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by Frederick H. Lowe President Barack Obama's Patient Protection Affordable Care Act, which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last week was constitutional, spotlights the number of African Americans who lacked health insurance when the bill became law on March 23, 2010.
Last week’s U.S. Supreme Court decision, which upheld President Barack Obama’s Patient Protection Affordable Health Act, will eliminate any barriers to buying health insurance for more than 20 percent of African Americans who because of pre-existing medical conditions could not purchase health insurance at all or at reasonable price.
by Frederick H. Lowe During the heated days two years ago as Congress was preparing to vote on the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Act, racist white Tea Party members lined the sidewalk leading to the Capitol to express their anger. They opposed the legislation, and they showed it by spitting on U.S.
With the United States Supreme Court upholding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, 12.8 million Americans will receive $1.1 billion in rebates from their health-insurance providers, said Kathleen Sebelius, U.S.
This is the second lawsuit settlement against YRC Freight in the Chicago area by Frederick H. Lowe Black employees of a now closed Yellow Transportation Inc., facility in Chicago Ridge, Ill.
Grammy-winning singer Lauryn Hill pled guilty on Friday to three counts of failing to file federal income tax returns for 2005, 2006 and 2007. According to information provided by U.S.
He now has 74 Career Victories on Tour Tiger Woods, who won the AT&T National on Sunday, said he's proud to be alone in second place with PGA Tour wins. "It feels great to get 74 wins and obviously pass Jack [Nickalus].
Attorney General Eric Holder, who was held in contempt during a vote by the Republican-led U. S. House of Representatives that prompted Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) members to march out in protest, called the vote misguided and politically motivated during an election year.
A federal judge in Brooklyn, N. Y., sentenced Gary Foster, a former vice president of Citigroup Inc.'s Internal Treasury Finance Department, to eight years in prison after he admitted to embezzling more than $20 million from his employer.
by Helen Reichert Lambin It happened more than 40 years ago, in August of 1966. But I’ve never forgotten it.
July 5 through July 11 Wimbledon's Grass Courts Have Grown Black Tennis Champions Wimbledon, the oldest and most prestigious tennis tournament in the world, which began June 25, has been the scene of major triumphs by African-American players.
Job growth in the nonfarm-private business sector increased by 176,000 on a seasonally adjusted basis in June, which was well above economists' estimates that 100,000 jobs would be created.
Florida Judge Kenneth B. Lester Jr. on Thursday set bail at $1 million for George Zimmerman, who is charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of an unarmed Trayvon Martin.