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US Consumers’ 2024 Sustainability Score Declines and Lags the Global Average, According to New Report
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NABCO 2024 Leadership Summit & Retreat: Uniting African-American County Officials for Empowerment and Advocacy
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R.H. Boyd Hosts Third Annual Legacy Ball Honoring Influential Leaders and Supporting Scholarships and Grants
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Women MAKE Awards Recognize Excellence In Manufacturing
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Minorities Cheated By Redistricting
August 17, 2011
The Athens-Clarke Commission's and the state legislature's new districts are drawn to disenfranchise African-Americans, said black voters and elected officials at a town hall meeting on redistricting. The state legislature convened in a special session Monday to approve new state House and Senate district maps released Friday, as well as forthcoming new congressional districts. ...
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Black Women Historians Speak Out Against 'The Help'
August 15, 2011
The Association of Black Women Historians released a statement today urging fans of both the best-selling novel and the new movie The Help to reconsider the popular tale of African American maids in 1960s Jackson, Miss., who risk sharing their experiences with a young white journalist. The open statement to "fans of The Help" says the book and the movie "distorts, ignores, and trivializes ...
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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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Tribe Saves Sacred Land
August 04, 2011
Hundreds gathered at Glen Cove, Calif., for a closing ceremony to celebrate what Native American activists and their allies are declaring an historic victory. The Yocha Dehe ...
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CA Redistricting Angers Minorities
July 19, 2011
Redesigning new political boundaries in California has given minority observers a bigger headache then they expected. The spotlight centers around Los Angeles. A big problem is that the upcoming August 15 deadline for approval of the ...
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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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New Orleans PD Under Fire In Corruption Case
July 18, 2011
In New Orleans’ federal courthouse, five police officers are currently facing charges of killing unarmed black civilians who were escaping floods from the failed levees that buckled during Hurricane Katrina. The police are also charged with conspiring to cover up their crimes. Local sources say, ...
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Alabama Lawmakers Compared To KKK
July 15, 2011
It seems the new Ku Klux Klan members in Alabama are the state’s lawmakers and its target – no longer blacks – but undocumented migrants who have called the state home and kept the economic engines of small businesses running, reports CaribPR Wire founder Felicia Persaud. A new immigration law in the state ...
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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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MINORITY WOMEN TARGETED FOR RAPE
July 06, 2011
Minority Rights Group International says in its 2011 annual report released today, women from minority and indigenous communities are targeted for rape and other forms of sexual violence, torture and killings specifically because of their ethnic ...
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Activist Supporters Press Congress To Pass Immigration Reform
July 01, 2011
Activists for immigration reform showed their persistence and strength in numbers, as hundreds of supporters flooded the first-ever Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act held this week by Sen. Dick Durbin, D. Ill. ...
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Stunning Admissions In Katrina Shootings Case
June 29, 2011
Shortly after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans police officers allegedly fired on two black families on the Danziger Bridge. Two people died. Now the officers are on trial in a case that exposes widespread corruption in the city's justice ...
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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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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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Battle Brewing Over New Fla. Voter-Registration Law
June 08, 2011
Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.), reacting to outrage voiced by her constituents, this week asked the Department of Justice to block the new law. ...
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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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More Than Immigration At Stake In Historic AZ Recall Effort
June 01, 2011
A bipartisan effort to recall conservative state Senator Russell Pearce, known for his tough stance on illegal immigration, could signal a shift in the political climate in Arizona. ...
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Some NY Immigrants Cite Lack Of Spanish As Barrier
May 31, 2011
a sizable number of Latin American immigrants who have settled in New York in recent years and speak only indigenous languages. ...
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TEA PARTY COURTING MINORITES?
May 26, 2011
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Civil Rights On Agenda At Leadership 500 Summit
May 24, 2011
The NAACP is issuing a new “front line†call for all young people to come and discuss the future of the civil rights movement. ...
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National College Group Linked To White Supremacists
May 23, 2011
YWC says it will convene its first national conference June 17-19 in Washington, D.C., to strategize about expanding its campus presence. ...
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Group Leader Concedes Anti-Gay Side Has "Probably Lost" On Marriage
May 23, 2011
"We're losing on that one, especially among the 20- and 30-somethings: 65 to 70 percent of them favor same-sex marriage." ...
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NAACP To Celebrate 102nd Convention In LA
May 20, 2011
This year’s convention is especially significant as they honor the 75th anniversary of the Youth & College Division. ...
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Return Of The Freedom Riders
May 19, 2011
Buses (Freedom Rides 2011) carrying students from various universities and high schools will be departing from several cities, including New York to Jackson. ...
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Students Retrace Civil Rights Journey With Freedom Rider
May 18, 2011
Rip Patton will retrace that journey, this time joined by Stetson University undergraduate and law students and several nationally respected civil rights scholars. ...
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Antiracism Increasingly A Black And White Affair
May 17, 2011
White respondents on average believe racism has reversed course, perceiving that antiwhite bias more than doubled from 1.8 in the 1950s to 4.7 in the 2000s. ...
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Redistricting 2011: Power Shift In Chicago?
May 17, 2011
Community activists charge that by undercounting thousands of African-American residents, the Census Bureau, itself, is partly to blame. ...
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Georgia Civil Rights Movement To Celebrate 50th Anniversary
May 13, 2011
The mass demonstrations and arrests in Albany in 1961 and 1962 helped change the course of American history. They were the first such campaigns in the country. ...
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Atlanta Seen As Ideal Civil Rights Game Host
May 13, 2011
"I think it's good to have it here in Atlanta, where you had a Hank Aaron, who made history with a home run and dealt with the things he had to deal with along the way." ...
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Atlanta Set For Big Civil Rights Game Weekend
May 11, 2011
"It's about giving thanks to all those who have given us a chance to be where we are today," said Braves right fielder Jason Heyward, who grew up in suburban Atlanta. ...
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