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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 ...
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GA Redistricting May Limit Minority Voting Power
August 09, 2011
The passage of HB 87, state legislation clearly targeting immigrants, has given rise to an increasing awareness among Georgia’s ethnic minorities about what’s at stake for their political empowerment under the ongoing ...
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ACLU Issues Report On Reducing US Incarceration Rates
August 09, 2011
Bipartisan reforms in historically “tough on crime†states have significantly reduced incarceration rates, saved taxpayers billions of dollars, lowered crime rates and should be emulated nationwide, according to a new report ...
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In Arizona Aftermath, States Steer Clear Of Immigration Fight
August 02, 2011
A year after SB 1070 took effect, states nationwide are turning away from similar bills, fearing the financial and political fallout seen in Arizona and the consequences that anti-immigrant legislation could have in their own backyards, according to a New America Media report. “Arizona was a wake up call for other states,†said Elena Lacayo, field coordinator with the Immigration Policy Project at the National Council ...
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Traffic Stop Deportations Soar Under Obama Admin
July 22, 2011
The Obama administration set a record in the last fiscal year for the number of criminal immigrants forced to leave the country. Immigration and Customs Enforcement data show significant increases in the deportation of people after they were arrested for breaking traffic or immigration laws or driving drunk. Of the 393,000 deportations in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, half were considered criminals ...
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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 + DEBT = BIAS?
July 19, 2011
Congressional Black Caucus member Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas suggested to members of Congress that President Obama is being treated unfairly in debt negotiations because of his race. As Jackson and many members of the Black community see it, Republican’s reluctance to raise the debt ceiling when it has been raised ...
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Group Launches Campaign Against "#1 Black Killer"
July 19, 2011
The National Black Prolife Coalition, a network of black pro-life and pro-family organizations, today announced its latest social media video campaign, called "NUMBERS DON'T LIE" to expose what it claims is the number one killer of African-Americans: Planned Parenthood and urban abortion clinics. ...
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Hunger Stalks California's Rural Minority Areas
July 18, 2011
Across California and beyond, rural unemployment is higher and incomes lower, than in nearby urban areas. Imperial County's unemployment rate in March was 30 percent, probably the state's highest. The county's economy is almost entirely dependent on agriculture and farm labor. Orange Cove and San Joaquin ...
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Lawmaker Blasted For 'Shooting' Immigrants Rant
July 14, 2011
The Congressional Hispanic Caucus is pushing back on a Republican lawmaker's rhetoric that he would do anything to stop illegal immigrants "short of shooting them." Texas congressman Charles Gonzalez said in a USA Today report, "words have consequences" as he denounced the comment made recently by Alabama ...
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Illegals Staying Away From Arizona
July 11, 2011
People on both sides of the immigration debate in Arizona are skeptical of new research that shows a national decrease in the flow of illegal immigration from Mexico into the United States. But there is one thing they are certain of: ...
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Treasury Expands Small Business "Main Street" Program
July 07, 2011
The U.S. Department of the Treasury today announced that six community banks received a total of $123 million as part of the first wave of capital provided by the Small Business Lending Fund (SBLF). The SBLF, which was established as part of the Small Business Jobs Act that President Obama signed into law ...
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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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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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Redistricting Reform Threatens Minority Voice
June 27, 2011
Few ordinary Californians have been more intensely interested in the state’s new Citizens Redistricting Commission than Berkeley-based Tea Party activist David Salaverry. Back in March, he realized that the fledgling panel, with its 14 citizen ...
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Latinos Could Smash 2012 Voting Record
June 24, 2011
Latinos will turnout in record numbers in the next Presidential election, with at least 12.2 million casting ballots, according to projections made by the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) Educational Fund. This analysis also reveals that Latinos will account for a significant share of the electorate in several states. ...
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Major Latino Convention Opens In Cincinnati Monday
June 24, 2011
Beginning Monday, Cincinnati plays host to The League of United Latin American Citizens annual convention. The event is expected to draw 20,000 people. Cincinnati beat two cities with much larger Hispanic populations, Orlando and Houston, to host this year’s gathering of the largest Hispanic civic organization. The group’s Ohio director, Jason Riveiro, lobbied to bring the convention to Cincinnati, arguing that holding the weeklong meeting here would have a greater impact on making people aware of Latino issues than holding it in Florida and Texas, states where the Hispanic population is much greater. ...
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No Child Left Behind Law And Minority Kids
June 23, 2011
Nearly a decade after the No Child Left Behind law was enacted, studies have shown little progress in reducing the number of teachers of low-income students who are inexperienced or teaching classes outside their subject areas. The law, which was supposed to stop school districts from putting less qualified teachers in classrooms with low-income students, is best known to the public for requiring more standardized testing. According to studies, considerable progress has been made in reducing the number of uncertified teachers ...
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Is A Post-Racial America Possible?
June 21, 2011
As the field of candidates for President grows, some in the Black community are being forced to accept the hard reality that race relations in America have not improved. Still others never thought a post-racial America ever had a chance to begin with. ...
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Latinos Keep $169B Out Of Banks
June 20, 2011
A new study released by the University of Virginia Darden School of Business and its Tayloe Murphy Center outlines specific steps for how banks and credit unions can capture billions of dollars in deposits by reaching out to Latino and other "unbanked" households across the United States. ...
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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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Minority-Owned Firms Doubled In Recent Years
June 08, 2011
Receipts of minority-owned employer firms totaled $860.5 billion, an increase of 54.3 percent from 2002. ...
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Investors Meet With Minority, Women-Owned Firms At Consortium 2011
June 07, 2011
Key decision makers from across the country will also join the annual meeting with a focus on identifying emerging managers. ...
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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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West Point Cadet Sues R&B Diva Over Alleged Beating
June 06, 2011
The lawsuit alleges the cadet, Richard King, was waiting at Bush Intercontinental Airport, when LaBelle allegedly ordered her bodyguards to attack him. ...
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NCAA Hitting Black Schools Harder?
June 03, 2011
Where many non-HBCU peers – including schools with similarly limited resources – show some improvement, teams at HBCUs are trending in the opposite direction. ...
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TX GOP Accused Of Trying To "Dilute" Latino, Black Representation
June 02, 2011
Despite the fact that Texas’s minority population has grown substantially over the past decade, the Republican proposed map suppresses their influence. ...
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Book Reveals "Other Side" Of W.E.B. Dubois
June 01, 2011
This new book promises readers a reinterpretation of the man who pioneered the idea of the "color-line" dividing Black and white America. ...
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Tornado Victims Fear Immigration Crackdown
June 01, 2011
"They thought we were with the police because of our vests, and they were worried the police would take them back to their home countries." ...
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Health Care Quality Gaps And Disparities Persist Nationwide
June 01, 2011
Among minority and low-income Americans, the level of health care quality and access to services remained unfavorable. ...
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Killer Who Dragged Black Man Gets Execution Date
June 01, 2011
Three white men chained the 49-year-old black man to the back of a pickup truck and dragged him to death on a country road near Jasper. ...
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