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April 26, 2024
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Statement by the First Nations Leadership Council and Ministers Hajdu and Anandasangaree following their participation at Our Ga
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Metro Storage LLC Invests in Sustainable Future with Rooftop Solar Energy Panels
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Hyosung TNC presents a new paradigm through sustainable bio BDO production.
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KB Home Announces the Grand Opening of Its Newest Community Within the Highly Desirable Stanford Crossing Master Plan in Lathrop
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AHF Praises Colombia for Putting Lives Before Pharma Greed
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Yeshiva University Launches Accelerated Transfer Initiative for Students Who Feel Threatened at Current Universities
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Vantage unveils significant impact of donation on UNHCR's ongoing refugee support in Australia
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Lucidea Press Releases New Museum CMS Title Demystifying Data Preparation
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National Animation Museum Announces Collaboration with The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
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The Merck Company Foundation Launches Five-Year Effort to Close Healthcare Disparity Gaps
February 26, 2009
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Minority Groups Stress Transportation Funding
September 02, 2011
Following President Obama’s call for a “clean extension†of the surface transportation bill and a reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), The Leadership Conference Education Fund released a new report, “Getting to Work: Transportation Policy and Access to Job Opportunities,†which highlights how inequities in transportation ...
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Researcher: Residential Segregation Declines In U.S. Cities
September 01, 2011
According to University of Michigan research the ideal of equal housing opportunities is closer to becoming a reality in most major U.S. metro areas, "While black-white segregation remains high in many places, there are reasons to be optimistic that 'apartheid' no longer aptly describes much of urban America," said Reynolds Farley, an investigator at the U-M Institute for Social Research (ISR) who studies racial segregation in the United States. ...
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Group Updates On Recovery Six Years After Katrina
August 30, 2011
The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law remains concerned about low-income and minority communities impacted by Hurricane Katrina six years ago and presently. "We are still committed to fighting for racial justice and ongoing recovery efforts in the Gulf," said Lawyers' Committee Executive Director Barbara Arnwine. "There is still much work to be done and it is quite disheartening that these vulnerable ...
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ADHD Rates Inch Lower For Latinos
August 23, 2011
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics official report the rates of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in US children continue to trend upward. However, Mexican children had consistently lower ADHD prevalence than other racial or ethnic groups. According to Lara J. Akinbami, MD, and colleagues, the percentage of American children diagnosed as having ADHD increased from 6.9% in 1998-2000 to 9.0% in 2007 to 2009. From 1998 through 2009, ADHD prevalence was h ...
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Health Equity Summit Coincides With MLK Memorial Opening
August 23, 2011
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Health Equity Summit, convened by the Institute for the Advancement of Multicultural and Minority Medicine (IAMMM), continues today as the long-awaited Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial is unveiled and opens to the public on the National Mall. Both events sharpen public attention on human rights: the Summit focusing tightly on the health status of minorities and populations in low-resource countries and achieving health equity at the lowest cost. ...
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Soft Infant Bedding Still Used By Blacks
August 22, 2011
Researchers at Children’s National Medical Center have found that many Black parents use soft bedding for their infants, despite evidence showing that it should be avoided to help prevent Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). The study was led by Rachel Moon, MD, a pediatrician and SIDS researcher at Children’s National ...
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Gov Creates Black Commission To Examine Disparities In Illinois
August 16, 2011
A bill signed by Illinois Governor Pat Quinn will create a commission to research the disparities facing African-Americans in the areas of healthcare, health services, employment, education, criminal justice, housing and other social and economic issues. “We know that disparities exist within the African-American community, preventing some from achieving their full potential,†Governor Quinn said in a statement. ...
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Union Head Blasts GOP Over Black Job Crisis
August 12, 2011
This summer, millions of working families got a front-row seat to the dysfunctional leadership of Republicans in Congress who proved once again that they just don’t get it. The national unemployment rate is 9.1%. For blacks, the unemployment rate is hovering around 16 percent. Instead of creating solutions for the jobs crisis, Republicans are killing jobs and destroying the American Dream. ...
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LATINOS TO OBAMA: JUST PASSING
August 11, 2011
The National Hispanic Leadership Agenda, a nonpartisan Hispanic association, today gave the Obama administration a just-passing overall grade for six areas it said are critical. Two years after issuing its quadrennial Hispanic Public Policy Agenda in 2008, the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda assessed the progress made in addressing the major public policy issues facing the Hispanic ...
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Minority Men See Increase In Syphilis Cases
August 02, 2011
According to reports, syphilis hits minority gay and bisexual men in the US, as the US centers for Disease Control and Prevention stated that the rates are not in proportion. Also, the raise of the disease in the US, which has been since 2000, has led to increased concerns regarding not just syphilis, but the infection making people ...
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Minorities Short Changed On Sick Leave
August 01, 2011
The Institute for Women's Policy Research just issued a study finding that access to paid sick days in Denver varies widely based on ethnicity and race. The study reveals that only 33 percent of White women and 35 percent of White men have jobs that do not provide sick leave while Latinos and African Americans lag far behind ...
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Stigma Prevents HIV Testing By Black MDs
August 01, 2011
Social stigma is the largest barrier to routine HIV testing by African-American frontline care physicians, according to a new National Medical Association survey. Despite the belief by most physicians surveyed (93 percent) that HIV is either very serious or a crisis in the African-American community, findings suggested that ...
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BLACK MEN SAFER IN PRISON?
July 22, 2011
According to a study, black men are half as likely to die in prison than if they are free. The authors of the study, set to be published in the Annals of Epidemiology, claim that easier access to healthcare, protection from drugs and alcohol, and the ability to avoid deadly Black-on-Black violence leads to a longer lifespan for those who are incarcerated. African-American males are the only group for which these facts hold true, according to the authors of the study. The authors of the research also claim that the study reflects a pattern that those from disadvantaged groups live longer in prison primarily because they are protected from violent injuries and murder that can happen on the outside. ...
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Study: Stereotypes Can Affect Doctor Care Of Parkinson's Patients
July 06, 2011
Cultural, ethnic and gender stereotypes can significantly distort clinical judgments about "facially masked" patients with Parkinson's disease, according to a newly published study from researchers at Tufts University, Brandeis University and the National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan. ...
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Asthma Hospitalizes More Black Kids
July 01, 2011
According to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, black children were four times more likely than white children to be hospitalized for a severe asthma attack. This new information is based on information in the 2010 National Healthcare Disparities Report ...
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Obese Latinos Lack Sound Dr Advice
July 01, 2011
A new study that appears in the July/August issue of the American Journal of Health Promotion shows that only half of obese Mexican-American adults receive diet and exercise advice from their physicians although obesity is on the rise for this group. “Among this obese population, not seeing ...
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Unique Program Helps Black Women Mange Diabetes
June 27, 2011
The University of Virginia Health System has received a $300,000 grant to study the “Call to Health†model, which uses text messages, stress reduction and other techniques to help African-American women manage type 2 diabetes. UVA was one of five organizations to receive two-year grants from the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation ...
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Latinos Could Smash 2012 Voting Record
June 24, 2011
Latinos will turnout in record numbers in the next Presidential election, with at least 12.2 million casting ballots, according to projections made by the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) Educational Fund. This analysis also reveals that Latinos will account for a significant share of the electorate in several states. ...
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Nation's Mayors Speak Out On "Failed" War On Drugs
June 22, 2011
According to the mayors’ resolution, the Criminal Justice commission will produce recommendations to “reduce crime and violence, improve cost-effectiveness, ensure the interests of justice at every step of the criminal justice system…reduce incarceration, reform U.S. drug policy, eliminate racial and gender disparities ...
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Black Baby Boomers Eye Uncertain Retirement
June 08, 2011
Financial planners typically say retirees will need replacement income of 70-80 percent to continue living as well as they did prior to exiting the workforce. ...
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Blacks Support Mobile Phone Merger
June 02, 2011
Collectively, the signatory groups represent the approximately 40 million African Americans in the United States. ...
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Health Care Quality Gaps And Disparities Persist Nationwide
June 01, 2011
Among minority and low-income Americans, the level of health care quality and access to services remained unfavorable. ...
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Minority Quality Forum Launches the U.S. HIV/AIDS Index
May 31, 2011
This updated resource enables users – for the first time – to map HIV and AIDS prevalence and total counts by congressional district and county. ...
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Racial And Ethnic Disparities In Stroke Care
May 27, 2011
The panel said there also are disparities between whites and minorities in the knowledge of risk factors, awareness of stroke signs and symptoms. ...
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Bayer Gender Bias Lawsuit Widens
May 25, 2011
According to the amended complaint, there is an entirely new class of plaintiffs and an additional Bayer HealthCare Division now added to the case. ...
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NYC Program To Expand Minority And Women-Owned Businesses
May 25, 2011
“This mentorship program will provide classroom and one-on-one training and technical assistance to work-ready, but still-emerging M/WBEs,†said Speaker Quinn. ...
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Best Way To Save Medicare, Offer It To Everyone
May 23, 2011
Proposals to privatize Medicare have been met with such fierce opposition, because it was revealed that privatization meant much higher out-of-pocket costs for seniors. ...
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HUD Awards $153M To Revitalize Distressed Public Housing
May 23, 2011
The eight housing authorities announced today were selected among 36 public housing authorities that applied for FY 2010 HOPE VI Revitalization funding. ...
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Planned Parenthood: KS Budget Amendment Undermining Women's Health
May 13, 2011
“It is outrageous that Gov. Brownback will sign a budget bill that will undermine women’s health and deny Planned Parenthood from providing preventive health care.†...
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Urban Minority Children Have Trouble Sleeping
May 16, 2011
There is mounting evidence suggesting that children from minority groups have significantly shorter sleep durations and increased sleep disruptions.†...
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