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President Obama's Insecure
National Security State
(TriceEdneyWire.com) - Last week The Guardian newspaper confirmed what many Americans have suspected for a very long time, the American government is spying on its own citizens. The Guardian published a copy of a top secret court order requiring domestic telecom companies to provide the NSA with “…communication records of millions of US citizens…collected indiscriminately and in bulk – regardless of whether they are suspected of any wrongdoing.”

A Nation Prays for 'Tata'
While Another Mandela Passes
(TriceEdneyWire.com) – News of the recurring illness of South Africa’s much loved leader, informally known as Madiba (Nelson Mandela), set off a new round of prayers for his recovery in the nation and around the world. But in Qunu in the Eastern Cape, residents there were already grieving the passing of a Mandela – Florence Mandela - a close relative to the country’s former statesman and wife of one of the sons of Madiba’s uncle Solomon. She died last week at the age of 96.

Historic Saint Paul's
College to Close
(TriceEdneyWire.com) – Saint Paul’s College, a historically Black college in rural Southside Virginia is closing its doors after 125 years as an educational beacon. The closing date is Monday, June 30, Saint Paul’s has announced in a one-paragraph notice posted on its website. Dr. Oliver W. Spencer Jr., chairman of the board of trustees, last week notified the college’s accrediting body, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS), of the closing decision.

National News Releases

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Financial Resources for
Women in Business
(TriceEdneyWire.com) – For a number of years, I taught college courses on entrepreneurship and small business management to students who aspired to become successful business owners. I applauded my students for recognizing early on that successful businesses require more than a great idea.

Black Economic Empowerment
Revolution or Evolution (TriceEdneyWire.com) – You would think that since the end of slavery and through the ensuing years Black people in this country would be further along in our economic evolution than we are today..

On Father's Day: These Super Dads
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(TriceEdneyWire.com) - We hear the statistics all too often. Currently, “only 28 percent of Black youth have their fathers in the home. In 1920, it was 90 percent and in 1960 it was 80 percent.” Those are the stats recently quoted by Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu, a foremost expert on the rearing of African-American children; especially boys. He boldly asserts: “I believe one of the greatest problems facing the Black community is fatherlessness.”

Plenty of other national experts back him up, pointing to multiple social ills as evidence of the dire need for fathers in the home. Even President Obama has focused on this issue when speaking to Black audiences. But, that’s not what this story is about. On Father’s Day, June 16, 2013, millions of Black fathers, stepfathers, uncles, mentors, big brothers, relatives and father figures will be celebrated and appreciated because of their powerful and positive influence on their children every day. Some will even be given, well, super dad status.

Meet Martin Smith, a wealth planner and investment advisor who resides in Bowie, Md. He gives his view on the most important aspect of fatherhood: “I think legacy and having the privilege and the honor to raise children and to have them develop into who God has called them uniquely to be,” he says. “All of them are totally different from one another. And so it really stretches you to see how you have to nurture them.”

President Obama Appoints
Susan Rice as Security Advisor

Supreme Court Must Keep
Affirmative Action Alive
(TriceEdneyWire.com) – As early as next week, in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, the United States Supreme Court may issue a ruling that could seriously limit or altogether eliminate the use of affirmative action in university admissions.

Subsidizing Sam's Kids

(TriceEdneyWire.com) – The real scandals — like that of children in poverty — are simply being ignored. In this rich nation, nearly 8 million children under the age of 18 are being raised in what are called “areas of concentrated poverty.”

Does Big Brother
Have a Racial Bias
(TriceEdneyWire.com) - When George Orwell wrote the novel 1984, he envisioned a character, a real or imagined “Big Brother” who was a know-all, see-all, omnipotent and elusive presence that intruded into lives because he could.

Obama Must See Africa
in New Light(TriceEdneyWire.com) - When President Obama and the first lady travel to Africa at the end of this month, they will receive a rapturous greeting. The president’s deep roots in Kenya, the land of his father, resonate throughout the continent. His success in the United States evokes pride and joy in Africa.

Understanding the Need for
Full Employment
(TriceEdneyWire) - The Social Security Trust Fund report has been released. One of its more telling charts was of the trend in Social Security revenue. Social Security revenue comes from a tax on the wages of earners, paid by both employees and employers.

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