Texas Must Kick Its Addiction to Prisons, Discrimination and Racial Profiling – Breaking the Chains: Communities of Color and the War on Drugs, Conference to Be Hosted April 1-3, 2004, at Texas Southern University Houston, Texas Breaking the Chains Celebrates Long Overdue Victory in Tulia, Calls for Justice Throughout the Lone Star State
(PRWEB) March 18, 2004
President George W. BushÂ?s home state has been the site of some of the worst injustices in the U.S. governmentÂ?s war on drugs. Texas incarcerates African Americans at 5 times the rate of Anglos despite national figures demonstrating equal use and abuse of drugs between whites and African Americans. Both Hispanic and African American communities face unwarranted discrimination through racial profiling despite the fact that the practice was outlawed by… Continue reading
Elegy for April
Elegy for April
April Latimer, a junior doctor at a local hospital, is something of a scandal in the conservative and highly patriarchal society of 1950s Dublin. Though her family is one of the most respected in the city, she is known for being independent-minded; her taste in men, for instance, is decidedly unconventional. Now April has disappeared, and her friend Phoebe Griffin suspects the worst. Frantic, Phoebe seeks out Quirke, her brilliant but erratic… Continue reading
Audiobook: Elegy for April: A Novel by Benjamin Black
Buy full audiobook: www.qksrv.net April Lavery has vanished. A junior doctor at a local hospital, she is something of a trail-blazer in the deeply conservative and highly patriarchal society of 1950s Dublin. Though her family is one of the most respected in the city, she is known for being independent-minded; her taste in men, for instance, is decidedly unconventional, as evidenced by her current boyfriend, a handsome and charismatic medical student from Nigeria. Then April… Continue reading
You Don’t Have to Have an Alcohol Problem to Have a Problem With Alcohol – Learn How Alcohol Affects Health on National Alcohol Screening Day, April 7
(PRWEB) March 29, 2005
Â?How much is too much?Â? A tough question with sometimes murky answers. But getting a clear-cut picture of what research does reveal and how it affects your health is only a few, simple questions away. National Alcohol Screening Day, April 7, is designed to tackle this question head on, letting each of us know exactly where to draw the line.
For most adults, moderate alcohol use causes few, if… Continue reading
La Rabida Children?S Hospital Presents 14th Annual Symposium on April 9 “a Collaborative Approach to Cerebral Palsy”
Chicago, IL (PRWEB) January 21, 2010
Registration is now open for La Rabida Children’s Hospital’s 14th Annual Perspectives in Care Symposium, A Collaborative Approach to Cerebral Palsy, on Friday, April 9, 2010 in Chicago. This continuing education opportunity is designed for medical and ancillary healthcare professionals and educators.
Cerebral palsy is a general term used to capture a group of neurological disorders that appear in the first few years of… Continue reading
Chelsea Green Publishing Allowing Free Downloads of Marijuana Is Safer on April 20
Marijuana Is Safer Cover
White River Junction, VT (Vocus) April 19, 2010
It runs against the most basic business acumen to give your product away for free, but next week that is exactly what Chelsea Green Publishing plans to do.
On April 20, free downloads of Chelsea Green’s Marijuana is Safer: So Why Are We Driving People to Drink will be available all day, enabling users to download,… Continue reading