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Arndrea Waters

updated 2010-07-16 22:01:34

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Healthcare

In the United States, many people purchase health insurance to help them cover the sometimes high cost of healthcare services.

The U.S. is the only industrialized nation without some sort of universal healthcare systemConnecticut Coalition for Universal Health Care: The Case For Single Payer, Universal Health Care For The United States (June 4, 1999) and the proposed implementation of an American universal healthcare system has become one of the platforms of Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama's campaign.BarackObama.com: Healthcare

updated 2012-05-12 19:31:27

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NAACP

The goal of the NAACP is to rid the world of racial prejudice and to assist all American minority groups to receive fair treatment and rights. To that end, the early organization was primarily concerned with making sure that all people received the rights guaranteed to them by the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, which included:

  1. The right to vote
  2. The end of slavery
  3. Equal protection based on the country's lawshttp://www.naacp.org/pages/naacp-history

In recent times, the organization has faced the issue of recruiting new members. Some feel that the civil rights movement is no longer necessary, especially with the election of Barack Obama as President. In response, President and CEO Benjamin Jealous stressed that the NAACP still has racial hurdles to overcome, such as "bridging the wealth gap between whites and minorities, improving public schools...and providing better access to health care".http://www.stltoday.com/news/national/article_950246e1-765e-5737-906e-460c2f29a99c.html

updated 2010-07-17 16:27:41

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Curtis Sliwa

updated 2012-05-02 21:45:34

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Alberta King

updated 2012-05-02 22:26:51

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Charlton Heston

updated 2010-07-17 01:05:48

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Bonnie Brown

updated 2010-07-16 23:40:43

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Stanley Tookie Williams

updated 2010-10-27 21:13:58

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Omar Bakri Mohammad

In September 2008, it was revealed that Mohammad's daughter, Yasmin Fostok was a topless pole dancer, despite her upbringing in a strict Muslim family. While Mohammad claims that this is untrue, financial records tie him to a £4,000 breast surgery for Yostok, for which Mohammad might have paid for personally. Mail Online: Revealed: Radical cleric Bakri's pole-dancer daughter (September 26, 2008)

updated 2010-07-17 17:45:26

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