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Statement by Minister Khera on Dutch Heritage Day
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Think Together Recognizes Colton Joint Unified School District as its 2024 Champion of Change
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Federal Reserve Board Gov. Lisa Cook gives keynote address at GCSU commencements
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Statement - Public Safety Minister
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Statement by Minister Khera on the occasion of Orthodox Easter
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National Institutes of Health All of Us Research Program Mobile Tour Visits Rochester, NY
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Conference Focuses On Minorities In Foster Care
August 05, 2011
Child welfare advocates and experts gathered at Brown University for a forum focusing on racial disparities in the country's foster care and juvenile justice systems. The focus of the conference was why minority children are more likely to removed from their homes by child welfare officials than white children. ...
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MAJOR NYC MINORITY HELP
August 04, 2011
Two well-known billionaires are helping to launch a new program designed to lift black and Latino men out of poverty. The Young Men’s Initiative is a bold new program that overhauls how government interacts with young black and Latino men by, among other things, establishing job recruitment centers and fatherhood classes in public housing. “This can be a game-changer,†said Mayor Michael Bloomberg. “We can take ourselves to a new level ...
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Blacks Continue To Bear HIV Burden
August 03, 2011
The Center for Disease Control's first multi-year estimates released today from its national HIV incidence surveillance find that overall, the annual number of new HIV infections in the United States was relatively stable. Data show approximately 50,000 new infections each year between 2006 and 2009. However, HIV infections ...
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Lawsuit To Block Alabama Immigration Law
July 22, 2011
The Southern Poverty Law Center and a coalition of other civil rights groups filed a motion today asking a federal judge to block Alabama’s anti-immigrant law from taking effect Sept. 1. The motion for preliminary injunction, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, follows a federal lawsuit the groups filed earlier this month that charged the law is unconstitutional on multiple grounds. ...
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Postal Service Honors Black Publisher John H. Johnson
July 21, 2011
As part of its Black Heritage Stamp series, the United States Postal Service is honoring legendary black publisher John H. Johnson. “We are proud to immortalize John H. Johnson as our latest inductee in our Black Heritage stamp series,†said Stephen Kearney, manager, Stamp Services. “He was the trailblazing publisher of Ebony, Jet and other magazines as well as an entrepreneur. In 1982, he became the first black person to appear on Forbes magazine’s annual list of the 400 wealthiest people in America. His magazines portrayed black people positively at a time when such representation ...
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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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MINORITY CHILD HUNGER CRISIS
July 18, 2011
America's minority children have fallen further behind in the last year in a wide variety of areas, according to a report releaed today by the Children’s Defense Fund. The report also shows continuing and increasing inequality in our country. Particularly striking is the fact that children of color, who are now 44 percent of America’s children, will be the majority of children in 2019 – just eight years from now. In nine states and the District of Columbia, this is already the case. The report, The State of America’s Children 2011, says with unemployment, housing foreclosures, and hunger at historically high levels, children’s well-being is in jeopardy. ...
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BUDGET WOES THREATEN BLACK WOMEN
July 15, 2011
According to reports, the chained CPI, a Social Security COLA cut on the table in deficit talks between the President and Republicans, could dramatically worsen poverty among unmarried senior African American women. As such, it violates the request of major progressive organizations in a letter to the White House and Congressional leaders to "make sure that deficit reduction is achieved in a way that does not increase poverty." ...
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Has Cornel West Gone Too Far?
July 14, 2011
As President Obama is gearing up for his 2012 campaign and election, Dr. Cornel West has created a name calling and mudslinging crusade attacking the president. An editorial in The Westside Gazette, Broward County’s Oldest and Largest African American Owned and Operated Newspaper says, there is nothing wrong ...
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Brief "Racial Disparity In School Funding Is No Myth"
July 07, 2011
This week the Center for American Progress, a progressive think tank, released a new issue brief that debunks a recent backgrounder by Jason Richwine of the Heritage Foundation. Richwine’s report, titled “The Myth of Racial Disparities in Public School Financing,†suggests that public education spending is broadly similar ...
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American Indian Infants Death Rate Double That Of Whites
July 06, 2011
American Indian infants in North Dakota, South Dakota and Minnesota are roughly twice as likely to die as white infants, and health officials say the best defense is prevention and education. American Indian infants tend to face greater risks, including being born prematurely, having teenage mothers ...
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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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Black And Jewish Leaders Meet In Motown To Tackle Mutual Concerns
June 27, 2011
Black and Jewish leaders from across the country are in Detroit this week to bond while finding ways to fight poverty at a time when the problem is growing. Sponsored by the national office of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, the program involves ...
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WARNING: CUT DEFICIT PROTECT POOR
June 27, 2011
Civil rights leaders are today calling on Executive and Congressional leadership to honor the precedent set by previous deficit reduction negotiations that have reduced the deficit without increasing poverty. In a letter to policymakers involved in deficit ...
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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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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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Demographic Factors Linked To Black Mental Health
June 07, 2011
The study found that lower socioeconomic position was associated with poorer mental health status. ...
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Black Female Dean Makes History At Univ. Of Maryland
June 03, 2011
She is the first woman to hold the post, and succeeds James Harris, who is stepping down after 14 years as dean. Dill’s term begins August 1. ...
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Challenge Filed Against GA's "Show Me Your Papers" Law
June 02, 2011
“Georgia's law is fundamentally un-American: we are not a 'show me your papers' country nor one that believes in making certain people ‘untouchables.’ ...
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LATINO FOOD SECURITY GLOOMY
June 02, 2011
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Blacks And AIDS: 30 Years Later
June 02, 2011
AIDS, initially thought to be the exclusive purview of white gay men, has taken a large toll on African Americans. ...
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Why Herman Cain Suits Conservatives To A Tea
June 01, 2011
One cannot overlook is the fact that his success wasn’t just about him being smart, but about him being fortunate. ...
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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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Gates Foundation Spends $1.7B On Farming In Africa
June 01, 2011
The world's largest charitable foundation announced five years ago it would spend millions of dollars to fight poverty and hunger in Africa. ...
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Black Immigrants Join The Debate
May 31, 2011
"It's been nerve-racking because it puts me at a risk," the 30-year-old said of her speech supporting Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin's (D-Ill.) reintroduction of the DREAM Act. ...
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Apology From Psychology Magazine For Post On Black Women
May 31, 2011
But it was too late. The nonsense by an evolutionary psychologist spouting junk science about black women's looks had already started stinking up the blogosphere. ...
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Civil Rights Groups Urge Reversal Of Prison Censorship Decision
May 27, 2011
“TDCJ’s censorship of these books is a transparent attempt to suppress speech that is critical of the government." ...
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TEA PARTY COURTING MINORITES?
May 26, 2011
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Broad Civil Rights Coalition Lays Out Plan For 2012 Budget
May 25, 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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Decline In Abortions Seen In Black Women
May 24, 2011
Abortion rates decreased 18% among African American women, the largest decline among the four racial and ethnic groups examined. ...
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