My Holy Bible for African-American Children

by Kam Williams

”Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”

Excerpt from My Holy Bible for African-American Children

Given the recent Easter season, Christian parents might like to check out this new Bible specifically designed with Black children in mind. This edition of the “Good Book” is basically the complete King James Version, but augmented by Cheryl and Wade Hudson to make it more appealing to African-American youngsters and teenagers.  Read more...

Children use space to think about time

Space and time are intertwined in our thoughts, as they are in the physical world. For centuries, philosophers have debated exactly how these dimensions are related in the human mind. According to a paper to appear in the April 2010 issue of Cognitive Science, children's ability to understand time is inseparable from their understanding of space.

To probe the relationship between space and time in the developing mind, Daniel Casasanto of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and colleagues at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and Stanford University showed children movies of two snails racing along parallel paths for different distances or durations. The children judged either the spatial or temporal aspect of each race, reporting which animal went for a longer distance or a longer time.

When asked to judge distance, children had no trouble ignoring time. But when asked to judge time, they had difficulty ignoring the spatial dimension of the event. Snails that moved a longer distance were mistakenly judged to have traveled for a longer time. Children use physical distance to measure of the passage of time.  Read more...

Superfood Cereals: A review of the most delicious and nutritious superfoods for morning meals

by Mike Adams

It's made by a company called Living Intentions based in San Francisco, and it's available in four flavors: Acai Blueberry, Cacao Crunch, Chia Ginger and Hemp & Greens. You can find many of these in your local health food stores. We also now carry them in the Natural News store at http://store.naturalnews.com/index....

These cereals are really outstanding. They have a delicious taste and texture, but without resorting to refined or chemical sweeteners of any kind. They're all based on organic buckwheat sprouts as their No. 1 ingredient, and if you know about buckwheat, you know it's a super high-protein grain that transforms into a nutritional powerhouse when sprouted! I've often made my own raw buckwheat cereals at home, and I love the fact that I can now get buckwheat in these superfood cereals.  Read more...

90 Percent of Parents Want to Know More About Alternative Medicine, Survey Reveals

by: David Gutierrez

Ninety percent of parents would like to know more about alternative medical approaches for their children, according to a survey conducted by Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota (Children's), a nationwide leader in integrative medical approaches.

Integrative medicine combines traditional Western medicine with medical therapies from other traditions, including acupuncture, massage and nutrition.  Read more...

Children WILL face 'naked' airport scans, Government rules

All selected children will have to go through the new full-body 'naked' scanning machines being introduced at airports, the Government said today.

Transport Secretary Lord Adonis clarified the ruling as he announced a consultation process on the use of scanners.

Civil rights groups have raised legal and privacy concerns about the scanners, which have been introduced at Manchester and Heathrow airports following the failed transatlantic plane bomb attack last Christmas.  Read more...

Playing 'Pong' with the blink of an eye

 

University students have developed a computer game that is operated by eye movements, which could allow people with severe physical disabilities to become 'gamers' for the first time.

The students, from Imperial College London, have adapted an open source game called 'Pong', where a player moves a bat to hit a ball as it bounces around the screen. The adaptation enables the player to move the bat using their eye.

Playing 'Pong' with the blink of an eye

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Radio star challenges black men

By David MacDougall

Nationally syndicated radio personality Michael Baisden told an audience of nearly 1,000 people Friday night that black men should start kissing their sons.

"They need affection," Baisden said. "Ask black men if they kiss their children, and they'll say they kiss their daughters, but not their sons. They don't want to turn them in to sissies."

Baisden, who is aired locally on Magic 107.3, brought his One Million Mentors Campaign to Save Our Kids to the North Charleston Performing Arts Center. He was accompanied by his sidekick, comedian George Wilborn, and a number of local black leaders.  Read more...

Fighting Back With Knowledge; Campaign Aims to Inform Black Youth

African Americans represent just 12 percent of the US population but 46 percent of people living with HIV, as well as 45 percent of new infections each year. Black youth are particularly at risk, accounting for more than 50 percent of new HIV infections among people ages 13-24, CDC figures show.

"We can't ever end the epidemic in the African-American community until we end the epidemic among our young people," said Donna McCree, a behavioral scientist in CDC's Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention. "We want them to talk about HIV. We have to break the cycle."

Toward that goal, CDC in March launched "i know," a social media campaign targeting blacks ages 18-24. Using Facebook, Twitter, text messaging (44144), a new Web site, and public service announcements, CDC is taking its message to young people where they connect in the hope of stimulating conversations around HIV/AIDS.  Read more...

Malcolm X, Morpheus and Mos Def: Postindustrial Prison Politics

Charles Shaw

This passage perfectly characterizes the situation I find myself in. By and large those sent into the prisons are disproportionately culled from the ranks of the Low. And although it is clear to at least the black segment of the Low that the drug war is a scam, it is not so clear to the whites. The whites have internalized the moral mandate of the High, by virtue of the first degree of separation imposed on the Low, known as "divide and rule," which is preferential separation by race. Whites who break the social contract established by the ruling order--who are also white--are derided and judged to have moral failings, which the poor whites then internalize. If you use drugs, you are a criminal, if you sell drugs, you're even worse. Hate yourself, for you are irredeemable, but not nearly as irredeemable as those darker than you, is the basic subtext.  Read more...

Job Prospects Grim For Youth, Especially Black Teens

by Yuki Noguchi

The Last To Be Hired

On Friday, the Labor Department reported that the while the country gained 162,000 jobs in March, the overall unemployment rate remained unchanged at 9.7 percent. And it's much tougher for teenagers; The jobless rate for those between ages 16 and 19 rose to 26.1 percent. For African-American teens, it's even worse: That rate stands at 41.1 percent.  Read more...

Protect Your Kids From This Toxic Ingredient

by Karla Heintz

What to Look For
When purchasing any of the products listed previously, keep an eye out for products labeled "paraben free," and stay away from products that contain any form of paraben, such as:

• Methylparaben
• Ethylparaben
• Propylparaben
• Butylparaben

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Want to make the rest of your home more toxin-free? Check out this post on how to be a greener parent, and this post on choosing a green cleaner.

Sleep-Related Death Rate Higher Among Black Infants

Black infants are 12 times more likely to die from sleep-related causes than infants in any other ethnic group, a new study shows.

Overall in the state of Illinois, where the research was conducted, black infants are twice as likely to die from sleep-related causes.

Researchers in the Child Health Data Lab at Children's Memorial Research Center in Chicago analyzed Illinois data on infant deaths due to sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), unintentional suffocation in bed, and undetermined causes.  Read more...

Bad behavior linked to poor parenting

By Robin Nixon

Poor parenting causes boys, but few girls, to be particularly prone to bad behavior, a new study suggests.

The link between early parent-child relationships and future aggressive behavior held up even when the researchers accounted for socio-economic classes.

As for why there was a gender difference, the researchers say girls might just react differently to poor parenting, holding in their feelings rather than acting out. And while some might cry genetics and overall personality of a child as the cause for the poor parent-child relationship, the study team says home environment plays a greater role. Even so, they do cut parents slack, saying it's not always their fault.  Read more...

Foster parents feel the pinch in many states

By Carly Everson, Charles D. Wilson

Arizona, California, (Indiana) Missouri, Ohio and Utah, also have cut spending on children's services because of budget problems. Some states have reduced payments to foster homes or group facilities or considered laying off caseworkers.

'Getting pounded'
"The states are getting pounded, and this is one of the few times I've seen child welfare really get hit," said Michael Petit, president of the advocacy group Every Child Matters.

According to children's advocates, Indiana put its new policy on special needs children into effect at the beginning of the year when it directed private agencies that specialize in finding foster homes for hard-to-place children to begin offering traditional foster care as well. Then, the state began shifting special-needs children into the lower-cost care.

Children who have special needs include pregnant teenagers, victims of sexual abuse, infants born to drug-addicted moms, those with severe medical problems or with behavioral problems that lead them to act violently.