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May 29, 2022
Global Surrogacy Services Announces Outreach to Potential Gestational Surrogates in Three Southwestern States
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Four recipients of the 2022 Awards of Excellence in Nursing announced from Indigenous Services Canada
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Mrs. Flowers Takes the Helm at Comfort Home Care, Rockville, MD
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Diandra “Fu” Debrosse Zimmermann Becomes First Black Woman Ever Appointed to Lead a Multidistrict Litigation with
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Five Bluum Standouts Honored on CRN 2022 Women of the Channel List
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Estudio DC con Gerson Borrero Wins Four Telly Awards
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NCCI Golf Event Generates $25,000 for Kids' Chance of America Scholarships
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Checkmarx' Ana Lucia Amaral Honored as a CRN 2022 Woman of the Channel
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VeriSIM Life CEO Dr. Jo Varshney Shares Pioneering Approach to Business and Life with MSNBC Mika Brzezinski's Know Your Value Pl
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Tracey Hayes from MicroAge Named on CRN's 2022 Women of the Channel Power 70 Solution Providers List
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Adtalem’s Medical Schools Graduate More Than 750 Medical School Students1 at 2022 Commencement Ceremonies
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Closing the Health Disparity Gap for Black Women
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Blast Motion, Inc. Signs Haley Cruse and Paige Halstead to New Team of Softball Ambassadors; Will Lead Movement to Empower Femal
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RNR Tire Express Surprises Tampa-Area Woman with New Car in Mother's Day Giveaway
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ENTERTAINERS JOIN PLEA TO WEAR MASKS
November 27, 2020
NEW YORK - Comedian Chris Rock and actress Rosie Perez today joined New York Governor Andrew Cuomo in urging the public to wear masks and get tested for the coronavirus.They pointed out that Black and Hispanic people are disproportionally impact by COVID-19 and need to protect themselves and others by wearing the masks. "Everybody that can get tested should get tested as quickly as possible," said Rock. ...
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NY CABBIES SEEK RELIEF
November 27, 2020
NEW YORK - Hundreds of New York City taxi drivers, many of them minorities, today took their yellow cabs to City Hall to seek help. They want financial support from the City because of the sharp decline in ridership resulting from the COVID-19 impact. They also are complaining about the increased competition from Uber and Lyft and the fact that their taxi licenses have substantially decreased in value. The taxi licenses, which are issued in limited numbers by the City, once were valued at about one million dollars, but today are only worth a fraction of that amount. The drivers demanded debt forgiveness. ...
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MINORITY COMMUNITIES HIT BY NEW DRUG CRISIS
November 27, 2020
Alarmed that 33 people were severally sickened by an overdose of the synthetic marijuana known as K2, law enforcement have fanned out in minority sections of Brooklyn, NY to locate the sources of the drugs. ...
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Mourners Protest Black Youths Death By NYPD
November 27, 2020
NEW YORK – One year after a white New York police officer shot and killed an 18-year-old black youth, the victim’s friends and family took to the streets of the Bronx, NY over the weekend to protest police bias. Ramarley Graham was killed from a single shot fired by police officer Richard Haste who followed Graham into his home. The cop was part of a narcotics detail. Haste said he fired his weapon believing Graham was reaching for a gun. He had no weapon. ...
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Violence Against Asians Grips Harlem
November 27, 2020
New York – Rocked by eight violent muggings in recent days of Asian residents of New York’s predominately Spanish Harlem, calls for better police protection are being sounded. Witnesses report a single male has been seen following Asian people entering local housing projects, board elevators where the attacks take place. After brutally beating the victims, mostly women, the thug then robs them. ...
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West Indians Say No To Occupy Wall Street
November 27, 2020
NEW YORK - The Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement, which has been center stage in many of the world media’s stories over the past year, got a jolt yesterday from the organizers of the annual West Indian Day Parade in Brooklyn. About two dozen OWS members, carrying a large bright yellow banner, became the object of disdain from the parade officials shortly after our photographer took this picture. ...
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Asian-Americans Make Demands on China
November 27, 2020
NEW YORK – Demonstrators from the New York Chinese-American community are out in force outside the United Nations building in New York, expressing the view that their homeland in China doesn’t deserve its membership in the UN Security Council because of its political hold on Tibet . Displaying pictures of Tibetans who immolated themselves or otherwise violently protested Chinese rule over Tibet, the protestors charge the level of violence China has enacted in Tibet today is greater than when it hit record levels in 2008. ...
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NY City Council Probes NYPD Stop-and-Frisk Policy
November 27, 2020
NEW YORK – The New York City Council Civil Rights Committee has started a series of public hearings to investigate the NYPD’s use of stop-and-frisk tactics. Residents appearing before the panel claim the police procedures mostly negatively impact on minority and gay people. ...
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NYC Students Demand End To Job Bias
November 27, 2020
NEW YORK – Students and graduates from the Borough of Manhattan Community College, joined by members of the NY City Council, are demanding an end to credit checks by employees, which they charge unfairly blocks qualified students and recent graduates from needed jobs. ...
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NYC Protestors Want Assad To Go
November 27, 2020
NEW YORK - New Yorkers of Syrian and Iranian descent have added their voices to demonstrations taking place outside United Nations Headquarters in New York. They are demanding the immediate departure of President Bashar al-Assad from Syria and the return of secular rule to the Mideast nation. ...
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NYC Minority Housing Project Gets Good $$$ News
November 27, 2020
NEW YORK - The 4000 mostly minority tenants of the Diego Beekman Houses in New York’s South Bronx are receiving some good news today. That news is taking the form of a new, low interest, 30-year mortgage for $19 million dollars. NYC Comptroller John Liu told reporters the funds came from the NYC Employee Retirement System and the Police Pension Fund. ...
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MAKE EVERY VOTE COUNT
November 04, 2020
NEW YORK - As votes continue to be tallied across the nation today, a group of minority voters in New York demonstrated to make the point that every vote needs to be counted. Concerned that minority votes may be discounted or ignored, the protestors say this election is the most important in their lives. Election observers believe the turnout of minority and women voters could very well determine the election and the direction of the nation. ...
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NYC STARTS TAKE BACK YOUR STREETS DRIVE
July 11, 2020
NEW YORK - With Black on Black crime growing rapidly, New York City officials have started an "Occupy the Corner" campaign in Harlem and other minority communities. Mayor Bill de Blasio said stopping the violence is a "we thing, not a me thing." The Mayor added "this is a very moving matter to me. This is the people taking back the street. We will solve our own challenges and make something good happen in our community." ...
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BLM AT TRUMP TOWER
July 09, 2020
NEW YORK - New York City Mayor Bill DiBlasio today led a group of other New Yorkers in painting a large Black Lives Matters sign on Fifth Avenue in front of Trump Tower. The Mayor said the yellow sign "isn't just painted words on Fifth Avenue, but this city is committed to the meaning of the message." Today's action is one of many New York observances and demonstrations in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. ...
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MINORITY NYC BUSINESSES COMPLAIN
July 03, 2020
NEW YORK - Angered by what they consider overly punitive enforcement by police, Black and Brown New York City business leaders today demanded the practice end. Led by Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams outside of New York Police headquarters, the minority businesses claimed they received exorbitant fines, required changes to a business's method of operations, including shorter hours, and even revocation of a business's liquor license. ...
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BLM WANTS POLICE $ CUTS
June 25, 2020
NEW YORK - Since the death of George Floyd, the Black Lives Matter campaign has achieved some success, and today BLM protestors demanded that NY cut $1 billion from the $6 billion police budget. At a demonstration at City Hall, some of the participants even went so far as to call for the abolishment of the police department. A number of the BLM protestors stated they will stay at City Hall until their demands are met. ...
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NYC MAKES JUNETEENTH A HOLIDAY
June 19, 2020
NEW YORK - NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio participated in a Black Lives Matter street painting on Staten Island to announce the Big Apple will recognize Juneteenth as an official city holiday to recognize the liberation of the last freed Black slave. "We will give this day the importance and recognition it deserves," said de Blasio, adding "every student and city worker will have the opportunity to reflect on the meaning of our history through the pain and struggle that should bring an extraordinary purposefulness and vision to inspire change." ...
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SHARPTON HAILS NYS POLICE REFORMS
June 12, 2020
Rev. Al Sharpton today hailed Gov. Andrew Cuomo's signature to a series of police reforms. He sat alongside Cuomo at the signing ceremony. Sharpton said the move "raised the bar." The executive order requires mayors and police departments to modernize their programs or risk losing state aid. Cuomo said "there is no quick fix to this. There is no stop tear gas, change the uniforms." Also at the signing were the mothers of Eric Garner and Sean Bell. ...
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CALLS FOR GREATER POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY
June 02, 2020
NEW YORK - Sparked by the violent death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, the Rev. Al Sharpton today led a demonstration in New York calling for legislation to hold police more accountable during protests, violence and looting. ...
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FLOYD DEMONSTRATIONS REACH TIMES SQUARE
June 01, 2020
NEW YORK - The angry protests over the brutal death of George Floyd are continuing worldwide, including closing down the "Crossroads of the World," New York's Times Square. Carrying signs and banners demanding justice, thousands of demonstrators vented their collective disdain for police brutality. ...
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AL SHARPTON HOLDS VIGIL
May 30, 2020
STATEN ISLAND, NY - National Action Network chief Rev. Al Sharpton today held a vigil at the site where Eric Garner was killed by police on Staten Island, NY six years ago. Sharpton lamented that both Garner and George Floyd's last words were "I can't breathe." Sharpton vowed he will do everything he can to stem these violent acts against Black people. ...
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TRUMP FAULTED OVER SC NOMINATION
November 08, 2018
NEW YORK - Thousands of protesters streamed through the streets of New York City ...
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DISMAY OVER BLACK DEATH PROBE
November 08, 2018
NEW YORK - Eric Garner’s family and supporters, including many top local officials, gathered outside City Hall on the fourth anniversary of his police-chokehold death Tuesday to blame NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio and the City’s Police Department for allegedly dragging their feet in the case. ...
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SESSIONS FIRING PROMPTS PROTESTS
November 08, 2018
NEW YORK - Thousands of protesters streamed through the streets of New York City into Union Square on Thursday night to protest President Trump's firing of Attorney General Jeff Sessions yesterday, in a rapidly organized demonstration that was replicated around the nation. ...
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AFRICAN BURIAL MONUMENT DEFACED
November 04, 2018
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SYNAGOGUE KILLINGS MOURNED
October 29, 2018
NEW YORK – Black activist Rev. Alfred Sharpton of the National Action Network, is joining by NY Mayor Bill de Blasio and Roman Catholic Cardinal Timothy Dolan as New York's religious leaders and other elected officials Sunday at a gathering to condemn the Pittsburgh synagogue mass shooting and vowing to protect the city's Jewish communities from anti-Semitic violence. ...
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Protesters Clash with far-right
October 19, 2018
NEW YORK - Protestors faced off Friday in midtown Manhattan near a local police station. The People's Power Assembly, a group that empowers oppressed groups, were on one side. Pro-NYPD protesters were on the other. ...
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PUERTO RICAN OUTRAGE
October 05, 2018
NEW YORK - Protesters Sunday in Manhattan held a silent march to bring awareness to the devastation people are still facing in Puerto Rico, one year after Hurricane Maria slammed the island. ...
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TRUMP OFFICIAL GREETED WITH ANGER
October 05, 2018
NEW YORK - Demonstrators rallied in Lower Manhattan Tuesday to protest Vice President Mike Pence and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen's visit to the city. ...
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UN HONORS MANDELA
October 05, 2018
UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK – Prior to the opening of the annual gathering of the UN General Assembly the world organization took time to honor an historic Black leader. ...
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