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December 6, 2012

  • Newark Mayor Cory Booker Takes Food-Stamp Challenge

     Newark Mayor Cory Booker Takes Food-Stamp Challenge He will spend $4.32 per day on food for a week by Frederick H. Lowe Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker on Tuesday began living on a food budget of $30.

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  • 60 Minutes, BET Air Programs About Black Men Proved Innocent

    60 Minutes, BET Air Programs About Black Men Proved Innocent by Frederick H. Lowe CBS television's 60 Minutes on Sunday, December 9th, will broadcast stories about nine Chicago-area black men, who served long prison sentences for crimes they did not commit until DNA evidence overturned their coerced convictions. The Emmy-Award winning program will focus on the "Englewood Four" and "Dixmoor Five." Englewood is a Chicago neighborhood, and Dixmoor is one of Chicago's south suburbs. The nine, who are now men, were teenagers when they were charged by the Cook County State's Attorney's Office.

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  • Black Leaders Want Action Now

    Black Leaders Want Action Now by Hazel Trice Edney(TriceEdneyWire.com) –-- One month after the re-election of President Barack Obama, more than 40 Black leaders convened this week to begin crafting what appears to be a strategy by which to hold politicians accountable to a suffering Black community that has given overwhelming political allegiance to President Obama and the Democratic Party.

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  • Nigeria Struggles With School Delinquency

    Special to the Trice Edney News Wire from GIN(TriceEdneyWire.com) --- Nigeria leads the world with 10.5 million children not attending school, according to a recently released United Nations’ report.

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  • 'Tis the Season to Be Careful

    'Tis the Season to Be Careful by Julianne Malveaux(TriceEdneyWire.com) --- Okay, I’ll admit it. I am truly the Grinch who wanted to steal Christmas. It takes me until about December 23 to get in the spirit, and I only feel obligated to find gifts for children and close family.

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  • Super Storm Sandy Blows Away Jobs

    Super Storm Sandy Blows Away Jobs Private nonfarm businesses created 118,000 jobs in November with Super Storm Sandy taking the blame for the drop in employment, according to Wednesday's ADP National Employment Report.

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  • Jackie Lacey Sworn In As Los Angeles' First Black Woman District Attorney

    Jackie Lacey Sworn In As Los Angeles' First Black Woman District Attorney The National Black Prosecutors’ Association congratulated Jackie Lacey, who was sworn in on Monday as the first African American and the first woman district attorney for Los Angeles County since the office was founded in 1850.Lacey, a native of Los Angeles and a graduate of the University of Southern California Law School, will oversee the nation's largest prosecutorial office with 1,000 lawyers, 300 investigators and 800 support staff.

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  • The NorthStar’s Week in Black History

    The NorthStar’s Week in Black History December 6 through December 12 December 6 1865 ----- The 13th amendment to the Constitution of the United States was ratified on this date.

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  • Who's Angry Now?

    Who's Angry Now? by Dr. E. Faye Williams, Esq. (TriceEdneyWire.com) -- Just as many African-American women have been labeled “Angry Black Woman," there are people who’ve tried to label our beloved President of the U.

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  • November's Unemployment Rate Improves for Black Men and Black Women

    November's Unemployment Rate Improves for Black Men and Black Women by Frederick H. LoweThe seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for black men 20 years old and older dramatically dropped in November as the nation's nonfarm private businesses added a better-than-expected 146,000 new jobs, causing the overall jobless rate to fall to 7.

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Superman speaks to Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson
Superman speaks to Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson

Black Astrophysicist deGrasse Tyson Helps Superman Find His Home Planet

Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of The Hayden Planetarium and an astrophysicist, appears in DC Action Comics #14 to help Superman locate Krypton, his home planet, so that he can see his home planet on the last day of its existence, a day before it is destroyed.

In the comic, Dr. Tyson locates Krypton for Superman, who is visiting the planetarium in New York City. He locates a planet 27.1  light years from Earth -- true to the comic book story's portrayal of Krypton. Light travels at 186,000 miles per second.  "You can't see a planet at that distance. You can only infer that it is there," Tyson said on National Public Radio.

Krypton was located in constellation Corvus and it is warmed by the star, designated LHS 2520, which possesses a red, highly turburlent surface, somewhat cooler and smaller than the sun.

Superman speaks to Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson
Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson
Dan DiDio, co-publisher of Burbank, Calif.-based DC Entertainment, said it was important to have the comic book story.

“This is a major milestone in the Superman mythos that gives our super hero a place in the universe,” DiDio said in a statement. “Having Neil deGrasse Tyson in the book was one thing but by applying real world science to this story he has forever changed Superman’s place in history. Now fans will be able to look up at the night’s sky and say---’that’s where Superman was born.’”

DC Comics approached Tyson about appearing in the issue. "I gleefully accepted to help Superman in his time of need. Wouldn't you?" he asked the interviewer.

The comic book is now available in comic book stores and at other retailers.

Superman speaks to Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson
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