban Affairs , July 28, 2010 dp-nws-squires-column-0729-20100728 Credit U.S. 
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