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Illinois American Water Proudly Recognizes American Water Charitable Foundation 2024 Water and Environment Grantees
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Yale's Akiko Iwasaki, PhD, named to TIME100 Lists of Most Influential People in the World
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AHRC Nassau's 75th Anniversary Spotlights History of Advocacy, Importance of Membership
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Metropolitan Celebrates Four Innovative, Water-Saving Projects
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Update From US Government On Haiti
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March 11, 2010
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Combating Gangs
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July 27, 2009
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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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MINORITY NYC BUSINESSES COMPLAIN
July 03, 2020
NEW YORK - Angered by what they consider overly punitive enforcement by police, Black and Brown New York City business leaders today demanded the practice end. Led by Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams outside of New York Police headquarters, the minority businesses claimed they received exorbitant fines, required changes to a business's method of operations, including shorter hours, and even revocation of a business's liquor license. ...
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THOUSANDS PROTEST DEATH OF BLACK MAN DURING ARREST BY NYPD
August 23, 2014
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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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Black Caucus To Host DC Cancer Summit
September 08, 2011
The Prostate Health Education Network, Inc. (PHEN) announced today that it will host its "Seventh Annual African American Prostate Cancer Disparity Summit" in Washington from September 22- 23, 2011, at the U.S. Capitol and Washington Convention Center. This year's theme is "Saving Lives: Strategies for Eliminating the African American Prostate Cancer Disparity." The Summit will kick-off on Sept. 22 ...
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Food Insecurity Higher In Minority Households
September 08, 2011
The USDA today released a new report of Food Security in the U.S.. The report showed that food insecurity rates were substantially higher than the national average for households with incomes near or below the current federal poverty line ($22,350 for a family of four), households with children headed by single women ...
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Chicago Minority Caucuses Push For Casino
September 02, 2011
Chicago City Council’s Black and Hispanic Caucuses this week joined the battle between Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Gov. Pat Quinn over a land-based casino and slot machines at O'Hare and Midway airports. The City Council members said a ...
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Conference To Focus On Boosting Minorities In Technology
August 31, 2011
Several of the nation’s leading technology entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, along with members of the Black technology community will take part in the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s (CBCF) 41st Annual Legislative Conference (ALC) at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center to discuss tangible efforts ...
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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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US Closer To Minority Majority
August 31, 2011
New analysis released today by the Brookings Institution Metropolita Policy Program reveals rapid growth of Hispanic and Asian populations and new internal shifts of Blacks are transforming the demographics of America‟s largest metropolitan areas ahead of other parts of the country. The report, The New Metropolitan Minority Map, is based on decennial census data from 1990, 2000, and 2010 for the 100 ...
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Justice Dept. Finds Florida Inmates Abused
August 30, 2011
A U.S. Department of Justice investigation into the Miami-Dade County jail system has found inmates are routinely abused, refused mental and physical medical care and are constantly at risk for disease. The report details the deplorable conditions within the county’s Corrections and Rehabilitation Department and claims employees ...
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Former Black Muslim Leader Gets Life Sentences
August 29, 2011
Yusuf Bey IV, The former leader of an Oakland, California, community group received a life sentence for ordering the killing of three men. Bey was the head of Your Black Muslim Bakery, the black empowerment group his father formed in the 1960s. At its height, the group aspired to promote healthful dietary habits in the Black community ...
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Black Caucus To Make Final Jobs Tour Stop In L.A.
August 29, 2011
Beginning tomorrow, 13 Members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) will join Congresswoman Maxine Waters, in Los Angeles for the final stop on the CBC’s “For the People†Jobs Initiative, which includes a Job Fair and Town Hall at Crenshaw Christian Center in South Los Angeles. Joining Congresswoman Waters will be the co-hosts of the event, Reps. Laura Richardson and Karen Bass ...
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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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Hispanic Caucus Names Recipients Of Highest Honors
August 22, 2011
The Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI) today announced its 2011 highest honors to be awarded at its 34th Annual Awards Gala on Wednesday, September 14, 2011 in Washington. Four-time Grammy winner and legendary entertainer Vikki Carr and astronaut Jose Hernandez will each receive a 2011 Medallion of Excellence for Leadership and Community Service. U.S. Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar ...
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Black Caucus Jobs Fair In Florida
August 22, 2011
Black Florida Congressman Alcee Hastings will be participating in the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) “For the People†Jobs Initiative event today, in Miami. Fellow South Florida Congresswoman Frederica Wilson 7is hosting the town hall meeting on August 22nd as well as a jobs fair on August 23rd. The CBC has been bringing town halls and jobs fairs to cities during the month of August as part of the ...
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NY Lawmakers Push For Urban Jobs Act
August 16, 2011
With more than one-third of the nation's minority youth unemployed, a group of politicians and community activists today stood at Make the Road New York in Jackson Heights today, to continue their push for federal legislation aimed at increasing employment among at-risk youth. The Urban Jobs Act, they say, would provide federal funding to nonprofit organizations, allowing them to carry out programming ...
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School Reform Discussed At Black Caucus Confab
August 12, 2011
As Memphis City Schools enacts groundbreaking reforms to turn around the low-income urban district's troubled history, Deputy Superintendent Irving Hamer is sharing the city's story of increasing the effectiveness of its teachers at the Congressional Black Caucus' mid-year conference in Tunica, Miss., on Friday. With the recent announcement by the Obama administration that individual states ...
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Feds Must Justify Withholding Black Panther Docs
August 11, 2011
Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that a federal court rejected a claim of the attorney work product doctrine by the Department of Justice (DOJ) for documents prepared after the government dismissed its case against the New Black Panther Party ...
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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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Civil Rights Museum Presents 20th Anniversary Freedom Awards
August 11, 2011
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the National Civil Rights Museum, the 2011 Freedom Awards will be given to select individuals for their contributions to civil and human rights, education, the arts, sports community, justice and for their dedication to creating opportunity for the disenfranchised. Honorees this year include Danny Glover, Cicely Tyson, Bill Russell, Alonzo Mourning, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, among others. The Freedom Awards is a global civil rights event, part of the mission ...
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Ad Campaign Tells GOP To Focus On Minority Job Creation
August 11, 2011
In an effort to refocus Republican lawmakers on the need for job creation, the 2.1 million nurses, janitors, security officers, child care providers and other members of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) today unveiled a 7-figure ad campaign, including broadcast and cable television, radio ...
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A New Era Of Civil Rights For The USDA
August 10, 2011
Tomorrow and Friday, the members of USDA's Minority Farmer Advisory Committee will meet for the first time to discuss efforts to increase minority participation in department programs and services. ...
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MASSACHUSETTS MINORITIES DUPED
August 09, 2011
Resolving claims of unfair and discriminatory lending practices, a subsidiary of H&R Block will modify thousands of Massachusetts homeowners’ loans and make a significant payment to the Commonwealth as part of a settlement valued at $125 million, state Attorney General Martha Coakley announced today. “Option One made loans that it knew were likely to fail and it discriminated against African-American and Latino borrowers,†Attorney General Coakley said. ...
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August Is Black Business Month
August 09, 2011
August, which is National Black Business Month, is a good time for American businesses to confront the reality that supplier diversity should be a top strategic priority, not simply a corporate citizenship obligation, according to Boston Consulting Group (BCG) Senior Advisor James H. Lowry, coauthor of Minority Business Success: Refocusing on the American Dream (Stanford Business Books, 2011). "Black Business Month is the right time to remember that minorities will become the majority ...
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Vault.com Ranks US Law Firms On Diversity
August 09, 2011
Vault.com has released its 2012 Law Firm Diversity Rankings, and the more things change, the more they stay the same. For the third straight year, Carlton Fields has claimed the No. 1 spot for its “Overall Diversity†initiatives. ...
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ACLU Issues Report On Reducing US Incarceration Rates
August 09, 2011
Bipartisan reforms in historically “tough on crime†states have significantly reduced incarceration rates, saved taxpayers billions of dollars, lowered crime rates and should be emulated nationwide, according to a new report ...
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Feds Address Drug And Alcohol Abuse In Tribal Nation
August 08, 2011
Attorney General Eric Holder, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Department of the Interior (DOI) Secretary Ken Salazar today announced a new federal framework to assist American Indian and Alaska Native communities in achieving their goals in the prevention, intervention and treatment of alcohol and substance abuse. ...
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