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Anaergia Announces Additional Delay in the Filing of Its Audited Financial Statements and Related Disclosures
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Statement - Public Safety Minister
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AHF Backs FTC Challenge to Big Pharma Junk Patents
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University of Phoenix College of Doctoral Studies Holds Third Annual Colloquium Supporting Doctoral Students
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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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University of Phoenix College of Nursing Alumna and Faculty Publish Article on Lived Experiences of Intensive Care Unit Nursing
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Think Together Recognizes Colton Joint Unified School District as its 2024 Champion of Change
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Robert Galibert Makes a Drug-Free French Connection on Voices for Humanity
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Lac Seul First Nation and Canada settle Flooding Claim
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Tennant Company Announces Senior Leadership Updates to Direct ERP Transformation and Drive Product Innovation
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The Iconic Caribbean Posh Weekend Returns To The USVI; Will Honor Dr. Yvette Noel-Schure
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KB Home Announces the Grand Opening of Its Newest Community in Desirable Buckeye, Arizona
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Brown Books Kids Publishes Children’s Picture Book, Perfect for Summer Reading
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National Institutes of Health All of Us Research Program Mobile Tour Visits Rochester, NY
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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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Valley Children's Receives Historic $15 Million Gift to Create Advanced Cell Therapy Program for Pediatric Cancer
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High School Women Launch First of its Kind Energy Literacy Podcast
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MINORITIES: END FINGERPRINTING
August 16, 2011
Activists are demonstrating outside the state Democratic Party's headquarters in Atlanta today calling on the Obama administration to scrap a federal fingerprint-sharing program aimed at deporting illegal immigrants. The demonstrators complained the “Secure Communities†program is tearing families apart and distracting local police from other crime-fighting priorities. They timed their demonstration to coincide with protests in Chicago and other cities across the nation. ...
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Native American Docs Try to Reduce High Death Rates
August 11, 2011
The 40th annual AAIP (Association of American Indian Physicians) conference is being held in Portland, Oregon this week, as more than 200 Native American doctors focus on ways to reduce high death rates afflicting tribes across the country. The death rate for Native Americans from tuberculosis and alcoholism ...
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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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Ethnic Californians Are State's Environmental Champions
August 08, 2011
A new Public Policy Institute of California survey reveals a majority of Californians want to move forward with environmental regulation, despite a tough economy, with the strongest support coming from minorities and those with the highest joblessness rates. “People of color are the strongest environmentalists in California,†said Roger Kim ...
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GOOD NEW$ FOR MINORITY DWELLERS
August 05, 2011
The National Association of Real Estate Brokers, Inc. (NAREB) will announce a historic engagement between the National Association of Real Estate Brokers and Wall Street investors, to launch an $800 Million HomeownerÂfs Assurance Program (HAP) to address the devastating effects of the mortgage crisis on minority families and their communities. The announcement will be made Sunday, following the first NAREB State of Housing ...
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Dermatologists Stress Early Skin Care For People Of Color
August 04, 2011
The U.S. Census Bureau predicts that by the year 2050, more than half the U.S. population will have skin of color. Recognizing this trend, dermatologists are educating the public about the different ways that common skin conditions appear in various skin tones. For people of color particularly, dermatologists are stressing the ...
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BLACKS QUESTION DEBT DEAL
August 01, 2011
Congressional Black Caucus Chairman Emanuel Cleaver is making headlines today for remarks he made about the Debt Ceiling Deal reached to avert a US government default. Cleaver said early reports of the new deal appeared to be “a sugar-coated Satan sandwich.†The Missouri Democrat said the CBC hadn’t yet made a formal declaration that the group would oppose it, “but this is a shady bill.†Cleaver took to the airwaves on Sunday ...
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BLACK MEN SAFER IN PRISON?
July 22, 2011
According to a study, black men are half as likely to die in prison than if they are free. The authors of the study, set to be published in the Annals of Epidemiology, claim that easier access to healthcare, protection from drugs and alcohol, and the ability to avoid deadly Black-on-Black violence leads to a longer lifespan for those who are incarcerated. African-American males are the only group for which these facts hold true, according to the authors of the study. The authors of the research also claim that the study reflects a pattern that those from disadvantaged groups live longer in prison primarily because they are protected from violent injuries and murder that can happen on the outside. ...
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NAACP Chair Addresses Broad Agenda At Confab
July 22, 2011
Roslyn M. Brock, chairwoman of the NAACP, took on recent voting, the "tea party" and the nation’s troubled economic, health and education systems in her keynote address Sunday at the group’s 102nd annual convention in Los Angeles. “After decades of progress to open up access and make it easier for all Americans ...
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THE NAACP HEADS TO LOS ANGELES
July 21, 2011
With the theme of "Affirming America's Promise," the NAACP-- the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization--- opens it 102nd annual convention in Los Angeles tomorrow. The four-day gathering is expected to generate an economic impact of $11.4 million citywide, with a total of nearly 13,000 hotel rooms expected to be booked for the occasion. ...
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Obama To Address Latino Convention
July 21, 2011
Black Radio Network will be carrying the webcast of the National Council of La Raza's annual convention live from Washington as President Barack Obama will join national leaders from the business, government, and nonprofit sectors. The conference will be held July 23–26 at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel and will feature issues vital to the Latino community and all Americans: education, the economy, health care, immigration reform, and more. ...
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Cherokee Nation Election Drags On
July 19, 2011
Tribal members and the candidates themselves were growing increasingly frustrated with the drawn-out Cherokee election process, as the tribe's Supreme Court prepared to continue hearing arguments Tuesday in Chad Smith's appeal. Local sources report the appeal, filed July 5, requests that the court either order ...
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Natives Want Feds To Look Into Sacred Land Dispute
July 11, 2011
In the latest twist to the saga involving the increasingly likely desecration of sites held sacred by some American Indians, a coalition of Indian citizens has filed a last-ditch legal appeal against the U.S. Forest Service, hoping to change a tide that has long seemed unchangeable. ...
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Al Sharpton Teams To Discuss Sexual Diversity Among Black Men
July 08, 2011
In response to the brewing controversy around homosexuality and the Black community, the Black Men's Xchange (BMX) National has joined forces with the National Action Network and the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement to present the community forum I AM A MAN: Black Manhood & Sexual Diversity in the Black Community next Saturday at the National Action Network in New York. ...
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Florida Marks End Of Beach Segregation Anniversary
July 07, 2011
The city of Fort Lauderdale honored the legacy of civil rights activist Eula Gandy Johnson and the 50th year anniversary of the end of beach segregation. A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held at the Eula Johnson House, 1100 Sistrunk Blvd. in Fort Lauderdale. The program was a part of the city’s year-long centennial celebrations ...
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President Clinton Invokes Jim Crow
July 07, 2011
Former President Bill Clinton compared efforts by Republicans to change voting laws across the country to Jim Crow laws and poll taxes that historically disenfranchised African American voters. Speaking before a group of liberal youth activists Wednesday, Clinton said laws in states like Florida and New Hampshire ...
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Cherokee Nation Recount Delayed
June 30, 2011
The recount of the Cherokee Nation election was supposed to begin this morning at 9:00 A.M.. As of 1:30, the recount hadn't started. According to local new sources, the court is holding a hearing to figure out if the ballots are in a condition to undergo a recount. The controversy comes after Bill John Baker ...
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Latinos Absent From News Desks
June 29, 2011
Latino groups are calling for more of a presence in the Sunday morning talk show arena. Today the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts (NHFA), together with the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF), The LIBRE Initiative and Being Latino are launching a social impact project called: The Art of Politics. ...
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Cherokee Nation Election Overturned
June 28, 2011
The Cherokee Nation Election Commission overturned the unofficial results in the principal chief’s race Monday afternoon and declared current chief Chadwick “Corntassel†Smith the winner by seven votes, reports the Native Times. Bill John Baker, originally named the winner based on the unofficial results announced ...
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New Cherokee Nation Chief Wins By 11 Votes
June 27, 2011
The Cherokee Nation elected a new principal chief by just 11 votes and a recount is under way, officials in Oklahoma said. After an all-night wait as the final votes were counted, final election results posted shortly before 7 a.m. Sunday on the tribal website ...
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ICE Immigration Program Under Fire
June 20, 2011
ICE director John Morton has announced changes to the embattled immigration-enforcement program Secure Communities, which allows local law enforcement agencies to check the fingerprints of people they arrest with FBI and Department of Homeland Security databases to make sure they are not undocumented criminals. ...
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Campaign Wants Blacks To 'Click It'
June 07, 2011
A group of black organizations, along with NHTSA, have launched a new seat belt safety awareness campaign. ...
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First Lady Brings Native American Kids To Garden
June 06, 2011
Michelle Obama invited a group of Native American children to her plot to help plant what are called the "three sisters" — corn, beans and squash. ...
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Report: More Hispanics Go To Federal Prison
June 06, 2011
Statistics released this week revealed that Hispanics now comprise nearly half of all people sentenced for federal felony crimes, a number swollen by immigration offenses. ...
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LA. Admission Standards Threaten Black College Enrollment
June 03, 2011
New admissions standards for state universities in Louisiana may have a major negative impact on black enrollments in higher education in the state. ...
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NY Gov Opts Out Of Controversial Deportation Program
June 02, 2011
Two weeks ago, a letter released by a former ICE contractor confirmed that ICE intentionally misled New York to obtain the state’s participation in Secure Communities. ...
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Mega Black Pastor Settles Case
May 31, 2011
The four suits were "dismissed with prejudice," meaning the plaintffs in the case are barred from ever bringing the same charges against Long again. ...
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At Swarthmore, Students Can Graduate En Espanol
May 27, 2011
Hispanic advocacy groups say Swarthmore's live Spanish translation is an unusual and welcome development for the nation's growing demographic of Latino students. ...
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Muhammad Ali Seeks Release Of Iran-Held US Hikers
May 25, 2011
Ali led a prominent group of U.S. Muslims in appealing for the release of Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal. The Americans were taken into custody along the Iran-Iraq border. ...
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Haley Barbour Changes Tone On Civil Rights Movement
May 24, 2011
"We apologize to you for your mistreatment in 1961, and we appreciate this chance for atonement and reconciliation." ...
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Advocates: Absence Of interpreters Is Illegal
May 23, 2011
North Carolina's courts are violating the rights of people who speak little or no English by failing to provide free interpreters in civil cases. ...
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