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May 3, 2024
Illinois American Water Proudly Recognizes American Water Charitable Foundation 2024 Water and Environment Grantees
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Bright Horizons Family Solutions Reports Financial Results for First Quarter of 2024
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Afya Limited Announces Entering Into a Share Purchase Agreement for the Acquisition of Unidompedro and Faculdade Dom Luiz
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BusinessWomen Launches: Empowering Women to Thrive and Connect Globally
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Apogee Enterprises Declares Quarterly Cash Dividend
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T&Pm Launches First U.S. Marketing Campaign for British Womenswear Label ME+EM
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Ratliff & Taylor Expands Executive Search Practice to Support Regional Demand and Growth
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Brookdale Management to Participate in Two Investor Conferences in May 2024
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Hyundai Motor Spearheads U.S. Zero-Emission Freight Transportation with NorCAL ZERO Project Launch
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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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dynaCERT’s Appointment of Dr. James Tansey Signals Commitment in Carbon Credit Innovation
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Hawaiian Airlines Corporate Kuleana Report: Growing Sustainably
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Yale's Akiko Iwasaki, PhD, named to TIME100 Lists of Most Influential People in the World
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Eagle Mountain-Saginaw Independent School District Selects Varsity Tutors for Schools to Provide Students with Additional Learni
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University of Phoenix Professional Development Hosts Webinar on How Organizations Can Integrate Traditional Titles With a Skills
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SES AI Reports First Quarter 2024 Earnings Results; Affirms 2024 Outlook
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TARAJI P. HENSON, TASHA SMITH, METHOD MAN, MARSAI MARTIN, LARENZ TATE, ANGIE MARTINEZ AND MORE JOIN MARY J. BLIGE FOR THE THIRD
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Canada and Blue Jays teaming up to renovate Mary Dorothy Jacobs Memorial Park baseball diamond in Curve Lake First Nation
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NYCLU: Record Number of Innocent New Yorkers Stopped, Interrogated by NYPD
May 13, 2009
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Recorded Webcast with CDF President Marian Wright Edelman
May 12, 2009
CDF's goal is to provide affordable, comprehensive health coverage to everyone this year—especially children. Never has it been more important for CDF to have a strong presence on Capitol Hill and State Houses all across our country. We must ensure that health care reform is a top priority. ...
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Vaccine Records of Internationally Adopted Children May Not Reflect Protection Against Disease
May 06, 2009
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Wal-Mart Reports Record Increase in Business with Minority- and Women-Owned Suppliers
April 23, 2009
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ASNE Census Shows Record Job Loss for Newspapers; Minorities Held Steady
April 17, 2009
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Minority Health Summit Educates Record Crowd
April 06, 2009
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Minnesota STIs Reach a Record High in 2008; Minorities Remain Disproportionately Affected
April 02, 2009
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U.S. TB Rate in 2008 at Record Low; Minority, Immigrant Populations Remain Disproportionately Affected, CDC Report Says
March 24, 2009
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Turner awards record $1.4B to MWBEs
March 11, 2009
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TRUCKBACK RECORDS PRESENTS THE DASHBOARD RIDDIM
March 02, 2009
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Obama Touts Record to African-Americans
March 02, 2009
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Urban Network Music-Entertainment Summit to Honor Motown Records Founder Berry Gordy; Actor Danny Glover & Black Filmmakers Hall
February 24, 2009
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KAVANAUGH PROTEST
October 05, 2018
NEW YORK - With Judge Brett Kavanaugh officially ascending to the Supreme Court on tomorrow afternoon, thousands of New Yorkers gathered in Times Square to denounce the new Associate Justice, who replaces retired Justice Anthony Kennedy. ...
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Asian-Americans Make Demands on China
November 27, 2020
NEW YORK – Demonstrators from the New York Chinese-American community are out in force outside the United Nations building in New York, expressing the view that their homeland in China doesn’t deserve its membership in the UN Security Council because of its political hold on Tibet . Displaying pictures of Tibetans who immolated themselves or otherwise violently protested Chinese rule over Tibet, the protestors charge the level of violence China has enacted in Tibet today is greater than when it hit record levels in 2008. ...
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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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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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Law Professor Says Affirmative Action Hurts Minorities
August 29, 2011
The California Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether the State Bar must release racial data from the bar exam to a law professor who believes affirmative action may hurt minorities. A SF Gate report states an appellate court had ruled in June that the professor, and the public, have a right of access to records of the lawyers' organization ...
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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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Girl Scouts Names 1st Hispanic Nat'l Leader
August 25, 2011
Anna Maria Chavez, a lawyer, has been named CEO of the Girl Scouts of the USA, making her the first Hispanic head of the organization. Chávez, who grew up in a small town in southern Arizona and rose to become deputy chief of staff to that state’s then-Gov. Janet Napolitano, is set to officially assume her new role at the Girl Scouts National Council Session/52nd Convention in November. ...
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Health Equity Summit Coincides With MLK Memorial Opening
August 23, 2011
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Health Equity Summit, convened by the Institute for the Advancement of Multicultural and Minority Medicine (IAMMM), continues today as the long-awaited Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial is unveiled and opens to the public on the National Mall. Both events sharpen public attention on human rights: the Summit focusing tightly on the health status of minorities and populations in low-resource countries and achieving health equity at the lowest cost. ...
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ACLU Wants Info On Boston Police Surveillance‎
August 19, 2011
Civil rights groups want to know more about the Boston Police Department's surveillance of political activists and protests and what it does with the collected information. The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts and the National Lawyers Guild of Massachusetts have filed a lawsuit on behalf of eight Boston-area political groups and four individual activists. The groups want the department to disclose information ...
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LATINOS BADLY PREPPED FOR COLLEGE
August 17, 2011
College and career readiness among 2011 Hispanic U.S. high school graduates who took the ACT test shows slow but steady improvement, particularly in the key areas of math and science, according to ACT’s yearly report, The Condition of College and Career Readiness 2011, released today. However, ACT results continue to show a high number of students who are graduating without all of the academic skills they need to succeed after high ...
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Giving Birth Linked To Cancer In Blacks
August 16, 2011
Black women are at higher risk for hormone receptor-negative breast cancer, one of the most difficult subtypes to treat, but this risk could be ameliorated somewhat by breast-feeding their children. “African-American women are more likely to have had a greater number of full-term births and less likely to have breast-fed their babies,†said Julie Palmer, Sc.D., professor of epidemiology at the Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University. “This study shows a clear link between that and hormone ...
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Not Enough Black Police Recruits, Says NAACP
August 16, 2011
The New Jersey State police department has come under criticism from the state chapter of the NAACP for not having enough black cadets in this year's recruit class. The first class of recruits in two years reports for training today ...
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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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Young Blacks Twice As Likely To Die On Dialysis
August 12, 2011
A new study may change the way doctors treat their dialysis patients. Past research suggested that black patients on dialysis survive longer than whites, but a new study finds that this does not hold true for young black patients. In fact, young blacks are twice as likely to die while on dialysis. ...
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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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Illinois Police Question Traffic-Stop Study
August 11, 2011
The 2010 results for a traffic stop study were just released by the Illinois Department of Transportation. The study is supposed to determine whether minority drivers were being stopped and ticketed more often than white drivers in Illinois. Since 2004, every officer who makes a traffic stop is required to fill out a separate form indicating the driver’s race, the reason for the stop, whether the driver was given a ticket or warning and whether the car was searched. Each department compiles the annual statistics and reports them to the state. ...
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Diversity Report Card: WNBA Earns Top Score
August 10, 2011
According to the 2011 Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) Racial and Gender Report Card released by The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES), the WNBA received an A+ for race and an A for gender. The WNBA has consistently been the industry leader for all professional sport when it comes to diversity. The 94.7 points earned for race was the highest total for race in the history of the WNBA. The WNBA received a combined A+ in the 2009 and 2010 Report Cards. In the 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006â€07, 2008, 2009, 2010 and now the 2011 Racial and Gender Report Cards. ...
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How Crack Cocaine Transformed Hip-Hop
August 09, 2011
Crack cocaine. In the 1980s, it was the newest thing. By 1986 it was raging through the inner cities of America, like wildfire, leaving pain, grief and death in its wake. Now, after 25 years, a new documentary explores how the drug also transformed pop culture, especially hip-hop. “Planet Rock: ...
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LATINOS SUE GRAMMYS
August 03, 2011
A group of Latin jazz musicians are suing the US National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences for cutting the Grammy award category of best Latin jazz album. In April, the Grammys announced a restructuring plan that cut 109 award categories down to 78. Awards for Latin music were cut from eight to four. Some of the other awards to be cut were individual prizes for classical, zydeco and Native American ...
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