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April 20, 2024
Clarification of Details Regarding Oceansix's Engagement with RB Milestone Group LLC
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LS Cable & System Welcomes $99 Million Investment Tax Credit Under Section 48C of the Inflation Reduction Act
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Energy Transition Accelerator Advances with New Secretariat, Expert Consultative Group
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T2EARTH Launches Official YouTube Channel – T2EARTH Talks
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El Car Wash Partners With “CARD” to Support Neurodiversity in the Workplace
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Statement from the Minister of Indigenous Services on the preliminary findings from the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the
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Island Fin Poké Co. Celebrates Earth Day by Sharing Its Sustainable Efforts Toward a Greener Earth
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Engel & Völkers Dallas Fort Worth Presents $20,824 to Special Olympics
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Strengthening Canadian research and innovation
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Divert Announces Purchase of New Site in Lexington, North Carolina for Future Integrated Diversion & Energy Facility
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Prime Minister announces appointment of the next Commissioner of the Northwest Territories
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USAA to Gift Vehicles to Military and Their Families in 2024
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Eaton to announce first quarter 2024 earnings on April 30, 2024
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Boys & Girls Clubs of the Valley and Ross Stores Celebrated 10-Year Anniversary of "Help Local Kids Thrive" In-Store Fundrai
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Coming into Force of Algonquins of Pikwakanagan First Nation's Child and Family Services Law, Nigig Nibi Ki-win
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ITC Limited - Hip Hop Hacked! Savlon Swasth India Mission's #HandwashLegends made Handwashing cool for India's Youth
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T2EARTH Celebrates Earth Day by Leading the Wood Products Industry towards a Sustainable Built Environment
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Kellanova and Shaw's join No Kid Hungry to help end summer hunger for kids and families in Maine
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H2 Green Mining and Ohmium Sign Agreement to Boost Green Hydrogen in Chile
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University of Phoenix College of Nursing Faculty Leadership Selected for Prestigious Fellows of the American Association of Nurs
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Hispanics Want "Gainful Employment" Rule Defunded
March 30, 2011
We feel that this rule is too broad; rather than protect students, it's going to take valuable and essential programs away from students who depend on them. ...
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13 USAID-Funded Grants Awarded in Africa-U.S. Higher Education Initiative
October 27, 2009
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Liberals Opposed to Extending Taxpayer Funded Healthcare to Illegal Immigrants
September 16, 2009
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LATINO PUBLIC BROADCASTING FUNDED DOCUMENTARY WINS AWARD
August 25, 2009
Produced by Carlos Sandoval and Peter Miller, ‘A CLASS APART’ takes home the Best Documentary/Television Award ...
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USAID-Funded Partnerships in Africa-U.S. Higher Education Initiative Grant Competition
May 15, 2009
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TREASURY, HUD ANNOUNCE HOUSING GRANTS FUNDED THROUGH RECOVERY ACT
May 05, 2009
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Inadequately Funded Public Defender Services Threaten Criminal Justice System, ACLU Testifies
March 26, 2009
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Smithsonian American Art Museum Presents New Deal Paintings from the First Federally Funded Art Program in the United States
February 27, 2009
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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 ...
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Study To Investigate Causes Of Breast Cancer In Blacks
August 31, 2011
UNC scientist Robert Millikan will partner with Christine Ambrosone, of Roswell Park Cancer Institute, and Julie R. Palmer, of Boston University, in the most ambitious study to date of breast cancer among younger Black women. Data from UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Carolina Breast Cancer Study demonstrated that Black women under the age of 45 are more likely to be diagnosed with aggressive types ...
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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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Hispanic Media Holds Its Ground Against The Mainstream
August 29, 2011
A Pew Research Center’s study released today reveals Spanish-language media remains important to the nation’s growing and changing Hispanic population. The report, Project for Excellence in Journalism, shows in the last year, this media sector tended to fare better overall than the mainstream English-language media Hispanic newspapers overall lost circulation in 2010, but not nearly to the extent of the English-language ...
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Bill Gates Announces Low-Income Minority Student Scholarship Program
August 26, 2011
The Gates Millennium Scholarship Program (GMS) will select 1,000 low-income minority students to receive a good-through-graduation scholarship to use at any college or university of their choice. Scholars will also be provided with personal and professional development through their leadership programs, along with academic ...
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96% Of Latinos Want College For Children
August 25, 2011
A new impreMedia/Latino Decisions poll reveals when it comes to their children’s education, Latino voters have clear and high aspirations. The poll shows that 96% of Latino parents would like to see their kids earn a college degree, whether it is a bachelor’s, master’s or professional degree. What is not so clear ...
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Team To Conduct Largest Ever Study Of Breast Cancer In Blacks
August 25, 2011
A multidisciplinary team is coming together in the largest study to date on breast cancer in Black women. The team will investigate why Black women are more likely than those of European descent to be diagnosed with breast cancer at a young age, and with poor prognoses. Supported by a five-year, $19.3 million award from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), scientists from the Slone Epidemiology Center ...
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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. ...
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Navajo Nation Settles Land Royalty Case
August 05, 2011
The Navajo Nation's allegations that a coal mining company conspired with others to cheat the tribe out of millions of dollars has been settled in federal court. The Navajo Nation, Peabody Energy, Salt River Project and Southern California Edison today announced they have reached a settlement agreement on the 1999 Navajo royalty litigation. ...
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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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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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Scientists Discover Gene Behind Asthma Risks In Blacks
August 01, 2011
A new national collaboration of asthma genetics researchers has revealed a novel gene associated with the disease in African-Americans, according to a new scientific report. By pooling data from nine independent research groups looking for genes associated with asthma, the newly-created EVE Consortium identified a novel gene association specific to populations of African descent. In addition, the new study confirmed the significance of four gene associations recently reported by a European asthma genetics study. The findings, published in Nature Genetics, ...
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Illinois Gov Signs Immigrant Education Law
August 01, 2011
Illinois governor Pat Quinn signed legislation giving undocumented immigrant students access to educational benefits today. This makes Illinois the second state in less than a week to pass legislation aimed at bolstering education for undocumented immigrants. The "Dream Act" will establish a private fund, administered ...
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Largest Ever Genetic Map Of Blacks Created
July 22, 2011
A consortium led by scientists at the University of Oxford and Harvard Medical School has constructed the world's most detailed genetic map. A genetic map specifies the precise areas in the genetic material of a sperm or egg where the DNA from the mother and father has been reshuffled in order to produce this single reproductive cell. The biological process whereby this reshuffling occurs is known as "recombination." While almost every genetic map built so far has been developed from people of European ancestry ...
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Race Matters In Female Engineer Candidates
July 20, 2011
Researchers from the University of Washington have discovered in a new study of female engineering students’ perceived challenges finds significant differences between black, Hispanic, Native American, Asian-American and white women. The findings could help institutions better retain particular underrepresented ...
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Study: Tomatoes May Prevent Prostate Cancer In Blacks
July 14, 2011
According to new research at the University of Illinois at Chicago, lycopene, a red pigment that gives tomatoes and certain other fruits and vegetables their color, could help prevent prostate cancer, especially in black men. Lycopene is a potent antioxidant, and some studies have shown that diets rich in tomatoes ...
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Parent's Group Opposes Charter School Expansion Plan
July 05, 2011
Parents Across America (PAA), a grassroots organization representing public school parents from across the United States today is speaking out in opposition of HR 2218, the “Empowering Parents through Quality Charter Schools Act.†...
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Native American Parents Extend Drinking Habits To Children
June 29, 2011
Urban American Indian teenagers with alcoholic parents perceive their parents to be less restrictive about drinking and tend to face more alcohol-related problems at age 18, according to a new study by Colorado State University’s Tri-Ethnic Center. The study recently was published in the The American Journal. ...
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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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House Rejects GOP Bill To Terminate Election Assistance Commission
June 22, 2011
The Congressional Tri-Caucus members denounced Republican efforts to terminate the Election Assistance Commission, the agency Congress created in the wake of the debacle in Florida during the 2000 Presidential Election. Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer, Elections Subcommittee Ranking Member and Congressional Hispanic Caucus ...
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Feds Accuse Gang Of Targeting Blacks
June 08, 2011
“The Azusa 13 gang waged a campaign of hate during a two-decade crime spree in which African-Americans were harassed and attacked.†...
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Tennis Ace Serves To Help Urban Youth
June 03, 2011
Agassi, who operates an award-winning charter school in a poor area of Las Vegas, has long been a champion of charter school education. ...
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