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Minority Groups Stress Transportation Funding

Minority Groups Stress Transportation Funding

September 02, 2011
Following President Obama’s call for a “clean extension” of the surface transportation bill and a reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), The Leadership Conference Education Fund released a new report, “Getting to Work: Transportation Policy and Access to Job Opportunities,” which highlights how inequities in transportation ... read more
TRANSPORTATION, WHAT'S THE DEAL?

TRANSPORTATION, WHAT'S THE DEAL?

June 01, 2011
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Transportation Equity Creates Jobs, Expands Access

Transportation Equity Creates Jobs, Expands Access

April 21, 2011
Henderson said that investing in transportation policies and construction creates jobs and expands economic opportunity for low-income and underrepresented workers. ... read more

Transportation Changes "Good For Minorities"

January 28, 2011
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Tribes Awarded Transportation Improvement $$$

December 16, 2010
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Transportation Dept.: Calling All Women

July 27, 2010
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Jesse Jackson To Meet With Transportation Sec LaHood Over Chicago Transit

March 17, 2010
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Agriculture Secretary Announces Transportation Funding For Native American Communities

March 16, 2010
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Black Transportation Businesses Charge No Money From Obama Stimulus Program

Black Transportation Businesses Charge No Money From Obama Stimulus Program

December 21, 2009
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Feds Launch Civil Rights Investigation Into CA. Transportation Dept.

November 19, 2009
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CO. Transportation faulted in bias study

October 26, 2009
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West Indians Say No To Occupy Wall Street

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. ... read more
Black Contractors To Protest Mississippi Bridge Project

Black Contractors To Protest Mississippi Bridge Project

September 07, 2011
Work on the new $700 million Mississippi River Bridge north of downtown St. Louis could come to a halt next week. East St. Louis Mayor Alvin Parks and the Metro-East Black Contractors Organization announced their plans ... read more
Few Blacks Wear Seatbelts

Few Blacks Wear Seatbelts

September 06, 2011
According to the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT), the No. 1 leading cause of unintentional injury death for all Blacks is motor vehicle crashes. Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for Blacks ages 1 to 14. Of those killed while passengers in a vehicle, 52 percent of Black children were not restrained at the time of the crash. Though wearing a seat belt is the best way to avoid injury, ... read more
Rally Tonight Against Alabama Immigration Law

Rally Tonight Against Alabama Immigration Law

September 01, 2011
Opponents of Alabama's law on illegal immigration are holding a rally tonight in Birmingham. The demonstration was originally timed to coincide with the law taking effect Earlier this week a federal judge temporarily blocked the law from going into effect, saying she needed more time to consider lawsuits filed by critics who believe the law is unconstitutional. ... read more
Judge Temporarily Blocks Alabama Immigration Law

Judge Temporarily Blocks Alabama Immigration Law

August 30, 2011
A U.S. federal judge has temporarily blocked a controversial immigration law that was set to go into effect Thursday in the southern U.S. state of Alabama. The law would allow Alabama police to detain anyone suspected of being in the country illegally when that person is stopped for any other reason. It would also make it a crime to knowingly ... read more
Watchdog Group Questions First Lady's Africa Trip

Watchdog Group Questions First Lady's Africa Trip

August 26, 2011
The government watchdog group, Judicial Watch, has filed a lawsuit against the US Air Force to obtain records of a trip made by First Lady Michelle Obama to Southern Africa in June. The group is questioning whether the trip, which included a meeting with Nelson Mandela and an African Safari, was necessary. According the U.S. Postal Service records, Judicial Watch’s FOIA request was received by the Air Force ... read more
Minorities And Poor Unlikely To Complete Cancer Vax Regimen

Minorities And Poor Unlikely To Complete Cancer Vax Regimen

August 30, 2011
A new Yale School of Public Health study concludes barriers that hinder young Black, Hispanic and poor women from completing a series of three vaccinations to prevent human papillomavirus infection (HPV) also leave them at higher risk for cervical cancer and death. According to the Health Behavior News Service ... read more

NY Lawmakers Push For Urban Jobs Act

August 16, 2011
With more than one-third of the nation's minority youth unemployed, a group of politicians and community activists today stood at Make the Road New York in Jackson Heights today, to continue their push for federal legislation aimed at increasing employment among at-risk youth. The Urban Jobs Act, they say, would provide federal funding to nonprofit organizations, allowing them to carry out programming ... read more

Illinois Police Question Traffic-Stop Study

August 11, 2011
The 2010 results for a traffic stop study were just released by the Illinois Department of Transportation. The study is supposed to determine whether minority drivers were being stopped and ticketed more often than white drivers in Illinois. Since 2004, every officer who makes a traffic stop is required to fill out a separate form indicating the driver’s race, the reason for the stop, whether the driver was given a ticket or warning and whether the car was searched. Each department compiles the annual statistics and reports them to the state. ... read more

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 ... read more

Racial Profiling Concerns At Newark Airport

August 05, 2011
An internal TSA report finding that Hispanic passengers were racially profiled at Newark Liberty International Airport has revived concerns that security screeners may have engaged in racial profiling at airports nationwide, according to local sources. Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), the ranking Democrat on the House Homeland Security ... read more

Minority Seniors In Crisis

August 05, 2011
Older Americans of color are being financially squeezed as their earnings and savings drop and costs continue to rise, according to a report released today by The Greenlining Institute. African American, Asian American and Latino senior citizens are economically vulnerable and getting more so because they have less access ... read more

In Arizona Aftermath, States Steer Clear Of Immigration Fight

August 02, 2011
A year after SB 1070 took effect, states nationwide are turning away from similar bills, fearing the financial and political fallout seen in Arizona and the consequences that anti-immigrant legislation could have in their own backyards, according to a New America Media report. “Arizona was a wake up call for other states,” said Elena Lacayo, field coordinator with the Immigration Policy Project at the National Council ... read more

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 ... read more

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. ... read more

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 ... read more

ILLINOIS POLICE BIAS CONTINUES

July 13, 2011
An annual report released today by the Illinois Department of Transportation reveals that Illinois State Police troopers continued to ask motorists of color for permission to search their car without cause at a higher rate than white drivers during 2010. The report documents that the pattern identified ... read more
WHITE HOUSE SPOTLIGHTS LATINOS

WHITE HOUSE SPOTLIGHTS LATINOS

July 11, 2011
The White House began a 2-day Hispanic Policy Conference today. The confrence will bring community leaders from across the country together with a broad range of White House and Cabinet officials for an in-depth series of interactive workshops and substantive conversations on the Administration’s efforts as they relate to the Hispanic community. ... read more
Redistricting Reform Threatens Minority Voice

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 ... read more

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