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Statement - Public Safety Minister
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Statement by Minister Khera on the occasion of Orthodox Easter
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Preserving Holocaust remembrance and creating safer communities
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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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Robert Galibert Makes a Drug-Free French Connection on Voices for Humanity
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Latinos Call For Obama To Seize Initiative
July 21, 2011
The National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) is calling on President Obama to seize what it views as an opportunity to address issues critical to the Latino community. NALEO says it wants President Obama ...
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Rosa Parks Memorabilia Missing
July 21, 2011
The memorabilia collection of civil rights icon Rosa Parks - medals, papers, even the hat she wore on her historic bus ride - is in the hands of a New York auction house, its ownership in limbo, with a value once pegged at $US10 million. Her estate, valued at $US372,000 at the time of her death, is mostly gone - eaten up by lawyers' fees. ...
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Black Bankers Take Up King's Fight
July 21, 2011
Atlanta-based radio talk show host Warren Ballentine and the Washington, D.C.-based National Bankers Association believe reinvesting in Black-owned banks could inspire economic healing and strength in every aspect ...
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Policy Change Increases Minority Transplant Access
July 21, 2011
A new University of Michigan study reveals that since the elimination of the kidney allocation priority for matching for HLA-B in May of 2003, access to kidney transplantation for minorities has been improved. Improvement is a result of a policy that reduced the requirements for tissue matching. Prior national kidney allocation ...
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Unemployment Effects Black's Eating Habits
July 20, 2011
According to the latest Gallup poll results on American eating habits, the skyrocketing unemployment rate in the black community (16.2 percent) is compelling Black Americans to sacrifice healthy eating, for cheap, caloric foods. Nearly 4.5 million Americans are eating less-healthy foods due to a diminished spending power, ...
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Call For Outside Council In Black Lawmaker's Ethics Review
July 20, 2011
After details surrounding the ethics investigation of black California Congresswoman Maxine Waters leaked earlier this week, her lawyer is calling for a swift end to the case. Politico’s coverage of now-disclosed House Ethics ...
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Bachmann Says Thumbs Down On Black Farmer Settlement
July 19, 2011
WASHINGTON - Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann is criticizing the multibillion dollar Pigford settlement paid to black farmers as "wasteful government spending." Bachmann made the comments during a news conference with Republican Steve King of Iowa after touring flooded area along the Missouri River. When asked about whether farmers affected by the flooding also should be worried by proposed U.S. Department of Agriculture cuts, the two responded by criticizing the ...
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Latino Births Outpace Immigrants
July 14, 2011
According to a new analysis of Census Bureau data by the Pew Hispanic Center, a project of the Pew Research Center, births have surpassed immigration as the main driver of the dynamic growth in the U.S. Hispanic population. This new trend is especially evident among the largest of all Hispanic ...
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Campaign Promotes Use Of Minority Banks
July 12, 2011
The National Bankers Association {NBA}, a cosortium of minority-owned banks, is teaming with a popular, nationally-syndicated radio talk show host, Warren Ballentine, to spearhead a national campaign to get minorities and other consumers in the urban areas to bank with minority banks. ...
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NY Education Group Aims To Increase Minority Success
July 11, 2011
Since 1989 Harlem Educational Activities Fund (HEAF), along with their school and community partnerships, has helped more than 10,000 New York City students develop the intellectual curiosity, academic ability, social values and personal resilience needed to ensure success in school, career and life. ...
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Decision Day For CA Affirmative Action Ban
July 08, 2011
The deadline for Governor Jerry Brown to file his brief in the Ninth Circuit in the case challenging Proposition 209’s ban on affirmative action at the University of California is Friday. In 2009, as Attorney General, Governor Brown told the California Supreme Court that Proposition 209 violated ...
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BLACKS WIN KATRINA SUIT
July 07, 2011
Black homeowners and two civil rights organizations today announced a settlement in a post-Hurricane Katrina housing discrimination lawsuit brought against the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the State of Louisiana regarding the "Road Home" program. ...
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Groups Allege Ulterior Motive Of Immigration Program
July 06, 2011
Immigration rights groups allege documents obtained through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation show that the controversial Secure Communities deportation program (S-Comm), designed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to target people for deportation, is also a key component of a little-known FBI project to accumulate a massive store of personal biometric information ...
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Black Bone Marrow Registry Raises Awareness
July 05, 2011
A bone marrow transplant can be a cure for someone with sickle cell disease or other illnesses like leukemia and lymphoma. Most patients who need transplants do not have a match in their family and depend on the Be The Match Registry to find a match. But many African Americans and other minorities can’t find marrow donors ...
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Program Seeks To Boost Latino Use Of Broadband
July 01, 2011
In conjunction with its 82nd Annual National Convention, the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), along with the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) launched two new public service announcements encouraging Latinos ...
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Voting Right Restrictions Under Scrutiny
June 30, 2011
Sixteen U.S. senators sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice yesterday urging it to review new state voter ID laws and scrutinize their implementation to ensure that eligible voters are not disenfranchised. “The civil and human rights community welcomes the senators’ request ...
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Poll: 1 in 5 African Youth Plan To Start A Business
June 30, 2011
Gallup surveys in 27 African countries and areas underscore the interest young people in the region have in entrepreneurship. A median of one in five Africans between the ages of 15 and 24 who are not already business owners say they plan to start their own business in the next 12 months, although they are less ...
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MINORITY COLLEGE FUND SCANDAL
June 30, 2011
A local Durham, NC television station is reporting today that two women accused of skimming money from a minority college fund at North Carolina Central University intend to fight the allegations. Former provost Beverly Jones Washington ...
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Stunning Admissions In Katrina Shootings Case
June 29, 2011
Shortly after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans police officers allegedly fired on two black families on the Danziger Bridge. Two people died. Now the officers are on trial in a case that exposes widespread corruption in the city's justice ...
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BLACK POLITICAL CLOUT MOVING SOUTH
June 28, 2011
African-Americans once were clustered so heavily in urban areas that the terms "black" and "inner city" came to be used almost synonymously. According to the 2010 U.S. Census results, that time is history. While blacks have by no means vanished from cities, unprecedented numbers have headed for the suburbs or left the ...
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New Genetic Risk Factors Of Lupus Found In Study Of Black Women
June 24, 2011
Researchers from Boston University’s Slone Epidemiology Center have found four new genetic variants in the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) that confer a higher risk of systemic lupus erythemathosus (“lupusâ€) in African American women. The study, which currently appears on-line in Human Genetics, is believed to be the first ...
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LATINOS DISPUTE POLITICAL MAPS
June 22, 2011
The citizens commission charged with drawing new political boundaries for seats in California's House of Representatives, state Legislature and Board of Equalization has extended until June 28 the time it will accept written testimony on its first round ...
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Settlement Over Indian Land Royalties Approved
June 21, 2011
Federal judge Thomas Hogan yesterday approved a $3.4 billion settlement in a class action that alleged U.S. officials mismanaged Indian royalties. The class-action settlement, the largest ever approved against the U.S. government, generated more than 20 published judicial opinions and numerous appellate-court hearings. ...
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Bank Settles With Feds Over Allegations Of Discrimination
June 20, 2011
Justice Department reaches settlement in alleged lending discrimination in St. Louis. Settlement provides $1.45M to ensure equal lending services to African-American community ...
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Court Throws Out Wal-Mart Gender Bias Case
June 20, 2011
The women pressing the suit claim they and colleagues across the country were victimized by Wal-Mart’s practice of letting local managers make subjective decisions about pay and promotions. ...
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JARRING REPORT FOR BLACK GRADS
June 20, 2011
Nearly half of young men of color age 15 to 24 who graduate from high school will end up unemployed, incarcerated or dead, according to two new reports released today by the College Board Advocacy & Policy Center. ...
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Historic Negro Baseball Stadium On Road To Restoration
June 21, 2011
On The heels of the unveiling of the 2011 America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places (NTHP) by the non-profit National Trust for Historic Preservation, comes an update on one of last year's sites. Hinchcliffe Stadium, home of the Negro Baseball League's New York Black Yankees, fell into disrepair since it's closing in 1997. ...
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Report Looks At Health Disparities In The Age Of Personalized Medicine
June 22, 2011
Science Progress, a project of the online magazine Center for American Progress, released “Addressing Race and Genetics: Health Disparities in the Age of Personalized Medicine,†a report that studies how personalized medicine can potentially alleviate racial and ethnic health disparities. Personalized medicine, which is the development of medicines and therapies tailored to patients’ unique genetic traits and risks ...
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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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Redistricting No Longer A Black-White Issue In Virginia
June 08, 2011
The group, Virginia New Majority, says the map approved by Board of County Supervisors in April does not reflect the county’ s demographics. ...
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Hispanic Organizations Get Behind AT&T-T-Mobile Merger
June 07, 2011
The commitments that AT&T is making as part of this proposed merger will resonate strongly in Latino communities. ...
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