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Federal Reserve Board Gov. Lisa Cook gives keynote address at GCSU commencements
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Christian & Timbers Releases Proprietary Study on C-Suite Compensation Trends in Cybersecurity Industry; Reveals CEO Compens
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Preserving Sikh Canadian heritage and culture
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Statement by Minister Khera on Dutch Heritage Day
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National Institutes of Health All of Us Research Program Mobile Tour Visits Rochester, NY
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University of Phoenix College of Doctoral Studies Holds Third Annual Colloquium Supporting Doctoral Students
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i3 Verticals Announces Earnings Release and Conference Call Date for Second Quarter of Fiscal 2024
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High School Women Launch First of its Kind Energy Literacy Podcast
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Anaergia Announces Additional Delay in the Filing of Its Audited Financial Statements and Related Disclosures
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Think Together Recognizes Colton Joint Unified School District as its 2024 Champion of Change
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Ministers Anandasangaree, Hajdu, Vandal, and Ien issue statement on Red Dress Day 2024
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Preserving Holocaust remembrance and creating safer communities
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Robert Galibert Makes a Drug-Free French Connection on Voices for Humanity
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CORRECTING and REPLACING Babson Diagnostics Partners with Cynergy Wellness, Inc.
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Tennant Company Announces Senior Leadership Updates to Direct ERP Transformation and Drive Product Innovation
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Statement by Minister Khera on the occasion of Orthodox Easter
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KB Home Announces the Grand Opening of Its Newest Community in Desirable Buckeye, Arizona
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Las Vegas to Host WRESTLEMANIA® 41 Saturday, April 19 & Sunday, April 20, 2025
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Black Health Magazine Launches $1 Subscription Campaign
March 10, 2009
Black Health Magazine has announced that it will offer a $1.00 subscription campaign starting Monday, March 9, 2009 and ending on Monday, April 9, 2009, allowing consumers to take advantage of health information. ...
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Contractor awarded $1.4B to minority firms
March 09, 2009
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Washington Area Women's Foundation Awards $100,000 To 10 Local Nonprofit Winners of Leadership Awards
March 09, 2009
Washington Area Women's Foundation is the only donor-supported public foundation focused solely on improving the lives of low-income women and girls in the region and on increasing philanthropy by all women. ...
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HUD NEWS: DONOVAN ACCEPTS $1.3 BILLION TEXAS DISASTER RECOVERY PLAN
March 09, 2009
Funded through HUD's Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program, the Texas recovery plan seeks to produce affordable rental housing, build critical public infrastructure, and support economic revitalization. ...
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FORD ANNOUNCES THE ENTRY EXTENSION OF THE 2009 HBCU BUSINESS CLASSIC $100,000 SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM
March 05, 2009
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NCSU gets $1M from National Science Foundation
March 05, 2009
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National competition offers rappers across the country a chance to win $1 million prize
March 04, 2009
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HUD ALLOCATES MORE THAN $10 BILLION OF RECOVERY ACT FUNDING ONE WEEK AFTER BILL SIGNING
February 26, 2009
Recovery Act investments in HUD programs will generate tens of thousands of jobs, help the families and communities hardest hit by the economic crisis, and modernize homes to make them energy efficient ...
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NYC OPENS JACKIE ROBINSON MUSEUM
August 25, 2022
NEW YORK --- It's finally opened! After 14 years of all sorts of delays, the Jackie Robinson Museum opened in Lower Manhattan today after a ribbon cutting ceremony by Robinson's 100-year-old widow Rachel. ...
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BLM WANTS POLICE $ CUTS
June 25, 2020
NEW YORK - Since the death of George Floyd, the Black Lives Matter campaign has achieved some success, and today BLM protestors demanded that NY cut $1 billion from the $6 billion police budget. At a demonstration at City Hall, some of the participants even went so far as to call for the abolishment of the police department. A number of the BLM protestors stated they will stay at City Hall until their demands are met. ...
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IMAM AND ASSOCIATE SLAIN OUTSIDE NY MOSQUE
August 14, 2016
Members of a Queens, NY mosque are expressing shock and outrage today following a gunman who shot and killed the mosque’s imam and his associate. ...
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FAST FOOD WORKERS STRIKE FOR BETTER PAY
September 04, 2014
NEW YORK - Thousands of workers from McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's and other fast food outlets nationally are striking today to seek better wages ...
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NYC Minority Housing Project Gets Good $$$ News
November 27, 2020
NEW YORK - The 4000 mostly minority tenants of the Diego Beekman Houses in New York’s South Bronx are receiving some good news today. That news is taking the form of a new, low interest, 30-year mortgage for $19 million dollars. NYC Comptroller John Liu told reporters the funds came from the NYC Employee Retirement System and the Police Pension Fund. ...
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CA Black Community Rallies For LA Sports Complex
September 07, 2011
Citing Black unemployment, minority rights groups in the Black community are calling on California Senator Alan Lowenthal and all California legislators to stand up for jobs, especially for those hit hardest by the recession. The protest is co-sponsored ...
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Judge Reviewing Black Farmer Settlement
September 02, 2011
U.S. Federal District Judge Paul Friedman in Washington is reviewing the $1.25 billion settlement in a class action stemming from allegations the government discriminated against black farmers in loan processing. Friedman met for about eight hours with the plaintiffs' team, government lawyers and farmers, some of whom traveled ...
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Seattle Intervenes In Latino Gang War
September 01, 2011
King County plans to spend $1.4 million in reserve funds to combat the growing Latino gang problem in South King County, using both law enforcement and community outreach resources. The Sheriff’s Office believes there are over 10,000 gang members among an estimated 140 street gangs in King County. Gang related crime has gone up 165 percent since 2005 and has shifted from ...
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Study To Investigate Causes Of Breast Cancer In Blacks
August 31, 2011
UNC scientist Robert Millikan will partner with Christine Ambrosone, of Roswell Park Cancer Institute, and Julie R. Palmer, of Boston University, in the most ambitious study to date of breast cancer among younger Black women. Data from UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Carolina Breast Cancer Study demonstrated that Black women under the age of 45 are more likely to be diagnosed with aggressive types ...
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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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Report Touts HUD Progress On Discrimination
August 30, 2011
A report released today by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) shows that the agency is resolving individual housing discrimination complaints faster, increasing its focus on complaints that affect multiple people, and launching more investigations using its authority to initiate cases on behalf of discrimination victims where no one has filed a complaint. HUD’s Annual State of Fair Housing Report also illustrates how the agency is helping municipalities and state and local agencies receiving HUD funding to comply with civil rights requirements ...
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Hispanic Media Holds Its Ground Against The Mainstream
August 29, 2011
A Pew Research Center’s study released today reveals Spanish-language media remains important to the nation’s growing and changing Hispanic population. The report, Project for Excellence in Journalism, shows in the last year, this media sector tended to fare better overall than the mainstream English-language media Hispanic newspapers overall lost circulation in 2010, but not nearly to the extent of the English-language ...
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Watchdog Group Questions First Lady's Africa Trip
August 26, 2011
The government watchdog group, Judicial Watch, has filed a lawsuit against the US Air Force to obtain records of a trip made by First Lady Michelle Obama to Southern Africa in June. The group is questioning whether the trip, which included a meeting with Nelson Mandela and an African Safari, was necessary. According the U.S. Postal Service records, Judicial Watch’s FOIA request was received by the Air Force ...
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Minorities And Poor Unlikely To Complete Cancer Vax Regimen
August 30, 2011
A new Yale School of Public Health study concludes barriers that hinder young Black, Hispanic and poor women from completing a series of three vaccinations to prevent human papillomavirus infection (HPV) also leave them at higher risk for cervical cancer and death. According to the Health Behavior News Service ...
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Team To Conduct Largest Ever Study Of Breast Cancer In Blacks
August 25, 2011
A multidisciplinary team is coming together in the largest study to date on breast cancer in Black women. The team will investigate why Black women are more likely than those of European descent to be diagnosed with breast cancer at a young age, and with poor prognoses. Supported by a five-year, $19.3 million award from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), scientists from the Slone Epidemiology Center ...
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White CA Cops Allege "Anti-White" Discrimination
August 23, 2011
In California, a white male cop claims he was passed over for a promotion in 2007 because of racial bias. "The city has a longstanding custom and practice in discriminating against white males," according to a lawsuit complaint filed by officers Heinz Hofmann and Thomas Buckley. "The reason plaintiffs were passed over for lower ...
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Chicago Ordered To Hire 111 Black Firefighters
August 18, 2011
The City of Chicago has been ordered to hire 111 Black men and to compensate 6,000 others who were passed over for employment due to discriminatory testing practices. The city must hire 111 bypassed black firefighters by March 2012 and pay at least $30 million in damages Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously agreed that black candidates did not wait too long before filing the lawsuit A federal appeals court affirmed that ruling in May and remanded the case back to the trial court to implement ...
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NAACP Says "No" To More Trash at Dallas Landfill
August 17, 2011
No in my backyard. The city of Dallas wants to add trash to the McCommas landfill in southern Dallas. The NAACP says no. They are joining the fight to stop the city from putting even more North Texas trash into the landfill. Currently, garbage from ...
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Firm Awards $400K In Minority Accounting Scholarships
August 15, 2011
The KPMG Foundation a private firm that operates on donations, today announced it has awarded a total of $400,000 in scholarships to 40 minority accounting doctoral students for the 2011-2012 academic year. The students include 10 new recipients and 30 students whose scholarships have been renewed. Each scholarship is valued at $10,000 and renewable annually for up to five years. ...
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U of N. Dakota Faces Deadline To Change Fighting Sioux Nickname
August 15, 2011
The University of North Dakota faces a deadline today to comply with the NCAA's policy on mascots "deemed hostile or abusive toward Native Americans." Now the school is one step closer to retiring its nickname and mascot, but changing the school's 90-year-old Native American moniker -- the Fighting Sioux -- has not been without complications. School officials were in the process of coming up with a new name and mascot this year until North Dakota legislators passed a law ordering them to stop, according to UND spokesman Peter Johnson. The rock and the hard place the school finds itself between marks the last gasp of a decades-long fight not just in North Dakota, but in all of college sports ...
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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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MINORITY BANK SCAMMER GETS MAX
August 12, 2011
A federal judge has sentenced Jammie E. Harris to the maximum prison term for her role in fleecing Pittsburgh's only minority-owned bank of more than $3 million. "I regret a lot of the things I have done," said Harris in a rambling statement to Senior U.S. District Judge Alan Bloch. Judge Bloch interrupted Harris' plea for leniency citing her 36 prior convictions ...
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Report: Blacks And Latinos Earn Less Than White Counterparts
August 11, 2011
African-Americans and Latinos earn less than their white counterparts, even if they are highly educated workers. Members of these groups who hold master’s degrees do not earn more during their lifetimes than whites with bachelor’s ...
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