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April 25, 2024
Raptive and BOMESI Partner to Unlock Large-Scale Investment in Diverse-Owned Media
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Humana Healthy Horizons Commits $500K to Improve Health of Louisianians
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UrbanGeekz Inks Groundbreaking Content Syndication Deal with Black-Owned Ridesharing App Moovn
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The Bronx Social Care Network looks to become a lead entity among New York State-funded Social Care Networks
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Alterra Mountain Company Closes Acquisition of Mike Wiegele Helicopter Skiing in British Columbia Final
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Ministers Vandal and Blair and MP McLeod highlight Budget 2024 investments to support post-secondary education in the North
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OCOchem Advances Hydrogen Formate Electrolyzer Process By 10x To Create World’s Largest Industrial Scale CO2 Electrolyzer
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Creating Opportunities: STEM Advantage Continues to Open Doors for STEM-Focused Scholars
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Reconciliation and Treaty Implementation in action: Tsawwassen First Nation adds lands to Tsawwassen jurisdiction
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Palm Smashes Preorder Goal for Flagship Smart Compost Bin on First Day
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Attorneys File Sexual Assault Lawsuit Against Fort Worth Massage Envy
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Toyota Charges Up Investment and Jobs in U.S. Manufacturing
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ComEd Joins Bronzeville Community to Unveil New Public EV Chargers
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ScreenPoint Medical Leadership Transition: Pieter Kroese Confirmed as CEO
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Uforia unites artists, communities nationwide to support St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital this Dia del Niño
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More Preparation, Communication and Control: Hyatt Reveals Survey Findings on the Hotel Stay Needs of Neurodivergent Travelers
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Range Energy and DB Schenker Announce Pilot of Electric-Powered Trailer Platform
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Moran says state should increase business with minority contractors
April 02, 2009
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Bernanke to tackle minority access to bailout contracts
March 30, 2009
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Minority, women businesses may unite for Super Bowl contracts
March 30, 2009
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Minority contractors complain about lack of courthouse work
March 30, 2009
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30% of contracts may go to women, minorities
March 26, 2009
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Appeals court upholds rejection of contractor’s lawsuit against H&R Block, others
March 25, 2009
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Cincinnati pushes for new disparity study on minority contract awards
March 18, 2009
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NAACP: Blacks losing Magic arena jobs and contracts to Hispanics
March 13, 2009
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KAISER PROGRAM WILL HELP MINORITY CONTRACTORS BUILD HOSPITALS, WEEK OF MARCH 12-18, 2009
March 12, 2009
Kaiser officials launched program to help minority, women-owned and emerging small businesses gain work experience building and remodeling clinics and hospitals. ...
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Contractor awarded $1.4B to minority firms
March 09, 2009
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Minority contractors faring worse since Hampton disparity study in 2006
March 09, 2009
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Minority contractor issue stews; African-American chamber forms task force
March 03, 2009
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Minority Contractors Dealt Blow
March 03, 2009
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Abysmal minority contracts targeted
March 02, 2009
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Ellis: Noble not using minority contractors
February 23, 2009
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Report Touts HUD Progress On Discrimination
August 30, 2011
A report released today by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) shows that the agency is resolving individual housing discrimination complaints faster, increasing its focus on complaints that affect multiple people, and launching more investigations using its authority to initiate cases on behalf of discrimination victims where no one has filed a complaint. HUD’s Annual State of Fair Housing Report also illustrates how the agency is helping municipalities and state and local agencies receiving HUD funding to comply with civil rights requirements ...
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Feds Announce Minority Enterprise Conference
August 29, 2011
The U.S. Small Business Administration and the Minority Business Development Agency today announced the opening of registration for the 2011 Minority Enterprise Development Week (MED Week) Conference, which will be held Sept. 27-30 ...
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Feds Launch Bias Probe Into LA Sheriff's Dept.
August 19, 2011
The Justice Department today announced it has opened a civil investigation into allegations of discriminatory policing by Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) members based in the cities of Lancaster and Palmdale, Calif. Deputies have been accused of discriminating against mostly minority residents of government-subsidized housing. The Justice Department will seek to determine whether there are systemic violations ...
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Travel Warning For Haiti
August 09, 2011
The Department of State strongly urges U.S. citizens to consider carefully all travel to Haiti. Travel fully supported by organizations with solid infrastructure, evacuation options, and medical support systems in place is recommended and preferable to travel in country without such support. U.S. citizens traveling to Haiti ...
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US Sues Illinois City For Housing Discrimination
August 05, 2011
The federal government has filed a housing discrimination lawsuit against the city of Joliet in Illinois. The lawsuit filed in Chicago claims Joliet hasn't offered an affordable housing plan to accommodate the mostly black residents who'd be displaced by the planned condemnation of the Evergreen Terrace housing complex. The Department of Justice lawsuit alleges that the city violated the Fair Housing Act and the Housing and Community Development Act by taking a series of actions, culminating in the taking through eminent domain ...
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Manufacturing Giant Settles Bias Suit
August 03, 2011
A business unit of aluminum maker Alcoa has settled a discrimination case with the U.S. Department of Labor for $540,000, the government said. Alcoa Mill Products Inc. will pay $484,656.19 in back wages to 37 Hispanics and African-Americans as well as $35,516.88 to two women who all were rejected for job positions ...
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Minority Men See Increase In Syphilis Cases
August 02, 2011
According to reports, syphilis hits minority gay and bisexual men in the US, as the US centers for Disease Control and Prevention stated that the rates are not in proportion. Also, the raise of the disease in the US, which has been since 2000, has led to increased concerns regarding not just syphilis, but the infection making people ...
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Feds Sue To Block State Immigration Law
August 02, 2011
An Alabama immigration law that is widely considered the toughest in the nation is being challenged in court by the Obama administration, which contends that the state is overstepping its authority on border enforcement. The Department of Justice challenged the state of Alabama’s recently passed immigration law ...
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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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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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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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NAACP Defends Stance On Telecom Merger
July 11, 2011
In a June editorial, Boston based newspaper, the Globe criticized the NAACP for backing the merger of AT&T and T-Mobile. NAACP policy and advocacy senior vice president Hilary Shelton is defending the group's position by saying, "We based our decision on the greater workplace diversity and improved rights for workers that the merger augurs." ...
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Minority Business Seen As Future Bedrock Of Economy
July 06, 2011
Minorities will become the majority of the U.S. population by 2045. When they do, they will also become the majority of America's workforce, supply chains, and entrepreneurial economy. Their success in creating wealth will determine the fortunes of the nation and everyone within it, according to James H. Lowry, a senior advisor ...
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New Tribal Justice Center Project Reaches Milestone
June 30, 2011
The Oglala Sioux Tribe, Department of Public Safety (OST-DPS) today announced that designs for a new free-standing justice center in Pine Ridge, South Dakota are nearly 50 percent complete. Marking the first major construction ...
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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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