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Stericycle President and CEO Cindy J. Miller Receives 2024 Women Who Inspire Award From Waste360 • Andall Biosciences Introduces 23WELL: A Breakthrough New Brand with Ovary Care Capsules (1+1) as its Stellar Debut Product • NiSource Announces First Quarter 2024 Results • Arctic Inspiration Prize awards over $3.2 million to 10 teams across Canada's North • AECOM joint venture to deliver the UK National Grid’s Great Grid Upgrade • FREYR Battery Reports First Quarter 2024 Results • Trane Technologies and the U.S. Department of Energy Partner to Advance Building Decarbonization in New Heat Pump Technology Cha • Reynolds Consumer Products Reports First Quarter 2024 Financial Results • Angeles Investors to Announce Top 100 Startups & Adelante Award Honoree • Bidgely and Avista Utilities Win 2024 PLMA Technology Pioneer Award • Court decision determines Gen7 Fuel bank accounts not part of OTE's insolvency process. • The Kids Mental Health Foundation and Mental Health Storytelling Initiative Unveil First-Ever Children's Section for Mental Heal • Alongside Releases New Data Report Illuminating Teen Mental Health Crisis • TLG Motion Pictures Opens Tokyo Production Office, Signifying Major Expansion in Asia • PLM, PIM & CRM Retail Technology Platform Surefront Releases ‘The Complete Guide to Retail Sustainability’ • Teal Health Completes Clinical Trial at Record Speed and Receives FDA Breakthrough Designation for Its At-Home Cervical Cancer S • DPC Dash - Domino's Pizza China Releases 2023 ESG Report Demonstrating Strong Commitment to Sustainability and Stakeholder Engag • Ryder Examines Economic Impacts of Converting to Commercial Electric Vehicles (EV) in Current Market • Top-Performing Airlines Set Themselves Apart with Friendly Staff, J.D. Power Finds • Eaton to supply innovative ELocker differential system to leading electrified vehicle manufacturer

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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. ... read more

Contractor awarded $1.4B to minority firms

March 09, 2009

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. ... read more

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. ... read more

FORD ANNOUNCES THE ENTRY EXTENSION OF THE 2009 HBCU BUSINESS CLASSIC $100,000 SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM

March 05, 2009

NCSU gets $1M from National Science Foundation

March 05, 2009

National competition offers rappers across the country a chance to win $1 million prize

March 04, 2009

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 ... read more

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. ... read more

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. ... read more

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 mosqueâ€™s imam and his associate. ... read more

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 ... read more

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. ... read more

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 ... read more

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 ... read more

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 Sheriffâ€™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 ... read more

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 Centerâ€™s Carolina Breast Cancer Study demonstrated that Black women under the age of 45 are more likely to be diagnosed with aggressive types ... read more

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 ... read more

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. HUDâ€™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 ... read more

Hispanic Media Holds Its Ground Against The Mainstream

August 29, 2011

A Pew Research Centerâ€™s study released today reveals Spanish-language media remains important to the nationâ€™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 ... read more

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 Watchâ€™s FOIA request was received by the Air Force ... read more

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 ... read more

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 ... read more

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 ... read more

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 ... read more

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 ... read more

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. ... read more

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 ... read more

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 donâ€™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. ... read more

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 ... read more

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 masterâ€™s degrees do not earn more during their lifetimes than whites with bachelorâ€™s ... read more

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