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May 3, 2024
REAL SALT LAKE AND ALSCO UNIFORMS EXTEND PARTNERSHIP TO INCLUDE UTAH ROYALS
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i3 Verticals Announces Earnings Release and Conference Call Date for Second Quarter of Fiscal 2024
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Government of Canada and the Government of Manitoba announce partnership to develop a Red Dress Alert together with Indigenous p
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ZACAPA RUM AND RAUL LOPEZ OF LUAR UNVEIL A LIMITED-EDITION COLLECTION: AN ODE TO HERITAGE, COMMUNITY, AND CRAFTSMANSHIP
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Valley Children's Receives Historic $15 Million Gift to Create Advanced Cell Therapy Program for Pediatric Cancer
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California Launches Youth-Focused Statewide Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) Campaign
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Northern Trust Named Best Private Bank in U.S. for Digital Wealth Planning, Best Digital Innovator of the Year in U.S.
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University of Phoenix College of Nursing Alumna and Faculty Publish Article on Lived Experiences of Intensive Care Unit Nursing
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AHF Backs FTC Challenge to Big Pharma Junk Patents
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Tennant Company Announces Senior Leadership Updates to Direct ERP Transformation and Drive Product Innovation
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Brown Books Kids Publishes Children’s Picture Book, Perfect for Summer Reading
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High School Women Launch First of its Kind Energy Literacy Podcast
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WWPR WELCOMES RETURNING MEMBERS TO 2024 - 2025 ADVISORY COUNCIL
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Melmark's Dream Maker's Ball Raised $500,000 to Support Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
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National Institutes of Health All of Us Research Program Mobile Tour Visits Rochester, NY
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Lac Seul First Nation and Canada settle Flooding Claim
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CORRECTING and REPLACING Wheaties™ Pushes the Limits of Breakfast with New Wheaties Protein
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Innovative partnership to bring 100 units of social and affordable housing units for independent seniors to Terrebonne
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The Iconic Caribbean Posh Weekend Returns To The USVI; Will Honor Dr. Yvette Noel-Schure
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Water Engineering Inc., a Portfolio Company of Nolan Capital, Announces the Acquisition of WET Solutions, Inc., a Leading Provid
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CONGRESSIONAL TRICAUCUS MEMBERS ON HEALTHCARE REFORM:"COVERAGE IS NOT ENOUGH"
June 08, 2009
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Sotomayor & SCOTUS coverage
May 22, 2009
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Iowa Gov. Signs Bill That Extends Health Insurance Coverage to More Children
May 21, 2009
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New York’s Caregivers Lack Coverage: PHI Urges State Action
May 05, 2009
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NATIONAL LATINO AND AFRICAN AMERICAN HIV/AIDS ORGANIZATIONS ENDORSE CONGRESSWOMAN WATERS ROUTINE HIV SCREENING COVERAGE ACT
May 05, 2009
The bill would require health insurance plans to cover routine HIV tests under the same terms and conditions as other routine health screenings and would greatly expand communities of colors access to HIV testing. ...
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Vaccination Coverage Improves Among Low-Income Children, But Disparities Persist
May 05, 2009
More children in low-income households are receiving childhood vaccinations on schedule than in previous years, but disparities based on economic status remain, according to a report in the May issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, a theme issue on vaccines. ...
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K-12 Leaders Provide Five Specific Recommendations to State and Local Decision-Makers For High-Leverage Investments of Federal
May 01, 2009
The Coalition for Student Achievement today released five specific recommendations for education leaders on how to best invest the federal stimulus dollars to leverage significant increases in student performance. ...
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Winners Selected for 2008 Media Awards for Coverage of Affordable Housing Crisis
April 24, 2009
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Six Trib writers win for coverage of black issues
April 20, 2009
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Rhode Island Law Expands COBRA Coverage to Former Employees of Small Businesses
April 15, 2009
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The Angie Zapata Murder: Resources for Media Coverage of Colorado's Landmark Hate Crimes Trial
April 08, 2009
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Two Utah Bills Seek To Lift Restrictions on CHIP, Medicaid Coverage for Documented Immigrant Children
February 27, 2009
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MINORITY COMMUNITIES HIT BY NEW DRUG CRISIS
November 27, 2020
Alarmed that 33 people were severally sickened by an overdose of the synthetic marijuana known as K2, law enforcement have fanned out in minority sections of Brooklyn, NY to locate the sources of the drugs. ...
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NY SUPPORT FOR HONG KONG PROTESTERS
October 01, 2014
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Hispanics Celebrate Three Kings Day Parade in NYC
January 07, 2013
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Research: Minority Children Need Strategies To Fight Obesity
September 08, 2011
The White House Task Force on Childhood Obesity, created by the president as part of the first lady's "Let's Move" campaign, aims to solve the epidemic of childhood obesity within a generation, returning the country to a rate of 5 percent by 2030, which was the rate before childhood obesity first began to rise in the late 1970s. ...
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Fed Report Blasts "Heavy-Handed" Puerto-Rico Police
September 08, 2011
Following a comprehensive investigation, the Justice Department today announced its findings that the Puerto Rico Police Department (PRPD) has engaged in a pattern and practice of misconduct that violates the Constitution and federal law. The investigation, launched in July 2008, was conducted in accordance with the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 and the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968. ...
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Obama Black Approval Hits New Low
September 08, 2011
President Barack Obama earned the lowest monthly job approval rating of his presidency to date in August, with 41% of U.S. adults approving of his overall job performance, down from 44% in July. He also received term-low monthly job approval ...
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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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Minorities Targeted By War On Terrorism
September 07, 2011
An investigation by the Center for Investigative Reporting into the counter-terrorism program at the Mall of America near Minneapolis, found that it often ensnares seemingly innocent people with the FBI and other law enforcement organizations. Ever since 9/11, the nation’s leaders have warned that government agencies can’t protect ...
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BLACK KILLER'S DEATH DATE UPROAR
September 07, 2011
Georgia is scheduling the execution later this month of an inmate who has won worldwide support for his claims of innocence in the 1989 slaying of a Savannah police officer, his attorney said Tuesday. A Chatham County judge signed the death warrant for Troy Davis yesterday, marking the fourth time since 2007 ...
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NAACP Intervenes In Florida Minority Voting Rights Case
September 07, 2011
The NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) has filed a motion seeking to intervene in a lawsuit on behalf of the Florida State Conference of the NAACP and Black voters to prevent the State of Florida from implementing discriminatory voting laws. In the lawsuit, Florida v. United States, Florida asks a federal court to approve, under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, voting measures that would significantly alter Florida's voting process. ...
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Few Blacks Wear Seatbelts
September 06, 2011
According to the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT), the No. 1 leading cause of unintentional injury death for all Blacks is motor vehicle crashes. Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for Blacks ages 1 to 14. Of those killed while passengers in a vehicle, 52 percent of Black children were not restrained at the time of the crash. Though wearing a seat belt is the best way to avoid injury, ...
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Latinos Eye Texas Redistricting Trial
September 06, 2011
Texas Republicans will face off against Democrats and minority advocacy groups this week in the first trial related to contested redistricting maps approved by the Legislature earlier this year. The trial will combine several federal lawsuits, The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) will present its case seeking equal representation for Texas Latinos in the congressional and State House redistricting plans. ...
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Study Debunks Minority Financial Aid Myth
September 06, 2011
A new report by financial aid and college planning author, Mark Kantrowitz, challenges the assumption that college grant money flows disproportionately to members of minority groups. Kantrowitz, an ABD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University, says his paper presents data concerning the distribution of grants and scholarships by race. It debunks the race myth, which claims that minority students receive more than their fair share of scholarships. ...
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Report: Black Males Unable To Hold On To Middle Class
September 06, 2011
According to a new report by Pew’s Economic Mobility Project, a middle-class upbringing does not guarantee the same status as an adult, The report, Downward Mobility from the Middle Class: Waking Up from the American Dream, considers potential factors that cause a third of Americans who grow up in the middle – defined ...
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Latino Voting Advocates Object To Texas Redistricting
September 02, 2011
Advocates for LULAC that included former Congressman Ciro D. Rodriguez, National LULAC Counsel Luis Roberto Vera, Jr., Maverick County Judge David Saucedo and John Tanner, former Department of Justice Voting Rights Section ...
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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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Study: Doctors May 'Learn" Bias In Med School
September 06, 2011
New Johns Hopkins research shows that medical students -- just like the general American population -- may have unconscious if not overt preferences for white people, but this innate bias does not appear to translate into different or lesser health care of other races. The research findings, to be published tomorrow in the Journal ...
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COURT SAYS NYPD BIAS SUIT A GO
August 31, 2011
Manhattan Federal Judge Shira Scheindlin has given the go ahead to a lawsuit that challenged the city's stop-and-frisk policies as biased, especially toward Blacks and Hispanics. Judge Scheindlin said the allegations in the lawsuit were supported well enough to justify a trial to decide if New York's stop-and-frisk policies are legal. She said the trial can determine whether quotas prompted officers to stop suspects without just cause. She said the trial can also decide whether police leadership has failed to adequately train officers. ...
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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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