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Spurring Lower Prices: FDA Aided America's Rx Drug Consumers By Not Banning Authorized Generics, by David W. Almasi

Spurring Lower Prices: FDA Aided America’s Rx Drug Consumers By Not Banning Authorized Generics, by David W. Almasi

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For years, generic drug manufacturers have been telling us that making more generic drugs available - earlier - is the key to saving consumers money and bringing greater access to prescription drugs. Competition, they said, will benefit millions of Americans ...
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Project 21 Press Release: Black Activist Group Celebrates "Juneteenth" With Call for Black Self-Empowerment

Project 21 Press Release: Black Activist Group Celebrates “Juneteenth” With Call for Black Self-Empowerment

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In recognition of the 138th celebration of Juneteenth, members of the African-American leadership network Project 21 are calling upon black Americans to shake off the shackles of dependency and "victim mentality." Juneteenth, observed on June 19, is the oldest celebration ...
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Project 21 Press Release: Black Activists Support Pledge of Allegiance; Supreme Court Ruling Helpful, But Activist Judges Still Pose Threat

Project 21 Press Release: Black Activists Support Pledge of Allegiance; Supreme Court Ruling Helpful, But Activist Judges Still Pose Threat

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Members of the African-American leadership network Project 21 commend the U.S. Supreme Court for dismissing a decision forcing the removal of "one nation, under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance recited by children in public schools in the West. They ...
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Project 21 Press Release: Black Activists Mourn the Passing of Ronald Reagan; Project 21 Members Call Former President "Great Leader"

Project 21 Press Release: Black Activists Mourn the Passing of Ronald Reagan; Project 21 Members Call Former President “Great Leader”

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As the nation's capital prepares for the public viewing and state funeral of former President Ronald Reagan, members of the African-American leadership network Project 21 are expressing their profound sympathies to the late president's family and friends and celebrating his ...
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Bill Cosby, You Say the Darndest Things, by Kevin Martin and Tom Florip

Bill Cosby, You Say the Darndest Things, by Kevin Martin and Tom Florip

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Dr. Huxtable gave an unwelcome second opinion at a recent gala marking the 50th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education school desegregation decision. As he rose to address the crowd at Howard University, scarcely anyone expected Bill Cosby ...
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Marcus Dixon: A Small Example of a Greater Problem, by Lisa Fritsch

Marcus Dixon: A Small Example of a Greater Problem, by Lisa Fritsch

New Visions Commentary /
Is it possible to measure the political benefits and social impacts of winning the Cold War? The War on Terror? President Ronald Reagan was never given due credit by his liberal peers for winning this psychological - and sometimes physical ...
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Thanking Bush for His Leadership, by Ak'Bar Shabazz

Thanking Bush for His Leadership, by Ak’Bar Shabazz

New Visions Commentary /
Is it possible to measure the political benefits and social impacts of winning the Cold War? The War on Terror? President Ronald Reagan was never given due credit by his liberal peers for winning this psychological - and sometimes physical ...
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Some of My Best Friends are Black: A Business Proposal, by Kevin Martin

Some of My Best Friends are Black: A Business Proposal, by Kevin Martin

New Visions Commentary /
Earlier this year, Al Sharpton beat up on Howard Dean during a presidential primary debate about the lack of blacks and Hispanics in Dean's cabinet when he was governor of Vermont. More recently, John Kerry has been criticized for not ...
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AARP'S Campaign to Import Uncertified Drugs Poses Hazards to Seniors' Health and Budgets, by Ak'Bar Shabazz

AARP’S Campaign to Import Uncertified Drugs Poses Hazards to Seniors’ Health and Budgets, by Ak’Bar Shabazz

New Visions Commentary /
The Medicare reform legislation passed by Congress last fall brought more affordable prescription medicines to 42 million elderly and disabled beneficiaries, and AARP supported it. Now, it turns out, the aggressive seniors' mar-keting lobby had an ulterior motive. While the ...
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Reverend Al's Campaign: When Sequels Go Bad, by Kimberley Jane Wilson

Reverend Al’s Campaign: When Sequels Go Bad, by Kimberley Jane Wilson

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With few exceptions, sequels are never as good as the original. That's true in movies, books and - as Al Sharpton shows us - in politics. When Sharpton first began running for president, no political commentator considered him a serious ...
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