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April 25, 2024
Stonewall Museum exhibit "Standing on the Shoulders of Heroes" comes to CCNY; LGBTQ+ activist Laverne Cox features on May 7
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REI Path Ahead Ventures celebrates 16 emerging companies bringing new innovations and perspectives to the outdoor industry
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Yelp Announces Date of First Quarter 2024 Financial Results
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LA Pride Unveils "Pride is Universal" LGBTQ+ Event at Universal Studios Hollywood on June 15
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Spellers™ Method Launches TV Series For Autism Awareness
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PharMerica Donates 719,287 Prescriptions to Underserved Patients in 2023
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Snap Inc. Announces First Quarter 2024 Financial Results
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American College of Lifestyle Medicine and National Medical Association announce partnership to address chronic disease health d
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New Research from Material and NewtonX Reveals Shifts in Digital Ad Spending and Social Media Strategies
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KB Home Announces the Grand Opening of Its Newest Community Within the Highly Desirable Stanford Crossing Master Plan in Lathrop
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AACN’s New Web Resource Focuses on Preparing Nurses with Essential Well-Being and Leadership Competencies
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OPAL Fuels Announces First Quarter 2024 Earnings Release Date and Conference Call
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Historically Black Colleges and Universities in Georgia and Florida Join Forces with SouthStar Energy Services in Sustainability
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Lucidea Press Releases New Museum CMS Title Demystifying Data Preparation
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Fuel Tech Schedules 2024 First Quarter Financial Results and Conference Call
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National Institutes of Health All of Us Research Program Mobile Tour Visits California
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Group Wants 2nd All Latino District in Calif.
August 04, 2011
The Los Angeles Redistricting Committee’s new constituency lines was met with fierce opposition by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF). At issue for the group is the fact that the Los Angeles County Board ...
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Latest CA Redistricting Maps Leave Latinos Dissatisfied
August 01, 2011
Now that the California Citizens Redistricting Commission has approved new political boundaries for the state, civil rights groups are weighing what impact the maps will have on communities of color. Local sources report ...
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Stigma Prevents HIV Testing By Black MDs
August 01, 2011
Social stigma is the largest barrier to routine HIV testing by African-American frontline care physicians, according to a new National Medical Association survey. Despite the belief by most physicians surveyed (93 percent) that HIV is either very serious or a crisis in the African-American community, findings suggested that ...
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Justice Dept. Bill Will Combat Violence Against Native Women
July 22, 2011
The Department of Justice proposed legislation that would significantly improve the safety of women in American Indian tribal communities. The bill will allow federal and tribal law-enforcement agencies to hold more perpetrators of domestic violence accountable for their crimes. US Associate Attorney General Tom ...
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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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FCC Rule Seeks To Boost Community Radio Serving Urban Areas
July 13, 2011
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has proposed a new rule that will expand opportunities for local community radio stations to broadcast on FM airwaves in urban areas. The proposed rule will set a minimum number of low power FM (LPFM) channels that must be made available in a market ...
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Blacks Eye CA Redistricting Plan
July 11, 2011
The California Redistricting Commission (CRC) has been considering a move that would cripple African American political power. "The CRC's process as they develop the next round of maps would divide South Los Angeles ...
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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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Civil Rights Activists Angry About NC Redistricting
July 06, 2011
North Carolina Republicans and Democrats are at odds over the redrawing of Congressional districts. On Thursday, the state legislature with hold another public hearing on the matter. Lawmakers have already released preliminary maps of Congressional districts, and state house and senate districts. ...
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NC Republican Plan Creates Minority Super Districts
July 05, 2011
Senators Bob Rucho and Representative David Lewis are on the defensive issuing a statement saying, "From the beginning, our goal has remained the same: the development of fair and legal congressional and legislative districtsâ€. ...
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Sharpton Gets Heated Over CA Pension Reform
June 28, 2011
Civil rights leader Al Sharpton is talking about the pension reform initiative. Sharpton says the City's proposed pension reform initiative is a civil rights violation, and that attention should instead be placed on taxing the wealthy. ...
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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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Audit Finds That Tucson's Ethnic Studies Program Is Legal
June 23, 2011
In the battle over Tucson’s ethnic studies program, which has been effectively outlawed when Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed HB 2281 into law last year, opponents of the program have been able to more or less hide their political agenda behind vague worries about the district’s Mexican American studies program. Not so now, say supporters of the ethnic studies program after an independent audit found that the programs are perfectly legal. ...
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The Ugly Politics Behind Alabama's New Anti-Immigrant Law
June 22, 2011
Despite soaring deficits, cuts in social services, worker layoffs and tornado-devastated communities, Alabama's first Republican-controlled government in 136 years has turned its focus on undocumented immigrants ...
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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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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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Minority Group Moves To Block Mobile Phone Merger
June 20, 2011
The national civil rights group ColorOfChange.org today launched a campaign urging the FCC to block the proposed AT&T and T-Mobile merger, arguing that the merger will have hugely negative consequences, especially for African Americans. ...
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Mercury Levels In Fish Major Concern For Latinos
June 20, 2011
An analysis of several studies conducted among Latinos reveal that this community faces a disproportionate risk from toxic mercury pollution because of a combination of cultural, economic and linguistic factors. ...
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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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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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Feds Begin Official Notification Of Black Farmers Settlement Process
June 06, 2011
African American farmers around the country are now receiving information about their legal rights to the settlement. ...
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Blacks Support Mobile Phone Merger
June 02, 2011
Collectively, the signatory groups represent the approximately 40 million African Americans in the United States. ...
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House Democrats Blast Dept Of Ed. On Gainful Employment Regulation
June 02, 2011
DOE recently released a regulation that would make programs ineligible for federal student aid if they fail to meet one of three measures of “gainful employment.†...
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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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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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Fed's Flip-Flop Over Black Police Department Test Scores
June 01, 2011
"We are appalled to learn that the DOJ has branded our tests as "invalid," despite having been appraised openly in advance of our validation steps." ...
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Illinois Congressional Redistricting Map Still Under Wraps
May 27, 2011
For the second time in 10 days, the Democrats in the Illinois General Assembly have released a redistricting map only to pull it off their website. ...
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Broad Civil Rights Coalition Lays Out Plan For 2012 Budget
May 25, 2011
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Hispanics Want More From Illinois Redistricting
May 25, 2011
“We believe that HB 3760 does not create a sufficient number of districts for Latino electoral opportunities to comply with the (federal) Voting Rights Act." ...
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HUD Awards $153M To Revitalize Distressed Public Housing
May 23, 2011
The eight housing authorities announced today were selected among 36 public housing authorities that applied for FY 2010 HOPE VI Revitalization funding. ...
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